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Up for sale a RARE! "Hague Peace Conference" James Brown Scott Hand Written Letter.
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James
Brown Scott, J.U.D. (June
3, 1866 – June 25, 1943) was an American authority on international law. Scott was born
at Kincardine, Ontario, Canada. He was educated at Harvard University (A.B.,
1890; A.M., 1891). As Parker
fellow of Harvard he traveled in Europe and studied in Berlin, Heidelberg (J.U.D.), and Paris. Following his return to the United States, Scott
practiced law at Los Angeles, California from
1894 to 1899. He founded the law school at the University of Southern
California, and was its dean, though his participation in the Spanish–American War interrupted
that role. He was dean of the college of law at the University
of Illinois (1899–1903), professor of law at Columbia, and professor of
law at George In 1907 he was expert on international
law to the United States delegation at the Second Hague Peace
Conference. He also served on a State Department commission
which made recommendations to Congress on the reform of United States nationality
law, which would result in the Expatriation Act of 1907. In
1909 Professor Scott lectured at Johns Hopkins. He served
as secretary of the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace, and wrote several works on the
Hague Conferences of 1899 and 1907 (1908, 1909, 1915). Besides serving as
editor in chief of the American
Journal of International Law and as editor of the American
Case Book, and writing numerous articles on international law and the peace
movement. He also was the champion of the Spanish school of international law
of the 16th century, claiming that writers like Francisco de Vitoria and
Suarez had already said about that department of the law what about a century
later was stated by Hugo de Groot in
his De iure belli ac pacis (About
the law of war and peace).