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The Cambridge Handbook of the League of Nations and International Law

Author: Haakon A. Ikonomou; Karin van Leeuwen; Morten Rasmussen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781009655187
Published In: May 2026
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

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Established in the wake of the First World War, the League of Nations fundamentally transformed international politics, global governance and multilateral cooperation in a multitude of fields from the economy, labour and social affairs to colonial, minority and security questions. This Handbook analyses the central role of law in the construction of a new international order under the League of Nations.

Drawing from innovative research of recent years that analyses the League of Nations through the prism of ultimate success and failure, it offers twenty-one rich chapters that showcase an interdisciplinary, contextual and archive-based approach with brand new and unexplored case studies that address key topics of the legal history of the League, the International Labour Organization and the Permanent Court of International Justice. Finally, it offers a new historical synthesis of how to understand the role of international law in international organizations during the interwar period.

Introduction: The League of Nations and international law

Haakon A. Ikonomou, Karin van Leeuwen and Morten Rasmussen

1. The League of Nations and international order after the First World War

Peter Jackson

Part I. Institutions:

2. An agent of international law? The legal section of the General Secretariat, 1919–1926

Morten Rasmussen

3. The International Labour Organization at the Vanguard, 1919–1945

Guy Fiti Sinclair

4. Lodestar of Legalism. The Permanent Court of International Justice, 1919–1946

Henri de Waele

5. Peace through law? The legal techniques used to stabilize Upper Silesia 1922–1937

Michel Erpelding

6. New forms of international adjudication? The history of the mixed arbitral tribunals, 1919–1939

Jakob Zollmann

Part II. States:

7. Instrumentalizing the Versailles system of international law: The German Foreign Office and its mobilization of scholarly international law, 1920–1925

Thomas Storgaard

8. France and compulsory arbitration: from the Geneva Protocol to the ratification of the General Act of Arbitration, 1924–1931

Jean-Michel Guieu

9. Nordic jurists and the League of Nations

Dag Michaelsen

10. An almost fanatical support for the League: Uruguay, legal reform, and the origins of the Latin America bloc in Geneva

Andrei Mamolea

11. From a judicial solution to collective security: the Manchurian conflict, Japan, and the 'disappearing' Permanent Court of International Justice, 1931–1933

Tomoko Akami

12. Beyond the reach of the League? The minority clauses of the Lausanne Treaty and the status of the Kurds

Derya Bayir

Part III. Networks and Networkers:

13. Organizing legal internationalism: the Institute of International Law, the International Law Association and the League of Nations, 1919–1939

Karin van Leeuwen

14. Financing international law: the role of The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in building a profession

Jens Wegener

15. The great entertainer: the networking of Manley O. Hudson

Rasmus S. Søndergaard

Part IV. Policies and Legal Norms:

16. Law, legal expertise and the peaceful settlement of disputes: revisiting early League Council practice