P. Zhukov, Guennady Keywords: Space | Development of international law | Space law | Mots clefs: Espace cosmique | Développement du droit international | Droit cosmique | ABSTRACT Guennady Zhukov, Professor at the Institute of the State and Law of Moscow, points out that international space law is formed and developed literally before our eyes, while international maritime law has been formed over several centuries and international air law has been formed over a few decades. The author successively focuses on the main the…

L. Lange, Christian Keywords: Pacifism | Development of international law | Mots clefs: Pacifisme | Développement du droit international | ABSTRACT Christian Lange explains in the introduction to his course that a pacifist doctrine combats war as harmful, contrary to the interests well understood by mankind, and as crime, contrary to the precepts of morality. By following the historical development of this doctrine, the author focuses in particular its influence on international law. To do so, the author reviews in …

Boissier, Léopold Keywords: Inter-Parliamentary Union | Development of international law | Mots clefs: Union Interparlementaire | ABSTRACT Leopold Boissier, writes in the introduction to his course, that if the Parliamentary Union, created in 1889, was able to survive two world wars and overcome the discouragement crises that have been fatal to so many international institutions, it is because the principles of its action have always been founded on living but changing realities, of the existence of people. Afte…

Lauterpacht, Q.C., E. Keywords: International courts | Development of international law | Mots clefs: Tribunaux internationaux | Développement du droit international | ABSTRACT In this course on the Development of the Law of International Organizations by the Decisions of International Tribunals, the author focuses on the central and allied issues of personality of organizations and the interpretation of constitutions. The author successively examines the place of law in international organizations, the common law of …

Lachs, Manfred Keywords: Public international law | Development of international law | Mots clefs: Droit international public | Développement du droit international | ABSTRACT Manfred Lachs, Judge and Former president of the International Court of Justice, focuses on the study of roots of international law, its fundamental presuppositions, and some of its major questions of particular relevance at the time of writing this course. He aims to define the relationship between the State and nature, the relationship between …

G. Fenwick, Charles Keywords: Development of international law | Public international law | Mots clefs: Développement du droit international | Droit international public | ABSTRACT In this course, Charles Fenwick does not intend to apply the standard approach found in the textbooks to the general principles of international law, but to review the progress of international law during the past forty years and to present the benefits of broadening the scope of application and the accompanying progress in defining and clarifying the fundamental principles. Charles Fenwick n'entend …

Gerald Fitzmaurice, Sir Keywords: Institute of International Law | Development of international law | Mots clefs: Institut de droit international | Développement du droit international | ABSTRACT Gerald Fitzmaurice devotes his course to the contribution of the Institute of International Law to the development of international law. After a presentation of the Institute itself, the author reviews the work of the Institute from 1873 to 1890-1892 (war and neutrality, law of peace), from 1890 to 1939 (war, neutrality and hostilities, law of peace). Le cours de Gerald Fitzmaurice es…

Berezowski, Cezary Keywords: Development of international law | Air law | Mots clefs: Développement du droit international | Droit aérien | ABSTRACT Cezary Berezowski, points out that the object of air law, is the relations in airspace, which may be national relations or, international relations by possessing a foreign element. The author begins his course on air law, after some preliminary observations, with a study of the development of legal rules and airspace. He then focuses on the development of legal rules rel…

Van der Vlugt, W. Keywords: Hugo Grotius (1583-1645) | Development of international law | Public international law | Mots clefs: Grotius (H.) | Développement du droit international | ABSTRACT To give an account of the influence of Grotius’ work on international law, W. Van der Vlugt begins his course by studying the main idea of De iure Belli ac Pacis. The author then presents the spiritual atmosphere of the work. The author later proceeds to an analysis of the work and studies its direct influence and indirect influence, p…

E. Gotlieb, A. Keywords: Technology | Development of international law | Mots clefs: Technologie | Développement du droit international | ABSTRACT In this course on The Impact of Technology on the Development of Contemporary International Law, A.E. Gotlieb first examines the impact of technology on the way in which international law is created. He then devotes important developments to the impact of technology on the Law of the Sea. He also analyzes on the international legal regime of space and transborder data flow. Finally, the author addresses a few issues regarding the future. Dans…

