Peace Through Law: The Versailles Peace Treaty and Dispute Settlement After World War I / Edition 1

by Michel Erpelding, Burkhard Hess, Helene Ruiz Fabri

Overview

With the benefit of hindsight, presenting the Treaty of Versailles as an example of 'peace through law' might seem like a provocation. And yet, the extreme variety and innovativeness of international procedural and substantial 'experiments' attempted as a result of the Treaty of Versailles and the other Paris Peace Treaties of 1919-1920 remain striking even today. While many of these 'experiments' had a lasting impact on international law and dispute settlement after the Second World War, and considerably broadened the very idea of 'peace through law', they have often disappeared from collective memories. Relying on both legal and historical research, this book provides a global overview of how the Paris Peace Treaties impacted on dispute resolution in the interwar period, both substantially and procedurally. The book's accounts of several all-but-forgotten international tribunals and their case law include references to archival records and photographic illustrations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783848757541
Publisher:	Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft
Publication date:	04/26/2019
Series:	Studies of the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law , #16
Pages:	354
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 8.94(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction: Versailles and the Broadening of 'Peace Through Law' Michel Erpelding 11

Part 1 Peace Through Law?

Chapter 1 Drama Through Law: The Versailles Treaty and the Casting of the Modern International Stage Nathaniel Berman 31

Part 2 The Establishment of a New International Order of Peace

Chapter 2 The League of Nations as a Universal Organization Thomas D Grant 67

Chapter 3 Preventing a Repetition of the Great War: Responding to International Terrorism in the 1930s Michael D Callahan 85

Chapter 4 The Legacy of the Mandates System of the League of Nations Mamadou Hébié Paula Baldini Miranda da Cruz 99

Chapter 5 Negotiating Equality: Minority Protection in the Versailles Settlement León Castellanos-Jankiewicz 123

Part 3 The Emergence of International Economic Law

Chapter 6 Managing the 'Workers Threat': Preventing Revolution Through the international Labour Organization Guy Fiti Sinclair 159

Chapter 7 The Role of Private International Law: UNIDROIT and the Geneva Conventions on Arbitration Herbert Kronke 183

Chapter 8 Article 231 of the Versailles Treaty and Reparations: The Reparation Commission as a Place for Dispute Settlement? Jean-Louis Halpérin 193

Chapter 9 The Conversion of Reparations into Sovereign Debts (1920-1953) Pierre d'Argent 205

Part 4 The Institutionalization of International Adjudication

Chapter 10 Peace Through International Adjudication: The Permanent Court of International Justice and the Post-war Order Christian J Tams 217

Chapter 11 International Adjudication of Private Rights: The Mixed Arbitral Tribunals in the Peace Treaties of 1919-1922 Marta Requejo Isidro Burkhard Hess 239

Chapter 12 Local International Adjudication: The Groundbreaking 'Experiment' of the Arbitral Tribunal for Upper Silesia Michel Erpelding 277

Part 5 Beyond 'Peace Through Law': The Use of Law and Its Records as Vehicles of Resistance and Change

Chapter 13 Resistance Through Law: Belgian Judges and the Relations Between Occupied State and Occupying Power Didier Boden 325

Chapter 14 The Work of Peace: World War One, Justice and Translation Through Art Jennifer Balint Neal Haslem Kirsten Haydon 337