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

Originally published in 1909, this book contains the text of a variety of international conferences on the rules of war.

A. Pearce Higgins (Author)

9781107418875, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 14 August 2014

648 pages
23.4 x 15.6 x 3.6 cm, 0.98 kg

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.

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.

Subject Areas: International relations [JPS]