Reed, Lucy Keywords: International crises | Public international law | Private international law | International dispute settlement | Iran-United States Claims Tribunal | United Nations Compensation Commission | North Korea | Nuclear energy | Mots clefs: Crises internationales | Droit international public | Droit international privé | Solution des différends internationaux | Tribunal irano-américain de réclamations | Commission de compensation des Nations Unies | Corée du Nord | Energie nucléaire | ABSTRACT Lucy Reed, partner at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP in…

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 …

Caldera, Rafael Keywords: Public international law | Justice | Mots clefs: Droit international public | Justice | ABSTRACT At the conference given by Rafael Caldera, Former President of Venezuela, in The Hague on 8 July 1896, the author seeks a juridical basis for a new international order which he calls for and which, by promoting social justice, will guarantee peace. Lors de cette conférence que Rafael Caldera, ancien président du Venezuela, a donné à La Haye le 8 juillet 1896, l’auteur recherche le fondement juridique d’un nouvel ordre international q…

E. Butler, W. Keywords: Public international law | Comparative law | Mots clefs: Droit international public | Droit comparé | ABSTRACT In his course, W.E. Butler, Professor at University College London, focuses primarily on four areas of comparative legal studies. The first is the comparative analysis of the international legal system, including subsystems and doctrine. The author then focuses on a comparative analysis of the relations between international law and domestic legal systems and cultures, followed by a …

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…

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…

Mahiou, Ahmed Keywords: Public international law | Mots clefs: Droit international public | ABSTRACT Ahmed Mahiou, Honorary Research Director at the National Center for Scientific Research, Aix-en-Provence, notes in the introduction to his course that the structure of international law and the movement that drives it are very different from those of domestic law, to an extent that there is a permanent quest for balance and compromise between contradictory and equally important demands, and a constant adjustme…

Jacqué, Jean-Paul Keywords: Norms | Public international law | Mots clefs: Normes | Droit international public | ABSTRACT Jean-Paul Jacqué, Professor at the Robert Schuman University in Strasbourg, asks why, if the norm is defined, quite provisionally, as a set of rights and obligations, the relationships established between the Act and the Norm should be examined. He writes, it seems quite obvious to say, that the Act is an instrument for creating Norms, but it does not have the exclusivity of this function whic…

Tunkin, Grigory Keywords: Public international law | Mots clefs: Droit international public | ABSTRACT Grigory Tunkin, Professor at Moscow University, proposes in this article a new theory of the inter-state system considered as an integral system. Professor Tunkin first focuses on international politics and the creation of norms of international law for presenting this new theory. Then, he studies the link between international law and politics and between international law and force. He also devotes a chapt…

Lachs, Manfred Keywords: Public international law | Development of international law | Mots clefs: Droit international public | Développement du droit international | ABSTRACT Manfred Lachs, Judge and Former president of the International Court of Justice, focuses on the study of roots of international law, its fundamental presuppositions, and some of its major questions of particular relevance at the time of writing this course. He aims to define the relationship between the State and nature, the relationship between …

Tieya, Wang Keywords: China | Public international law | Mots clefs: Chine | Droit international public | ABSTRACT Wang Tieya, Professor at Peking University, notes that Chinese international law has a long history by considering the international law of the Spring and Autumn and Warring states periods during the Zhou Dynasty (722-221 BC). The objective of Professor Wang Tieya’s course is not to make a historical study, but to answer some questions about international law in China: Was there an international law …

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…

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 …

Arrighi, Jean-Michel Keywords: Organization of American States | Public international law | International law | Institutional law | Institutions and organs | Legal co-operation | Democracy | History | Mots clefs: Organisation des Etats américains | Droit international public | Droit international | Droit institutionnel | Institutions et organes | Coopération juridique | Démocratie | Histoire | ABSTRACT The Organization of American States (OAS), created in 1948, is just a link in a long chain of inter-American institutions that emerged from the first Am…

Chemillier-Gendreau, Monique Keywords: Public international law | International law | Universalism | Mots clefs: Droit international public | Droit international | Universalisme | ABSTRACT To reflect on the universality of international law, it is necessary to ask whether its application extends to the entire society concerned, no subject is excluded, and its objectives are achieved for the benefit of all. If the concept of sovereignty appears as a guarantee of the independence and recognition of a group, it is also a …

