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Dr. Prometeo Cerezo de Diego passes away

Dr. Prometeo Cerezo de Diego passes away

Dr. Prometeo Cerezo de Diego passed away on the morning of December 11, 2024. Professor of Public International Law at the Complutense University of Madrid and the Real Centro Universitario María Cristina de El Escorial, in addition to being a full member of several...

Dr. Rafael Nieto Navia passed away

Dr. Rafael Nieto Navia passed away

Dr. Rafael Nieto Navia passed away on 4 December at the age of 86. A Doctor of Juridical Sciences from the Universidad Javeriana, academic and ambassador, he presided over the Inter-American Court of Human Rights between 1987-1989 and 1993-1994 and was also an...

32nd IHLADI Congress concludes in Lisbon

32nd IHLADI Congress concludes in Lisbon

The 32nd IHLADI Congress, which has been held in Lisbon since 2 September 2024, closed on 6 September. A chronicle of the Congress: CHRONICLE OF THE XXXII IHLADICONGRESS ENGLISHDescarga

Dr. Ernesto Rey Caro passed away

Dr. Ernesto Rey Caro passed away

Dr. Ernesto Rey Caro, a prominent member of the IHLADI and Professor of Public International Law and later Professor Emeritus of the National University of Cordoba, passed away on Friday 16 August in Cordoba (Argentina). Master of internationalists and author of an...

Dr. Hugo Llanos Mansilla passed away

Dr. Hugo Llanos Mansilla passed away

Yesterday, Dr. Hugo Llanos Mansilla, honorary member and current president of the IHLADI, passed away. An eminent figure in international law, Professor of Public International Law at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and, among others, at Harvard and...

32nd IHLADI Congress (Lisbon, September 2 to 6, 2024)

32nd IHLADI Congress (Lisbon, September 2 to 6, 2024)

On September 2, 2024, the XXXII IHLADI Congress will open in Lisbon, under the patronage of the President of the Republic of Portugal. The sessions will be held at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon. Those wishing to attend as observers should apply for...

AGREEMENT BETWEEN IHLADI AND CIDP

AGREEMENT BETWEEN IHLADI AND CIDP

The Cooperation Agreement between the Lisbon-based Centro de Investigação de Direito Privado (CIDP) and the IHLADI was signed on 6 February. The purpose of the agreement is to establish a lasting cooperation between the two institutions to promote projects,...

Rodolfo Ceprián Molina, former president of IHLADI, passes away

Rodolfo Ceprián Molina, former president of IHLADI, passes away

Rodolfo Ceprián Molina, a prominent member of IHLADI, passed away on Saturday 21 October 2023. He was president of IHLADI in the 2004-2006 biennium. Born in Spain, he played a leading educational and teaching role in Ecuador, most notably as rector of the SEK...

Pablo-Antonio Fernández Sánchez, new director of the IEAL

Pablo-Antonio Fernández Sánchez, new director of the IEAL

Pablo Antonio Fernández Sánchez, member and former president of the IHLADI, has been elected director of the University Institute for Research on Latin American Studies (IEAL). The University Institute of Latin American Studies (IEAL) is an interdisciplinary research...

Ambassador Cristina Aguiar passes away

Ambassador Cristina Aguiar passes away

Cristina Aguiar, a member of IHLADI, recognized expert in public international law and constitutional law and one of the first Dominican women to represent the country at the United Nations, passed away on Sunday. At the beginning of 1997, the then President of the...

CLOSING CEREMONY OF THE XXXI IHLADI CONGRESS: MAIN AGREEMENTS

CLOSING CEREMONY OF THE XXXI IHLADI CONGRESS: MAIN AGREEMENTS

With the presence of the Viceminister of Foreign Affairs of the Government of Chile, Dr. Ximena Fuentes, academic authorities of the Central University of Chile and guests of accredited diplomatic delegations, the closing gala dinner of the XXXI IHLADI Congress was...

EDGARDO RIVEROS PRESENTS HIS PAPER ON THE CRISIS OF MULTILATERALISM

EDGARDO RIVEROS PRESENTS HIS PAPER ON THE CRISIS OF MULTILATERALISM

On the afternoon of Monday 24 October, Dr. Edgardo Riveros presented his paper on the crisis of multilateralism. The prestigious expert in international law made a diagnosis of this crisis and proposed the necessary measures to strengthen the multilateral spirit in...

