The Global History of the Establishment of the Permanent Court of International Justice, 1919 to 1922

This seminar will discuss the draft book chapters of a new monograph on the establishment of the Permanent Court of International Justice (PCIJ).  

Credit: Court of Justice of the European Union

The book will tell the story of how the PCIJ was imagined, developed and established from the negotiations of the Covenant in Spring 1919 as part of the Peace Treaty negotiations over the famous negotiations of the court Statute by the Advisory Committee of Jurists in Spring of 1920 to the ultimate decision on the nature of the Court and the selection of judges by the League of Nations Council and Assembly in 1920-1921. The opening meeting of the PCIJ took place on 15 February 1922 and would fundamentally change the system of international law and its historical trajectory. 

Programme

Monday 1 December 13.00-17.00

South Campus, 11b-2-29

Introduction (Haakon Ikomomou and Morten Rasmussen (University of Copenhagen)
The Negotiations of the League Covenant in Paris (Karin van Leeuwen (Maastricht University))
Latin America (Andrei Mamolea (Boston University, ONLINE)
Commentators: Associate Professor Megan Donaldson (University College London) and Professor Leonard Smith (Oberlin College)

Tuesday 2 December 10.00-16.00

South Campus, room 12-3-07

Scandinavia, the Netherlands and Switzerland (Karin van Leeuwen and Haakon Ikonomou)
The Advisory Committee (Morten Rasmussen)
The final decision of the Council and First Assembly and establishment of the PCIJ (Morten Rasmussen)
Commentators: Associate Professor Megan Donaldson