Bernard Loder

Bernard Cornelis Johannes Loder (born 13 September 1849 in Amsterdam, † November 4, 1935 in The Hague) was a Dutch lawyer. He was a member from 1908 to 1921 the High Council of the Netherlands and worked from 1921 to 1930 as a judge at the Permanent Court of International Justice, including from 1921 to 1924 as the first president in the history of the Court.

Life

Bernard Loder was born in 1849 in Amsterdam and studied law at the Athenaeum Illustre, the predecessor institution of the University of Amsterdam. In 1873 he earned his doctorate at the University of Leiden. He was interested in the following mainly the international law and in particular the law of the sea. In 1897 he was among the founders of the Comité Maritime International, whose duties were partly later adopted by the International Maritime Organization. In the years 1905, 1909, 1910 and 1923, he represented the Netherlands at international conferences on the Law of the Sea, in addition it was one of the delegates in his home country at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919.

From 1908 to 1921 he was a member of the High Council of the Netherlands, the highest court of law in the country. After he was in 1920 a member of the committee, which drew up the Statute of the Permanent Court of International Justice ( StIGH ), he became its first president after the founding of StIGH 1921-1924. Then he remained until 1930 as a judge on the Court. He was from 1921, member of the Institut de Droit International and four years later, President of the 33rd session of the Institute, which was held in The Hague.

Bernard Loder was married in 1877 and had two daughters. He died in 1935 in The Hague.