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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".
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
- 2016: Prof Eyal Benvenisti
- From 2024: Prof Jan Klabbers
See also
References
- 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
- 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
- "Professor Jan Klabbers elected to the Whewell Professorship of International Law". University of Cambridge. 2024-08-09. Retrieved 2024-10-25.