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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.
List of contents
Foreword
High Liberalism: An Introduction to the Politics of an Intellectual Project
Part I Civilisations, Politics and Scholars: The Origins of the Advisory Committee of Jurists
- ‘Civilization(s)’ and ‘Civilized Nations’ - Of History, Anthropology and International Law
- Crouching Scholars, Hidden Civilizations: Amerindian International Law and the Construction of the International Liberal Order in Early Twentieth Century
- A Political and Legal History of the Advisory Committee of Jurists and the Foundation of the Permanent Court of International Justice
- The Advisory Committee of Jurists and the Historical Origins of Scholarly Writings as a Source of International Law
- Making the Case for Arbitration: Edouard Descamp’s Long Advocacy for Peaceful Dispute Resolution
Part II The Politics of Legal Internationalism: Unofficial Members
- Leg over Leg, the Dog Went to Dover: James Brown Scott’s Long Road to the Advisory Committee of Jurists
- State Practice, the First World Court and Dionisio Anzilotti
- Creating Traditions of International Legal Justice: The Case of Nicolas Politis
- Leon Bourgeois: Solidarism, Liberal Political Order, and International Justice
- Scandinavian Legal Internationalism and the Creation of the Permanent Court of International Justice
About the author
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.
Summary
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.
