1st Edition
The League of Nations and the Development of International Law A New Intellectual History of the Advisory Committee of Jurists
Edited By P. Sean Morris
Copyright 2022
262 Pages
by
Routledge
262 Pages
by
Routledge
262 Pages
by
Routledge
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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.
Pre-1914 visions of a liberal international order influenced the post-1919 world... Read more
The "Wise Men" of the Advisory Committee of Jurists (ACJ) and Contemporary Legal Biography: An Introduction
P. Sean Morris
- The Legal Conscience of a Universal Man: Rafael Altamira y Crevea (1866 – 1951)
Yolanda Gamarra - National Political Ideologies and International Legal Practices: Raul Fernandes (1877 – 1968)
Arthur Roberto Capella Giannattasio - A Civilizational Pluralist and Inegalitarian: Mineichiro Adachi (1869 – 1934)
Tetsuya Toyoda - Francis Hagerup (1853 – 1921): A Norwegian Legal Internationalist
Dag Michalsen - Elihu Root (1845 – 1937): Architect and Advocate of the Permanent Court of International Justice
William G. Ross - Forgetting Albert Geouffre de Lapradelle (1871 – 1955) and Ignorance as Remembering
Toni Selkälä - Edouard Descamps (1847 – 1933): From Negative Neutrality to Positive Pacigerate
Frederik Dhondt - The Judicial-Churchman for Peace: Walter George Frank Phillimore (1855 – 1933)
P. Sean Morris - "Where is Your Tribunal?" Bernard Loder (1849 – 1935) and the Quest for International Justice
Freya Baetens and Veronica Lavista - The Italian Jurist and Diplomat at the Advisory Committee of Jurists: Arturo Ricci Busatti (1868 – 1923)
Elisabetta Fiocchi Malaspina
Biography
P. Sean Morris is a research fellow at the Faculty of Law, University of Helsinki, Finland.






