The League of Nations and the Development of International Law

A New Intellectual History of the Advisory Committee of Jurists
Herausgeber: Morris, P. Sean

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume examines the contributions to International Law of individual members of the Advisory Committee of Jurists in the League of Nations, and the broader national and discursive legal traditions of which they were representative. It adopts a biographical approach that complements existing legal narratives.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Research in Legal History
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 400g
• ISBN-13: 9781032065007
• ISBN-10: 1032065001
• Artikelnr.: 67823868

Autorenporträt

P. Sean Morris is a research fellow at the Faculty of Law, University of Helsinki, Finland.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: the 'wise men' of the Advisory Committee of Jurists (ACJ) and
contemporary legal biography
1. The legal conscience of a universal man: Rafael Altamira y Crevea
(1866-1951)
2. National political ideologies and international legal practices: Raul
Fernandes (1877-1968)
3. A civilizational pluralist and inegalitarian: Mineichiro Adachi
(1869-1934)
4. George Francis Hagerup (1853-1921): a Norwegian legal internationalist
5. Elihu Root (1845-1937): architect and advocate of the Permanent Court of
International Justice
6. Forgetting Albert Geouffre de Lapradelle (1871-1955) and ignorance as
remembering
7. Edouard Descamps (1847-1933): from 'negative neutrality' to 'positive
pacigerate'
8. The judicial-churchman for peace: Walter George Frank Phillimore
(1845-1929)
9. 'Where is your tribunal?' Bernard Loder (1849-1935) and the quest for
international justice
10. The Italian jurist and diplomat at the Advisory Committee of Jurists:
Arturo Ricci Busatti (1868-1923)