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…

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…

De Nova, Rodolfo Keywords: Private international law | History | Mots clefs: Droit international privé | Histoire | ABSTRACT Rodolfo de Nova's course is divided into two parts: a historical part and a comparative part. In the historical part, the author focuses on the "statutists" and presents the Italian, French, and Dutch schools in the nineteenth century. The second part of the course is devoted to the presentation of general problems and general theories. He examines the reference to the rules of foreign confl…

Truyol y Serra, Antonio Keywords: History | International law | Mots clefs: Histoire | Droit international | ABSTRACT To designate the objective of the course, Antonio Truyol Y Serra refers to a concept borrowed from biology: mutation, which he applies here to the international society. The mutation involves the transition from a plurality of international, specific, or regional societies to a single international society on a global scale. After a presentation of the "European System of States", the author exami…

Paradisi, Bruno Keywords: Public international law | International relations | History | Mots clefs: Droit international public | Relations internationales | Histoire | ABSTRACT Bruno Paradisi in 1951 points out that the term "international friendship" has almost completely lost its legal content and significance. Although the States continue to conclude friendship treaties, it should be recognized that their significance for modern legal organization is rather limited. They serve only to emphasize, at the time of a so…

Prélot, Marcel Keywords: International organizations | Assembly | Parliaments | History | Mots clefs: Organisations internationales | Assemblée | Parlements | Histoire | ABSTRACT Marcel Prelot notes, with reference to Georges Scelle, that there is a tendency for institutional conferences or international assemblies to move away from diplomatic conferences and to move closer to parliamentarism, both in terms of actual procedure and a legal spirit that drives them and the legislative and regulatory results to which they …