The Hague Peace Conferences de A. Pearce Higgins

The Hague Peace Conferences: And Other International Conferences Concerning the Laws and Usages of War

A. Pearce Higgins

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 13 aug 2014

Originally published in 1909, this book contains the English text of a wide variety of international conferences on the rules of war. Pearce Higgins also supplies commentaries on the various documents. For conferences also held in Francophone countries, the French text of the resolutions is presented on the facing page. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in legal history and the history of international treaties before WWI.

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Preface; List of cases cited; Introduction; Declaration of Paris; Commentary; Declaration of St Petersburg; Commentary; Draft of additional articles (Geneva) 1868; Geneva Convention 1906; Commentary; The Peace Conference of 1899; The Second Peace Conference of 1907; Final acts of the International Peace Conferences; Commentary; 1. Conventions for the pacific settlement of international disputes 1899 and 1907; Commentary; 2. Convention respecting the limitation of the employment of force for the recovery of contract debts; Commentary; 3. Convention relative to the commencement of hostilities; Commentary; 4. Conventions concerning the laws and customs of war on land (1899 and 1907); Commentary; The Brussels Draft Declaration 1984; 5. Convention respecting the rights and duties of neutral powers and persons in war on land; Commentary; 6. Convention relative to the status of enemy merchant-ships at the outbreak of hostilities; Commentary; 7. Convention relative to the conversion of merchant-ships into war-ships; Commentary; 8. Convention relative to the laying of automatic submarine contact mines; Commentary; 9. Convention respecting bombardment by naval forces in time of war; Commentary; 10. Conventions for the adaptation of the principles of the Geneva Convention to maritime war (1899 and 1907); Commentary; Convention relating to hospital ships of 21 December, 1904; 11. Convention relative to certain restrictions on the exercise of the right of capture in maritime war; Commentary; 12. Convention relative to the establishment of an International Prize Court; Commentary; 13. Convention respecting the rights and duties of neutral powers in maritime war; Commentary; Declaration II (1899) prohibiting the use of asphyxiating gases; Declaration III (1899) prohibiting the use of bullets with a hard envelope; Commentary; Draft convention relative to the creation of a judicial arbitration court; Commentary; The results of the Second peace Conference; List of signatory powers of the conventions of the First Peace Conference; List of signatory powers of the conventions of the Second Peace Conference; Final protocol of the London Naval Conference; Declaration of London; General report presented to the Naval Conference on behalf of the Drafting Committee; Appendix. Instructions of British delegates to the Second Peace Conference; Addenda and errata; Index.