Dupuy, Pierre-Marie Keywords: International Law Commission | State responsibility | Mots clefs: Commission du droit international | Responsabilité des Etats | ABSTRACT Pierre-Marie Dupuy, Professor at the University of Law, Economics, and Social Sciences in Paris, successively examines wrongful facts and so-called "facts not prohibited by international law". The criterion of differentiation between the two categories refers to the analysis of the criteria for identifying the legality of a fact of the State, under int…

Gaja, Giorgio Keywords: Ius cogens | Public international law | Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (Vienna, 23 May 1969) | State responsibility | Mots clefs: Jus cogens | Droit international public | Convention de Vienne sur le droit des traités (Vienne, 23 mai 1969) | Responsabilité des Etats | ABSTRACT Giorgio Gaja, Professor at the University of Florence, begins an analysis of the role of peremptory norms in contemporary treaty law. He devotes a first chapter of his course to treaty law. After some preliminary remarks on the relevance of…

Starace, Vincenzo Keywords: State responsibility | Mots clefs: Responsabilité des Etats | ABSTRACT The problem that forms the subject of the course of Vincenzo Starace, Professor at the University of Bari, is whether it is justified, according to contemporary international law, to distinguish the regime of State’s responsibility on account of the content of the violated international obligation, and more specifically whether it is justified that the State violating certain international obligations, characte…

Condorelli, Luigi Keywords: International Law Commission | State responsibility | Mots clefs: Commission du droit international | Responsabilité des Etats | ABSTRACT Luigi Condorelli, Professor at the University of Geneva, begins his course by asking and solving a number of preliminary problems of general nature in order to clarify some important premises, which constitute a kind of conceptual tool for further research. The author then reconstructs, using the work of the International Law Commission, the principles o…

Crawford, James Keywords: Obligations of the state | Public international law | Development of international law | Ius cogens | International Law Commission | State responsibility | United Nations | Charter | International Court of Justice | Mots clefs: Obligations des états | Droit international public | Développement du droit international | Jus cogens | Commission du droit international | Responsabilité des Etats | Nations Unies | Charte | Cour internationale de Justice | ABSTRACT The author, director of the Lauterpacht Center for International Law, examines in this…

Pisillo Mazzeschi, Riccardo Keywords: Human rights | International obligations | Infraction | State responsibility | Mots clefs: Droits de l’homme | Obligations internationales | Violation | Responsabilité des Etats | ABSTRACT Riccardo Pisillo Mazzeschi, Professor at the University of Siena, points out in the introduction to his course that the subject of positive obligations of States in the field of international human rights protection and the possible violation of obligations has acquired an increasing importance, both fr…

Graefrath, Bernhard Keywords: State responsibility | Mots clefs: Responsabilité des Etats | ABSTRACT Bernhard Graefrath devotes his course to the relationship between responsibility and damage in international law. After a discussion of the function of responsibility in international law, the author examines the need for the violation of obligations for international responsibility to be incurred. He then presents compensation for damages as a form of international responsibility. Finally, the author explore…