1st Edition

Transforming the Politics of International Law The Advisory Committee of Jurists and the Formation of the World Court in the League of Nations

Edited By P. Sean Morris Copyright 2022
    290 Pages
    by Routledge

    290 Pages
    by Routledge

    This volume examines the role of League of Nations committees, particularly the Advisory Committee of Jurists (ACJ) in shaping the statute of the Permanent Court of International Justice (PCIJ). The authors explore the contributions of individual jurists and unofficial members in shaping the League’s international legal machinery. It is a companion book to The League of Nations and the Development of International Law: A New Intellectual History of the Advisory Committee of Jurists (Routledge, 2021).

    One of the guiding principles of the book is that the development of international law was a project of politics where the idea and notion of an international society must contend with the political visions of each state represented on the different legal committees in the League of Nations during the drafting of the Covenant. The book constitutes a major contribution to the literature in that it shows the inner workings of some of the legal committees of the League and how the political role of unofficial members was influential for the development of international law in the early twentieth century and how they influenced the political and legal process of the ACJ.

    The book will be an essential reference for those working in the areas of International Law, Legal History, International Relations, Political History, and European History.

    Foreword
    Jan Klabbers

    High Liberalism: An Introduction to the Politics of an Intellectual Project
    P. Sean Morris

    Part I Civilisations, Politics and Scholars: The Origins of the Advisory Committee of Jurists

    1. ‘Civilization(s)’ and ‘Civilized Nations’ - Of History, Anthropology and International Law
      Jakob Zollmann
    2. Crouching Scholars, Hidden Civilizations: Amerindian International Law and the Construction of the International Liberal Order in the Early Twentieth Century
      Arthur Roberto Capella Giannattasio
    3. A Political and Legal History of the Advisory Committee of Jurists and the Foundation of the Permanent Court of International Justice
      Karin van Leeuwen and Morten Rasmussen
    4. The Advisory Committee of Jurists and the Historical Origins of Scholarly Writings as a Source of International Law
      P. Sean Morris
    5. Making the Case for Arbitration: Edouard Descamps' Long Advocacy for Peaceful Dispute Resolution
      Saskia Millmann
    6. Part II The Politics of Legal Internationalism: Unofficial Members

    7. Leg over Leg, the Dog Went to Dover: James Brown Scott’s Long Road to the Advisory Committee of Jurists
      Paolo Amorosa
    8. State Practice, the First World Court and Dionisio Anzilotti
      Francesco Salerno
    9. Creating Traditions of International Justice: The Case of Nicolas Politis
      Marilena Papadaki
    10. Leon Bourgeois: Solidarism, Liberal Political Order, and International Justice
      Alexandre Niess & Nathalie Altinok
    11. Scandinavian Legal Internationalism and the Creation of the Permanent Court of International Justice
      Haakon Ikonomou and Morten Rasmussen

    Biography

    P. Sean Morris is a Research Scholar at the Faculty of Law University of Helsinki and an Affiliated Research Fellow at the Erik Castren Institute of International Law and Human Rights, University of Helsinki, Finland.