Rosenne, Shabtai Keywords: Public international law | Mots clefs: Droit international public | ABSTRACT The title of Shabtai Rosenne's general course on public international law is inspired by the major work of the medieval Jewish philosopher and jurist, Moses Maimonides. These perplexities follow from the conviction that universal peace will become a reality when the world will have a workable, rational, balanced and accepted general system of international law and impartial and appropriate instruments to en…

W. Kowalski, Wojciech Keywords: Monuments of architecture, art or history | Restitution | Private international law | Public international law | Cultural heritage | Private international law | Cultural heritage | Mots clefs: Monuments d’architecture, d art ou historiques | Restitution | Droit international privé | Droit international public | ABSTRACT Professor Wojcieh W. Kowalski devotes his course to an analysis of the reasons justifying the distinction between cultural property and other types of property, and to the description of the princi…

Tomuschat, Christian Keywords: Public international law | Mots clefs: Droit international public | ABSTRACT Most of the tasks essential for the survival of humankind have to be performed within domestic contexts. International law has a general function to fulfill, namely to safeguard international peace, security, and justice in relations between States and human rights as well as the rule of law domestically inside States. In this course, the author first highlights the foundation of the international legal…

Antonio Pastor Ridruejo, José Keywords: Public international law | Mots clefs: Droit international public | ABSTRACT Professor Pastor Ridruejo builds his systematic exposé on international law on four fundamental starting points. The first chapter is dedicated to the general character of international law, to its characteristics compared to domestic law, whether this concern its sources, the prevention and/or the sanctioning of violations, or dispute settlement. The second chapter relates to the generic aspects…

H. Mendelson, Maurice Keywords: International customary law | Public international law | Mots clefs: Droit coutumier international | Droit international public | ABSTRACT Maurice Mendelson, professor at University College, London, insists in his course on the formation of customary international law on the fact that when we think of customary law-making in the international community, we should be thinking less of the modern legal process than of the customary domestic societies which existed everywhere in the past, b…

I. Charney, Jonathan Keywords: International courts | Public international law | Mots clefs: Tribunaux internationaux | Droit international public | ABSTRACT In this course, Jonathan I. Charney, Professor at Vanderbilt University, Nashville wonders if the coherence of international law is threatened by the increasing number of international tribunals. Professor Charney endeavours to answer this question by investigating various themes: treaty interpretation and reservations, sources of international law, State respo…

Skubiszewski, Krzysztof Keywords: Hague Academy of International Law | Public international law | Mots clefs: Académie de droit international de La Haye | Droit international public | ABSTRACT Professor Skubiszewski, Member of the Curatorium of the Hague Academy of International Law, focuses in his course on the contribution of the Academy to the development of the science and the practice of private international law. There is no doubt, according to Professor Skubiszewski, that the Academy not only enjoys a solid position…

Zemanek, Karl Keywords: Public international law | Mots clefs: Droit international public | ABSTRACT Karl Zemanek proposes to focus his general course on public international law on the role that the fundamental rules of public international law play in the functioning of the international system, those rules that constitute the legal foundation of public international law. Since these rules are the foundations of a political system, they must be viewed in their political context. This approach makes it neces…

M. McRae, Donald Keywords: General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade | International trade | Public international law | World Trade Organization | Mots clefs: Accord général sur les tarifs douaniers et le commerce | Droit commercial international | Droit international public | Organisation mondiale du commerce | ABSTRACT The object of this course by Donald M. McRae, Professor at the University of Ottawa, is to investigate the relationship between international law and international trade law. Professor McRae is interested in the way how the fiel…

Carrillo-Salcedo, Juan-Antonio Keywords: Public international law | Mots clefs: Droit international public | ABSTRACT According to Juan-Antonio Carrillo-Salcedo, Professor at the University of Seville, the general course of The Hague Academy of International Law offers the person to express his personal representation of international law envisaged as a whole and in its fundamental data. Professor Carrillo-Salcedo devotes a preliminary chapter to the functional character of sovereignty. In the first part of t…

