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Progress of the Work of the League of Nations Codification Committee

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 May 2017

Jesse S. Reeves*
Affiliation:
University of Michigan

Extract

With the adoption of a resolution by the Council of the League of Nations, transmitting the report of the Committee of Experts for the Progressive Codification of International Law to the Assembly, what may be called the preliminary work of that Committee has reached such a stage that it seems possible to review its activities in the process of codification adopted by the League of Nations. It will be remembered that the Hague Commission of Jurists in its report accompanying the Statute of the World Court recommended the creation of agencies for codification, and that Lord Robert Cecil’s opposition to codification delayed acceptance of the Commission’s recommendation until September, 1924, when the Assembly upon the initiative of Sweden provided for the appointment of a committee of experts.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright,1927 by the American Society of International Law

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References

1 League of Nations, C. 196, M. 70,1927, V.

2 Special Supplement to the American Journal of In ternational Law ,20, July and October,1926