Albéric Rolin

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Albéric Rolin (born July 16, 1843 in Mariakerke , Ghent municipality , † February 3, 1937 in Brussels ) was a Belgian lawyer who worked in the field of international law . He worked from 1880 to 1913 as a professor at the University of Ghent and in 1923 was appointed honorary president of the Institut de Droit international (Institute for International Law).

Life

Albéric Rolin was born in Mariakerke in 1843 and graduated with a doctorate in law in 1864 , which he completed in Ghent and Paris . He then practiced as a lawyer at the Supreme Court in Ghent. From 1880 until his retirement in 1913, he worked as a law professor at the University of Ghent , during which time he held lectures in the fields of criminal law and criminal procedural law from 1880 and, from 1890, in private international law . Then he was director of the library of the Peace Palace in The Hague until 1920 . In 1923 and 1926 he taught as a lecturer at the Hague Academy for International Law , also located in the Peace Palace , of which he was Secretary General from 1914.

From 1906 to 1923 he worked as general secretary of the Institut de Droit international (Institute for International Law), to which he had belonged since 1873. It is an institution that was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1904 and has existed to the present day, the aim of which is the further development of international law . In 1923 Albéric Rolin was named one of five honorary presidents in the Institute's history and an honorary member of the American Society for International Law . In addition, he was a corresponding member of the Institut de France and from 1880 a member of the Royal Academy of Sciences and Fine Arts of Belgium .

Albéric Rolin was married from 1878 and had eight children. He died in Brussels in 1937 . His son Henri Rolin , his older brother Gustave Rolin-Jaequemyns and his nephew Edouard Rolin-Jaequemyns also worked as lawyers in the field of international law.

Works (selection)

  • Principes du droit international privé et applications aux diverse matières du Code civil (Code Napoléon). Paris 1897
  • Droit international privé. Three volumes. Ghent 1897
  • Le droit modern de la guerre: Les principes. Les conventions. Les usages et les abus. Three volumes. Brussels 1920
  • Les Origines de l'Institut de droit international (18737–1923): Souvenirs d'un témoin. Brussels 1923

literature

  • Notice biographique. Albéric Rolin. In: Recueil des cours (Académie de droit international). Volume 14. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, The Hague 1926, ISBN 978-90-286-0512-1 , p. 3/4
  • Peter Macalister-Smith: Bio-Bibliographical Key to the Membership of the Institut de Droit International, 1873-2001. In: Journal of the History of International Law. 5 (1) / 2003. Brill Academic Publishers, pp. 77-159, ISSN  1388-199X

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personal data
SURNAME Rolin, Albéric
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian lawyer and international law expert
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH Mariakerke
DATE OF DEATH February 3, 1937
Place of death Brussels