Philip Jessup

Philip Caryl Jessup ( born January 5, 1897 in New York City; † January 31, 1986 ) was an American lawyer and diplomat. He worked from 1925 to 1961 as a lecturer and professor of international law at Columbia University, and from 1961 to 1970 as a judge at the International Court in The Hague.

Life

Philip Jessup studied at Hamilton College in Clinton, NY, where he earned a BA degree. He then completed until 1924 at Yale University to study law, which he with the completion of LL.B. finished. Three years later he earned his doctorate at Columbia University. From 1925 to 1946 he was at Columbia University as a lecturer and later as Professor of International Law, 1946 to 1961, he was there the Hamilton Fish Institute of International Law and Diplomacy held.

In 1950, he was acquitted by a headed by Millard Tydings investigation committee of the Senate of allegations of sympathy with communist aspirations that had Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy as part of his anti-communist activities brought against him and other members of the U.S. State Department. A year later he was nominated by the then U.S. President Harry S. Truman for the position of U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. After the Senate did not agree to this proposal due to the influence of McCarthy, Truman bypassed the decision of the Senate by a temporary appointment ( interim appointment ).

From 1954 to 1955 he served as president of the American Society of International Law. Shortly after the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy agreed with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of candidacy of Jessup for a judge post on the International Court of Justice ( ICJ) in The Hague, where he served from 1961 to 1970. After his return to the United States, he worked in various positions at the University of Georgia, at Columbia University and Wellesley College.

Philip Jessup was included in the Institut de Droit International in 1948. In 1964 he received the Manley O. Hudson Medal of the American Society of International Law. The Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition, a renowned international Moot Court Competition in the field of international law, carries in his honor his name.

Works (selection)

  • American Neutrality and International Police. Boston 1928
  • A Modern Law of Nations. 1948; German translation: Modern international law. Stuttgart 1950
  • Transnational Law. New Haven 1956
  • The Birth of Nations. New York 1974
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