Whewell Professor of International Law

Professorship at the University of Cambridge

The Whewell Professorship of International Law is a professorship in the University of Cambridge.

The Professorship was established in 1868 by the will of the 19th-century scientist and moral philosopher, William Whewell, with a view to devising "such measures as may tend to diminish the causes of war and finally to extinguish war between nations".[1][2]

Incumbents of the Whewell Professorship of International Law

Holders of the Whewell chair include four judges of the International Court of Justice.

  • 1869: Sir William Vernon Harcourt
  • 1887: Sir Henry James Sumner Maine
  • 1888: John Westlake
  • 1908: L. F. L. Oppenheim
  • 1920: Alexander Pearce Higgins
  • 1935: Lord Arnold McNair
  • 1938: Sir Hersch Lauterpacht
  • 1955: Sir Robert Jennings
  • 1981: Sir Derek Bowett
  • 1992: Prof James Crawford
  • From 2016: Prof Eyal Benvenisti

See also

References

  1. ^ See Maine, Henry Sumner (1888). Whewell Lectures, International Law, A Series of Lectures Delivered before the University of Cambridge, 1887 (1 ed.). London: John Murray. p. 1. Retrieved 8 September 2015. via Internet Archive
  2. ^ See Oppenheim, Lassa (1919). The League of Nations and Its Problems, Three Lectures (1 ed.). London: Longmans, Green & Co. p. 4. Retrieved 9 September 2015. via Internet Archive