The Institute of Air and Space Law, McGill University

1963 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 298-300
Author(s):  
Geoffrey N. Pratt
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Graduate Student ◽  
Comparative Law ◽  
Conflict Of Laws ◽  
Public International Law ◽  
Legal Studies ◽  
Senior Scholar ◽  
Law Faculty ◽  
Space Law ◽  
Mcgill University

The board of the ford foundation recently announced the award of $250,000 to McGil’s Institute of Air and Space Law in support of a comprehensive programme including teaching, research, the collection of documents, the award of graduate student and senior scholar fellowships and the organization of conferences on air and space law. This award is to be spent over a five-year period with any unused balances not exceeding $10,000 annually to be applied to the international legal studies of the Law Faculty as a whole, notably in the field of public international law, the conflict of laws and comparative law.

The European Convention on Human Rights and International Law

2007 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luzius Wildhaber
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
International Law ◽  
Comparative Law ◽  
Case Law ◽  
European Convention ◽  
Mutual Relationship ◽  
Public International Law ◽  
European Court ◽  
Special Character ◽  
British Institute

AbstractThis article is an expanded and footnoted version of the lectur given at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law on Tuesday 21 March 2006, entitled ‘International Law in the European Court of Human Rights’.The article begins with some comparative comments on the application of the European Convention on Human Rights in monistic and dualistic systems It then discusses in detail the European Court's case law which confirms that the Convention, despite its special character as a human rights treaty, is indeed part of public international law. It concludes that the Convention and international law find themselves in a kind of interactive mutual relationship. checking and buildine on each other.

scholarly journals Laws and Politics of the International Relations of Japan and the United States

1997 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 43
Author(s):  
A H Angelo
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
International Relations ◽  
International Law ◽  
Comparative Law ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public International Law ◽  
American University ◽  
International Service ◽  
Joint Declaration

This article is a book review of Makitaro Hotta Laws and Politics of the International Relations of Japan and the United States (published jointly by the School of International Service, American University, Washington, and the College of International Relations, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, 1996) 195 pages. The book is a compendium of documents and materials relating to Japan and United States relations from the Cairo Declaration of 1 December 1943 to the Japan/US Joint Declaration on Security Alliance for the 21st Century of 17 April 1996. Angelo praises the book’s versatility, as it can be used for comparative law classes and for international relations programmes, for constitutional law teaching, and for aspects of public international law. 

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