Augusto Pierantoni

Augusto Pierantoni (* June 24, 1840 in Chieti, † March 12, 1911 in Rome ) was an Italian lawyer and politician. He worked among other things as a professor at several Italian universities and as a Senator. In addition, he was involved in 1873 in the founding of the Institut de Droit international ( Institute of International Law ).

Life

Augusto Pierantoni was first Ministerial Secretary in Turin and later professor of constitutional law and international law at the Universities of Modena ( 1865 ), Naples ( 1871 ) and Rome (from 1876). In addition, he was a member of the Italian Senate in 1883. In 1885 he represented his native country at the Paris Conference on the shipping in the Suez Canal.

Together with ten other lawyers from different countries he founded in September 1873 in the Belgian city of Ghent by the Institut de Droit international ( Institute of International Law ). The aim of this existing up to the present institution, which was awarded the 1904 Nobel Peace Prize, is the further development of international law. In the same year he was nominated for his contributions to international law and international arbitration itself for the price.

He was from 1868 married to the poet Grazia Pierantoni - Mancini, daughter of Pasquale Stanislao Mancini lawyers who was involved internationally also in the founding of the Institut de Droit and its first president.

Legal, Philosophical views

Augusto Pierantoni saw the foundations of international law, especially in a number of general principles to which he scored the nationality principle and the principle of non-interference, among other things, and looked at their distribution as prerequisites for the advancement of international law. This conception of a development of international law by an interaction between ideas and their practical form stood at that time in international law also quite widespread positivist perspective against which saw the base of the right alone in written standards.

Works (selection)

  • Sull ' abolizione della pena di morte. Turin 1865
  • Il progresso diritto del pubblico e delle genti. Modena 1866; German edition: The progress of international law in the nineteenth. Century. Vahlen, Berlin 1899
  • Il giuramento: storia Law, politica. Rome 1883
  • The progress of international law in the nineteenth. Century. Vahlen, Berlin 1899 ( translated version)
  • Gli barristers di Roma antica. Zanichelli, Bologna 1900
  • Storia degli Studi del diritto internazionale in Italia. Firenze 1902
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