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The Cambridge Handbook of the League of Nations and International Law

Edited by Haakon A. Ikonomou · Karin van Leeuwen · Morten Rasmussen
New Arrival Cambridge University Press May 2026

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ISBN-13
9781009655187
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication
May 2026
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for 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.

Table of Contents

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
Megan Donaldson
17. Violence, Legalism and the evolution of sovereignty in the league mandates, 1923–1939
Leonard V. Smith
18. The League of Nations and the Sanctions Revolution in international law
Nicholas Mulder
19. Beyond the bounds of order? Collective security, general disarmament, and international law, 1919–1935
Haakon A. Ikonomou
20: The internationalisation of human rights and the League of Nations, 1920–1939
Dzovinar Kévonian
21: The League of Nations, the United States, and the codification of international law Vera Fritz
Conclusion: The League of Nations, international law and beyond
Haakon A. Ikonomou, Karin van Leeuwen and Morten Rasmussen

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