Bing Jia, Bing Keywords: Development of international law | International law | International law and national law | Case-law | Stare decisis | Doctrines | Sources of law | Mots clefs: ABSTRACT This course offers an understanding of the place of international case law, and thus of precedent, in international law. The notion of precedent in an international scope is looked at while discussing it in both municipal and international law. Article 38(1) of the ICJ and the roles played by the various sources mentioned in it are exam…

Ago, H. Schiedermair, W. Riphagen, A. Truyol Serra, R. Feenstra, R. Keywords: Hugo Grotius (1583-1645) | Doctrines | Mots clefs: Grotius (H.) | Doctrines | ABSTRACT International Law in Grotius Concept The Influence of Grotius' Thought on the Ius naturale School Grotius and the New Law of the Sea Grotius in His Relations with the Spanish Classics of the Law of the People Grotius and European Private Law Le Droit international dans la Conception de Grotius The Influence of Grotius' Thought on the Ius naturale School Grotius and the New Law of the Sea Grotius dans…

Davì, Angelo Keywords: Renvoi | Private international law | Doctrines | Mots clefs: Renvoi | Droit international privé | Doctrine | ABSTRACT In this course, Angelo Davi devotes a few developments to the study of the field of application that modern regulations of conflict of laws grant to the renvoi as well as the examination of some of the rather complex problems of its practical operation. The author begins with an introduction to the evolution of ideas on the Doctrine on renvoi and then traces the origin of the pr…

Augusto Cançado Trindade, Antônio Keywords: Latin America | Public international law | International law | Development of international law | Codification | Doctrines | Peace conferences | The Hague | 1907 | Mots clefs: ABSTRACT The course begins with the development of international law in Latin America, with the International Conferences of American States, and focuses on the contribution of Latin American States to the two Hague Peace Conference of 1907, as they had projection in time. The author then focuses on subsequent end…

Hill Kay, Herma Keywords: United States of America | Jurisconsults | Conflict of laws | Doctrines | Mots clefs: Etats-Unis d’Amérique | Juristes | Droit interrégional | Doctrines | ABSTRACT Herma Hill Kay, Professor at the University of California at Berkeley, devotes her course to a defense of Brainerd Currie’s approach to the determination of applicable law in private international law, as he developed it between 1958 and 1965, and called it governmental interest analysis. After a presentation of the historical context of …