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Carlos Calvo (February 26, 1824,

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– May 2, 1906,

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) was an

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publicist and diplomat who made influential contributions to international law. He is most well known for the Calvo Doctrine in international law, which holds that jurisdiction in international investment disputes lies with the country in which the investment is located. In 1860 he was sent by the

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an government on a special mission to

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and

. 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. 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 civil war. According to Kathryn Greenman, Calvo's article influenced later international legal debates about state responsibility for rebel actions. Calvo's work influenced diplomats from Latin America to codify international law to prohibit military interventions by creditors to collect debt. Between 1862 and 1869 he published in Spanish and French his great collection in fifteen volumes of the

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and other diplomatic acts of the

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n republics, and between 1864 and 1875 his ''Annales historiques de la révolution de l'Amérique latine'', in five volumes. In 1884 he was one of the founders at the

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congress of the Institut de Droit International. In the following year he was Argentine minister at

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, and published his ''Dictionnaire du droit international publique et privat'' in that city.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Calvo, Carlos 19th-century Argentine historians Argentine male non-fiction writers 1824 births 1906 deaths Writers from Buenos Aires Argentine jurists International law scholars Ambassadors of Argentina to the Holy See Members of the Institut de Droit International Burials at La Recoleta Cemetery Argentine people of Galician descent