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The Root Formula for the Accession of the United States to the Permanent Court of International Justice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

Philip C. Jessup
Philip C. Jessup*
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Columbia University, New York City
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Proceedings of the American Society of International Law at its annual meeting (1921-1969) , Volume 25 , 1931 , pp. 61 - 67
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1931

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References

1 Proceedings of the American Society of International Law, 1907, p. 259.

2 For the proceedings of the 1926 Conference, see League Doc. V. Legal. 1926. V. 26. For the Final Act and Protocol of 1926, see Appendix, infra, pp. 264, 268.

3 See World Court, Hearing Before the Committee on Foreign Relations United States Senate, Seventy-first Congress, Third Session, relative to Protocols concerning adherence of the United States to the Court of International Justice, Jan. 21,1931, p. 44. This document is hereafter referred to as “Root Hearing.“

4 The second part of the fifth reservation reads as follows: ”… nor shall it [the Court], without the consent of the United States, entertain any request for an advisory opinion touching any dispute or question in which the United States has or claims an interest.“

5 Root Hearing, p. 45.

6 Root Hearing, p. 47.

7 Compare for example Root Hearing, p. 25, and Secretary Stimson's letter of Nov. 18,1929 to the President, ibid., pp. 52, and Supplement to American Journal Of International Law, January, 1931 (Vol. 25), p. 50.

1 Minutes of Committee of Jurists, p. 9; reprinted herein, infra, p. 277. For the draft protocol of 1926, see infra, p. 268.

2 Minutes of Committee of Jurists, p. 10; infra, p. 279.

3 Ibid., p. 16; infra, p. 290.

4 Ibid., p. 18; infra, p. 294.

5 Ibid., p. 19; infra, p. 295

6 Minutes of Committee of Jurists, p. 20; infra, p. 298.

7 Ibid., p. 20, infra, p. 298

1 Official Journal, Nov. 1923, pp. 1335-1337,1501-1502.