M. Spofford, Charles Keywords: State contracts | Private international law | Judicial settlement of international disputes | International arbitration | Mots clefs: Contrats d'Etat | Droit international privé | Règlement judiciaire des différends internationaux | Arbitrage international | ABSTRACT Charles M. Spofford focuses in this course on economic transactions involving a State acting as such and a private party. After a presentation of the impact of contemporary developments (1964) in the field, the author focuses on institution…

Habicht, Max Keywords: Equity | Judicial settlement of international disputes | Mots clefs: Equité | Règlement judiciaire des différends internationaux | ABSTRACT Max Habicht, in the introduction to his course, notes that the expression ex aequo et bono has received a special significance in international law only when the treaties began to oppose the decision of the ex aequo et bono international judge to an ordinary judgment and to completely distinguish between the ordinary and extraordinary powers of the international courts. The author examines the …

J. Davey, William Keywords: World Trade Organization | International trade | Equality | Most-favoured-nation clause | National treatment | General exceptions | Judicial settlement of international disputes | General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade | Mots clefs: Organisation mondiale du commerce | Commerce international | Egalité | Clause de la nation la plus favorisée | Traitement national | Exceptions générales | Règlement judiciaire des différends internationaux | Accord général sur les tarifs douaniers et le commerce | ABSTRACT This lecture first introduces both the Wor…

B. Sohn, Louis Keywords: Treaties | Interpretation | Judicial settlement of international disputes | Mots clefs: Traités | Interprétation | Règlement judiciaire des différends internationaux | ABSTRACT Louis Sohn, Professor at Harvard University, devotes his course to the settlement of disputes relating to the treaty interpretation and application. After an introduction in which he addresses, inter alia, the question of the Dispute Settlement Code for the Law of the Sea Convention, the author examines the history of compr…

Caflisch, Lucius Keywords: Judicial settlement of international disputes | Pacific settlement of disputes | Mots clefs: Règlement judiciaire des différends internationaux | Règlement pacifique des différends internationaux | ABSTRACT Lucius Caflisch, Judge at the European Court of Human Rights, uses as the starting point of his course on the peaceful settlement of inter-State disputes the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907. Judge Caflisch starts by drawing up an inventory of the existing modes of peaceful settlement of disp…

Castberg, Frede Keywords: Excess of power | Judicial settlement of international disputes | Mots clefs: Excès de pouvoir | Règlement judiciaire des différends internationaux | ABSTRACT Frede Castberg starts his study on the Abuse of Power in International Justice by presenting the different categories of abuse of power – the errors related to the determination of the subject of the process, the procedural flaws, and the flaws related to the nature of the standards on which the sentence should be based. He then presents t…

W. Bowett, D. Keywords: Judicial settlement of international disputes | International conciliation | Mots clefs: Règlement judiciaire des différends internationaux | Conciliation internationale | ABSTRACT D.W. Bowett begins his course on contemporary developments in the field of legal techniques of settlement of disputes with a description of the principle of dispute settlement through legal means. The author focuses on the conciliation and its relations between the law and the legal process. Finally, he examines the pr…

B. Bilder, Richard Keywords: Environmental protection | Dispute resolution | Judicial settlement of international disputes | Mots clefs: Protection de la nature et de l environnement | Règlement de litiges d ordre juridique | Règlement judiciaire des différends internationaux | ABSTRACT The objectives of course of Richard Bilder, Professor at the University of Wisconsin, on the Settlement of Disputes in the Field of International Law of the Environment are: to examine the nature of international environmental disputes and their importa…

Oda, Shigeru Keywords: International Court of Justice | Judicial settlement of international disputes | Mots clefs: Cour internationale de Justice | Règlement judiciaire des différends internationaux | ABSTRACT In this course devoted to the International Court of Justice as viewed from the bench, Shigeru Oda, judge and former vice-president of the International Court of Justice, attempts to present the institution from an institutional and functional point of view. Shigeru Oda intends to give a general overview of the Cour…