The Law of the Sea and the Great War

1920 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 240
Author(s):  
Edmund F. Trabue
Keyword(s):  
Law Of The Sea ◽  
Great War ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Great War

Orders in Council and the Law of the Sea

1922 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 400-419
Author(s):  
Gordon E Sherman
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
Law Of The Sea ◽  
Great War ◽  
Naval Warfare ◽  
Intended Action ◽  
Law Of Nations ◽  
First Empire ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Great War

In a maritime war the formal announcements of national executives concerning principles of intended action possess an interest frequently transcending the occasion calling them into being since they may originate important modifications in the imprescriptible system of the law of nations and thus become touched with that universality of which the sea itself offers so constant and striking a suggestion. In the conflicts of the French revolution and the First Empire, as well as in the great war of our own day, we find produced on the part of the opposing governments a series of declarations (orders in council, arrêts) which have a permanent interest for the student of international law since they practically extend over the whole field of naval warfare and reach every aspect of belligerent action upon the high seas, while they may also become a cause oftentimes of strained relations between belligerent and neutral Powers arising through widely varying views touching the application of prize law to marine captures.

“The Black Sheep”: The Disciplining of Territorial and Alberta Lawyers, 1885–1928.

1988 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 109-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter M. Sibenik
Keyword(s):  
Great War ◽  
North West ◽  
Black Sheep ◽  
Exclusive Jurisdiction ◽  
Professional Self ◽  
The Law ◽  
North West Territories ◽  
The Great War

Abstract The Law Society of Alberta was given an almost exclusive jurisdiction to discipline Alberta lawyers in the 1920s. “The Black Sheep” uses the records of governments, courts and law societies in the old North-West Territories and Alberta to trace the emergence of this aspect of professional self-governance from 1885 to 1928. For most of this period, governments and then courts had disciplined lawyers. However, there was an increasing number of public complaints and criticisms directed against lawyers in the mid-1910s and especially after the Great War. By the 1920s the Alberta Government, the senior judiciary and the Law Society of Alberta decided, each for different reasons, that the best way to handle the complaints was to let the profession discipline itself. Ironically, the number of complaints increased even as the Society exacted greater discipline on lawyers.

The Outlook for International Law

1916 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elihu Root
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Military Power ◽  
Great War ◽  
Law Of Nations ◽  
The World ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The Great War

The incidents of the great war now raging affect so seriously the very foundations of international law that there is for the moment but little satisfaction to the student of that science in discussing specific rules. Whether or not Sir Edward Carson went too far in his recent assertion that the law of nations has been destroyed, it is manifest that the structure has been rudely shaken. The barriers that statesmen and jurists have been constructing laboriously for three centuries to limit and direct the conduct of nations toward each other, in conformity to the standards of modern civilization, have proved too weak to confine the tremendous forces liberated by a conflict which involves almost the whole military power of the world and in which the destinies of nearly every civilized state outside the American continents are directly at stake.

The New British Imperial Law of Nationality

1915 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 870-882
Author(s):  
Richard W. Flournoy
Keyword(s):  
Public Law ◽  
The State ◽  
Great War ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Vital Importance ◽  
Popular Interest ◽  
The Law ◽  
Class Divisions ◽  
The Great War ◽  
Distinct Branch

The law of nationality, which determines the relation borne by private individuals to sovereign states, is a distinct branch of public law. Being necessarily somewhat technical and detailed in its provisions, it does not ordinarily attract popular interest and attention in times of peace. However, when war breaks out, the question of nationality is seen to be one of vital importance to the state. In times of peace the population of a country presents an appearance of uniformity, and citizens and aliens mingle freely, carrying on the ordinary business of life with each other, apparently regardless of the question of allegiance. Especially has this been so in modern times, with their extensive intercourse between nations and liberal laws governing the rights of aliens. But, nevertheless, when a country is cast into the crucible of war, the component parts of its population are quickly separated into citizens or subjects, allies, alien enemies and neutrals. For some years the theory has been growing that divisions of nationality are being obliterated and replaced by economic and class divisions. The great war now being waged has proven that, whether or not the change mentioned is in a process of development, it has not yet reached the stage where it effectively controls the relation between separate countries. Divisions of nationality are still predominant.

The Great War in History

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jay Winter ◽  
Antoine Prost
Keyword(s):  
Great War ◽  
The Great War
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