Brownlie, Ian Keywords: Public international law | Mots clefs: Droit international public | ABSTRACT The general outlook adopted by Ian Brownlie, Professor at the University of Oxford, in his General Course on Public International Law, is that of the objective positivist, that is to say that he takes into account the views of States. However, this positivism is supplemented by paying special attention to the significant role of international tribunals in making law. Professor Brownlie's approach is also that …

A. Frowein, Jochen Keywords: Public international law | Ius cogens | Multilateral treaties | Mots clefs: Droit international public | Jus cogens | Traités multilatéraux | ABSTRACT This course by Jochen Frowein, directeur of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, is devoted to an issue that has become increasingly prominent in the past decades. Until about 1970 it was agreed that international law, as far as violations and counter-measures were concerned, operated in a bila…

Capotorti, Francesco Keywords: Public international law | Mots clefs: Droit international public | ABSTRACT In this course, Francesco Capotorti, Professor of the University of Rome, gives a systematic overview of public international law. He presents the main issues that public international law is facing today. After analyzing the characteristics of the international community and its law, Professor Capotorti elaborates on the following topics: the various subjects of international law; the bodies that make …

Arthur Watts, KCMG, QC, Sir Keywords: Heads of State and Heads of government | Public international law | Mots clefs: Chefs d Etats | Droit international public | ABSTRACT Arthur Watts, barrister and international arbitrator, proposes in this course a systematic study of the legal position of Heads of States, heads of governments and foreign ministers with respect to international law. He draws attention first of all to the status of Heads of States, to different constitutional forms and titles, moving on to talk about the …

Riphagen, †W. Keywords: Methodology | Public international law | Mots clefs: Méthodologie | Droit international public | ABSTRACT W. Riphagen, Professor Emeritus of the Erasmus University of Rotterdam, proposes in this course to build up a scientific modelization of the techniques applied in international law. The following topics are dealt with successively: modelization of techniques; similar problems and solutions within domestic law; interpenetration of international law and domestic law; the branches of ius …

Tomuschat, Christian Keywords: Obligations of the state | Law of treaties | Public international law | Legal principles | Mots clefs: Obligations des états | Droit des traités | Droit international public | Principes généraux du droit | ABSTRACT According to Christian Tomuschat, Professor at the University of Bonn, the place to be assigned to the will of States is crucial for the understanding of the international legal order. But though the will of States plays a considerable role in the appearance of obligations that are the States…

THOMAS M. FRANCK Keywords: Public international law | Mots clefs: Droit international public | ABSTRACT Taking the point of view that public international law is too rich and too complex a subject to be dealt with in its entirety within the framework of a general course on public international law, Thomas Franck, Professor at the University of New York, decides to focus on public international law from the perspective of fairness. In Part I of the course he presents an analytical framework of public internatio…

Weil, Prosper Keywords: Public international law | Mots clefs: Droit international public | ABSTRACT In this general course of public international law, Prosper Weil, Professor emeritus of the University Paris II, abstains from outlining, chapter after chapter, the substance of the matter, but limits himself to some reflections on international law as a legal system. Professor Weil thus proposes to review the existential problems currently facing international law, and examines the problems of normativity tha…

A. Barberis, Julio Keywords: Latin America | Public international law | Mots clefs: Amérique latine | Droit international public | ABSTRACT In this course, Julio A. Barberis addresses the question of whether, within the framework of the international legal order, there are standards applicable only in a particular regional area or whether, on the contrary, all these standards are universal in scope. In the first part of the course, the author provides the necessary elements to identify the various standards that con…

Higgins, Rosalyn Keywords: International disputes | Public international law | Mots clefs: Différends internationaux | Droit international public | ABSTRACT In this course, Rosalyn Higgins, Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science, has two main tasks. First, he attempts to show that an essential and inevitable choice must be made between the perception of international law as a system of neutral rules and international law as a decision-making system directed toward the realization of claim…