Conference: The Italian Scholars and The Hague Academy of International Law

On November 30, 2023, a conference on "The Italian Scholars and The Hague Academy of International Law - A retrospective on the occasion of the Academy’s Centennial Anniversary" will take place at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan, in cooperation with Università Roma Tre. Details are here.

Call for Applications: International Institutions in the Face of International Crises (Centre for Studies and Research, Hague Academy of International Law)

Applications are open for the 2024 edition of the Centre for Studies and Research in International Law and International Relations of the Hague Academy of International Law. The topic is: "International Institutions in the Face of International Crises." The call is here. The deadline is September 1, 2023.

Hague Academy of International Law 2022 Summer Courses

The program for the Hague Academy of International Law's 2022 Summer Courses is now available. Registration opens on November 1, 2021. The program is here.

Hague Academy of International Law 2021 Summer Courses

The program for the Hague Academy of International Law's 2021 Summer Courses is now available. Registration opens on November 1, 2020. The program (here) is almost identical to the cancelled 2020 summer courses.

Call for Applications: The Hague Academy's Centre for Studies and Research - Online

The Hague Academy of International Law is now accepting applications for the next session of its Centre for Studies and Research in International Law and International Relations, which is to take place September 1, 2020-June 1, 2021. The session will be entirely online. The topic is "Epidemics and International Law." The program is available here, with application guidelines here. The 2020 non-online program on "Applicable Law Issues in International Arbitration" has been postponed until the summer of 2021. Applications for that session have been re-opened.

Hague Academy of International Law 2021 Winter Courses

Registration is now open for the Hague Academy of International Law's 2021 Winter Courses. Here are the courses:

• Malcolm N. Shaw (Univ. of Leicester), Inaugural Lecture: A House of Many rooms: The Rise, Fall and Rise Again of Territorial Sovereignty
• Maurice Kamto (Université de Yaoundé), Cours général : Le droit international et le polycentrism normatif
• Alan Boyle (Univ. of Edinburgh), International Law-Making for the Environment
• Chester Brown (Univ. of Sydney), Evidence in International Adjudication
• Olivier de Schutter (Université catholique de Louvain), L'émergence de la souveraineté alimentaire en droit international
• Jose Angelo Estrella Faria (United Nations), La protection des biens culturels religieux en droit international public et en droit international privé
• Anne Orford (Univ. of Melbourne), Civil War and the Transformation of International Law
• William Schabas (Middlesex Univ. London; Leiden Univ.), Relationships Between International Criminal Law and Other Branches of International Law

Hague Academy of International Law 2020 Summer Program

The course of study for the Hague Academy of International Law's 2020 Summer Program is now available. Registration is open. Here are the courses:

Public International Law

• Meg Kinnear (ICSID), Inaugural Lecture: The Growth, Challenges and Future Prospects for Investment Dispute Settlement
• Robert Kolb (Université de Genève), Cours général : Le droit international comme corps de droit privé et de droit public
• Théodore Christakis (Université Grenoble Alpes), Le droit international de la cyber sécurité
• Stephen C. McCaffrey (Univ. of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law), The Evolution of the Law of International Watercourses
• Attila Tanzi (Univ. of Bologna), The Principle iura novit curia in International Judicial and Arbitral Proceedings
• Dire Tladi (Univ. of Pretoria), The Extra-Territorial Use of Force Against Non-State Actors
• Jorge E. Viñuales (Univ. of Cambridge), La responsabilité aggravée en droit international contemporain
• Wenqi Zhu (Renmin Univ. of China), Safeguarding the Defence – Proceedings Before International Criminal Justice

Private International Law

• Alexis Mourre (Cour internationale d’arbitrage de la CCI), Conférence inaugurale : La légitimité de l’arbitrage
• Linda Silberman (New York Univ.), General Course: The Counter-Revolution in Private International Law in the United States: From Standards to Rules privé
• Pietro Franzina (Université de Ferrare), Le droit international privé et le temps
• Mary Keyes (Griffith Univ.), The Intentions of the Parties in Private International Law
• Salim Moollan (Essex Court Chambers), Les procédures parallèles en matière d’arbitrage : analyse théorique et recherche de solutions pratiques
• José Antonio Moreno Rodríguez, Private International Law and Investment Arbitration
• Arnaud Nuyts, (Université Libre de Bruxelles), Le for des cyber-délits
• Jean-Baptiste Racine (Université Côte d’Azur), Arbitrage et droits de l’homme
• Robert Wai (York Univ. Osgoode Hall Law School), Liberalism and Private International Law

