In Memoriam: Edwin M. Borchard, 1884-1951

1951 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 708-709
Author(s):  
Herbert W. Briggs
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
International Law ◽  
Atlantic Coast ◽  
Law School ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
Department Of State ◽  
University Of Berlin ◽  
The Hague ◽  
October 17 ◽  
The University

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.

Professor Bruno Simma To Be Judge at the International Court of Justice in The Hague

2003 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-175
Author(s):  
Andreas Paulus
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
German Law ◽  
Law School ◽  
English Edition ◽  
Community Interest ◽  
International Court ◽  
Ann Arbor ◽  
The Hague ◽  
The University ◽  
Hand Writing

To introduce Bruno Simma to the readers of German Law Journal is both an easy and a difficult task. An easy one because it will hardly be necessary to introduce his writings to those who have done only the slightest research in public international law– from his textbook “Universelles Völkerrecht” of 1976, co-authored with his teacher and mentor Alfred Verdross and still widely cited in German literature and jurisprudence, to the Commentary of the Charter of the United Nations which he first edited (in German) in 1991, the second English edition of which was published last year by Oxford University Press. On the other hand, writing on Bruno Simma is a difficult task because many of you will already have got a personal impression already – meeting him in Munich, where he has been teaching international and European law for no less than thirty years, in Ann Arbor/Michigan, where he is member of the affiliate overseas faculty of the University of Michigan Law School (since 1997) after teaching there for more than ten years, or at the Academies in The Hague or Florence, where he has taught much-acclaimed and -cited lectures on the move of international law “from bilateralism to community interest” and the relationship between human rights law and general international law. An even broader audience has come to know him for his public appearances in the press, the radio or television, in particular for his characterization of the dilemma of the Kosovo intervention as a “thin red line” between legality and morality. His article on “NATO, the UN and the Use of Force” appeared on the Webpages of the European Journal of International Law – the leading European international law journal he co-founded in 1990 and still co-edits – even before the first shots were fired.

Book Reviews

2013 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 897-900
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
International Law ◽  
Environmental Law ◽  
Foreign Debt ◽  
International Investment ◽  
Law School ◽  
International Criminal Law ◽  
New York University ◽  
Customary International Law ◽  
The University

Explores topics in the economic approach to international law. Discusses the fundamentals of international law; economic analysis of international law—the essentials; sovereignty and attributes of statehood; customary international law; treaties; international institutions; state responsibility; remedies; the intersection between international law and domestic law; treatment of aliens, foreign property, and foreign debt; the use of force; the conduct of war; human rights; international criminal law; international environmental law; the law of the sea; international trade; and international investment, antitrust, and monetary law. Posner is Kirkland and Ellis Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School. Sykes is Robert A. Kindler Professor of Law at the New York University School of Law.

IALL at 40

1999 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
Larry B. Wenger
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
International Law ◽  
International Association ◽  
Vice President ◽  
Law School ◽  
Legal Information ◽  
Legal Studies ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Association ◽  
The University

The appearance of this issue of the International Journal of Legal Information coincides almost exactly with the 40th anniversary of the founding of the International Association of Law Libraries. In June, 1959, a group of law librarians with long established personal interests in international law librarianship met in New York, with the goal of establishing an organization that would facilitate their work and bring law librarians around the world in closer contact. Professor William R. Roalfe of Northwestern University Law School in Chicago was elected the first President of the new Association, and Mr. K. Howard Drake of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London, the Vice President. A report summarizing the organizational meeting was prepared by Adolf Sprudzs of the University of Chicago Law Library, who subsequently devoted much of his career to international law librarianship and particularly to the work of the Association, including serving two terms as its President (see appendix). For a recent history of the Association, please see the article by Mr. Sprudzs in The Law Librarian, volume 26 at page 321, 1995.

Marjorie M. Whiteman (1898-1986)

1986 ◽  
Vol 80 (4) ◽  
pp. 938-940
Author(s):  
Marian Nash Leich
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
International Law ◽  
Law School ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
Department Of State ◽  
Distinguished Career ◽  
Research Associate ◽  
The World

Dr. Marjorie Millace Whiteman died at the age of 87, at her home in Liberty Center, Ohio, on July 6, 1986. A graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University and the recipient of LL.B. (1927) and J.S.D. (1928) degrees from Yale Law School (where she served as an editor of the Yale Law Journal), she was also a Carnegie fellow in international law. Later, Miss Whiteman served as a research associate with the Research Commission on Latin America at Columbia University, and then, in 1929, began her distinguished career with the Department of State, winning recognition throughout the world as an authority on international law.

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