Chaumont, Charles Keywords: Public international law | Mots clefs: Droit international public | ABSTRACT Charles Chaumont points out that the study of general principles is equally very ambitious and very modest: ambitious, by pretending to provide a global vision of international law; modest, by the very acute awareness of the limitations of efficiency thus achieved. In this General Course on Public International Law, the author proposes observations limited to certain methods and certain problems concerning…