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Dr. Hugo Ignacio Llanos Mardones, member of IHLADI, has been appointed by the Government of Chile as new Ambassador to the Republic of South Africa. IHLADI welcomes this appointment of one of its most distinguished members, which confirms an already long and brilliant...

In view of the statements made by relevant political leaders that point to the possibility of interference in Panama's sovereignty and in the management of the Panama Canal, the IHLADI deems it appropriate to make the followingDECLARATION:The principle of respect for...

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 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...

Yesterday, at the age of 86, the eminent internationalist and member of IHLADI, Oriol Casanovas i La Rosa, passed away in Barcelona. With a PhD in Law from the University of Barcelona, he was Professor of Public and Private International Law at the three major...

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, 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...

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...

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, 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...

Dr. Frida Armas Pfirter, member of IHLADI, has been elected judge of the International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea for the period 2023-2032 during the 30th meeting of the States Parties to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) in New York...

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...

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...

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During the morning of 27 October, Dr. Adriana Dreyzin de Klor defended the draft Model Bilateral Convention for the mutual recognition and enforcement of judgments, settlements and public documents between States of the Spanish-Luso-American Community drafted by the...

Dr. Juan Manuel de Faramiñán Gilbert presented his paper on human rights and gender equality on Tuesday afternoon, 25 October. After analysing the state of the issue in the international instruments adopted to date, Dr. Faramiñán emphasised the insufficiency of the...

On the morning of Tuesday 25 October, Dr. Ricardo Abelló Galvis presented his paper on the challenges posed on the global stage by the proliferation of border walls and, in parallel, of mass migratory movements. In it, the Colombian expert reminded the audience of the...

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...

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,...

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 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...

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.

At the 100th session of the Inter-American Juridical Committee (May 2-6, 2022), a resolution of recognition and tribute to Ambassador Dr. Miguel Angel Espeche Gil [CJI/RES. 270 (C-O/22)] was passed on the occasion of the completion of his term of office, highlighting...

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...

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...

We are pleased to announce that on 11 February 2022 a Framework Agreement for Inter-institutional Cooperation was signed between the IHLADI and the Real Academia Hispanoamericana de Ciencias, Artes y Letras, the purpose of which is to jointly carry out research...

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

Pablo-Antonio Fernández Sánchez, president of the IHLADI, visited last Friday, February 4, 2022, the Real Academia Americana de Ciencias, Artes y Letras, based in Cadiz, where he was received by its director, Dr. Felicidad Rodríguez Sánchez, and its first...

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...

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...

Pre-registration is now open for the 18th University Master's Degree in International Human Rights Protection at the University of Alcalá de Henares (Spain), which is part of the scholarship programme of the Carolina Foundation. More...

The fifth edition of the work of Dr. Hugo Llanos Mansilla, Teoría y Práctica del Derecho internacional público: Introducción y Fuentes (volume I), Editorial Jurídica de Chile, 715 pages, is available.

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

Una reciente aportación en defensa del Multilateralismo de Edgardo Riveros Marín y Esteban Tomic Errázuri en Análisis & Perspectivas, núm. 25, Jul. 2020.

Thomson-Reuters has published the eleventh edition of the work "Derecho internacional privado" by Dr. José Carlos Fernández Rozas and Dr. Sixto A. Sánchez Lorenzo. This edition in 2020 marks the thirtieth anniversary of the publication of this general work.

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

María Teresa Infante Caffi, member of the IHLADI and Ambassador of Chile to the Netherlands, has been appointed member of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in Hamburg.  Dr. Infante Caffi is author of a significant scientific work. She...

The Peruvian jurist Luis García-Corrochano Moyano has been elected as President of the Inter-American Juridical Committee for the period 2021-2022, by acclamation of the eleven members that make up this consultative body of the Organization of American States (OAS),...

In  July 16, 2020, the IHLADI adopted the following recommendations regarding the frustration of international contracts caused by the COVID-19 pandemic: COVID-19 and frustration of international contracts

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:...

President Piñera has appointed Dr. Hugo Ignacio LLanos Mardones, Member of the IHLADI, as the new Chilean ambassador to New Zealand. The IHLADI welcomes this appointment of Dr. LLanos Mardones, who attests along wiht his diplomatic experience a remarquable academic...

“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,...

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...

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, 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....

The second edition of the work of Dr. Dário Moura Vicente, a member of the IHLADI and Professor at the University of Lisbon, on International Protection of Intellectual Property has just been published. The work contains, in addition to the analysis of jurisdicton,...

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,...

Public Internacional Law, International Law of Foreign Investments Human Rights, Companies and Inter-American System of Human Rights

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

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

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...

On June 6, 2019, in Lisbon, Prof. Dr. Pablo Antonio Fernández Sánchez, President of the IHLADI, participated in the Scientific Commission of the Luso-Spanish Forums of Professors of International Public Law and International Relations, in which, likewise, other...

The President of the IHLADI, on behalf of the Institute, congratulated Prof. Dr. José Martín Pérez de Nanclares, Associate of the IHLADI, for his appointment as Judge of the General Court of the European Union (EU Decision, Euratom 2019/918 of the representatives of...

In October 2018, the training courses scheduled within the framework of the agreement between the IHLADI and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Dominican Republic began with a course on "Relations and interrelationships in systems for the protection of human...

Dr. Gil Carlos Rodríguez Iglesias died in Madrid on January 17, 2019. He was Professor of Public International Law of the Universities of Extremadura, Granada and Complutense of Madrid. He was judge of the Court of Justice of the European Union, who presided over a...

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...

Editor: Del Rey (2017) Language: Brazilian, Portuguese ISBN-10: 8538404717 ISBN-13: 978-8538404712 Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade, member of the IHLADI and judge of the International Court of Justice, gives us his "memories of the Inter-American Court of Human...

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

On August 10, 2018, the Inter-American Juridical Committee elected Dr. Luis García-Corrochano Moyano, member of the IHLADI and president of the IHLADI from 2016 to 2018, as the new vice-president, replacing Dr. Joel Hernández. Dr. Ruth Stella Correa Palacio (Colombia)...

Dr. Íñigo Salvador Crespo, member of the IHLADI, has been elected by the Council of Citizen Participation as the new Attorney General of the State in Ecuador.

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...

On April 18, Dr. Sixto Sánchez Lorenzo, General Secretary of the IHLADI, received the recognition of "Honorary Professor" by the Blas Pascal University of Córdoba (Argentina). Dr. Adriana Dreyzin pronounced the laudatio for the new Honorary Professor, who spoke on...

Dr. Carlos Jiménez Piernas, Professor of International Law at the University of Alcalá de Henares and member of the IHLADI, has recently been appointed Head of the Legal Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of the Kingdom of Spain. He replaces...

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, 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...

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...

Information on the XXX Congress of the IHLADI is now available on the Congress website: https://ihladi2018.weebly.com/

Presentation of the book "New Approaches to the Law of the Sea (in Honor of Ambassador José Antonio de Yturriaga-Barberán)", edited by Pablo Antonio Fernández Sánchez (Member of theIHLADI), will take place in Seville next September (Salón de Actos de la Facultad de...

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...

The University of Guayaquil (Ecuador) and the IHLADI have concluded an inter-institutional cooperation agreement oriented to the organization of academics events, exhange of publication, participation in research projects and other activities of mutual interest. The...