Luis María Drago
Luis María Drago (born May 6, 1859 in Buenos Aires , † June 9, 1921 there ) was an Argentine lawyer and politician .
Career
Between 1902 and 1903 he was Foreign Minister of his home country and later was a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague . In 1907 he represented Argentina at the second Hague Peace Conference . After the end of the First World War , the newly founded League of Nations invited him to work on the drafting of the statute of the permanent international court of justice . However, he died a short time later.
Drago became known mainly because of the Drago Doctrine , which he developed and named after him , a ban on armed intervention by European states in the territory of American states to collect national debts , which was a further development of the Monroe Doctrine of the former American President James Monroe .
literature
- Gustav Keckeis (Ed.): The small encyclopedia, Volume 1 . Encyclios-Verlag, Zurich 1950, p. 381.
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| SURNAME | Drago, Luis María |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Argentine politician and judge at the Permanent International Court of Justice |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 6, 1859 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Buenos Aires |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 9, 1921 |
| Place of death | Buenos Aires |