Marjorie Millace Whiteman

Marjorie Whiteman

Marjorie Millace Whiteman (born  November 30, 1898 in Liberty Center , Henry County , Ohio ; †  July 6, 1986 ibid) was an American lawyer and diplomat . She served in the United States Department of State from 1929 to 1970 and represented her home country at various international meetings. Between 1963 and 1972 she published a 15-volume edition of the US State Department's Digest of International Law , known as Whiteman's Digest .

Life

Marjorie Whiteman was born in Liberty Center, Ohio in 1898 and graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio and Yale University , where she earned an LL.B. degree in 1927 and a doctorate in JSD a year later , and also as editor of the Yale Law Journal . She then received a Carnegie Fellowship and initially worked in Columbia University's Latin America research group before moving to the United States Department of State in 1929 . There she acted as assistant to Green Haywood Hackworth until he was appointed judge at the newly established International Court of Justice in The Hague in 1946 . Together with Hackworth she edited his eight-volume edition of the US State Department's Digest of International Law , published between 1940 and 1944 , of which she later published a 15-volume edition herself between 1963 and 1972.

During her time at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, she specialized in the legal affairs of international organizations . Among other things, she was involved in the drafting of the United Nations Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights , and from 1945 to 1951 she also acted as legal advisor to Eleanor Roosevelt while she was representing the United States on the UN Commission on Human Rights . She was also a member of the US delegations to several Pan-American conferences and in 1948 to the founding meeting of the Organization of American States (OAS) in Bogotá , where she participated in the drafting of the OAS charter. During her career at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, for which she worked until the end of March 1970, she acted as legal advisor to eight different foreign ministers. She died in her native Liberty Center in 1986 at the age of 87.

Awards

Marjorie M. Whiteman received an ASIL Certificate of Merit from the American Society for International Law (ASIL) in 1965 for the first three volumes of "Digest on International Law" and in 1985 the Manley O. Hudson Medal , the highest Award of the organization. In addition, she was appointed Honorary Vice President by ASIL. She received the Distinguished Honor Award from the US State Department in 1966 .

Works (selection)

• Damages in International Law. Three volumes. Washington 1937-1943
• Digest on International Law. 15 volumes. Washington 1963–1972

literature

• Marian Nash Leich: In Memoriam: Marjorie M. Whiteman (1898−1986). In: American Journal of International Law . 80 (4) / 1986. American Society of International Law, pp. 938-940, ISSN  0002-9300
• Henry County: Marjorie M. Whiteman. In: Jacqueline Jones Royster: Profiles of Ohio Women, 1803-2003. Ohio University Press, Athens 2003, ISBN 0-82-141508-5 , p. 116
• Whiteman, Marjorie Millace. In: Jeffrey Lehman, Shirelle Phelps: West's Encyclopedia of American Law. Thomson / Gale, Detroit 2005, ISBN 0-78-766367-0 , Volume 10, p. 364