John Westlake

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John Westlake, 1902; Oil painting by Marianne Stokes in the National Portrait Gallery, London

John Westlake (born February 4, 1828 in Lostwithiel, Cornwall , † April 14, 1913 in London ) was an English lawyer and social reformer . He worked as a professor of international law at the University of Cambridge and was made honorary president of the Institut de Droit international in 1911 . The focus of his legal work was international private law .

Life

John Westlake studied at Trinity College of Cambridge University and graduated in 1850 from. In 1864 he married Alice Hare , a daughter of the lawyer Thomas Hare , after whom the Hare-Niemeyer procedure for the distribution of seats in elections is named.

Professionally, he made a name for himself in the field of international law . In 1868 he founded together with the Dutch lawyer Tobias Asser and the Belgian Gustave Rolin-Jaequemyns under the title Revue de Droit International et de Legislation Comparée (Journal of Comparative and International Law) the first regularly published journal on international law. From 1888 to 1908 he held the Whewell Chair in International Law at Cambridge University .

In 1895 he headed the 15th session of the Institut de Droit international (Institute for International Law), an institution founded in September 1873 by eleven lawyers to further develop international law. In 1911 he was named the third honorary president in the history of the institute after Gustave Rolin-Jaequemyns and the Swiss Gustave Moynier . From 1900 to 1906 he worked at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague .

In 1906 he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by the French lawyer Antoine Pillet , a member of the Institut de Droit international . Six years later, the American Society for International Law made him an honorary member. At the time, his publications were considered standard works in the field of international law and are currently among the most important contemporary sources on the state of international law at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century.

Works (selection)

  • A Treatise on Private International Law, or the Conflict of Laws. Maxwell, London 1858
  • Chapters on the Principles of International Law. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1894
  • International Law, Part I: Peace. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1904
  • International Law, Part II: War. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1907
  • The collected papers of John Westlake on public international law . 1914, archive.org

literature

  • Westlake, John . In: Encyclopædia Britannica . 11th edition. tape 32 : Pacific Ocean Islands - Zuloaga . London 1922, p. 1007 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).
  • History. Institut de Droit International
  • 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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