Jules Basdevant

Jules Basdevant ( born April 15, 1877 in Anost, Saône -et -Loire, † March 17, 1968 ) was a French jurist and professor of international law at the University of Paris. From 1946 to 1964 he acted as a judge at the International Court in The Hague. During this time he was 1949-1952 President of the Court.

Life

Jules Basdevant was born in 1877 in Anost and taught by a Study of Law, where he graduated with a doctorate, from February 1903 as Agrégé at the University of Paris and from 1903 to 1907 at the University of Rennes. He then moved to the University of Grenoble, where he became a professor and worked until 1918. In the same year he returned to Paris, where he held a professorship in international law since 1922. In addition, he taught in 1936 at the Hague Academy of International Law. From 1930 to 1941 he was legal adviser to the French Foreign Ministry. In 1946 he was elected judge of the International Court newly founded Justice (ICJ ) on which he worked until 1964. During this time, he was Vice President from 1946 to 1949 and then to 1952, the second president in the history of the Court.

Jules Basdevant was married and the father of five sons and two daughters. He died in 1968 in his hometown. His daughter Suzanne Basdevant, the eldest of his seven children, was in 1932 the examination for license to teach in the Public Law and was the first woman in France with a professor at a law school and, in 1971, the first woman as a full member of the Académie of Moral and Political sciences was added. Her husband Paul Bastid was during the Second World War, a member of the Conseil National de la Résistance, the governing body of the French resistance during the German occupation of the country, and worked before and after the war as a member of parliament.

Legal, Philosophical views

Jules Basdevant was an expert in the field of contract law and legal philosophy in ways than a positivist who rejected natural law considerations. He saw the international legal system, however, less in a dominant, but rather in a coordinating role in the world order, in which the strength of the law would result from his respect. His view was accordingly as formalistic and pragmatic.

Awards

Jules Basdevant was from 1921 a member of the Institut de Droit International and was admitted to the Académie des sciences morales et politiques in 1944. In addition, he belonged from 1946 as an honorary member of the American Society of International Law and in 1964 the French Legion of Honour. In the city of Autun, a street is named after him.

Works (selection)

  • Les Deportation du Nord de la France et de la Belgique en vue du Travail et le Droit international forcé. Paris 1917
  • Traità et conventions entre la France et en vigeur les Puissances étrangčres. Paris 1918-1922
  • De la responsabilité internationale des états à raison de crimes ou de leur territoire sur délits commis au préjudice d' étrangers. Paris 1930
  • Les affaires étrangčres. Paris 1959
Charles de Gaulle Judges of the International Court of Justice Manfred Lachs Martti Koskenniemi Percy Spender Muhammad Zafarullah Khan Humphrey Waldock Taslim Olawale Elias Nagendra Singh Stephen M. Schwebel Rosalyn Higgins Hisashi Owada Peter Tomka Christopher Weeramantry Integrated Authority File
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