HUGO LLANOS MANSILLA, NEW PRESIDENT OF THE IHLADI

HUGO LLANOS MANSILLA, NEW PRESIDENT OF THE IHLADI

As President of the Organising Committee of the XXXI Congress of the HISPANO-LUSO-AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL LAW, Dr. Hugo Llanos Mansilla assumed the position of President of the INSTITUTE, which he will hold until 2024. Dr. Hugo Llanos, in his speech,...

INAUGURATION OF THE XXXI IHLADI CONGRESS IN SANTIAGO DE CHILE

INAUGURATION OF THE XXXI IHLADI CONGRESS IN SANTIAGO DE CHILE

The solemn inauguration of the XXXI Congress of the HISPANO-LUSO-AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL LAW took place on Monday 24 October 2022 in the premises of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The event was presided over by the Deputy Minister, Ms. Ximena Fuentes....

Antonio Cançado Trindade passed away

Antonio Cançado Trindade passed away

Antonio A. Cançado Trindade, a distinguished member of IHLADI, passed away on 29 May 2029 after a serious illness. With a PhD from Cambridge University, he carried out an intense academic, teaching and research activity in Brazil. He left an incomparable mark as a...

THE SITUATION OF UKRAINE IN INTERNATIONAL LAW

THE SITUATION OF UKRAINE IN INTERNATIONAL LAW

At an extraordinary Congress (May 12-13, 2022) , the IHLADI analyzes from various perspectives the implications of the invasion of Ukraine launched on February 24, 2022 by Russian troops with the support of Belarus.

MARIA TERESA INFANTE CAFFI AT THE UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE

MARIA TERESA INFANTE CAFFI AT THE UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE

In an event organised within the framework of the cooperation agreement between the IHLADI and the Academia Hispano Americana de Ciencias, Artes y Letras and the Instituto Universitario de Estudios sobre América Latina, Dr. María Teresa Infante Caffi, member of the...

The IHLADI condemns Russian military intervention in Ukraine

The IHLADI condemns Russian military intervention in Ukraine

DECLARATION OF CONDEMNATION The Presidency, the General Secretariat and the Board of Directors of the INSTITUTO HISPANO LUSO AMERICANO Y FILIPINO DE DERECHO INTERNACIONAL (IHLADI) condemn the military invasion of Ukraine and the aggression against that State and its...

Manuel Augusto Ferrer passes away

Manuel Augusto Ferrer passes away

Manuel Augusto Ferrer, Professor of Maritime, Aeronautical and Space Law at the University of Cordoba (Argentina) and member of IHLADI passed away on 4 February at the age of 91. An academic and entrepreneur, he was noted for his contributions to space law. RIP

Four IHLADI members elected to the International Law Commission

Four IHLADI members elected to the International Law Commission

George Rodrigo Bandeira Galindo (Brazil), Carlos José Argüello Gómez (Nicaragua), Juan José Ruda Santolaria (Peru) and Patrícia Galvao Teles (Portugal) have been elected members of the International Law Commission for a five-year term beginning January 1, 2023 (until...

Dr. Alfredo Martínez Moreno passed away

Dr. Alfredo Martínez Moreno passed away

Alfredo Martínez Moreno, Honorary Member of IHLADI, passed away in El Salvador last Saturday night at the age of 98. Dr. Martínez Moreno was one of the great Ibero-American jurists. The adjective jurist, however, is an understatement. A multifaceted and renaissance...

Prominent internationalist Mauricio Herdocia Sacase passed away

Prominent internationalist Mauricio Herdocia Sacase passed away

The prominent Nicaraguan internationalist Dr. Mauricio Herdocia Sacasa, associated member of the IHLADI, Rector of the American College University, has passed away. He was an outstanding diplomat who played an important role in the achievement of the Contadora Act and...

INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL ARBITRATION (A COMPARATIVE STUDY)

INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL ARBITRATION (A COMPARATIVE STUDY)

Arbitraje comercial internacional (un estudio de Derecho comparado), Cizur Menor, Civitas/ Thomson-Reuters, 2020. A new publication coordinated by Sixto A. Sánchez Lorenzo on key issues in international commercial arbitration from a comparative perspective....

INTERNATIONAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR COVID-19

INTERNATIONAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR COVID-19

In its session of November 4, 2020, the Rapporteurs being Drs. Zlata Drnas de Clément, Pablo Revilla Montoya and María Alejandra Sticca, The IHLADI adopted the following recommendations on "International Responsibility for COVID 19 (Dispute Settlement) “International...

