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Exposé des États-Unis present au Tribunal d'arbitrage reuni a Geneve ...
THE FOUNDATION OF INTERNATIONAL LAW
First edition of this important work setting out American claims to the Geneva arbitration court, which was created for the occasion.
As England did not fulfil its duty of neutrality during the Civil War, despite the British Neutrality Act, the United States government claimed substantial costs to repair the considerable damage caused by corsairs on the Northern Merchant Navy. The map shows Florida, the southeast coast of the United States, and its relation to the British West India Colonies, which colonies had, along with Great Britain and Ireland, lent Confederate support.
This supra-national arbitration court granted the United States significant compensation to be paid in 1872 by the United Kingdom. This was an important case in laying the foundations of modern-day public international law.
There is an important appendix at the end of the volume.
A single copy is recorded with Otto Lange in 1910.
