The League of Nations and Its Problems: Three Lectures

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Lassa Oppenheim. The League of Nations and Its Problems: Three Lectures

PREFACE

First Lecture. THE AIMS OF THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS

SYNOPSIS

THE LECTURE

Second Lecture. ORGANISATION AND LEGISLATION OF THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS

SYNOPSIS

THE LECTURE

APPENDIX

LETTER FROM THE PRESENT WRITER TO THE FOREIGN OFFICE

LETTER FROM THE FOREIGN OFFICE TO THE PRESENT WRITER

Third Lecture. ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE AND MEDIATION WITHIN THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS

SYNOPSIS

THE LECTURE

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I. The purpose of the three Lectures is to draw attention to the links which connect the proposed League of Nations with the past, to the difficulties involved in the proposal, and to the way in which they can be overcome.

II. The conception of a League of Nations is not new, but is as old as International Law, because any kind of International Law and some kind of a League of Nations are interdependent and correlative.

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And a fourth scheme was that of Emeric Crucée, who, in 1623, proposed the establishment of a Union consisting not only of the Christian States but of all States of the world, with a General Council seated at Venice.

And since that time many other schemes of similar kind have made their appearance, the enumeration and discussion of which is outside our present purpose. So much is certain that all these schemes were Utopian. Nevertheless, a League of Nations having once come into existence, International Law grew more and more, and when in 1625 Hugo Grotius published his immortal work on 'The Law of War and Peace,' the system of International Law offered in his work conquered the world and became the basis of all following development.

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