DRAFT ACT ON PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW IN CHILE

DRAFT ACT ON PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW IN CHILE

Last Tuesday, September 22nd, the Dean of the Law School of the University of Chile, Dr. Pablo Ruiz-Tagle, and the President of the Chilean Association of Private International Law (ADIPRI) and member of the IHLADI, Dr. Eduardo Picand Albónico, formally presented to...

IHLADI RECOMMENDATIONS ON THE OBLIGATION TO NOTIFY A PANDEMIC

IHLADI RECOMMENDATIONS ON THE OBLIGATION TO NOTIFY A PANDEMIC

At its session on September 23, 2020, the Rapporteur being Ambassador Hugo Ignacio Llanos Mardones, the IHLADI adopted the following recommendations on the obligation to notify a pandemic, in the light of the Draft Articles of the International Law Commission on the...

TRIBUTE TO AMBASSADOR LAMA MORALES

TRIBUTE TO AMBASSADOR LAMA MORALES

The Consular Corps in the Dominican Republic, which today is presided over by Clara Reid de Frankenberg, in her capacity as Dean, paid tribute to Ambassador Manuel Morales Lama at the end of his term as Rector of the Institute of Higher Education in Diplomatic and...

IHLADI RECOMMENDATIONS ON COVID-19 AND CLIMATE CHANGE

IHLADI RECOMMENDATIONS ON COVID-19 AND CLIMATE CHANGE

In its session of September 9, 2020, the Rapporteur being Dr. Hugo Llanos Mansilla, the IHLADI adopted the following recommendations on COVID-19 and climate change: THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC AND CLIMATE CHANGE

New Contribution by Ricardo Abello Galvis

New Contribution by Ricardo Abello Galvis

New article by Ricardo Abello Galvis on "Contributions of the U.N. International Law Commission facing with a pandemic situation like Covid-19", published in the Journal of the Colombian Academy of Jurisprudence:...

New book by Zlata Drnas de Clément

New book by Zlata Drnas de Clément

Zlata Drnas de Clément publishes his work Los paradigmas ideológicos y la concepción del derecho internacional¸ 1st ed. ISBN 978-987-551-417-1, a critical reflection on how normative, political and sociological paradigms shape, construct and deconstruct diverse...

Book in homage to Dr. Fernandez Rozas

Book in homage to Dr. Fernandez Rozas

“Relaciones transfronterizas, globalización y Derecho: homenaje al Profesor Doctor José Carlos Fernández Rozas”. This book pays tribute to the academic and professional career of Dr. José Carlos Fernández Rozas. More than sixty specialists from Spain, Portugal,...

XLVI Course of International Law (OEA)

XLVI Course of International Law (OEA)

The Department of International Law of the Secretariat for Legal Affairs of the Organization of American States (OAS) presents the publication of the contributions to the XLVI Course on International Law that took place from July 22 to August 9, 2019 in Rio de...

Human rigths and old persons: contribution by Luis H. Toro Utillano

Human rigths and old persons: contribution by Luis H. Toro Utillano

Luis Humberto Toro Utillano has just published a contribution on “The Inter-American Convention on Protecting the Human Rights of Older Persons”, within the collective work The Cambridge Handbook of New Human Rights (Recognition, Novelty, Rrthoric), Cambridge...

Dr. Hortensia Gutiérrez Posse passed away

Dr. Hortensia Gutiérrez Posse passed away

Dr. Hortensia Gutiérrez Posse, member of the IHLADI, was emeritus professor at the University of Buenos Aires. PhD from this University and awarded with the diploma from the Hague Academy of International Law, she carried out an intense academic and teaching activity....

Dr. Marco Gerardo Monroy Cabra, in memoriam

Dr. Marco Gerardo Monroy Cabra, in memoriam

On December 19, the prominent Colombian jurist Marco Gerardo Monroy Cabra, associated member of the IHLADI, passed away. He was Commissioner in the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Dean of the Faculty of Jurisprudence of the Universidad del Rosario,...