Kamto, Maurice Keywords: States | Will | Public international law | Mots clefs: Etats | Volonté | Droit international public | ABSTRACT In his general course on public international law, Maurice Kamto, Professor at the University of Yaoundé II, presents a detailed study of the will of the State in public international law. After a thorough review of the concepts of State and will in international legal thinking, Professor Kamto observes that, contrary to the claim of the followers of the radical and exclusivist volun…

Gaja, Giorgio Keywords: Ius cogens | Public international law | Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (Vienna, 23 May 1969) | State responsibility | Mots clefs: Jus cogens | Droit international public | Convention de Vienne sur le droit des traités (Vienne, 23 mai 1969) | Responsabilité des Etats | ABSTRACT Giorgio Gaja, Professor at the University of Florence, begins an analysis of the role of peremptory norms in contemporary treaty law. He devotes a first chapter of his course to treaty law. After some preliminary remarks on the relevance of…

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…

H. Kooijmans, P. Keywords: Protestantism | Public international law | Mots clefs: Protestantisme | Droit international public | ABSTRACT P. H. Kooijmans, Professor at the University of Leiden, devotes his course to the role played by Protestantism in the development of international law. After a study of the relationship between religion and law, the author presents the influence of the reformation on the development of international law (and in particular the role played by Protestantism in the secularization of …

Conforti, Benedetto Keywords: Public international law | Mots clefs: Droit international public | ABSTRACT The General course on Public International Law by Benedetto Conforti, Professor at the University of Naples, is based on the idea that international law is no longer, or no longer only, a matter for diplomats and that it must be administered, like any other branch of law, by all legal operators, i.e. all those who exercise public functions within the State and who, at any level, are intended to enforce t…

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…

Gómez Robledo, Antonio Keywords: Ius cogens | Public international law | Mots clefs: Jus cogens | Droit international public | ABSTRACT In his course, Antonio Gomez Robledo presents a very thorough study of the international ius cogens. After a historical study of the notion of ius cogens (prehistory and legislative history), the author exposes the doctrinal dialectic opposing defenders and deniers of ius cogens. He then presents a theory of ius cogens, and examines the ius cogens superveniens. The author addresses …

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Dupuy, René-Jean Keywords: Public international law | Mots clefs: Droit international public | ABSTRACT Rene-Jean Dupuy considers that we are at the crossroads of two routes: one route is at the level of structures and shows us the international community at the heart of the dialectic of power and law. How is power subject to the law and how is the international community progressing or, on the contrary, being thwarted in the struggle between the two antagonistic forces? The second route lies in the substance…

Henkin, Louis Keywords: Public international law | Mots clefs: Droit international public | ABSTRACT Louis Henkins, Professor at Columbia University in New York, notes that a general course cannot aspire to be a comprehensive course covering all international law, and that the publication of a new general course every year is only justified if it provides different perspectives on traditional subjects of international law or elaborates new legal developments in the law. In this course, the author does both. H…

Augusto Cançado Trindade, Antônio Keywords: Public international law | Mots clefs: Droit international public | ABSTRACT Professor Conçado Trindade, judge and former president of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, observes that, given the extraordinary expansion of the discipline along the last decades, it would be an impossible task to attempt to provide an in-depth and detailed treatment of international law. Thus, an element of selection is indeed necessary, and the author intends to provide an overal…

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 …

Virally, Michel Keywords: Public international law | Mots clefs: Droit international public | ABSTRACT Michel Virally, Professor at the University of Law, Economics, and Social Sciences, Paris, emphasizes in the introduction to his course that we must take the law as it presents itself (as a normative set), but also place it in its socio-historical environment, without which it has no reality - and therefore go beyond the purely formal aspects and adopt a multidisciplinary approach, without getting lost in th…

Wengler, Wilhelm Keywords: Public international law | Mots clefs: Droit international public | ABSTRACT Wilhelm Wengler, Professor Emeritus of the Free University of West Berlin, examines in his course the four paradoxes encountered by a jurist trained in the domestic law of a Western state: it is its system of legal sanctions, which is decisive for conceiving public international law as a legal order; there is no legal rule given for the judicial determination of concrete violations of international law; its…

