Hammarskjöld at The Hague

2021 ◽  
pp. 113-141
Author(s):  
Michael Jonas
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
The Self ◽  
Legal Tradition ◽  
Small State ◽  
The Hague ◽  
State Representatives

The chapter probes into the segment of small-state representatives at the Second Hague Peace Conference in 1907 by focusing on the views and activities of one of the more vocal and influential among the delegates, Hjalmar Hammarskjöld (1862–1953). The analysis of Hammarskjöld’s role, presence, and activities at The Hague serves as a prism of international legal diplomacy and politics and the distinct contribution the northern neutrals made. On that basis, a range of new questions can be asked and suppositions tested—about the function of international law for less powerful states; about the self-conception, international legal tradition, and spectrum of expectations of small-state representatives at the Peace Conferences; about their diplomatic and political ways and means to exercise influence and mould the proceedings; and about the effect and persistence of their experiences at The Hague in their future careers and conduct.

The Hague Codification Conference

1930 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 674-693 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hunter Miller
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
League Of Nations ◽  
International Conference ◽  
The Hague ◽  
Set Up

The Conference for the Codification of International Law which met at The Hague from March 13 to April 12, 1930, was the first international conference specifically called for that purpose.In 1924 the League of Nations set up a Committee of Experts for the progressive codification of international law. The task of that committee was to select and propose for the first conference on codification a certain number of subjects within the field of international law. Three subjects, namely, Nationality, Territorial Waters and The Responsibility of States for Damage Caused in Their Territory to the Person or Property of Foreigners, were finally agreed on as the subjects to be considered by the first conference.

Opening Remarks by Saskia Bruines

2020 ◽  
Vol 114 ◽  
pp. 359-360
Author(s):  
Saskia Bruines
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Peace And Justice ◽  
The Hague

Ladies and Gentlemen, as Deputy Mayor of The Hague, I am glad that this esteemed panel will discuss the promise of cities in relation to international law. As a representative of the international city of peace and justice, this subject is of course close to my heart.

Remarks by Penny Abeywardena

2020 ◽  
Vol 114 ◽  
pp. 362-364
Author(s):  
Penny Abeywardena
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
The Hague ◽  
American Society

Janne thank you so much. First, it is a pleasure to be with this esteemed panel and I want to thank the American Society for International Law and the Municipality of The Hague for bringing us together today.

scholarly journals The Hague Judgments Convention and How We Negotiated It

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jin Sun ◽  
Qiong WU
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Great Influence ◽  
Negotiation Process ◽  
Private International Law ◽  
Mutual Benefit ◽  
Global Circulation ◽  
Recognition And Enforcement ◽  
The Hague

Abstract In July 2019, the Hague Conference on Private International Law adopted the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Civil or Commercial Matters. As an outcome of the Judgments Project, this Convention will exert a great influence on the global circulation of foreign judgments. China attached great importance to the Judgments Project and participated in the full negotiation process. This paper is a reflection of some of the Chinese negotiators’ approaches in handling certain very difficult but important issues in the process, with the hope that it may shed some light on China’s negotiation practice and the principles it adheres to in the international law arena, which are fully in line with the principles of equity and justice, mutual benefit, and win-win outcome.

Denaturalizing the Monroe Doctrine: The rise of Latin American legal anti-imperialism in the face of the modern US and hemispheric redefinition of the Monroe Doctrine

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 541-555
Author(s):  
Juan Pablo Scarfi
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Elastic Behaviour ◽  
Legal Tradition ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Monroe Doctrine ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Face ◽  
History Of ◽  
Pan Americanism

AbstractThe Monroe Doctrine was originally formulated as a US foreign policy principle, but in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries it began to be redefined in relation to both the hemispheric policy of Pan-Americanism and the interventionist policies of the US in Central America and the Caribbean. Although historians and social scientists have devoted a great deal of attention to Latin American anti-imperialist ideologies, there was a distinct legal tradition within the broader Latin American anti-imperialist traditions especially concerned with the nature and application of the Monroe Doctrine, which has been overlooked by international law scholars and the scholarship focusing on Latin America. In recent years, a new revisionist body of research has emerged exploring the complicity between the history of modern international law and imperialism, as well as Third World perspectives on international law, but this scholarship has begun only recently to explore legal anti-imperialist contributions and their legacy. The purpose of this article is to trace the rise of this Latin American anti-imperialist legal tradition, assessing its legal critique of the Monroe Doctrine and its implications for current debates about US exceptionalism and elastic behaviour in international law and organizations, especially since 2001.

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