Corten, Olivier Keywords: Rebellions | Neutrality | Secession | Right of self-determination | Civil waIntervention | International law | Mots clefs: ABSTRACT This course aims to understand how international law apprehends the phenomenon of rebellion, in particular through the tensions that can be found between the principle of neutrality and the notion of legitimacy. This tension between the two concepts, as the author explains, dates back to the Charter of the United Nations. It appears through numerous examples tha…

Schindler, Dietrich Keywords: Neutrality | Mots clefs: Neutralité | ABSTRACT Dietrich Schindler points out in the introduction to his course that the conditions to which neutrality is responded are transformed in many ways in the twentieth century. New situations have emerged, which all have the effect of questioning an institution of neutrality or making its application more difficult. However, according to the author, it is quite obvious that, contrary to an opinion that has spread especially at the end…

Chaumont, Charles Keywords: United Nations | Neutrality | Mots clefs: Nations Unies | Neutralité | ABSTRACT Charles Chaumont points out in the introduction to his course that history shows that there can be a place for neutrality in the peace organization, established in a homogeneous way and that in particular in the United Nations, there is an evolution of the legal and practical system of collective security that has emphasized the real complexity of this concept. But if this is the case, the author explains…

Titus Komarnicki, Mr. Keywords: Neutrality | Mots clefs: Neutralité | ABSTRACT International law determines only the minimum obligations of neutrals toward belligerents. In this course, the author first examines neutrality in its classic and pure form and deals with the two principal features of neutrality: abstention and impartiality. Next, he addresses the questions of whether a state could be considered neutral while abstaining from any participation in sanctions and whether the position of Members appl…

Dollot, René Keywords: Neutrality | Mots clefs: Neutralité | ABSTRACT Neutrality is the situation of a State, which remains voluntarily strange to a war between two or several neighboring or distant countries, notes Rene Dollot in the introduction to his course. It represents an essentially modern legal concept. The author successively studies the neutralities of Switzerland, Belgium, and Luxemburg. He then focuses on local territorial neutrality, the servitude of permanent neutrality affecting an Island …

Boye, Thorvald Keywords: Neutrality | Mots clefs: Neutralité | ABSTRACT The subject of Thorvald Boye’s course is to deal with the historical development of the rules of neutrality, and specially, of the rules of trade and navigation of neutrals during maritime warfare. For this purpose, he comments on the historical events which are the source and the people to whom merit comes back more particularly. He particularly focuses on the Hague Conventions of 1907 and formulates a few observations on the issue o…

B. Whitton, John Keywords: League of Nations | Neutrality | Mots clefs: Société des Nations | Neutralité | ABSTRACT John B. Whitton points out in the introduction to his course that the experiences of the Great War clearly demonstrate the obsolescence of the concepts of neutrality as previously identified, at least in general practice. It is true, the author notes, that the laws of neutrality are subjected to serious violations by both the combatants during the recent conflict. This observation leads the author to…