ADVANCE ARTICLE: Karin VAN LEEUWEN, "The Hague Academy as a Space of Encounter: How Scelle’s 1933 Teachings on National Courts Landed in the Netherlands " (European Journal of International Law 2024) [OPEN ACCESS]

 

(iamge source: EJIL)

First paragraph:

Nowadays, the legacy of the Hague Academy is mostly defined through the Recueil des Cours, whose more than 400 volumes provide a key source for both intellectual historians of international law and those engaging with its present-day theory. Yet, at the very outset of the Academy in 1923, the Recueil emerged as merely an offspring of its teaching activities. In the first years of its existence, the Academy first and foremost focused on the over 300 attendees gathered at the Peace Palace’s premises every year. It was by bringing together upcoming and established international law professionals in lecture halls and during dinners, teas and excursions that it wanted to internationalize the still very nationally orientated field of international law.

Read the full article here: DOI 10.1093/ejil/chae049.