Ténékidès, Georges Keywords: Greece | Federalism | International law | Legal history | Mots clefs: Grèce | Fédéralisme | Droit international | Histoire du droit | ABSTRACT After some preliminary remarks aimed to demonstrate that there was indeed a Hellenic international law, Georges Tenekides presents the polis and the de facto relations between Cities. He then focuses on interstate legal institutions, and examines the federal communities: he presents the problem of the integration of Greek cities in the theoretical field, the specific acco…

M. W. Mouton, DR. Keywords: Science | International law | Technology | Mots clefs: Sciences | Droit international | Technologie | ABSTRACT M.W. Mouton begins his course on the Impact of Science on Private International Law by presenting the new dimensions and new domains of the issue (including the Polar Regions, the soil, seabed and its subsoil, air, and space). He focuses on new sources of energy, international rules on new devices (especially in telecommunications), the question of research, pollution, and questions about food, work, and health. M.W. Mouton commence son cours s…

Sperduti, Giuseppe Keywords: Individuals | International law | Mots clefs: Individus | Droit international | ABSTRACT Giuseppe Sperduti begins his course by recalling some general knowledge about international society and its legal order necessary for the examination of the problems relating to the condition of individuals in international law. He then examines the alleged impossibilities and logical necessities of classifying individuals as recipients of international norms. He also presents the principle of t…

Golsong, H. Keywords: Human rights | International law | Mots clefs: Droits de l'homme | Droit international | ABSTRACT Heribert Golsong asks, in the introduction to his study, whether the current situation in 1963, in which international law in its traditional form - even when it refers to the protection of individuals - does not set out from its basic principle of the law concerning exclusively to inter-State relations, ignoring the rights and duties of individuals, and corresponding to the main objective of int…

Hug, Walther Keywords: Régime des paiements | International law | Exchange control | Monitoring | Mots clefs: Paiements | Droit international | Devises | Contrôle | ABSTRACT The objective of Walther Hug's course is to critically examine various new rules concerning international payments and to consider their effects on private legal relations. The new law on international payments must serve certain economic objectives as a starting point. In the first part, the author presents the bases of the Law of International Payme…

François, J.-P.-A. Keywords: Peace | International law | Mots clefs: Paix | Droit international | ABSTRACT J.-P.-A. Francois begins his course on the General Rules of the Law of Peace with a presentation of the evolution of the community of international law from the law of Ancient nations to the League of Nations. The author then studies the proper character of the law of nations by focusing on the school of natural law on one hand and on the positivist school on the other hand. The author then addresses the i…

A. Cançado Trindade, A. Keywords: Human rights | Protection | International law | Mots clefs: Droits de l'homme | Protection | Droit international | ABSTRACT Mr. Cancado Trindade, Legal Adviser to the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, describes the constant and considerable development of international protection of human rights, whether at the international level or at the regional level. The development has revealed the problems of cohabitation between the different systems. The subject of the course is the coexi…

Baron Michel De Taube, Le Keywords: International law | Legal history | Mots clefs: Droit international | Histoire du droit | ABSTRACT As a starting point of his investigations on the historical role of Byzantium in the development of European International Law, Michael de Taube formulates a critical observation which will not be denied by any historian, he declares: people have a very faint historical memory. And Byzantium has fallen into oblivion. In order to come out of it, the author starts by presenting Byzantiu…

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 …

Abellán Honrubia, Victoria Keywords: Individuals | International responsibility | International law | Mots clefs: Individus | Responsabilité internationale | Droit international | ABSTRACT The object of the course of Victoria Abellán Honrubia, Professor at the University of Barcelona, is to study the international responsibility of the individual according to public international law. Professor Abellán Honrubia proposes to clarify up to what point the standards for international responsibility of the individual can be…

Ranjeva, Raymond Keywords: Non-governmental organizations | International law | Mots clefs: Organisations non-gouvernementales | Droit international | ABSTRACT Raymond Ranjeva, Judge on the International Court of Justice, bases his course on non-governmental organizations and the implementation of international law on an existing contradiction between, on the one hand, the international vocation of the non-governmental organizations and on the other, the national statute of these organizations, and on the consens…

Keywords: Nullity | International law | Mots clefs: Nullités | Droit international | ABSTRACT After an introduction devoted to general considerations on the validity and invalidity of international legal acts, the author presents the different categories of irregular international legal acts. He focuses on the relative invalidity, absolute invalidity, unlawful acts, and originally valid acts annulled by way of compensation, and acts created by a previous legal regime and annulled by a subsequent legal regime.…

Henkin, Louis Keywords: International law | Mots clefs: Droit international | ABSTRACT In this course, Louis Henkin focuses on the assertion that sovereign nations would act as if there were no law, each doing what it considers right. This claim is largely unfounded in fact, but little effort was made for its substantiation or refutation. First, the author examines how nations behave. He next examines the contemporary influences of law compliance, and draws the consequences of the Suez case and the Cuban quarantine. Louis Henkin d'intéresse dans ce cours à l'affirmation selon …

Van Kan, J. Keywords: Peace | International law | History | Mots clefs: Paix | Droit international | Histoire | ABSTRACT In this course, J. van Kan does not propose to follow the development of the idea of international peace through the centuries, but to make a choice in the subject and to deal with some major detached but closely coherent chapters. The author writes that the organization of peace has proceeded through four paths: moral conviction, universalism, the supranational idea, and the international idea. T…

Slaughter, Anne-Marie Keywords: International law | International relations | Nongovernmental organizations | Mots clefs: Droit international | Relations internationales | Organisations non-gouvernementales | ABSTRACT Anne-Marie Slaughter, Professor at Harvard University, devotes her course to the relation between international law and international relations. In the first part Professor Slaughter examines the principal theories concerning international relations. Professor Slaughter examines in particular what interna…

E. Charlier, R. Keywords: Nuclear energy | International law | Mots clefs: Energie nucléaire | Droit international | ABSTRACT Can and should atomic law be autonomous? asks R. E. Charlier in the introduction to his course. Or will the questions it raises, the solutions it calls for, have nothing specifically atomic about it? And are they revolutionary? "A new world of thinking has become necessary if we want to survive" (Einstein), is it also true about law? Some authors believe that every new fact calls for a new …

Bourquin, Maurice Keywords: International law | Mots clefs: Droit international | ABSTRACT For Maurice Bourquin, law appears as a conservation force. It meets the requirement of order and stability. But this stability has nothing immobile. Stability on one hand, movement on the other hand: a legal system, whatever it is, should consider these two requirements. They are simultaneously binding on it, and it may be affirmed that its efficiency depends, to a large extent, on the manner it succeeds in harmonizin…

Ladreit de Lacharrière, Guy Keywords: Economic development | International law | Mots clefs: Développement économique | Droit international | ABSTRACT In this course, Guy Ladreit de Lacharriere does not speak of the influence of the inequality of power between the States, but the influence of the inequality of development between them. When analyzing the influence that this inequality may have on international law, according to the author, it would be quite inappropriate not to analyze the action of the two groups …

J.-P, Karaquillo, Keywords: Sports | International Sports Federations | Lex sportiva | Court of Arbitration for Sport | Droit international | | Mots clefs: Sport | Fédérations internationales sportives | Lex sportiva | Tribunal arbitral du sport | International law | ABSTRACT J.-P. Karaquillo, Professor at the University of Limoges, takes as his starting point the idea that sport is marked by "legal pluralism"; a mixture of "Sports law" and "State law". There is no such thing as a body of international rules, assembled by co-operating S…