LONintLAW · The League of Nations and the development of international law: from promotion strategies to giving shape to international legal instruments
Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
- Duration
- 2021-08-01 → 2023-07-31
- EU contribution
- €207,312
- Participants
- 1
- Scheme
- MSCA-IF
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Results in brief
The League of Nations and the development of international law: from promotion strategies to giving shape to international legal instruments
In an increasingly globalized world facing existential challenges to the welfare of mankind, the ability of states and international organizations to make common agreements is crucial. During the last 150 years, the legal techniques and the shape of international agreements have developed from the conventions of technical unions in the 19th century, to the multilateral treaties and codification of international law of the League of Nations to the quasi-constitutional legal order of the European Union. Nevertheless, despite the fundamental importance of these developments to international organizations and international law, historians have yet to systematically explore its history. This project has produced an original archive-based historical account of how the first universal organization, the League of Nations, contributed to the development of international law by forging various diplomatic strategies to convince member states to strengthen and develop international law through the codification of international customary law. The project has also analyzed how the League developed legal techniques to draft multilateral legal agreements which still prevail today, and defined the concrete legal shape that they would take.
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Project objective
This postdoc project provides the first historical account of how the predecessor of today’s United Nations, the League of Nations, fundamentally contributed to the development of international law in the early Twentieth Century. With the help of an innovative methodology, the project will lay bare how: firstly, the League forged diplomatic strategies to convince member states to accept the regulation of their actions through the signature of over one hundred international treaties and conventions; secondly, it developed techniques to draft and implement multilateral legal instruments, which still prevail today. Thus, the project will make a pathbreaking contribution to both the history of international law and the history of international organizations, and it will be of interest for historians, legal scholars and political scientists. It will be carried out in an environment which currently represents Europe’s most thriving research hub in the history of international law. Moreover, it is specifically designed to provide the scientific and non-scientific training activities that I need at this stage to take my career to the next level.
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Participants
- KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET · KOBENHAVNCoordinatorDenmark
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