Louis Renault (lawyer)
Louis Renault (born May 21, 1843 in Autun , † February 8, 1918 in Barbizon ) was a French lawyer . For his role in the Hague Peace Conferences in 1907 he received along with Ernesto Teodoro Moneta the Nobel Peace Prize .
life and work
Louis Renault was born in Autun in 1843. The son of a bookseller received the Baccaleuréat-des-lettres of the faculty in Dijon in 1860 and studied literature and law in Dijon and Paris from 1861 . Renault was a lecturer in Dijon from 1868 to 1873 and was appointed to the University of Paris in 1873. From 1874 he also taught international law at the newly founded " École libre des sciences politiques ". From 1881 he was a professor of international law and published a number of academic papers and textbooks in this position.
Renault became a member of the Institut de Droit international as early as 1875 , where a post as legal advisor for international legal issues was created in 1890. Renault was entrusted with this task and participated in international conferences on behalf of the French government. From 1880 to 1901 he was also editor of the “Diplomatic Archives” and from 1901 a member of the Institut de France in the Academy for Moral and Political Sciences. In 1902 he was appointed agent of the French Foreign Minister.
Renault played a key role in the Hague Peace Conferences in 1899 and 1907, which culminated in the Hague Land Warfare Regulations . He was here as a Commissioner and rapporteur for the French delegation. In addition, he worked at both conferences with a number of issues, including the application of the first Geneva Convention in a naval war , the establishment of an international Prize Court and the elaboration of the rights and duties of neutrals in a naval war. After the outbreak of World War I , he criticized the violation of the land warfare rules and presented them legally. Highly decorated as a member of the Legion of Honor and the French Academy of Sciences and an honorary member of the American Society for International Law , he continued his teaching until shortly before his death. In 1909 he was elected a corresponding member of the British Academy . He died in his country house in 1918 after a lecture in Paris.
literature
- Bernhard Kupfer: Lexicon of Nobel Prize Winners. Patmos Verlag, Düsseldorf 2001
Web links
- Information from the Nobel Foundation on the 1907 award ceremony for Louis Renault
- Société française pour le droit international: Louis Renault (1843–1918) (French, with picture)
Individual evidence
- ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed July 23, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Renault, Louis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French lawyer and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 21, 1843 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Autun |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 8, 1918 |
| Place of death | Barbizon |