Echoing the title of this year's lecture, the title of the seminar is a double-entry :it will deal both with the international law that regions help to adopt, interpret and/or apply (e.g. regional customs and exceptions), and with the international law that institutes and orders regions in various forms (e.g. regional organizations, regional groups within universal organizations, regional courts). The issues addressed in the seminar will illustrate these two aspects ofthe relationship between international law and regions. In the first time, we will discuss : the relationship between general international law and regional international law, the place of regional international law in the work of the International Law Commission and the International Court of Justice, or the protection of human rights by regional human rights lectures or, more generally, by lectures established by regional integration organizations. On the other hand, and in a second time, the following issues will be addressed: the particularity of the European Union among regional international organizations, and the relationship between the protection of minorities and regions in international law.
Speakers
Pr Pierre d'Argent (Université catholique de Louvain) ; Dr Janina Barkholdt (Humboldt University, Berlin) ; Pr Laurence Burgorgue-Larsen (Université Paris-Panthéon-Sorbonne) ; Pr Mathias Forteau (Université Paris-Nanterre) ; Dr Apollin Koagne Zouapet (International Court of Justice, The Hague) ; Pr Nicolas Levrat (University of Geneva & UN Special Rapporteur on minority issues) ; Pr François-Xavier Millet (University of the West Indies).
In conjunction with the seminar, and at the invitation of the Collège de France assembly, Pr Slim Laghmani (University of Tunis) will give a lecture on March19 at 11 hon the theme Existe-t-il une exception musulmane en droit international ?