Truyol Y Serra, Antonio Keywords: Public international law | Mots clefs: Droit international public | ABSTRACT In his general course on public international law, Antonio Truyol y Serra attempts to find out what is constant and new, or possibly renewal, in the current evolution - to draw up, so to speak, an assessment that does not disdain to take into account the extra-legal factors, which contributed or contribute to the configuration of the principles and rules of public international law as they are presente…

Cassese, A. Keywords: Constitutional law | Public international law | Mots clefs: Droit constitutionnel | Droit international public | ABSTRACT Antonio Cassese, Professor at the University of Florence, describes in his course the attitude that modern states adopt toward the international community, insofar as this attitude is described in constitutional texts. More specifically, Antonio Cassese examines whether these States, in their constitutional texts, and to the extent that this is available, in their constitut…

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…

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…

Ferrari Bravo, Luigi Keywords: International customary law | Public international law | Mots clefs: Droit coutumier international | Droit international public | ABSTRACT Luigi Ferrari Bravo, Professor at the University of Rome, examines in his course the manifestations of the practice of States with regard to research methodologies of international custom (diplomatic and legislative practice, jurisprudence of national courts, practice of international negotiations ...). The author devotes an important place to the pra…

E. Villiger, Mark Keywords: Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (Vienna, 23 May 1969) | Legal history | International customary law | Law of treaties | Public international law | Mots clefs: Convention de Vienne sur le droit des traités (Vienne, 23 mai 1969) | Histoire du droit | Droit coutumier international | Droit des traités | Droit international public | ABSTRACT The 1969 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, regulating treaties between States, lies at the heart of international law. This course analyses how the Convention has been applied by …

Meron, Theodor Keywords: Public international law | Mots clefs: Droit international public | ABSTRACT In his course, Theodor Meron, President of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, sets out to study the influence of human rights on general international law. Although human rights are central to this course, this is not a course about human rights, but rather about the reforming effect that human rights have on other fields of public international law. By examining most of the general areas o…

Abi-Saab, Georges Keywords: Public international law | Mots clefs: Droit international public | ABSTRACT Georges Abi-Saab, Professor at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, chooses a dual-axis investigation in his general course on public international law in order to present a significant overview of the subject: on one hand, to highlight how international law functions as a legal system, that is, how norms, institutions, and mechanisms articulate with respect to each other to form a wh…

Roucounas, Emmanuel Keywords: Norms | Public international law | Mots clefs: Normes | Droit international public | ABSTRACT Emmanuel Roucounas, Director of the Department of International Studies (Legal Studies) of the Faculty of Legal, Economic, and Political Sciences of the University of Athens, points out in the introduction to his course that the norms of international law generally realize a parallel development, adapting the law to the needs of the changing international community. However, contradictions, …

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…

Schachter, Oscar Keywords: Public international law | Mots clefs: Droit international public | ABSTRACT In this general course on public international law, Ocar Schachter, Professor at Columbia University in New York, successively addresses fifteen important topics of public international law: the nature and reality of international law; policies, objectives, and rules in a divided world; the quest for objectivity: sources, academics, and judges; general principles and equity; international lex scripta; resol…

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…

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 …

Hanqin, Xue Keywords: China | Public international law | International law | Sovereignty | International obligations | Human rights | Sustainable development | Multilateralism | Regionalism | Mots clefs: Chine | Droit international public | Droit international | Souveraineté | Obligations internationales | Droits de l'homme | Développement durable | Multilatéralisme | Régionalisme | ABSTRACT This class, given in 2012, starts with an introspection of the attitude of China towards international law in the last 60 years. The attention of the lecturer i…

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…

Šahović, Milan Keywords: Development of international law | Public international law | Mots clefs: Droit international public | Développement du droit international | ABSTRACT Milan Sahovic, Director of the Institute of International Politics and Economics in Belgrade, points out in the introduction to his course that the development of international law leads us to a specific situation. The progress that has been made in the development activity calls for in-depth consideration of the value and importance of the new a…

