Blanca Noodt Taquela, María Keywords: Treaties | Private international law | Judicial cooperation | Jurisdiction | Choice of law | Mots clefs: ABSTRACT This course aims to draw attention to the overlapping of Private International Law treaties on International Judicial Co-operation and to give the reader an understanding of the rules and principles that provided a solution to this problem. It leads to taking a look at the principles and rules of Public International Law to apply to Private International Law. An analys…

Schrijver, Nico Keywords: Sustainable development | Legal concept | Treaties | Legal principles | Public international law | Mots clefs: Développement durable | ABSTRACT Nico Schrijver, Professor at the VU University Amsterdam, assigns a triple aim to his course. First, he intends to study about the genesis of the law of sustainable development and to clarify the meaning of this concept, while evaluating the status within the public international law. Then, he proceeds to the examination of the legal principles which e…

Nolte, Georg Keywords: Treaties | Law of treaties ABSTRACT Treaties are binding legal texts and come into existence by a political and legal process. In this course, Georg Nolte describes the development of some important treaties from the perspective of their practice with an aim to explore the meaning of different forms of practice for the life of treatments and for their interpretation. The author outlines the major peace treaties that existed prior to the UN Charter and discusses the issue of collect…

Franklin Berman, Sir Keywords: Treaties | Law of treaties ABSTRACT In this course, the author touches on what we expect a law of treaties to be and to do and on whether those principles and rules we have achieve these aims. He argues that it was not until the creation of the International Law Commission in the early years of the United Nations that a more consciously systematic attempt was made to look at the subject of treaties in the round, or as a whole. The author discusses the two main obstacles that…

Dinstein, Yoram Keywords: Treaties | International customary law | Law of treaties | Mots clefs: Traités | Droit coutumier international | Droit des traités | ABSTRACT Yoram Dinstein, Professor emeritus of the University of Tel Aviv, reminds us that Article 38 of the Statute of the International Court of Justice prescribes three strata – often referred to as "sources" – of international law. This study is confined to the interaction between two of those strata, namely treaties and customs, and does not deal with the gene…

Tuzmukhamedov, Bakhtiyar Keywords: Arms control | Weapons of mass destruction | Conventional weapons | International agreements | Treaties | International peace and security | Mots clefs: ABSTRACT This course is intended to acquaint a lecturer with the notions of regulation of arms control and disarmament processes and the specificity of the development of regulatory norms. It also treats negotiating bodies and other places where those norms are deliberated and crafted. The discussion starts with definitions and other gen…