Whewell Professor of International Law
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The Whewell Professorship of International Law is a professorship in the University of Cambridge.
The Professorship was established in 1868 by the will of the 19th-century
Incumbents of the Whewell Professorship of International Law
Holders of the Whewell chair include four judges of the International Court of Justice.
- 1869: Sir William Vernon Harcourt
- 1887: Sir Henry James Sumner Maine
- 1888: John Westlake
- 1908: L. F. L. Oppenheim
- 1920: Alexander Pearce Higgins
- 1935: Lord Arnold McNair
- 1938: Sir Hersch Lauterpacht
- 1955: Sir Robert Jennings
- 1981: Sir Derek Bowett
- 1992: Prof James Crawford
- From 2016: Prof Eyal Benvenisti
See also
- List of Professorships at the University of Cambridge
References
- ^ See Maine, Henry Sumner (1888). Whewell Lectures, International Law, A Series of Lectures Delivered before the University of Cambridge, 1887 (1 ed.). London: John Murray. p. 1. Retrieved 8 September 2015. via Internet Archive
- ^ See Oppenheim, Lassa (1919). The League of Nations and Its Problems, Three Lectures (1 ed.). London: Longmans, Green & Co. p. 4. Retrieved 9 September 2015. via Internet Archive