Salmon, Jean Keywords: States | Sovereignty | Competence | Globalization | Legal personality | Public international law | European Union | Mots clefs: Etats | Souveraineté | Compétence | Mondialisation | Personnalité juridique | Droit international public | Union européenne | ABSTRACT Jean Salmon, Professor Emeritus at the Université libre de Bruxelles, was convinced, while attending Paul Reuter’s doctoral course on international organizations in Paris in 1955, that the sovereign State was destined to disappear and would otherwise be re…

J. A. Salmon, Jean Keywords: Factfinding | Public international law | Mots clefs: Faits | Droit international public | ABSTRACT The course of Jean Salmon, Director of the Institute of Sociology of the Université libre de Bruxelles, is devoted to the study of fact in the application of law. The author intends to analyze the role of juridical fact when international law is applied to an actual situation. If various moments or forms of legal reasoning have already been studied, the author does not believe that a synth…