Humanitarian Intervention
In: American journal of international law: AJIL, Band 33, Heft 4, S. 733-736
ISSN: 2161-7953
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In: American journal of international law: AJIL, Band 33, Heft 4, S. 733-736
ISSN: 2161-7953
In: American journal of international law: AJIL, Band 34, Heft 2, S. 260-284
ISSN: 2161-7953
If an event in the physical world contradicts all scientific forecasts, and thus challenges the assumptions on which the forecasts have been based, it is the natural reaction of scientific inquiry to reëxamine the foundations of the specific science and attempt to reconcile scientific findings and empirical facts. The social sciences do not react in the same way. They have an inveterate tendency to stick to their assumptions and to suffer constant defeat from experience rather than to change their assumptions inthe light of contradicting facts. This resistance to change is uppermost in the history of international law. All the schemes and devices by which great humanitarians and shrewd politicians endeavored to reorganize the relations between states on the basis of law, have not stood the trial of history.
In: American journal of international law: AJIL, Band 34, Heft 4, S. 661-679
ISSN: 2161-7953
Beginning with participation in the Cape Spartel Light Convention of May 31, 1865, the United States has become a party to about a hundred multipartite administrative treaties, including revisions and amendments of the same. The number of parties to a treaty varies with the treaty, from three or four, as in the case of the Fur Seals Convention of July 7, 1911, to ninety, as in the case of the Universal Postal Convention concluded at Cairo, March 20, 1934. The agreements, usually technical in character, deal with a variety of humanitarian, economic, and cultural subjects, ranging from agriculture to whales. Many of these agreements, such as those dealing with postal matters, publicity of customs documents, and publication of customs tariffs, are primarily of concern to administrative services.
In: American journal of international law: AJIL, Band 45, Heft 4, S. 708-709
ISSN: 2161-7953
Edwin M. Borchard, lawyer, scholar, teacher, public servant, and kindly humanitarian, died July 22, 1951, after a lingering illness. Born in New York, October 17, 1884, he received his LL.B. at New York Law School in 1905 and a Ph.D. at Columbia University in 1913. He was awarded honorary degrees of Doctor of Laws by the University of Berlin in 1925 and by the University of Budapest in 1935. He served as expert on international law to the American Agency, North Atlantic Coast Fisheries Arbitration at The Hague in 1910; as Law Librarian of Congress from 1911 to 1913 and from 1914 to 1916; as Assistant Solicitor, Department of State, 1913-1914; as chief counsel for Peru in the Tacna-Arica Arbitration; as special legal adviser to the Treasury Department; as technical adviser to theAmerican Delegation to The Hague Codification Conference of 1930; and as a member of the Pan American Committee of Experts for the Codification of International Law.