Wassily Kandinsky and International Law

Wassily Kandinsky and International Law

A new article from Marícilio Toscano Franca Filho available in https://www.bitacorainternacional.com/single-post/2019/09/21/Wassily-Kandinsky-y-el-Derecho-Internacional?fbclid=IwAR0m9Hlc1EoNowdlaNi0enoZHdl3HU2RY3_brwraK2TOwGNaEeo2L6uADuc

Brazilian Coference on Law & Art

Brazilian Coference on Law & Art

50th anniversary of the 1970 UNESCO Convention and 25th anniversary of the 1995 UNESCO Convention: Joao Pessoa (Brasil), May, 20-22 2020

Course on the consular powers in private law matters

Course on the consular powers in private law matters

Under the Agreement between IHLADI and INESDYC (Institute of Higher Education of Diplomatic and Consular Education) of the Dominican Republic signed in Seville 2018, Dr. Sixto Sánchez Lorenzo, Secretary General of IHLADI, has taught a course on the consular function...

Francisco Orrego Vicuña in memoriam

Francisco Orrego Vicuña in memoriam

On October 2, 2018, the lawyer Francisco Orrego Vicuña, member of the IHLADI and Professor of International Law of the University of Chile, passed away. He obtained the National Humanities and Social Sciences Award in 2001, thanks to his outstanding performance in...

Enrique Mapelli, in Memoriam

Enrique Mapelli, in Memoriam

On August 24, Enrique Mapelli passed away. He was a member of the IHLADI, noted for his aeronautical law contributions.

Rodolfo Dávalos

Name: Rodolfo Dávalos Fernández Training: Doctor of Law Current  position: President of the Cuban Chamber of Intenational Commercial Arbitration Speciality: Private International Law - Commercial Law Download curriculum E-mail: rddavalos@yahoo.es Phone:...

Edgardo Riveros

Name: Edgardo Riveros Marín Training: Law Degree (Catholic University of Chile and Complutense University of Madrid). LLM Political Science and International Law (University of Bonn) Current  position: Professor of Public International Law (Central...

Hugo Ignacio Llanos Mardones

Name: Hugo Ignacio Llanos Mardones Training: Doctor of Law. Lawyer. Current  position: Ambassador of Chile in Iran Speciality: Public International Law Download curriculum E-mail: illanos@minrel.gob.cl Phone: +9821 266 43 900 Fax: Personal...

Hugo Llanos Mansilla

Name: Hugo Llanos Mansilla Training: Doctor of Law. LLM Harvard. Current  position: Chair Professor of Public International Law - Pontifical Catholic University of Chile Speciality: Public International law Download curriculum E-mail:...

Graciela Salas

Name: Gracuela R. Salas Training: PhD in Law Current  position: Chair Professor of International Law (University of Cordoba - Argentina) Speciality:Public International Law Download curriculum E-mail: gracielarsalas@gmail.com Phone: 056 0351 5451190...

Se inaugura en Sevilla el XXX Congreso IHLADI

Se inaugura en Sevilla el XXX Congreso IHLADI

The Rector of the University of Seville declares inaugurated the XXX Congress of the IHLADI. The work sessions of the members of the IHLADI begin today (June,18), and wiill end on Friday 22.. Multiple observers.have been accredited. https://ihladi2018.weebly.com...

Pablo-Antonio Fernández Sánchez, “Serge Lazareff” Prize

Pablo-Antonio Fernández Sánchez, “Serge Lazareff” Prize

On February 15th 2018, at the "Casa de la Ciencia" in Seville, the "Serge Lazareff Prize" was delivered to Prof. Dr. Pablo Antonio Fernández Sánchez, Professor of Public  International Law and International Relations at the University of Seville and Member of the...

Enrique Lagos, outstanding member of the IHLADI, passed away

Enrique Lagos, outstanding member of the IHLADI, passed away

Enrique Lagos, diplomat, academic, professor of international law and former legal advisor of the OAS, passed away on November 24 of 2017. He was an active and outstanding member of the IHLADI, to wich he contributed his irreplaceable experience and knowledge of...

Hugo I. Llanos Mardones designated as ambassador to Iran

Hugo I. Llanos Mardones designated as ambassador to Iran

President Bachelet has appointed Dr. Hugo Ignacio LLanos Mardones, who is Associate of the IHLDI, as Chile's ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Iran. The IHLADI celebrates this designation and the placet received by the ambassador, who attests along wiht his...

Dr. Fernandez Rozas elected Member of the IDI

Dr. Fernandez Rozas elected Member of the IDI

Prof. Dr. José Carlos Fernández Rozas (Member of the IHLADI) was elected as a Member of the IDI on 9th September, during the session of Hyderabad. Dr. Fernández Rozas was Associated of the IDI from 2011. He joins the list of the IHLADI Members who are also Members of...