Green Haywood Hackworth

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Green Haywood Hackworth (born  January 23, 1883 in Prestonsburg , Kentucky , †  June 24, 1973 in Washington, DC ) was an American lawyer . He graduated from Valparaiso University with a BA and graduated from George Washington University with a Bachelor of Laws . He also received his PhD from Valparaiso University and the University of Kentucky .

In 1916 he began a career in the US State Department . He took on various leading positions, including from 1931 to 1946 as legal advisor to the ministry under five different ministers. During this time he took part in several international conferences, including as the companion of Secretary of State Cordell Hull at the Moscow Conference of 1943 and a year later as a member of the American delegation to the Dumbarton Oaks Conference . In 1937 he became a member of the American panel of judges at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, succeeding Elihu Root . In 1946 he resigned from the service of the State Department and was elected first judge from the USA at the newly established International Court of Justice (ICJ) after being nominated by three former US Secretary of State . He worked at the IGH until 1961, during which time he was president of the court from 1955 to 1958.

Green Haywood Hackworth died in 1973 of complications from a heart attack . The Digest of International Law , which he published between 1940 and 1944 with the assistance of Marjorie Millace Whiteman , was considered by Jules Basdevant , advisor to the French Foreign Ministry and together with Green Haywood Hackworth judge at the ICJ, to be the most important publication in the field of international law during the period of the Second Designated World War .

Works (selection)

literature

  • Marjorie M. Whiteman: Green Haywood Hackworth: 1883-1973. In: American Journal of International Law. 68 (1) / 1974. American Society of International Law, pp. 91-94, ISSN  0002-9300
  • Green H. Hackworth. In: Arthur Eyffinger, Arthur Witteveen, Mohammed Bedjaoui : La Cour internationale de Justice 1946–1996. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, The Hague and London 1999, ISBN 9-04-110468-2 , p. 289
personal data
SURNAME Hackworth, Green Haywood
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer and President of the International Court of Justice (1955–1958)
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Prestonsburg , Kentucky
DATE OF DEATH June 24, 1973
Place of death Washington, DC