Hague Academy of International Law 2020 Winter Courses

Registration is now open for the Hague Academy of International Law's 2020 Winter Courses. Here are the courses:

• Geneviève Bastid-Burdeau (Université Paris 1), Conférence inaugurale - Les règles internationales de compétence et la pratique contemporaine des États : stabilité ou bouleversement ?
• Rüdiger Wolfrum (Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law), General Course - Solidarity and Community Interests: Driving Forces for the Interpretation and Development of International Law
• Samantha Besson (Université de Fribourg), La due diligence en droit international
• Paulo Borba Casella (Université de São Paulo), Droit international, histoire et culture
• Mathias Forteau (Université Paris-Nanterre), Le droit applicable devant les juridictions internationales
• Karen Knop (Univ. of Toronto), Foreign Relations and International Law
• Brusil Miranda Metou (Université de Dschang), Le contrôle international des dérogations aux droits de l’homme
• Mario Oyarzabal (National Univ. of La Plata), The Influence of Public International Law upon Private International Law

Hague Academy of International Law 2019 Summer Program

The course of study for the Hague Academy of International Law's 2019 Summer Program is now available. Registration will open on November 1. Here are the courses:

Public International Law

• Yves Daudet (Université Paris 1), Conférence inaugurale : 1919-2019, le flux du multilatéralisme
• Hilary Charlesworth (Univ. of Melbourne; Australian National Univ.), General Course: The Art of International Law
• Concepción Escobar Hernández (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia), Les immunités des représentants de l’État en droit international
• Shotaro Hamamoto (Univ. of Kyoto), Perspectives de l’arbitrage entre l’investisseur et l’État fondé sur un traité
• Said Mahmoudi (Stockholm Univ.), The Argument of Self-Defense in Relation to “Unwilling-or-Unable” States
• Sandrine Maljean-Dubois (Centre national de la recherche scientifique), Le droit international de la biodiversité
• Gérard Niyungeko (formerly, Judge, la Cour africaine des droits de l’homme et des peuples), Les juridictions internationales africaines
• Kerstin von der Decken (Kiel Univ.), International Law on the Protection of Cultural Heritage

Private International Law

• Gary Born, Inaugural Lecture: International Arbitration: Choices of Law
• Diego P. Fernández Arroyo (Sciences Po), Cours général : La traversée du miroir : la progressive dénationalisation du droit international privé
• Yas Banifatemi (Shearman & Sterling), Les pouvoirs de l’arbitre en arbitrage international
• Sandrine Clavel (l’Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en Yvelines / Paris-Saclay), L’intégration des considérations éthiques dans le droit des contrats du commerce international
• Manuel Desantes Real (l’Université d’Alicante), Droit international privé et juridiction unifiée du brevet
• Franco Ferrari (New York Univ.), Forum Shopping Despite Unification of Law
• Anastasia Grammaticaki-Alexiou (Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki), Best Interests of the Child in Private International Law
• Eduardo Silva Romero (Rosario Univ.; Sciences Po), Legal Fictions in International Arbitration
• Matthias Weller (Univ. of Bonn), “Mutual Trust”: A Suitable Foundation for Private International Law in Regional Integration Communities and Beyond?

Hague Academy of International Law 2019 Winter Courses

Registration is now open for the Hague Academy of International Law's 2019 Winter Courses, a new program. Here are the courses:

• Harold Hongju Koh (Yale University), Inaugural Lecture: Schools of International Law in the United States of America
• Catherine Kessedjian (Université Paris II (Panthéon-Assas)), Cours général: Le tiers impartial et indépendant en droit international - Juge, arbitre, médiateur, conciliateur
• Jutta Brunnée (University of Toronto), Procedure and Substance in International Environmental Law
• Ryan Goodman (New York University), International Humanitarian Law and the Use of Lethal Force
• Makane Moïse Mbengue (Université de Genève), Les juridictions internationales et la science
• Jan Paulsson (University of Miami), Issues Arising from Findings of Denial of Justice
• Anne Peters (Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law), International Law and Animals
• Yuval Shany (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), The Extraterritorial Application of International Human Rights Law

Call for Applications: The Hague Academy's Centre for Studies and Research

The Hague Academy of International Law is now accepting applications for the next session of its Centre for Studies and Research in International Law and International Relations, which is to take place August 20-September 7, 2018. This year's subject is "International Inspections." The program is available here. Here's the call:

2018 Programme

International Inspections

20 August - 7 September 2018

Directors of Research: Prof. Christian J. Tams (University of Glasgow); Dr. Anne-Laure Chaumette (Paris Nanterre University)

The usefulness of ‘international inspections’ is recognised in many areas of international law: in one way or another, inspections form part of international legal regimes in fields as diverse as international economic law (World Bank Inspection Panels), disarmament (IAEA, CWC, etc.), the law of the sea (e.g. Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources) and human rights law (e.g. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities), to name but a few. While the context varies, and with it the specifics of the inspectors’ mandate, inspections seek to assess whether a certain conduct is in line with international expectations/obligations. As such, inspections are best viewed as a form of exercising control of internationally regulated conduct: of variable effectiveness, they form part of international law’s administrative/executive function.

While particular forms of international inspections have been the subject of research, the concept as such remains under-researched and elusive. The 2018 Centre for Research and Studies of The Hague Academy of International Law aims to fill the existing gap by bringing together researchers embarking on a cross-cutting analysis of international inspections. Proceeding from examples in particular fields, the overarching aim of the analysis is

• to enhance our understanding of the concept of international inspections by distilling, in a comparative analysis, common features and differences of inspection regimes;
• identify and classify their key functions;
• assess the potential and limits of inspections; and
• identify best practices of designing and implementing inspection procedures.

Underlying questions:

• To what extent are international inspections distinct from inquiries or related forms of exercising international control over State conduct? What is the link between inspections on the one hand, and concepts such as ‘guarantees’ or ‘fact-finding’ on the other?
• What are commonalities, what are differences between the different forms of inspections recognised in international regimes? Is there a common core to the concept of inspections, and if so, what does it consist of?
• What lessons, if any, can be learned from the actual practice of inspections in different areas of international law? Have ‘best practices’ emerged, and should they be recorded?
• What is the role of individuals and NGOs in the framework of international inspections?
• Is there a tension between the powers of international inspectors and the sovereignty of States, and if so, how can the two be accommodated?
• How are international inspections regulated, and to what extent does international law restrict the powers of inspectors (e.g. with respect to human rights, to rules governing the conduct of inspections, and/or the protection of confidentiality)?
• What is the nature of powers enjoyed by international inspectors? Do they enjoy proper authority, or are they merely instruments of verification?
• What is the role of sanctions in relation to international inspections? Are inspections a substitute for, or subsidiary to, international sanctions? Do they complement sanctions? Or are they a (necessary) first step before sanctions are imposed?
• What are the legal consequences of inspections? Can they result in accountability or responsibility? Could they dilute the regime of responsibility?
• Are inspections effective? Are they efficient?
• What is the probative value of information obtained through inspections?

Hague Academy of International Law 2018 Summer Program

The course of study for the Hague Academy of International Law's 2018 Summer Program is now available. Registration will open on November 1. Here are the courses:

Public International Law

• Rodman Bundy (Eversheds Harry Elias), Inaugural Lecture: The Practice of International Law
• Alain Pellet (l’Université Paris-Nanterre), Cours général Le droit international public à la lumière de la pratique - pour une théorie de la réalité
• Carlos Espósito (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid), International Law and Technology
• Keun-Gwan Lee (Seoul National University), The Return of Displaced Cultural Objects to Their Countries of Origin
• Fatsah Ouguergouz (La Commission d’enquête des Nations Unies sur le Burundi), Le droit international africain et la protection des droits de l’individu
• Photini Pazartzis (l’Université nationale et capodistrienne d’Athènes), La réparation dans le contentieux international
• Lavanya Rajamani (Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi), The International Climate Change Regime
• Dan Sarooshi (University of Oxford), The Immunities of States and International Organizations in Domestic Legal Systems

Private International Law

• Jean-Michel Jacquet (l’Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement, Genève), Conférence inaugurale Droit international privé et arbitrage commercial international
• Luca G. Radicati di Brozolo (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan), General Course: The Legal Framework of International Commercial Relations
• Louis d’Avout (l’Université Paris II (Panthéon-Assas)), L’entreprise et les conflits internationaux de lois
• Gilles Cuniberti (l’Université du Luxembourg), Le fondement de l’effet des jugements étrangers
• Felix Dasser (University of Zurich), Soft Law in International Commercial Arbitration
• Cristina González Beilfuss (University of Barcelona), Party Autonomy in International Family Law
• Ruth L. Okediji (Harvard University), Developing Countries and the International Intellectual Property System
• Marc-Philippe Weller (l’Université de Heidelberg), La méthode tripartite du droit international privé contemporain
• Diane Pamela Wood (Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit), Extraterritorial Enforcement of Regulatory Laws

