The First World War and the Failure of the Law of War

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
First World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Law Of War ◽  
The First World War ◽  
The Law ◽  
First World

The ICRC in the First World War: Unwavering belief in the power of law?

2015 ◽  
Vol 97 (900) ◽  
pp. 1099-1120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lindsey Cameron
Keyword(s):  
Hague Convention ◽  
First World War ◽  
International Humanitarian Law ◽  
Humanitarian Law ◽  
World War ◽  
The First World War ◽  
The Law ◽  
First World ◽  
Insight Into

AbstractThis article provides insight into how, during the First World War, the ICRC handled the oversight of the respect of the 1906 Convention on the Wounded and Sick and the 1907 Hague Convention on Maritime Warfare, steadfastly working to uphold the law. It examines the ICRC's view on the applicability of the Conventions, describes its handling of accusations of violations of international humanitarian law and, finally, shows how the ICRC engaged in a legal dialogue with States on the interpretation of various provisions in the 1906 Convention.

scholarly journals The Report of Anghel Saligny in Favour of Building Oil Pipelines, 1899

2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 603-608
Author(s):  
Gheorghe Calcan
Keyword(s):  
First World War ◽  
Oil Products ◽  
Pipeline System ◽  
World War ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Oil Pipelines ◽  
The Law ◽  
First World ◽  
Made In

Abstract Our work aims to present the first debates on the topic of building pipelines for the transport of Romanian oil products. The debut consisted in the report that Anghel Saligny made in 1899. The pipeline system he proposed should have started in the centre of the oil region, i.e. from Băicoi, followed the trail railway Ploieşti, Buzău, Făurei, Feteşti, Cernavodă and reached the sea port of Constanţa. In 1907, engineer L. C. Erbiceanu joined the enterprise. The law was passed by the parliament in 1912. Works began the following year but they were interrupted because of the outburst of the First World War. After a partial use during the war, oil pipelines were completed in 1919.

Motor-cars and the Rule in Rylands v. Fletcher: a Chapter of Accidents in the History of Law and Motoring

1983 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. R. Spencer
Keyword(s):  
Strict Liability ◽  
First World War ◽  
World War ◽  
The First World War ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Law ◽  
The Law ◽  
Court Of Appeal ◽  
First World

Readers of A. P. Herbert's Misleading Cases will recall the fictitious decision in Haddock v. Thwaile, where the Court of Appeal extended strict liability under Rylands v. Fletcher to motor-cars on the highway, and—carried away on a tide of Luddite eloquence—revived and extended the law of deodand by ordering the unfortunate motorist's car to be destroyed. Nowadays it is almost forgotten that this story is nearly based on fact. Before the First World War, at the dawn of the motor age, the English courts came within a whisker of imposing strict liability upon the owner of a motor-car for all the damage which it causes in use.

VI. Britain and Italy's Acquisition of the Dodecanese, 1912–1915

1970 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 683-705 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Bosworth
Keyword(s):  
First World War ◽  
Great Powers ◽  
World War ◽  
Naval Power ◽  
Aegean Islands ◽  
The First World War ◽  
The Law ◽  
First World ◽  
Better Than

Possession is nine-tenths of the law. Diplomacy confirms the fact. As an illustration no incident is better than the Italian retention of the Southern Sporades or Dodecanese group of Aegean Islands in the years immediately preceding the First World War. Italy, last and weakest of the Great Powers, was able to defy the expressed wishes of Britain, the dominant naval power on whose patronage Italy traditionally relied. Defiance of Britain was not accompanied by a corresponding surrender to Italy's Central Power allies. It triumphed through Italian skill at exploiting the above dictum: possession is nine-tenths of the law.

The Entry of East European Jews into the Law between the World Wars

2003 ◽  
pp. 184-207
Author(s):  
John Cooper
Keyword(s):  
Legal Profession ◽  
First World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Social Barriers ◽  
East European ◽  
The First World War ◽  
The Law ◽  
Jewish Immigrants ◽  
European Jewish ◽  
First World

This chapter explains why relatively few Jews from east European Jewish families joined the English legal profession before the Second World War and outlines when Jews from these immigrant families did move into the law. Prior to the First World War, Jewish entrants into the solicitors' profession and the medical schools in England were confined to a small proportion of the upper and middle classes. During the First World War and into the 1920s, it appears, children of east European Jewish immigrants to England began to train as doctors in increasingly large numbers; but few became solicitors, and even fewer barristers, until the late 1920s and 1930s. Why was this? Cost was one highly significant factor. In the absence of special entrance requirements devised to suppress the number of Jewish solicitors admitted to the profession in England, there were economic rather than social barriers that impeded their entry. The chapter then looks at several factors which attracted talented Jewish youths to the legal profession.

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