Boisson de Chazournes, Laurence Keywords: International organizations | Institutions and organs | Regional organizations | International economic organizations | Relations | European Union | International organizations | World Trade Organization | General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade | Regional trade agreements | Regionalism | African Union | Mots clefs: Organisations internationales | Institutions et organes | Organisations régionales | Organisations internationales économiques | Relations | Union européenne | Organisations internationales | Organisation mondial…

Suy, E. Keywords: Observe | International organizations | Mots clefs: Observateurs | Organisations internationales | ABSTRACT E. Suy, Under Secretary-General of the United Nations, devotes his course to the Status of Observers in International Organizations. The aim of the course is to exactly describe the current forms of status of observers (in 1977) and to assess the impact of the new forms of participation on the effectiveness of international organizations as well as on democracy in international relations…

Müllerson, Rein Keywords: International organizations | Political systems | Democracy | Governance | European Union | United Nations | Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe | Russian Federation | Central Asia | Mots clefs: Organisations internationales | Systèmes politiques | Démocratie | Gouvernance | Union européenne | Organisation de la sécurité et la coopération en Europe | Fédération de Russie | Asie centrale | ABSTRACT Rein Muellerson, Professor at King's College of London, devotes his course to the role of institutions, international law, …

Dolzer, Rudolf Keywords: Energy | Energy policy | International organizations | Sovereignty | Natural resources | International co-operation | Energy Charter Treaty (Lisbon, 17 December 1994) | Mots clefs: ABSTRACT The point of this course is to understand how the existing energy markets function, and who are the actors. States have seen their role evolving in the markets as, since 1945, sovereignty over national resources has become essential for them. The current markets have specific rules reflecting the importance of Sta…

Monaco, Riccardo Keywords: International organizations | Mots clefs: Organisations internationales | ABSTRACT Riccardo Monaco, Dean of the Faculty of Political Science at the University of Rome, begins his course on the principles governing the structure and functioning of international organizations by presenting some introductory notes on the phenomenon of international organization. The author then examines the questions related to the structure of international organizations and the functioning of the o…

Dominicé, Christian Keywords: International organizations | Sovereign immunities | Mots clefs: Organisations internationales | Immunités judiciaires | ABSTRACT The concept of immunity from jurisdiction must be interpreted in a broad sense as applying to all forms of proceedings before national authorities. Most of the bilateral and multilateral agreements dealing specifically with the privileges and immunities of international organizations contain a provision on the personality or legal capacity of the organizat…

Benvenisti, Eyal Keywords: Global governance | International organizations | International administrative law | Human rights | Decision-making | Sovereignty | International law | Mots clefs: ABSTRACT This course aims to have a broad understanding of global governance, and starts, after a short introduction, by explaining the emergence of global governance and the corresponding need to regulate it. Therefore, the normative basis for regulation of global governance is studied, first the ultra vires doctrine, then human rig…

Charpentier, Jean Keywords: International organizations | Obligations of the state | Mots clefs: Organisations internationales | Obligations des états | ABSTRACT In his course, Jean Charpentier, Professor at the University of Nancy, focuses on the problems raised by the implementation of the control exercised by the international organizations over the States, i.e. on the conditions necessary for the effective functioning of this control by placing successively under two different angles. Under a mainly legal aspect…