Jacqué, Jean-Paul Keywords: Norms | Public international law | Mots clefs: Normes | Droit international public | ABSTRACT Jean-Paul Jacqué, Professor at the Robert Schuman University in Strasbourg, asks why, if the norm is defined, quite provisionally, as a set of rights and obligations, the relationships established between the Act and the Norm should be examined. He writes, it seems quite obvious to say, that the Act is an instrument for creating Norms, but it does not have the exclusivity of this function whic…

Roucounas, Emmanuel Keywords: Norms | Public international law | Mots clefs: Normes | Droit international public | ABSTRACT Emmanuel Roucounas, Director of the Department of International Studies (Legal Studies) of the Faculty of Legal, Economic, and Political Sciences of the University of Athens, points out in the introduction to his course that the norms of international law generally realize a parallel development, adapting the law to the needs of the changing international community. However, contradictions, …

Vrellis, Spyridon Keywords: Norms | Private international law | Cultural Diversity and Private International Law | Mots clefs: Normes | ABSTRACT In this course, Spyridon Vrellis, Professor at the University of Athens, invites us to ask ourselves if it is possible and appropriate in conflicts or in the coordination of values in private international law, to take a step ahead and move from a weighing of interests towards an evaluation of the solutions on the basis of fundamental values; from Interessenjurisprudenz tow…