D. González Campos, Julio Keywords: Judicial competence | Private international law | Mots clefs: Compétence judiciaire | Droit international privé | ABSTRACT The objective of the course by Professor González Campos, University of Oviedo, deals with the relations between legal and legislative competence in private international law. He analyzes the relations between the rules governing the two essential areas of the international private law. The author successively examines the historical problem of the relations be…

Mayer, Pierre Keywords: Judicial competence | International commercial arbitration | Mots clefs: Compétence judiciaire | Arbitrage commercial international | ABSTRACT Pierre Mayer, Professor at the University of Paris I, notes that a course on the competence of international arbitrators may adopt two different approaches depending on whether it is from the point of view of States or arbitrators. The author chooses the second. However, an arbitrator ruling in Geneva on a dispute between an American party and an Ital…

Schlosser, Peter Keywords: Judicial assistance | Law of civil procedure | Criminal procedure | Judicial competence | Effects of foreign sentences | Mots clefs: Assistance judiciaire | Procédure civile | Procédure civile | Compétence judiciaire | Effets des sentences étrangères | ABSTRACT Professor Peter Schlosser examines to which degree the concept of co-operation among judicial authorities has found its way into political and everyday practices. He first looks at cross-border co-operation regarding litigation in commercial and other m…

D. Kerameus, Konstantinos Keywords: Judicial competence | Mots clefs: Compétence judiciaire | ABSTRACT In this course, Konstantinos Kerameus, Professor at the University of Athens, draws up a report of the mutual and gradual convergence of international law and the enforcement of foreign law. The first part of the course concerns recent codifications and case-law developments in the field of enforcement, both on the national level and in attempts to introduce international harmonization. The second part disc…

Matscher, Franz Keywords: Judicial competence | International law of procedure | Mots clefs: Compétence judiciaire | Droit international de procédure | ABSTRACT It is the constitution of each community that governs the organization of its authorities, including the judicial authorities. With regard to the objective of his course, Franz Matscher studies two types of communities: state communities and an international community. In this context, the author focuses on the rules of legal jurisdiction in public internatio…

Taylor von Mehren, Arthur Keywords: Private international law | Judicial competence | Universal jurisdiction | Mots clefs: Droit international privé | Compétence judiciaire | Juridiction internationale | ABSTRACT Professor Arthur Taylor von Mehren, Professor at the University of Harvard, devotes his general course on private international law to the theory and practice of adjudicatory authority in private international law, by presenting a comparative study of the doctrines, policies and practices of common law and civil l…

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…

Kinsch, Patrick Keywords: Human rights | Private international law | Judicial competence | International law of procedure | Mots clefs: Droits de l'homme | Droit international privé | Compétence judiciaire | Droit international de procédure | ABSTRACT Patrick Kinsch, Attorney at Law in Luxembourg, assigns to his course the aim of demonstrating that there is no radical incompatibility between reasoning in terms of human rights and the application of specific methods to private international law. A peaceful, even enriching, coexisten…

Fragistas, N. Keywords: International competence | Private international law | Judicial competence | International law of procedure | Mots clefs: Compétence internationale | Droit international privé | Compétence judiciaire | Droit international de procédure | ABSTRACT N. Fragistas devotes his course to the study of the following problem: which is the State with national legal authorities who are competent to determine disputes arising out of international relations? First, disputes arising out of international relations are distr…

P. Fernández Arroyo, Diego Keywords: Judicial competence | International law of procedure | Private international law | Mots clefs: Compétence judiciaire | Droit international de procédure | Droit international privé | ABSTRACT Diego P. Fernandez Arroyo, Professor at the complutense university of Madrid, points out in his introduction to his course that the criteria on which the authorities base their jurisdiction for disputes relating to private international affairs are sometimes difficult to justify. On the basis of this ob…

C. Gutteridge, H. Keywords: Judicial competence | Private international law | Mots clefs: Compétence judiciaire | Droit international privé | ABSTRACT H.C. Gutteridge, in this course, undertakes the task of trying to examine the international situation from the point of view of judicial competence, and to use comparative method for it. He, thus, successively addresses the theory of judicial competence, the problems of competence on private international law, and the results of the work of unification. H.C. Gutteridge entreprend la tâche, dans ce cours, d'essayer de fair…

V. A. Röling, B. Keywords: Laws of war | Judicial competence | International criminal law | International humanitarian law | Mots clefs: Droit de la guerre | Compétence étatique | Droit pénal international | Droit humanitaire international | ABSTRACT B.V.A. Roeling's course discusses the relationship between the law of war and the repression of war criminals during the post-war period. The author successively examines the right and duty to punish war criminals, the jurisdiction of the court and some excuses or mitigating circumstance…