Codification of International Law

Archive Report

First World Conference on Codification

American Acceptance of League Invitation

The first world conference for the codification of international law will meet at The Hague, March 13, 1930, under the auspices of the League of Nations. An invitation to be represented at the conference was accepted by the United States, February 28, 1930, and an American delegation, headed by David Hunter Miller, sailed from New York on March 1. The delegation includes one woman member, Mrs. Ruth B. Shipley, chief of the passport, division, department of state.1

Preparations for the forthcoming conference were opened by the League of Nations in 1924. In a sense it will be a continuation of the series of international conferences begun at The Hague in 1899. At the second Hague peace conference, ...

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