Institut de Droit International
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The Institute of International Law (French: Institut de Droit International) is an organization devoted to the study and development of international law, whose membership comprises the world's leading public international lawyers. It was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1904.[1]
History
The institute was founded by Gustave Moynier and Gustave Rolin-Jaequemyns, together with 9 other renowned international lawyers, on 8 September 1873 in the Salle de l'Arsenal of the Ghent Town Hall in Belgium. The founders of 1873 were:
- Pasquale Stanislao Mancini (from Rome), President;
- Emile de Laveleye (from Liege);
- Tobias Michael Carel Asser (from Amsterdam);
- James Lorimer (from Edinburgh);
- Wladimir Besobrassof (from Saint-Petersburg);
- Gustave Moynier (from Geneva);
- Jean Gaspar Bluntschli (from Heidelberg);
- Augusto Pierantoni (from Naples);
- Carlos Calvo (from Buenos Aires);
- Gustave Rolin-Jaequemyns (from Ghent);
- David Dudley Field (from New York)
In addition, August von Bulmerincq (from Tartu) was invited to participate at the founding event, but could not attend since the invitation did not reach him in time. He was later however counted among the founding members.[2]
150 years anniversary
In September 2023, the Institut celebrated its 150 years anniversary on the occasion of the 81st session that took place in Angers, France.[3] For the occasion, three French government ministers were invited to participate in the session and video messages from the President of France, Emmanuel Macron and the United Nations Secretary General, António Guterres were presented during the ceremony.[4] During this session, the Institut also launched a documentary film about the history of the organization. This documentary features many prominent international legal scholars as well as current judges at the International Court of Justice[5]
Organization
The Institute is a private body, made up of associates, members, and honorary members. The Statute stipulates that the number of members and associates under the age of 80 cannot be over 132. The members, elected every two years by the current members of the organization, are persons who have demonstrated notable scholarly work in the area of international law, and is restricted to those who are considered relatively free of political pressure. The organisation attempts to have members broadly distributed around the world.
The organisation holds biannual congresses for the study of international law as it currently exists, and passes resolutions proposing modifications to international law. It does not comment on specific disputes.
While its recommendations cover international law in its many forms, some of its resolutions particularly pertain to human rights law and peaceful dispute resolution. It was for that reason that the organization received the Nobel Peace Prize.[6]
The organization remains active, with the latest congress held in Angers, France in August 2023. The location of the institute's headquarters rotates according to the origin of the Secretary General. The current headquarters are at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland.
Current members of the Institut include, prominent lawyers, legal academics,[7] former ambassadors, judges of the International Court of Justice and the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea.
Recent resolutions from the organization cover many important areas such as universal jurisdiction, provisional measures, regime of wrecks, immunity, environment, use of force, etc.
The Institut publishes its Annuaire, containing the reports of the commissions, deliberations of the plenary sessions, and any resulting declarations and resolutions. The records of the administrative sessions including elections are also included in the Annuaire.
The Institut's website[8] houses an online library of information, including, but not limited to, declarations, resolutions, and some works in progress for future inclusion in the Annuaire.[citation needed]
References
- ^ "Nobel Peace Prize" – via The Institute of International Law.
- ^ Mälksoo, Lauri (2005). "The Context of International Legal Arguments: 'Positivist' International Law Scholar August von Bulmerincq (1822-1890) and His Concept of Politics". Journal of the History of International Law / Revue d'histoire du droit international. 7 (2): 181–209. Retrieved 12 August 2024.
- ^ "Session d'Angers 2023 – sesquicentenaire – Institut de Droit International".
- ^ "Angers. Trois ministres vont lancer les 150 ans de l'Institut de droit international dimanche". 22 August 2023.
- ^ "Institute of International Law - Justitia et Pace - Trailer". YouTube. 28 August 2023.
- ^ "The Nobel Peace Prize 1904". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved 2019-12-11.
- ^ "IDI-Membres". Idi-iil.org. Archived from the original on 2013-07-04. Retrieved 2013-08-06.
- ^ "Institut de Droit International – Justitia et Pace". www.idi-iil.org.
- "Societies of International Law". The American Journal of International Law. 1 (1): 135–137. 1907. doi:10.2307/2186291. JSTOR 2186291. S2CID 251375336.