Hague Academy of International Law 2017 Summer Program

The course of study for the Hague Academy of International Law's 2017 Summer Program is now available. Registration will open on November 1. Here are the courses:

Public International Law

• Jean Combacau (l’Université Paris II (Panthéon-Assas)), Inaugural Lecture: How the Law Operates in the International Legal Order: Doing Something and Having Something Done
• Edith Brown Weiss (Georgetown Univ.), General Course: Establishing Norms in a Kaleidoscopic World
• Atsuko Kanehara (Sophia Univ.), “Acts of the State” in the Law of Responsibility: A Reassessment
• Mojtaba Kazazi (formerly, United Nations Compensation Commission), Compensation for Environmental Damage and Depletion of Natural Resources: The Practice of the United Nations Compensation Commission
• Georg Nolte (Humboldt Univ.), Treaties and their Practice
• Fabián Novak (Pontifical Catholic Univ. of Peru), The System of Reparations in the Jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
• Stelios Perrakis (Panteion Univ.), The International Protection of Vulnerable Persons under International Human Rights Law
• Jean-Marc Thouvenin (l’Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense), Economic Sanctions Decided and Implemented Outside the United Nations

Private International Law

• Michael Joachim Bonell (Sapienza – Università di Roma), Inaugural Lecture: The Law Governing International Commercial Contracts: Soft Law v. Hard Law
• Horatia Muir Watt (Sciences Po), General Course: Frontiers and Distributions: Discourse on the Methods of Private International Law
• Burkhard Hess (Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Procedural Law), The Private-Public Law Divide in International Dispute Resolution
• Michael Karayanni (Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem), The Private International Law of Class Actions
• Alan Scott Rau (Univ. of Texas), The Proper Allocation of Power Between Arbitral Tribunals and Courts
• Andrés Rodríguez-Benot (Pablo de Olavide Univ.), The Property Regime of Marriages and Registered Partnerships in Private International Law
• Francesco Salerno (Univ. of Ferrara), The Identity and Continuity of Personal Status in Contemporary Private International Law
• Carmen Tiburcio (Univ. of the State of Rio de Janeiro), The Current Practice of International Cooperation in Civil Matters
• Patrick Wautelet (l’Université de Liège), The Use of Empirical Methods in Private International Law

Hague Academy of International Law 2016 Summer Program

The course of study for the Hague Academy of International Law's 2016 Summer Program is now available. Registration is open. Here are the courses:

Public International Law

• Franklin Berman, Inaugural Lecture: Why Do We Need a Law of Treaties?
• Mohamed Bennouna (Judge, International Court of Justice), General Course: International Law - Between Letter and Spirit
• Jean-Yves de Cara (Université Paris Descartes), International Organizations and their Operational Actions for State Reconstruction
• Pasquale De Sena (Catholic Univ. of Milan), Human Dignity and International law
• Bing Bing Jia (Tsinghua Univ.), International Case Law in the Development of International Law
• Fernando Mariño Menendez (Carlos III Univ.), The Prohibition of Torture in Contemporary International Law
• Sean D. Murphy (George Washington Univ.), International Law Relating to Islands
• André Nollkaemper (Univ. of Amsterdam), Shared Responsibility in International Law

Private International Law

• Erik Jayme (Univ. of Heidelberg), Inaugural Lecture: Languages and Private International Law
• Symeon C. Symeonides (Willamette Univ.), General Course: Private International Law: Aspirations and Realities
• Lotfi Chedly (Faculty of Legal, Political and Social Sciences, Tunis), The Effectiveness of International Commercial Arbitration
• Lauro da Gama e Souza Jr. (Pontifical Catholic Univ. of Rio de Janeiro), The UNIDROIT Principles and the Law Governing International Trade Contracts
• Michael Hellner (Stockholm Univ.), Private International Law Issues concerning Surrogacy Arrangements
• Sergio Marchisio (Sapienza – Università di Roma), The Legal Regime of International Space Activities: Between Public and Private Law
• Cyril Nourissat (Jean Moulin Univ. – Lyon 3), Restrictive Practices in Private International Law
• Marta Pertegás Sender (Hague Conference on Private International Law), Foreign Civil and Commercial Judgements: From Reciprocity to a Multilateral Scheme?
• Karsten Thorn (Bucerius Law School), The Protection of Small and Medium Enterprises in Private International Law

