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Institut De Droit International
The Institute of International Law (French: Institut de Droit International) is an organization devoted to the study and development of international law, whose membership comprises the world's leading public international lawyers. The organization is generally considered the most authoritative world academy of international law. It was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1904. History The institute was founded by Gustave Moynier and Gustave Rolin-Jaequemyns, together with 9 other renowned international lawyers, on 8 September 1873 in the ''Salle de l'Arsenal'' of the Ghent Town Hall in Belgium. The founders of 1873 were: * Pasquale Stanislao Mancini (from Rome), President; * Emile de Laveleye (from Liege); * Tobias Michael Carel Asser (from Amsterdam); * James Lorimer (from Edinburgh); * Wladimir Besobrassof (from Saint-Petersburg); * Gustave Moynier (from Geneva); * Jean Gaspar Bluntschli (from Heidelberg); * Augusto Pierantoni (from Naples); * Carlos Calvo (from Bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghent
Ghent ( nl, Gent ; french: Gand ; traditional English: Gaunt) is a city and a municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is the capital and largest city of the East Flanders province, and the third largest in the country, exceeded in size only by Brussels and Antwerp. It is a port and university city. The city originally started as a settlement at the confluence of the Rivers Scheldt and Leie and in the Late Middle Ages became one of the largest and richest cities of northern Europe, with some 50,000 people in 1300. The municipality comprises the city of Ghent proper and the surrounding suburbs of Afsnee, Desteldonk, Drongen, Gentbrugge, Ledeberg, Mariakerke, Mendonk, Oostakker, Sint-Amandsberg, Sint-Denijs-Westrem, Sint-Kruis-Winkel, Wondelgem and Zwijnaarde. With 262,219 inhabitants at the beginning of 2019, Ghent is Belgium's second largest municipality by number of inhabitants. The metropolitan area, including the outer commuter zone, covers a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghent City Hall
Ghent City Hall is a four-sided complex in Ghent, surrounded by the Botermarkt, the Hoogpoort, the Stadhuissteeg and the Poeljemarkt. The main wings are the late Gothic alderman's house of De Keure and the alderman's house of Gedele in the Renaissance style. The building has 51 halls. Layout The aldermen's house of De Keure (corner Botermarkt-Hoogpoort) was built in late Gothic flamboyant style between 1519 and 1539 to a design by Rombout II Keldermans and Dominicus de Waeghemaekere. The facade niches were intended to contain the statues of the Counts of Flanders. The Gedele Alderman's House (corner Botermarkt-Poeljemarkt) is a product of the Renaissance and was built between 1595 and 1618. The facades are characterized by an application of successive Doric, Ionic and Corinthian three-quarter columns and pilasters, inspired by the design of the Italian renaissance palazzi. The side along the Botermarkt has nineteen bays and the side along the Poeljemarkt has nine bays and two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graduate Institute Of International And Development Studies
The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, or the Geneva Graduate Institute (french: Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement), abbreviated IHEID, is a government-accredited postgraduate institution of higher education located in Geneva, Switzerland. The current Geneva Graduate Institute was formed by a merger between the Graduate Institute of International Studies (french: Institut des hautes études internationales, abbreviated IHEI or HEI) and the Graduate Institute of Development Studies (, abbreviated IUED) in 2008. The institution counts one UN secretary-general (Kofi Annan), seven Nobel Prize recipients, one Pulitzer Prize winner, and numerous ambassadors, foreign ministers, and heads of state among its alumni and faculty. Founded by two senior League of Nations officials, the Graduate Institute maintains strong links with that international organisation's successor, the United Nations, and many alumni have gone on to work at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Human Rights Law
International human rights law (IHRL) is the body of international law designed to promote human rights on social, regional, and domestic levels. As a form of international law, international human rights law are primarily made up of treaties, agreements between sovereign states intended to have binding legal effect between the parties that have agreed to them; and customary international law. Other international human rights instruments, while not legally binding, contribute to the implementation, understanding and development of international human rights law and have been recognized as a source of ''political'' obligation. International human rights law, which governs the conduct of a state towards its people in peacetime is traditionally seen as distinct from international humanitarian law which governs the conduct of a state during armed conflict, although the two branches of law are complementary and in some ways overlap. A more systemic perspective explains that interna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IDI Krakow Session 2005
Idi or IDI may refer to: People * Idi Amin (c. 1925–2003), President of Uganda and military officer * Idi b. Abin Naggara, 4th century Jewish Babylonian rabbi * Idi Othman Guda (1941–2015), Nigerian politician * Idi Papez, Austrian 1930s pair skater Acronym * ICT Development Index, an index published by the United Nations International Telecommunication Union * Image Diffusion International, a television production company * Inclusive Development Index, an annual economic index * Indian Diamond Institute, school in the fields of diamonds, gems and jewellery in India * Industrial Developments International, a privately held real estate investment trust * Infectious Diseases Institute, a Ugandan not-for-profit organization * ''Inspector Dawood Ibrahim'', a 2016 Indian Malayalam action-comedy film * Institut de Droit International, an organization devoted to the study of international law * Interactive Design Institute, Edinburgh, providing online courses in art and design * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Dudley Field