External links
- Media related to Institut de Droit International at Wikimedia Commons
- Official website
- Institute of International Law on Nobelprize.org including the Nobel Lecture The Work of the Institute of International Law
- Documents and clippings about Institut de Droit International in the 20th Century Press Archives of the ZBW
- Works by or about Institut de Droit International at the Internet Archive
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- 1901: Henry Dunant / Frédéric Passy
- 1902: Élie Ducommun / Charles Gobat
- 1903: Randal Cremer
- 1904: Institut de Droit International
- 1905: Bertha von Suttner
- 1906: Theodore Roosevelt
- 1907: Ernesto Moneta / Louis Renault
- 1908: Klas Arnoldson / Fredrik Bajer
- 1909: A. M. F. Beernaert / Paul Estournelles de Constant
- 1910: International Peace Bureau
- 1911: Tobias Asser / Alfred Fried
- 1912: Elihu Root
- 1913: Henri La Fontaine
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- 1920: Léon Bourgeois
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- 1926: Aristide Briand / Gustav Stresemann
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- 1934: Arthur Henderson
- 1935: Carl von Ossietzky
- 1936: Carlos Saavedra Lamas
- 1937: Robert Cecil
- 1938: Nansen International Office for Refugees
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- 1945: Cordell Hull
- 1946: Emily Balch / John Mott
- 1947: Friends Service Council / American Friends Service Committee
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- 1950: Ralph Bunche
- 1951: Léon Jouhaux
- 1952: Albert Schweitzer
- 1953: George C. Marshall
- 1954: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
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- 1958: Georges Pire
- 1959: Philip Noel-Baker
- 1960: Albert Luthuli
- 1961: Dag Hammarskjöld
- 1962: Linus Pauling
- 1963: International Committee of the Red Cross / League of Red Cross Societies
- 1964: Martin Luther King Jr.
- 1965: UNICEF
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- 1969: International Labour Organization
- 1970: Norman Borlaug
- 1971: Willy Brandt
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- 1973: Lê Đức Thọ (declined award) / Henry Kissinger
- 1974: Seán MacBride / Eisaku Satō
- 1975: Andrei Sakharov
- 1976: Betty Williams / Mairead Corrigan
- 1977: Amnesty International
- 1978: Anwar Sadat / Menachem Begin
- 1979: Mother Teresa
- 1980: Adolfo Pérez Esquivel
- 1981: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- 1982: Alva Myrdal / Alfonso García Robles
- 1983: Lech Wałęsa
- 1984: Desmond Tutu
- 1985: International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
- 1986: Elie Wiesel
- 1987: Óscar Arias
- 1988: UN Peacekeeping Forces
- 1989: Tenzin Gyatso (14th Dalai Lama)
- 1990: Mikhail Gorbachev
- 1991: Aung San Suu Kyi
- 1992: Rigoberta Menchú
- 1993: Nelson Mandela / F. W. de Klerk
- 1994: Shimon Peres / Yitzhak Rabin / Yasser Arafat
- 1995: Pugwash Conferences / Joseph Rotblat
- 1996: Carlos Belo / José Ramos-Horta
- 1997: International Campaign to Ban Landmines / Jody Williams
- 1998: John Hume / David Trimble
- 1999: Médecins Sans Frontières
- 2000: Kim Dae-jung
- 2001: United Nations / Kofi Annan
- 2002: Jimmy Carter
- 2003: Shirin Ebadi
- 2004: Wangari Maathai
- 2005: International Atomic Energy Agency / Mohamed ElBaradei
- 2006: Grameen Bank / Muhammad Yunus
- 2007: Al Gore / Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
- 2008: Martti Ahtisaari
- 2009: Barack Obama
- 2010: Liu Xiaobo
- 2011: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf / Leymah Gbowee / Tawakkol Karman
- 2012: European Union
- 2013: Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
- 2014: Kailash Satyarthi / Malala Yousafzai
- 2015: Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet
- 2016: Juan Manuel Santos
- 2017: International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
- 2018: Denis Mukwege / Nadia Murad
- 2019: Abiy Ahmed
- 2020: World Food Programme
- 2021: Maria Ressa / Dmitry Muratov
- 2022: Ales Bialiatski / Memorial / Center for Civil Liberties
- 2023: Narges Mohammadi
- 2024: to be announced