González Lapeyre, Edison Keywords: Ports | Régime juridique | Transport maritime | Connaissements | Affrètement | Responsabilité | Mots clefs: Ports | Legal regime | Carriage of goods by sea | Bills of lading | Affreightment | Accountability | ABSTRACT Edison Gonzalez Lapeyre, Former Professor at the University of Uruguay, devotes his course to maritime transport and the port regime. Starting from the observation of the tremendous quantitative increase in trade following globalization and the development of the use of containers, whic…

Baxi, Upendra Keywords: Multinational enterprises | Tort | Private international law | Accountability | Mots clefs: Entreprises internationales | Quasi-contrats et quasi-délits | Droit international privé | Responsabilité | ABSTRACT Professor Upendra Baxi's course focuses on mass disasters as they appear in private international law. It seeks to narrate the ways in which most received doctrines and tools of private international law cognize the distinctive problems arising from different cross-border mass disasters. Professo…

A. Fitzmaurice, Malgosia Keywords: Environmental protection | International environmental law | Environmental damage | Accountability | Judicial settlement of international disputes | Non-compliance | Mots clefs: Protection de la nature et de l environnement | ABSTRACT International environmental law is part and parcel of international law and it should be viewed from that perspective, according to Professor Fitzmaurice, Professor at Queen Mary College at the University of London. Certain features of international environmental la…