Carlos Calvo (historian)
Carlos Calvo (February 26, 1824, Buenos Aires – May 2, 1906, Paris) was an Argentine publicist and diplomat who made influential contributions to international law.[1][2][3][4] He is most well known for the Calvo Doctrine in international law, which holds that jurisdiction in international investment disputes lies with the country in which the investment is located.[1][2]
In 1860 he was sent by the Paraguayan government on a special mission to London and Paris. Remaining in France, he published in 1863 his Derecho internacional teórico y práctico de Europa y America, in two volumes, and at the same time brought out a French version. The book contained the essence of what has come to be known as the Calvo Doctrine.[2] The book immediately took rank as one of the highest modern authorities on the subject, and by 1887 the first French edition had become enlarged to six volumes.[5]
In 1869, Calvo published an article arguing that states undergoing civil war were not responsible for harm caused to aliens as a result of riot or civil war.[4] According to Kathryn Greenman, Calvo's article influenced later international legal debates about state responsibility for rebel actions.[4]
Between 1862 and 1869 he published in Spanish and French his great collection in fifteen volumes of the
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- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Calvo, Carlos". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 5 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 78. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the