Schrijver, Nico Keywords: Sustainable development | Legal concept | Treaties | Legal principles | Public international law | Mots clefs: Développement durable | ABSTRACT Nico Schrijver, Professor at the VU University Amsterdam, assigns a triple aim to his course. First, he intends to study about the genesis of the law of sustainable development and to clarify the meaning of this concept, while evaluating the status within the public international law. Then, he proceeds to the examination of the legal principles which e…

Lipstein, K. Keywords: Legal principles | Private international law | Mots clefs: Principes de droit | Droit international privé | ABSTRACT K. Lipstein begins his course on the General Principles of Private International Law with a presentation on the nature and function of international law, and thus presents a history of private international law established in Rome. The author then examines the relationship between private international law and public international law, including private international law as an e…

Elihu Lauterpacht, Sir Keywords: Judicial settlement of international disputes | Procedure | Legal principles | International Court of Justice | Law of procedure | International courts | International law of procedure | Consent | Mots clefs: ABSTRACT Drawing on his extensive experience, the author examines the range, forms and role of procedure in international litigation. He discusses critically and at length the operation of the principle of consent and the principal elements in the litigation process. Sir Elihu Lauterpacht, directeur émérite du Lauterpacht Center for…

Boele-Woelki, Katharina Keywords: Family law | Private international law | Choice of law | Unification of law | Law of contracts | Model law | Legal principles | Conventions | Directives | International law and domestic law | Mots clefs: ABSTRACT Traditionally, conflict of law rules designate only national substantive law as the applicable law. Many unifying and harmonizing substantive law instruments of both States and non-State organizations, however, are designed specifically for application to cross-border relationships. Achieving …

D. Trooboff, Peter Keywords: Sovereign immunities | Legal principles | Mots clefs: Immunités judiciaires | Principes généraux du droit | ABSTRACT In his course, Peter D. Trooboff, who works for Covington & Burling in Washington, comments on the case law of the United States of America with respect to some key issues arising in the field of state immunity, and relates the case law to the treatment of the issues in national or international codifications. The author points out that there is a significant consensus in …

Dolinger, Jacob Keywords: Legal principles | Private international law | Public order | Convention on the Law applicable to Contractual obligations (Rome, 19 June 1980) | Law of contracts | Contracts | Torts | Mots clefs: Principes généraux du droit | Droit international privé | Ordre public | Convention sur la loi applicable aux obligations contractuelles [Rome, 19 juin 1980] | Droit des obligations | Contrats | Quasi-contrats et quasi-délits | ABSTRACT Professor Jacob Dolinger, Professor at the Rio de Janeiro State University, divides his course on the evolution o…

Morin, Jacques-Yvan Keywords: Constitutional state | Human rights | Constitutional law | Legal principles | International law | Mots clefs: Etat de droit | Droits de l'homme | Droit constitutionnel | Principes généraux du droit | Droit international | ABSTRACT Jacques-Yvon Morin, Professor at the University of Montreal, proposes in his course to measure the effectiveness of the principles of rule of law and the rules which result from it, not only within the State, but also on the international stage, where their increasing interdepen…

Tomuschat, Christian Keywords: Obligations of the state | Law of treaties | Public international law | Legal principles | Mots clefs: Obligations des états | Droit des traités | Droit international public | Principes généraux du droit | ABSTRACT According to Christian Tomuschat, Professor at the University of Bonn, the place to be assigned to the will of States is crucial for the understanding of the international legal order. But though the will of States plays a considerable role in the appearance of obligations that are the States…

Šahović, Milan Keywords: International co-operation | Public international law | Legal principles | Codification | Mots clefs: Coopération internationale | Droit international public | Principes de droit | Codification | ABSTRACT To find the elements that reflect the importance of the Declaration on Principles of International Law concerning Friendly Relations of cooperation among States in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations, Milan Sahovic analyzes three fundamental aspects, namely the historical aspect, which …