Announcement Calenda 1211055
Echoing the title of Prof. Samantha Besson's course this year, "The International Law of Regions", the title of the seminar is double-entry: it will deal as much with the international law that regions help to adopt, interpret and/or apply (e.g. regional customs and exceptions), as with the international law that institutes and orders regions in various forms (e.g. regional organizations, regional groups within universal organizations, tribunals or regional). The questions addressed during the seminar will illustrate these two aspects of the relationship between international law and regions.
In the first instance, we will discuss the relationship between international and regional 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 courts or, more generally, by courts established by regional integration organizations. Conversely, and in a second phase, we will look at the European Union's special status among regional international organizations, and the relationship between the protection of minorities and of regions in international law.