Van Loon, Hans Keywords: Private international law | Development of international law | Globalization | Mots clefs: ABSTRACT This inaugural lecture starts with the development of private international law as nation-states appeared. It became “nationalized” even though globalization called upon a transnational perspective. Private international law has become increasingly complementary to regional and global public international law. While still focusing on private relationships, it is now linked to public interna…

L. Kunz, Josef Keywords: Development of international law | Public international law | International organizations | Mots clefs: Développement du droit international | Droit international public | Organisations internationales | ABSTRACT Josef Kunz writes in 1955 that we speak a lot about “crisis of the law of nations” among laymen, statesmen, and even among the representatives of the science of the law of nations. For some, it is a source of resignation, for the others it is a source of hope. It is not surprising, therefore,…

Boegner, Marc Keywords: Legal history | International law | Reform | Development of international law | Mots clefs: Histoire du droit | Droit international | Réforme | Développement du droit international | ABSTRACT In this study, Marc Boegner intends to explore the ways in which such a considerable religious movement has influenced the development of international law, and what effects it has had in the history of law of nations. The author thus successively focuses on the relations of the reform with law of nations, natural l…

Crawford, James Keywords: Public international law | Development of international law | International law | Mots clefs: ABSTRACT This course is given in order to put the light on unresolved problems of International Law. It is divided in three parts that each defend a position. First, that international law is law, second that there is an international legal system, and third, that there is or can and should be an international rule of law. The first part draws our interest on how States, institutions, practitioners and scholars address the problems of decentralized l…

Bing Jia, Bing Keywords: Development of international law | International law | International law and national law | Case-law | Stare decisis | Doctrines | Sources of law | Mots clefs: ABSTRACT This course offers an understanding of the place of international case law, and thus of precedent, in international law. The notion of precedent in an international scope is looked at while discussing it in both municipal and international law. Article 38(1) of the ICJ and the roles played by the various sources mentioned in it are exam…

Šahović, Milan Keywords: Development of international law | Public international law | Mots clefs: Droit international public | Développement du droit international | ABSTRACT Milan Sahovic, Director of the Institute of International Politics and Economics in Belgrade, points out in the introduction to his course that the development of international law leads us to a specific situation. The progress that has been made in the development activity calls for in-depth consideration of the value and importance of the new a…

W. Garner, James Keywords: Development of international law | Mots clefs: Développement du droit international | ABSTRACT James W. Garner, in the introduction to his course, states that the most striking fact in the history of international law from its origin, which goes back more than three centuries, is its extraordinary development at the beginning of the XXth century. It is not a period of our history, not even the period of Grotius, that has seen changes of such scope on their relationships of States and in the law which governs them just as muc…

Dupuy, René-Jean Keywords: Hague Academy of International Law | Development of international law | Mots clefs: Académie de droit international de La Haye | Développement du droit international | ABSTRACT Rene-Jean Dupuy's lesson is a research, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Academy, on the contribution that the Academy could give to the development of public international law. This contribution is manifested on two levels: on one hand by the revelation of the development of international law, and on the other hand by the anticipation of the present state of positive law. L…

Wehberg, Hans Keywords: The Hague | Peace conferences | Development of international law | Mots clefs: La Haye | Conférences de la paix | Développement du droit international | ABSTRACT For Hans Wehberg, the work of the Hague Conferences represented in a way the culmination of international law before the First World War. For the first time in the history of the organization of the international society, a solid center was thus created, which would serve as a starting point for all future progress. The author thus presents t…

Pellet, Alain Keywords: Public international law | Development of international law | International Law Commission | International Court of Justice | United Nations | General Assembly | Security Council | Mots clefs: Droit international public | ABSTRACT In this inaugural conference of the public international law session 2007, Alain Pellet, Professor at the University of Paris X - Nanterre, attempts to clarify the following theme: how does international law adapt to the changing needs of the international society? The question is …