David Dudley Field II (February 13, 1805April 13, 1894) was an American lawyer and law reformer who made major contributions to the development of American civil procedure. His greatest accomplishment was engineering the move away from common law pleading towards code pleading, which culminated in the enactment of the Field Code in 1850 by the state of New York. Early life and education Field was born in Haddam, Connecticut on February 13, 1805. He was the oldest of the eight sons and two daughters of the Rev. David Dudley Field I, a Congregational minister and local historian, and Submit Dickenson Field. His brothers included Stephen Johnson Field, a U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Cyrus Field, a prominent businessman and creator of the Atlantic Cable, and Rev. Henry Martyn Field, a prominent clergyman and travel writer. He was also the uncle of U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Josiah Brewer. He graduated from Williams College in 1825, studied law with Harmanus Bleecker in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlos Calvo (historian)
Carlos Calvo (February 26, 1824, Buenos Aires – May 2, 1906, Paris) was an Argentine publicist and historian, who devoted himself to the study of the law. In 1860 he was sent by the Paraguayan government on a special mission to London and Paris. Remaining in France, he published in 1863 his ''Derecho internacional teórico y práctico de Europa y America'', in two volumes, and at the same time brought out a French version. The book contained the essence of what has come to be known as the Calvo Doctrine in international law is named after him. The doctrine holds that jurisdiction in international investment disputes lies with the country in which the investment is located. The book immediately took rank as one of the highest modern authorities on the subject, and by 1887 the first French edition had become enlarged to six volumes. In 1869, Calvo published an article arguing that states undergoing civil war were not responsible for harm caused to aliens as a result of riot or c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Augusto Pierantoni
Augusto Pierantoni (June 1840 in Chieti; March 12, 1911 in Rome) was an Italian jurist, professor, and politician in the Kingdom of Italy. He was also one of the founding members of the Institut de Droit International. Professional life Pierantoni was Ministerial Secretary in Turin, and later a professor of constitutional law and international law at the Universities of Modena (1865), Naples (1871) and Rome (1876). He also was a member of the Italian Senate in 1883. In 1885 he represented his country at the Paris Conference on shipping in the Suez Canal. In September, 1873, together with ten other lawyers from various countries he founded the Institut de Droit International in the Belgian city of Ghent. This was a private organization concerned with the development of international law. For his work in international law, he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1904, but the Institut as a whole received the award for that year. Personal life He was married in 1868 t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johann Kaspar Bluntschli
Johann Caspar (also Kaspar) Bluntschli (7 March 1808 – 21 October 1881) was a Swiss jurist and politician. Together with fellow liberals Francis Lieber and Édouard René de Laboulaye, he developed one of the first codes of international law and war. Biography He was born in Zürich to a soap and candle manufacturer. From school he passed into the Politische Institut (a seminary of law and political science) in his native town, and proceeding thence to the universities of Berlin and Bonn, took the degree of doctor juris in the latter in 1829. There the following citations are to be found: *''Denkwürdiges aus meinem Leben'' (autobiography, 1884) * Franz von Holtzendorff, ''Bluntschli und seine Verdienste um die Staatswissenschaften'' (1882) *Brockhaus, ''Konversations-Lexicon'' (1901) * Returning to Zürich in 1830, he threw himself with ardour into the political strife which was at the time unsettling all the cantons of the Confederation, and in this year published ''Über ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wladimir Besobrassof
Vladimir Pavlovich Bezobrazov (russian: Владимир Павлович Безобразов, 15 January 1828, Vladimir, Imperial Russia, — 29 August 1889, Noskovo, Moscow Governorate, Imperial Russia) was one of the leading Russian economists of the 19th century; he was also a state official, magazine editor, publicist and lecturer, author of numerous essays and articles, mostly on political economy, bank system, law and finance. Early life Born into and old noble Bezobrazov family, Vladimir was the son of Paul Nikolaevich Bezobrazov (1787-1852) and his wife, Elizaveta Pavlovna Poltoratskaya (1798-1888). Biography A member of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences (since 1864), Bezobrazov in 1860s edited the Ministry of State Properties Magazine and later the ''Geographical Society Herald''. As a Ministry of Finance official, he took active part in organizing and monitoring Russian regional bank system. In the 1860s, at the height of the Alexander II-induced refor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Lorimer (jurist)
James Lorimer of Kellyfield, FRSE LLD (4 November 1818 – 13 February 1890) was a Scottish advocate and professor of public law. He was an authority on international law. Life Lorimer was born in Aberdalgie House in Perthshire. He was the son of James Lorimer, manager of the Earl of Kinnoul's estates. He was educated at the High School in Perth then studied law at Edinburgh University, doing further postgraduate studies in Berlin, Bonn and Geneva, broadening his understanding of European Law. He was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1845. He purchased an impressive Georgian townhouse at 22 Queen Street, with James Jardine as a close neighbour. In 1861 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh his proposer being Leonard Schmitz. He became Regius Professor of Public Law at the University of Edinburgh in 1862, a post he retained until his death. The post had been vacant since the death of Robert Hamilton in 1831. After gaining this post he moved to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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