Whewell Professor of International Law
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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".
[edit] Incumbents of the Whewell Professorship of International Law
Holders of the Whewell chair have included three judges of the International Court of Justice.
- 1869: William Vernon Harcourt
- 1887: Sir Henry Maine
- 1888: John Westlake
- 1908: Lassa Francis Lawrence Oppenheim
- 1920: Alexander Pearce Higgins
- 1935: Arnold McNair
- 1938: Sir Hersch Lauterpacht
- 1955: Sir Robert Jennings
- 1981: Sir Derek Bowett
- 1992: Prof James Crawford
