Berlia, Georges Keywords: International courts | Competence | Mots clefs: Tribunaux internationaux | Compétence | ABSTRACT Georges Berlia asks does the international judge have jurisdiction over his jurisdiction? in the introduction of his course. If he has it, to what extent does it have? If it is contested, does international jurisprudence allow it to reject this claim? If it authorizes it, does it offer guarantees to the States by the limits that it would pose on judge’s freedom? These are the essential fact…

A. Von Der Heydte, F. Keywords: Individuals | International courts | Access to justice | Mots clefs: Individus | Tribunaux internationaux | Accès aux tribunaux | ABSTRACT F.A. von der Heydte points out that the international Tribunals deal with the protection of human rights, which is reason enough for a thorough study of the individual's legal position in international tribunals. The author therefore successively examines the role of the individual in international law, the international tribunals, and the individual bef…

Lauterpacht, Q.C., E. Keywords: International courts | Development of international law | Mots clefs: Tribunaux internationaux | Développement du droit international | ABSTRACT In this course on the Development of the Law of International Organizations by the Decisions of International Tribunals, the author focuses on the central and allied issues of personality of organizations and the interpretation of constitutions. The author successively examines the place of law in international organizations, the common law of …

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…

Elihu Lauterpacht, Sir Keywords: Judicial settlement of international disputes | Procedure | Legal principles | International Court of Justice | Law of procedure | International courts | International law of procedure | Consent | Mots clefs: ABSTRACT Drawing on his extensive experience, the author examines the range, forms and role of procedure in international litigation. He discusses critically and at length the operation of the principle of consent and the principal elements in the litigation process. Sir Elihu Lauterpacht, directeur émérite du Lauterpacht Center for…

Malenovský, Jiří Keywords: International courts | Judges | Independence | Permanent Court of International Justice | International Court of Justice | European Court of Human Rights | Mots clefs: ABSTRACT The independence of international judges is the result of a particular synthesis of general principle of law imposing judicial independence, on one hand, and certain traditional rules specific to the status of the international arbitrator, on the other hand. Both the “weak” point and the “strong” point of the international j…

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…