Reed, Lucy Keywords: International crises | Public international law | Private international law | International dispute settlement | Iran-United States Claims Tribunal | United Nations Compensation Commission | North Korea | Nuclear energy | Mots clefs: Crises internationales | Droit international public | Droit international privé | Solution des différends internationaux | Tribunal irano-américain de réclamations | Commission de compensation des Nations Unies | Corée du Nord | Energie nucléaire | ABSTRACT Lucy Reed, partner at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP in…

Riphagen, †W. Keywords: Methodology | Public international law | Mots clefs…

Caldera, Rafael Keywords: Public international law | Justice | Mots clefs: Droit international public | …

E. Butler, W. Keywords: Public international law | Comparative law | Mots clefs: Droit international public | Droit comparé | ABSTRACT In his course, W.E. Butler, Professor at University College London, focuses primarily on four areas of comparative legal studies. The first is the compara…

Skubiszewski, Krzysztof Keywords: Hague Academy of International Law | Public international law | Mots clefs: Académie de droit international de La Haye | Droit international public | ABST…

Antonio Pastor Ridruejo, José Keywords: Public international law | …

Mahiou, Ahmed Keywords: Public international law | Mots clefs…

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 which can also be that of custom. But does the function of the Act exhaust itself in its normative aspect? D…

Tunkin, Grigory Keywords: Public international law | Mots clefs: Droit international public | ABSTRACT Grigory Tunkin, Professor at Moscow University, proposes in this article a new theory of the inter-state system considered as an integral system. Professor Tunkin first focuses on international politics and the creation of norms of international law for presenting this new theory. Then, he studies the link between international law and politics and between international law and force. He also devotes a chapt…

Tieya, Wang Keywords: China | Public international law | Mots clefs: Chine | Droit international public | ABSTRACT Wang Tieya, Professor at Peking University, notes that Chinese international law has a long history by considering the international law of the Spring and Autumn and Warring states periods during the Zhou Dynasty (722-221 BC). The objective of Professor Wang Tieya’s course is not to make a historical study, but to answer some questions about international law in China: Was there an international law …

Weil, Prosper Keywords: Public international law | Mots clefs: Droit international public | ABSTRACT In this general course of public international law, Prosper Weil, Professor emeritus of the University Paris II, abstains from outlining, chapter after chapter, the substance of the matter, but limits himself to some reflections on international law as a legal system. Professor Weil thus proposes to review the existential problems currently facing international law, and examines the problems of normativity tha…

Arthur Watts, KCMG, QC, Sir Keywords: Heads of State and Heads of government | Public international law | Mots clefs: Chefs d Etats | Droit international public | ABSTRACT Arthur Watts, barrister and international arbitrator, proposes in this course a systematic study of the legal position of Heads of States, heads of governments and foreign ministers with respect to international law. He draws attention first of all to the status of Heads of States, to different constitutional forms and titles, moving on to talk about the …

Arrighi, Jean-Michel Keywords: Organization of American States | Public international law | International law | Institutional law | Institutions and organs | Legal co-operation | Democracy | History | Mots clefs: Organisation des Etats américains | Droit international public | Droit international | Droit institutionnel | Institutions et organes | Coopération juridique | Démocratie | Histoire | ABSTRACT The Organization of American States (OAS), created in 1948, is just a link in a long chain of inter-American institutions that emerged from the first Am…

Chemillier-Gendreau, Monique Keywords: Public international law | International law | Universalism | Mots clefs: Droit international public | Droit international | Universalisme | ABSTRACT To reflect on the universality of international law, it is necessary to ask whether its application extends to the entire society concerned, no subject is excluded, and its objectives are achieved for the benefit of all. If the concept of sovereignty appears as a guarantee of the independence and recognition of a group, it is also a …

Kamto, Maurice Keywords: States | Will | Public international law | Mots clefs: Etats | Volonté | Droit international public | ABSTRACT In his general course on public international law, Maurice Kamto, Professor at the University of Yaoundé II, presents a detailed study of the will of the State in public international law. After a thorough review of the concepts of State and will in international legal thinking, Professor Kamto observes that, contrary to the claim of the followers of the radical and exclusivist volun…

THOMAS M. FRANCK Keywords: Public international law | Mots clefs: Droit international public | ABSTRACT Taking the point of view that public international law is too rich and too complex a subject to be dealt with in its entirety within the framework of a general course on public international law, Thomas Franck, Professor at the University of New York, decides to focus on public international law from the perspective of fairness. In Part I of the course he presents an analytical framework of public internatio…

Conforti, Benedetto Keywords: Public international law | Mots clefs: Droit international public | ABSTRACT The General course on Public International Law by Benedetto Conforti, Professor at the University of Naples, is based on the idea that international law is no longer, or no longer only, a matter for diplomats and that it must be administered, like any other branch of law, by all legal operators, i.e. all those who exercise public functions within the State and who, at any level, are intended to enforce t…

Tomuschat, Christian Keywords: Public international law | Mots clefs: Droit international public | ABSTRACT Most of the tasks essential for the survival of humankind have to be performed within domestic contexts. International law has a general function to fulfill, namely to safeguard international peace, security, and justice in relations between States and human rights as well as the rule of law domestically inside States. In this course, the author first highlights the foundation of the international legal…

Dupuy, Pierre-Marie Keywords: Public international law | Mots clefs: Droit international public | ABSTRACT Professor Pierre-Marie Dupuy, of the European University Institute of Florence, reminds us in the introduction to his general course on public international law about the unity of the international legal system and how relevant this topic is today. Indeed, as Professor Dupuy stresses, the international legal system is subject to a constant phenomenon of expansion which results on the one hand in an exten…

Henkin, Louis Keywords: Public international law | Mots clefs: Droit international public | ABSTRACT Louis Henkins, Professor at Columbia University in New York, notes that a general course cannot aspire to be a comprehensive course covering all international law, and that the publication of a new general course every year is only justified if it provides different perspectives on traditional subjects of international law or elaborates new legal developments in the law. In this course, the author does both. H…