Blanca Noodt Taquela, María Keywords: Treaties | Private international law | Judicial cooperation | Jurisdiction | Choice of law | Mots clefs: ABSTRACT This course aims to draw attention to the overlapping of Private International Law treaties on International Judicial Co-operation and to give the reader an understanding of the rules and principles that provided a solution to this problem. It leads to taking a look at the principles and rules of Public International Law to apply to Private International Law. An analys…

Michael Reisman, W. Keywords: International Court of Justice | Jurisdiction | Mots clefs: Cour internationale de Justice | Juridiction | ABSTRACT This course of W. Michael Reisman, Professor at Yale University, New Haven, is concerned with the identification and analysis of a particular form of jurisdiction assigned to the International Court of Justice: the international judicial supervision of international arbitration. In the framework of this study Professor Reisman pays particular attention to the sometimes ver…

A. Brand, Ronald Keywords: Court settlements | Recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments | Jurisdiction | Choice of law | Forum shopping | Private international law | Mots clefs: ABSTRACT This class starts by considering the transaction planning tools, by comparing the rules that exist in the United States and the European Union. A description of the United States and European Union jurisdictions is given, followed by an explanation of their rules of recognition and enforcement of judgments. The lecture continues by considering the main issue at the intersection of…

McWhinney, Q.C., Edward Keywords: International Court of Justice | Jurisdiction | Mots clefs: Cour internationale de Justice | Juridiction | ABSTRACT Edward McWhinney, Professor at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, devotes his course to judicial settlement of disputes. After an examination of contemporary conceptions of the role of judicial settlement of disputes, the author examines the contemporary international legal process and the dichotomy between law and politics. Next, he studies the jurisdiction of the In…

Kawano, Mariko Keywords: International Court of Justice | Judicial settlement of international disputes | Procedure | Jurisdiction | International community | Public interest | Pacific settlement of disputes | Development of international law | Mots clefs: ABSTRACT The course of Ms. Mariko Kawano, Professor of Waseda University in Tokyo, is devoted to the role of judicial proceedings in the peaceful settlement of disputes. The main objective of the course is to examine the different types of roles that the International Court of Ju…

Augusto Cançado Trindade, Antônio Keywords: International courts | Jurisdiction | Permanent Court of International Justice | International Court of Justice ABSTRACT In this course, A. A. Cançado Trindade deals with the prehistory and the emergence of international tribunals, draws lessons from the past with regard to the Statute of the Permanent Court of International Justice and the Statute of the International Court of Justice, and considers international justice beyond the international dimension. The author anal…