The First Book of World Law

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Description
Two reasons stand forth why the time demands such a book as this. One is historical. In the progress of events certain interna- tional conferences have been held. In the beginning those confer- ences were for the purpose of settling some specific subject of international complication. Latterly they have looked higher than the specific to the general. At the second conference at The Hague, that of 1907, there was distinctly before the minds of the delegates the prospect of future conferences upon broad lines, sufficient to in- clude all of the nations with organized governments; and out of that development promises to come the organized political unity of man- kind. A work covering the ground which this covers, or similar ground, is a necessity in keeping up with the development of the times. Though no person perhaps will wish to read it all, any more than he wishes to read all of his encyclopedia, yet any person who wishes to be well informed upon the political progress of the world must have the main facts at his command and be familiar with the specific lines of progress. Certain things have been done; certain records have been made in history; certain principles have been es- tablished in the progress of humanity. To be ignorant of these things is as unthinkable for all who keep informed upon human growth in civilization and organization, as ignorance of progress in physics is unthinkable on the part of a specialist in that department.
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Contents
1. BEGINNINGS OF WORLD ORGANIZATION
II. THE FIRST BOOK OF WORLD LAW
III. ANTECEDENTS OF THE WORLD LEGISLATURE
IV. THE UNIVERSAL POSTAL UNION.
V. WORLD LAW IN ARBITRATION
VI. WORLD LAW CONCERNING NAVIGATION
VII. DISARMAMENT
VIII. THE WORLD'S PRIME MERIDIAN
IX. THE GENEVA CONVENTION FOR THE SEA
X. INTERNATIONAL SANITATION
XI. PROTECTION OF INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY
XII. PROTECTION OF SUBMARINE CABLES
XIII. REPRESSION OF THE SLAVE TRADE AND RESTRICTION OF CER- TAIN IMPORTATIONS INTO AFRICA
XIV. TRADE IN WHITE WOMEN
XV. INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURE
XVI. THE INTERNATIONAL RED CROSS
XVII. BUREAU OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES
XVIII. WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY
XIX. EXCHANGE OF DOCUMENTS
XX. THE WORLD JUDICIARY
XXI. THE WORLD EXECUTIVE XXII. PEACE AND GOOD WILL
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Author Details
Raymond L Bridgman