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The third item on the first list of subject-matters taken up for further
consideration by the League of Nations Committee of Experts for the
Progressive Codification of International Law (Geneva, April 8,1925) reads:
"Diplomatic privileges and immunities." It is to be hoped and expected that
the committee, in considering a problem as old as international law itself,
will not feel satisfied with clinging to conceptions and solutions of
by-gone centuries, but will endeavor to give them, within the frame-work of
post-war international law, a new stamp.

In more than one respect the part played by Grotius (1583–1645) in the history of jurisprudence presents perplexing features. His chief glory lies in the department of law; yet he was more of a philologist and of a theologian than of a jurist. He is often called the father of international law; yet his principal book, the famous book of 1625, was not a treatise devoted to international law. His book, by reason of many of its qualities, looks obsolete: written in Latin, full of quotations and authorities unknown to modern readers, silent about medieval and modern history, it is still a young and living book, younger even than it was two centuries ago.