Hague Academy of International Law 2015 Summer Program

The course of study for the Hague Academy of International Law's 2015 Summer Program is now available. Registration begins November 1, 2014. Here are the courses:

Public International Law

• Jean-Pierre Cot (Judge, International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea), Inaugural Lecture: The Ethics of International Litigation
• Tullio Treves (State Univ. of Milan), General Course: The Expansion of International Law
• Jaime Ruiz de Santiago (former UNHCR representative), Forced Movements of Persons
• Christine Chinkin (formerly, London School of Economics), United Nations Accountability for Human Rights Violations
• Pieter Jan Kuiper (Univ. of Amsterdam), The Delegation of Powers by International Organisations
• Rafâa Ben Achour (Judge, African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights), Unconstitutional Changes of Government and International Law
• Masahiko Asada (Kyoto Univ.), Treaties on Nuclear Non-Proliferation, Recent Developments
• Pierre d’Argent (Univ. of Louvain), International Obligations

Private International Law

• Hans van Loon (formerly, Secretary-General of the Hague Conference on Private International Law), Inaugural Lecture: The Global Horizon of Private International Law
• George A. Bermann (Columbia Univ.), General Course: Arbitration and Private International Law
• Yves Lequette (Paris II Panthéon Assas Univ.), General Course: Mutations in Private International Law, Towards a Paradigm Shift?
• Daniel Cooper (Covington & Burling LLP) & Christopher Kuner (Univ. of Copenhagen), Data Protection Law and International Commercial Arbitration
• Götz Schulze (Univ. of Potsdam), International Sport Law
• Javier Carrascosa González (Univ. of Murcia), Internet - Privacy and Rights Relating to Personality
• Cecilia Fresnedo de Aguirre (Univ. of the Republic and the Catholic Univ., Uruguay), Public Policy: Common Principles in the American States
• Luigi Fumagalli (State Univ. of Milan), International Commercial Arbitration and Third Parties
• Paul-Gérard Pougoue (Yaoundé II Univ.), The Arbitral Practice of the Organisation for the Harmonisation of Business Law in Africa
• Ralf Michaels (Duke Univ.), Non-State Law in Private International Law

Call for Applications: The Hague Academy's Centre for Studies and Research

The Hague Academy of International Law is now accepting applications for the next session of its Centre for Studies and Research in International Law and International Relations, which is to take place August 18-September 5, 2014. This year's subject is "The Rights of Women and Elimination of Discrimination." The program is available here. Here's the idea:

The Centre is designed to bring together young international lawyers of a high standard from all over the world, to undertake original research on a common general theme which is determined each year by the Academy. The research work undertaken at the Centre may be included in a collective work published by the Academy.

Hague Academy of International Law 2014 Summer Program

The course of study for the Hague Academy of International Law's 2014 Summer Program is now available. Registration begins November 1, 2013. Here are the courses:

Public International Law

• Vaughan Lowe (Univ. of Oxford), Inaugural Lecture: The Limits of the Law
• Djamchid Momtaz (Univ. of Teheran), General Course: Ranking of the International Legal Order
• Christine Gray (Univ. of Cambridge), Limits on the Use of Force
• Olivier Corten (Université libre de Bruxelles), Rebellion and International Law
• Emmanuelle Tourme-Jouannet (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), International Development Law and Human Rights
• Bakhtiyar Tuzmukhamedov (Russian Association of International Law), Legal Dimensions of Arms Control Agreements
• Brooks W. Daly (Permanent Court of Arbitration), The Renaissance of Inter-State Arbitration
• Maurizio Ragazzi (formerly, The World Bank), The Relationship between the United Nations and the World Bank (IBRD)

