Charles Ghequiere Fenwick

Charles Ghequiere Fenwick (also Charles G. Fenwick , born May 26, 1880 in Baltimore , Maryland , † April 24, 1973 in Washington DC ) was an American political scientist and legal scholar .

Life

Family and education

The Catholic baptized Charles G. Fenwick, son of Henry Martin Fenwick and Fenwick Gay Tiernan, studied for his high school Accounts political science at Loyola College in Baltimore, in 1907 he obtained the degree of Bachelor of Arts . He continued his studies at Johns Hopkins University , in 1912 he was awarded a doctorate in philosophy .

Charles G. Fenwick married Maria Jose Lynch, who was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1942 . The marriage resulted in the sons Charles Henry and Francis Edmund. Fenwick died in Washington, DC in April 1973 at the age of 92

Professional background

Charles G. Fenwick took up a position as a law clerk in the Division of International Law of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, DC in 1911 . In addition, he was a lecturer in international law at the Washington College of Law at American University from 1912 . In 1914 he switched to the position of Associate in Political Science at Bryn Mawr College in Bryn Mawr , Pennsylvania , in 1915 he was promoted to Associate Professor , in 1918 to Full Professor , in 1945 he was retired .

Charles G. Fenwick participated as US delegate in 1936 at the Inter-American Conference for the Maintenance of Peace in Buenos Aires , in 1938 at the 8th International Conference of American States in Lima , and in 1948 at the 9th International Conference of American States in the Colombian capital Bogota part. He was a member of the Inter-American Neutrality Committee from 1940 to 1942, then the Inter-American Juridical Committee until 1947. From 1948 he served as Director of the Department of International Law and Organization of the Pan-American Union. Fenwick, who did not have a law degree, was one of the leading international law experts of his time. In 1930 he received the legal honorary doctorate of Marquette College , in 1948 that of the Holy Cross College awarded.

Charles G. Fenwick was a member of the American Political Science Association , the American Society of International Law , the American Academy of Political and Social Science, and the International Law Association . Fenwick was Associate Editor of the International Law Journal.

Publications (selection)

• The Neutrality Laws of the United States. The Endowment, Washington, DC, 1913
• together with Westel Woodbury Willoughby: Types of Restricted Sovereignty and of Colonial Autonomy. GPO, Washington, 1919
• Political Systems in Transition, War-time and After. in: Century new world series. The Century Co., New York, 1920
• International Law. in: Century political Science Series. G. Allen & Unwin, London, 1924
• Cases on International Law. in: National casebook series. Callaghan, Chicago, Ill., 1935
• American Neutrality: Trial and Failure. in: James Stokes lectureship on politics., New York University. New York University Press, New York; H. Milford, Oxford University Press, London, 1940
• with Lawrence B. Evans: Cases on Constutional Law. in: National casebook series. Callaghan, Chicago, Ill., 1942
• The Inter-American Regional System. in: Fenwick lectures, 1948. Declan X. McMullen Co., New York, 1949
• The law of the Organization of American States. Academia Interamericana de Derecho Comparado e Internacional, La Habana, 1954
• The Organization of American States: The Inter-American Regional System. Kaufman, Washington, DC, 1963

literature

• Charles G. Fenwick Dies at 92; What International Law Expert. in: The New York Times , April 26, 1973. HJ Raymond & Co., New-York, NY, 1973
• Who was who in America: with world notables: Volume VI, 1974-1976. Marquis Who's Who, Chicago, Ill., 1976, p. 136.
• Clive Parry, John P. Grant, J. Craig Barker: Parry and Grant Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law. 3rd ed., Oxford University Press, Oxford; New York, NY, p. 213.
• Claude Auroi, Aline Helg: Latin America 1810-2010: Dreams and Legacies. Imperial College Press, London; Distributed by World Scientific Pub. Co., Singapore, 2012