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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.
List of contents
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)
Summary
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.