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…

F. Lowenfeld, Andreas Keywords: Private international law | Public international law | Mots clefs: Droit international privé | Droit international public | ABSTRACT Andreas Lowenfeld`s thesis is that public international law and private international law have been artificially separated for too long, for reasons which he does not understand, and which in any case no longer seems valid. The author explores the issue using three themes and illustrations: State`s interest in the valuation process, US regulation of securi…

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…

Bedjaoui, Mohammed Keywords: Non-Aligned Countries | Public international law | Non-alignment | Mots clefs: Pays non-alignés | Droit international public | Non-alignement | ABSTRACT Mohammed Bedjaoui, Ambassador of Algeria in France, proposes in his course to assess the influence on the law and international relations of a growing category of States who claim to be non-aligned, who has an increased influence on World Affairs, and who challenge the rest of the world. The author thus presents two chapters entitled Interpellation and Participation, respectively. Mohammed Bedjaoui…

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…

Pellet, Alain Keywords: Public international law | Development of international law | International Law Commission | International Court of Justice | United Nations | General Assembly | Security Council | Mots clefs: Droit international public | ABSTRACT In this inaugural conference of the public international law session 2007, Alain Pellet, Professor at the University of Paris X - Nanterre, attempts to clarify the following theme: how does international law adapt to the changing needs of the international society? The question is …

Sucharitkul, Sompong Keywords: Sovereign immunities | Mots clefs: Etats | Immunités diplomatiques et consulaires | Droit international public | Juridiction | ABSTRACT The objective of Sompong Sucharitkul’s course on the Immunities of Foreign States Before National Authorities is to examine the exact nature and scope of immunity of States from a purely legal and analytical per…

Mosconi, Franco Keywords: Public order | Private international law | Mots clefs: Droit international public | Droit international privé | ABSTRACT Franco Mosconi, Professor at the University of Pavia, puts forward a hypothesis that there exists a "general principle of law recognized by civilized nations", which requires States, when situations are not solely governed by …

Thierry, Hubert Keywords: Public international law | Mots clefs: Droit international public | ABSTRACT International law has become so vast and extensive, Hubert Thierry, Professor at the University of Paris X-Nanterre, emphasizes that it is hardly possible to explain the general rules in the time allotted to the fifteen lessons given in the general course. Therefore, Professor Thierry has chosen to give a dominant theme to his course, that of the evolution and progress of international law. In this context, …

Crawford, James Keywords: Obligations of the state | Public international law | Development of international law | Ius cogens | International Law Commission | State responsibility | United Nations | Charter | International Court of Justice | Mots clefs: Obligations des états | Droit international public | Développement du droit international | Jus cogens | Commission du droit international | Responsabilité des Etats | Nations Unies | Charte | Cour internationale de Justice | ABSTRACT The author, director of the Lauterpacht Center for International Law, examines in this…

Roucounas, Emmanuel Keywords: Individuals | Public international law | Mots clefs: Individus | Droit international public | ABSTRACT Emmanuel Roucounas, Professor at the University of Athens, devotes his general course on public international law to the question of the status of the individual in public international law. Professor Roucounas starts by describing the divided character of the legal theory concerning the individual's status in public international law, and then develops his subject in four steps. In…

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…

Cahier, Philippe Keywords: Public international law | Mots clefs: Droit international public | ABSTRACT The subject of Philippe Cahier’s course, Professor at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, is to examine whether, following the Second World War and the upheavals it caused, and taking into account the origin of international law, the course has subjected to profound changes or whether, apart from criticisms which are often hasty and which are addressed to him, the course has only been…

McLachlan, Campbell Keywords: Exception de litispendance | International law of procedure | Private international law | Public international law | International arbitration | International commercial arbitration | Mots clefs: Litispendance | Droit international de procédure | Droit international privé | Droit international public | Arbitrage international | Arbitrage commercial international | ABSTRACT Campbell McLachlan, Professor at Victoria University of Wellington, devotes his course to lis pendens in international law. After a detailed intro…

