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 based on the rule of law in civilised nations. This volume focuses on leading legal personalities of this era. It discusses the scholarly work of the ACJ wise men, their biographical notes, and narrates their contribution as legal scholars and founding fathers of the sources of international law that culminated in their drafting of the statute of the Permanent Court of International Justice, the forerunner of the International Court of Justice. The book examines visions of world law in a liberal international order through social theory and constructivism, historical examination of key developments that influenced their career and their scholarly writings and international law as a science.
The book will be a valuable reference for those working in the areas of International Law, Legal History, Political History and International Relations.
| ISBN: | 9780367897536 |
| Publication date: | 17th September 2021 |
| Author: | P. Sean Morris |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 252 pages |
| Series: | Routledge Research in Legal History |
| Genres: |
General and world history Historiography Social and political philosophy Centrist democratic ideologies Public international law: criminal law Constitutional and administrative law: general Methods, theory and philosophy of law History and Archaeology |