Justice among Nations. A History of International Law - Stephen C. Neff

308 A Positive Century (1815–1914) 1893, did international legal work, ably representing Venezuela in 1898– 99 in an arbitration ...

In Full Flower 309 Renault was the son of a bookseller from Autun. He studied literature at the University of Dijon, and then ...

310 A Positive Century (1815–1914) In personal terms, the two men were rather diff erent. Martens was a some- what haughty and s ...

In Full Flower 311 the international legal community were the Eu ro pe an states which had par- ticipated in its making. Th is ...

312 A Positive Century (1815–1914) In 1877, the question of the applicability of Eu ro pe an international law to the oriental s ...

In Full Flower 313 ters, leading to armed confl ict with Britain, in the form of the so- called Opium War of 1839– 42. Th e lega ...

314 A Positive Century (1815–1914) by the Institute of International Law in 1880. A team under Martin’s guid- ance also translat ...

In Full Flower 315 international-law expertise on the spot. For the naval forces, there was Taka- hashi Sakuyei, who was profess ...

316 A Positive Century (1815–1914) unfortunate term, as it might be thought to imply some sort of control by one country over te ...

In Full Flower 317 ments with some twenty other countries were concluded over the next sixty years. Extraterritoriality arrang ...

318 A Positive Century (1815–1914) Th e Savage World Even more problematic than relations between the civilized and the barbar- ...

In Full Flower 319 imperialism. It was, like so many of the terms, rather loosely used, generally to mean that the subordinate ...

320 A Positive Century (1815–1914) states over the previous two centuries. It also broke some new ground, chiefl y in its fi r ...

In Full Flower 321 Multilateral conventions were not invariably about war. Rules regarding undersea electric telegraph cables, f ...

322 A Positive Century (1815–1914) the undesirable eff ect of “freezing” international law into the state in which it happened t ...

In Full Flower 323 tional law. Th e pioneering work in this sphere was Francis Lieber’s summa- tion of the laws of land warfare, ...

324 A Positive Century (1815–1914) world in general to participate, en masse, in the draft ing of international legislation. Th ...

In Full Flower 325 general, which drew heavily on the Brussels projet of 1874. Th ese Hague Rules, as they appropriately became ...

326 A Positive Century (1815–1914) was not on his own country’s delegation, but he made himself useful on be- half of the newly ...

In Full Flower 327 was Renault. In the admiring words of James Brown Scott, he came to be “looked on as one set apart,” acting a ...