Verhoeven, Joe Keywords: Public international law | Mots clefs: Droit international public | ABSTRACT Joe Verhoeven, Professor at the University of Paris II, highlights in the introduction to his general course on public international law, that the substantive or primary rules, which impose on subjects of law of commands with which the rules must comply, are the least legally interesting. In fact, they do not demonstrate in any way the inherent genius of the "legal" normativity to which the rules belong. The …

Dupuy, René-Jean Keywords: France | Revolutions | Public international law | Mots clefs: France | Révolutions | Droit international public | ABSTRACT In this conference devoted to the French Revolution in its relations with contemporary international law, Rene-Jean Dupuy, Professor at the College de France, is interested on one hand in revolutionary universalism (Universal Declaration of Rights of Man and of the Citizen and pacifist ideology) and on the other hand in nationalism (sovereignty of the nation-state and r…

Bedjaoui, Mohammed Keywords: Public international law | Mots clefs: Droit international public | ABSTRACT In this very detailed course, a true legal testament left by the Former President of the International Court of Justice, Mohammed Bedjaoui intends to question himself, keeping in mind the strong idea of human happiness as it appears in the writing of Thomas Jefferson, to know whether and how international law can, if the major objectives of peace and development are not achieved, at least contribute a lit…

Kalshoven, Frits Keywords: Armament | Public international law | Mots clefs: Armements | Droit international public | ABSTRACT After presenting some considerations on the Ius ad bellum, namely the rules governing the use of force by States in the conduct of international relations, the author focuses in detail and in depth on the Ius in bello, namely the rules governing the use of arms during the armed conflict. To allow a better understanding of these rules and principles, the author puts the question in a histo…

Enrique Alvarez, José Keywords: Foreign direct investment | Public international law | Legal regime | Economy | Globalization | Sovereignty | United States of America | Bilateral investment treaties | Argentina | Mots clefs: Investissements directs à l'étranger | Droit international public | Régime juridique | Economie | Mondialisation | Souveraineté | Etats-Unis d'Amérique | Traités bilatéraux d'investissement | Argentine | ABSTRACT This course considers the ramifications of the legal regime that governs transborder capital flows. This regime consists pri…

Bedjaoui, Mohammed Keywords: Public international law | Mots clefs: Droit international public | ABSTRACT This article by Mohammed Bedjaoui, Former President of the International Court of Justice, is the second part of his course on Humanity in Search for Peace and Development (published in volumes 324 and 325 of the Collected Courses of the Hague Academy of International Law). This volume includes the end of the first part (peace, a conquest..., which remains a quest), devoted to the pacifying function of th…

Alexidze, Levan Keywords: Ius cogens | Public international law | Mots clefs: Jus cogens | Droit international public | ABSTRACT Levan Alexidze notes in the introduction to his course that the problem of jus cogens in contemporary international law has been widely commented by specialists representing various existing legal systems. Indeed, the question of whether there are rules of international law from which subjects of law cannot derogate even by mutual consent has become not only a theoretical topic of importa…

H. Oxman, Bernard Keywords: Public international law | Legal education | Mots clefs: Droit international public | Enseignement juridique | ABSTRACT In the inaugural lecture of the 2010 Public International Law Session, Mr. Oxam, Professor of Law at Miami University School of Law, examines some characteristics of international law relating to ideals that might, or should, be the ideals of students interested in this field of study. He does not understand the term "ideal" in the pure philosophical sense, but rather in the pursuit of a noble goal. Dans cette conférence inaugurale de l…

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…

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…

Ziccardi, Piero Keywords: Public international law | Mots clefs: Droit international public | ABSTRACT In this course, Piero Ziccardi, Professor at the University of Milan, proposes to develop, with regard to the subject of knowledge of international law, the assumptions proposed in the earlier studies on relations between the processes of the legal knowledge and the result of the processes. To do this, the author begins by examining common law and institutional law in international society. He then focuses o…

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…

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…

Barile, Giuseppe Keywords: Public international law | Law of treaties | Mots clefs: Droit international public | Droit des traités | ABSTRACT Giuseppe Barile proposes in this course to give a plausible description of what is the law of international community. He says that it is necessary to try to discover the truth by allowing himself to be transported and guided solely by the logic inherent in the multiform experiences offered by the part of reality in which the phenomenon, that interests him, has its roots. The a…