Private International Law

• Paul Lagarde (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), Inaugural Lecture: Is the Method of Recognition the Future of Private International Law?
• George A. Bermann (Columbia Univ.), General Course: Arbitration and Private International Law
• Walid Kassir (Université Saint-Joseph), Renvoi in Private International Law – The Technique of Dialogue between Legal Cultures
• Thalia Kruger (Univ. or Antwerp), Legal Certainty in International Civil Cases
• Manlio Frigo (Univ. of Milan), Circulation of Cultural Property, Choice of Law and Methods of Dispute Resolution
• Christoph Benicke (Univ. of Giessen), Maintenance in Private International Law, Recent Developments
• María Susana Najurieta (Univ. of Buenos Aires), The International Adoption of Minors and Rights of the Child
• Giuditta Cordero-Moss (Univ. of Oslo), Limitations on Party Autonomy in International Commercial Arbitration
• Olivier Cachard (Univ. of Lorraine), International Air Passenger Transport

Call for Applications: The Hague Academy's External Programme "Stability and Change in the Law of the Sea"

The Hague Academy of International Law is now accepting applications for the next session of its External Programme, which is to take place November 1-8, 2013, at Gujarat National Law University, in Gandhinagar, India. This year's subject is "Stability and Change in the Law of the Sea: Challenges for the 21st Century." The program is available here. Here's the idea:

At the end of the 1960s, the Academy established the "external program", which is normally held each year, in turn in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, upon the invitation of host governments or international organizations. It enjoys great popularity in the countries visited by the Academy. The program is a means not only of developing knowledge of topics of international law relevant for the region, but also, by the way in which it is organized, of promoting mutual familiarity among students from countries in the region. The teaching methods are interactive, and are aimed at fostering dialogue and discussion that also take place in informal settings, during meals, encounters, visits and lectures. Several hundred lecturers and more than 1500 participants from Africa, Asia and Latin America have attended external sessions. The External Program is designed for around 20 participants from the countries in the region (who are resident in their own country), whose traveling expenses are usually financed by the Academy and whose accommodation is financed by the government of the host State or organization. In addition, a number of participants come from the host State itself.

Call for Applications: The Hague Academy's Centre for Studies and Research

The Hague Academy of International Law is now accepting applications for the next session of its Centre for Studies and Research in International Law and International Relations, which is to take place August 19-September 6, 2013. This year's subject is "The Legal Implications of Global Financial Crises." The program is available here. Here's the idea:

The Centre is designed to bring together young international lawyers of a high standard from all over the world, to undertake original research on a common general theme which is determined each year by the Academy. The research work undertaken at the Centre may be included in a collective work published by the Academy.

Hague Academy of International Law 2013 Summer Program

The course of study for the Hague Academy of International Law's 2013 Summer Program is now available. Registration begins November 1, 2012. Here are the courses:

Public International Law

• Lucius Caflisch (Member, International Law Commission), Inaugural Lecture: National Boundaries, Limits and Delimitations: How Significant are these Today?
• James Crawford (Univ. of Cambridge), General Course: The Course of International Law. Practice and Process of the Law of Nations
• Eyal Benvenisti (Tel Aviv Univ.), The International Law of Global Governance
• Jean-Marc Sorel (Université Paris 1), What Normativity for the Law of International Monetary and Financial Relations?
• Robert Kolb (Univ. of Geneva), Article 103 of the United Nations Charter
• Anna Wyrozumska (Univ. of Lodz), The Role of Domestic Judges in the Development of International Law
• Bruno Nascimbene (Univ. of Milan), The Law of Nationality and the Law of Regional Organisations for Integration: Towards New Types of Status for Residents?
• Ki Gab Park (Korea Univ.), The Protection of Individuals in the Event of Catastrophes

Private International Law

• Herberk Kronke (Heidelberg Univ.), Inaugural Lecture: Transnational Commercial Law and Conflict of Laws: Institutional Co-operation and Substantive Complementarity
• Patrick Kinsch (Univ. of Luxemburg), General Course: The Role of Political Considerations in Private International Law
• Hannah Buxbaum (Indiana Univ., Bloomington), Conflict among Enforcement Regimes in International Economic Law
• Toshiyuki Kono (Kyushu Univ.), Efficiency in Private International Law
• Jan Wouters (Univ. of Leuven), The Legal Status of Public and Private Standards in International Economic Relations
• David John Hayton (Judge, Caribbean Court of Justice), “Trusts” in Private International Law
• Étienne Pataut (Université Paris 1), Methods of Private International Law Put to the Test of Labour Law
• Alexey Kostin (Moscow State Institute of International Relations), International Commercial Arbitration, a Comparative Approach with Special Focus on Russia
• Fabrizio Marrella (Univ. of Venice), International Protection of Human Rights and Activities of Transnational Companies