Wednesday, March 27, 2019

Erpelding, Hess, & Ruiz Fabri: Peace Through Law: The Versailles Peace Treaty and Dispute Settlement After World War I

Michel Erpelding (Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law), Burkhard Hess (Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law), & Hélène Ruiz Fabri (Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law) have published Peace Through Law: The Versailles Peace Treaty and Dispute Settlement After World War I (Nomos 2019). This is an open-access publication. Contents include:
  • Michel Erpelding, Introduction: Versailles and the Broadening of ‘Peace Through Law’
  • Nathaniel Berman, Drama Through Law: The Versailles Treaty and the Casting of the Modern International Stage
  • Thomas D Grant, The League of Nations as a Universal Organization
  • Michael D Callahan, Preventing a Repetition of the Great War: Responding to International Terrorism in the 1930s
  • Mamadou Hébié & Paula Baldini Miranda da Cruz, The Legacy of the Mandates System of the League of Nations
  • León Castellanos-Jankiewicz, Negotiating Equality: Minority Protection in the Versailles Settlement
  • Guy Fiti Sinclair, Managing the ‘Workers Threat’: Preventing Revolution Through the International Labour Organization
  • Herbert Kronke, The Role of Private International Law: UNIDROIT and the Geneva Conventions on Arbitration
  • Jean-Louis Halpérin, Article 231 of the Versailles Treaty and Reparations: The Reparation Commission as a Place for Dispute Settlement?
  • Pierre d’Argent, The Conversion of Reparations into Sovereign Debts (1920–1953)
  • Christian J Tams, Peace Through International Adjudication: The Permanent Court of International Justice and the Post-War Order
  • Marta Requejo Isidro & Burkhard Hess, International Adjudication of Private Rights: The Mixed Arbitral Tribunals in the Peace Treaties of 1919–1922
  • Michel Erpelding, Local International Adjudication: The Groundbreaking ‘Experiment’ of the Arbitral Tribunal for Upper Silesia
  • Didier Boden, Resistance Through Law: Belgian Judges and the Relations Between Occupied State and Occupying Power
  • Jennifer Balint, Neal Haslem, & Kirsten Haydon, The Work of Peace: World War One, Justice and Translation Through Art