Feinberg, Nathan Keywords: United Nations | Accession | League of Nations | Mots clefs: Nations Unies | Accession | Société des Nations | ABSTRACT The question of the admission of new members to the League of Nations and to the United Nations reflects the deplorable tension in contemporary international relations and the prevailing atmosphere of mistrust. In this course, Nathan Feinberg examines the relevant provisions of the Covenant of the League of Nations and the United Nations Charter by bringing out what is commo…

E. Rappard, William Keywords: League of Nations | Mots clefs: Société des Nations | ABSTRACT In this course, William Rappard intends to first of all recall the origins of the League of Nations. He then examines its constitutional structure. He finally takes a look at its functions, that is, its work. In conclusion, the author tries to assess this work. Throughout his talk, the author seeks to show and explain the partial successes which the League of Nations recognized in the accomplishment of some of its seco…

E. Rappard, William Keywords: League of Nations | Nationalism | Economy | Mots clefs: Société des Nations | Nationalisme | Economie politique | ABSTRACT After an introductory presentation of the conflict between nationalism and internationalism since the end of the First World War, William Rappard devotes the first chapter to the presentation of economic nationalism, and next devotes the second chapter to the League of Nations. The author later shows the conflict existing between nationalism and economic internationali…

Arangio-Ruiz, Gaetano Keywords: United Nations | Judicial competence | International law and domestic law | League of Nations | Public international law | Mots clefs: Droit international public | Nations Unies | Droit international et droit interne | Société des Nations | Compétence étatique | ABSTRACT General Course on Public International Law by Gaetano Arangio-Ruiz, Professor at the University of Rome, focuses on the notion of domestic jurisdiction as a limit to the activity of international legal and political bodies. However, it also t…

Kunz, Joseph-L. Keywords: League of Nations | Covenant | Renunciation of war | Pacific settlement of disputes | Mots clefs: Société des Nations | Pacte | Renonciation à la guerre | Règlement pacifique des différends internationaux | ABSTRACT The Covenant of the League of Nations is a coherent work, notes Joseph Kunz in the introduction to his course. His articles should thus be understood as a part of a system. The systematic study is thus the method followed by the author to give an account of the first paragraph of Article XI of the Covenant, which concerns the prevention of conflicts. Le Pac…

ANDRASSY, Georges Keywords: League of Nations | Sovereignty | Mots clefs: Société des Nations | Souveraineté | ABSTRACT Unlimited though it may be, notes Georges Andrassy in the introduction to his course, sovereignty is nevertheless governed by law and consequently knows the inherent limits of the rule of law. A new legislative provision may therefore set new, wider, or narrower limits. This could also be the case with the rules governing the League of Nations and defining its activity. The author begins his cou…

Chrétien, M. Keywords: United Nations | International fiscal law | League of Nations | Mots clefs: Nations Unies | Droit fiscal international | Société des Nations | ABSTRACT Mr. Chretien writes it is impossible to understand the progressive development of international tax law, which in 1954 is a relatively new science, without knowing the activity exercised by the international organizations worldwide in the solution of the main problems of tax law between the States and their nationals (natural persons and legal persons…