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Mr. Mark Weston Janis

Mr. Mark Weston Janis
William F. Starr Professor of Law
Director of International
Legal Programs, School of Law
University of Connecticut

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International Law
Regional Perspectives
Protestants, Progress and Peace: the 19th Century Movement for an International Court and Congress:
Early Drafts of Today's International Court
and the United Nations
Video | Audio
(23/9/2011, 37 minutes)

Legal Theory
The Invention of "International Law": Jeremy Bentham and His 1789 Refashioning of the Classical "Law of Nations"
Video | Audio
(23/9/2016, 28 minutes)
International Law
Regional Perspectives
Protestants, Progress and Peace: the 19th Century Movement for an International Court and Congress: Early Drafts of Today's International Court
and the United Nations
A. Legal Instruments

Covenant of the League of Nations, Paris, 28 April 1919, League of Nations, Official Journal, 1st year, No. 1, February 1920, p. 3 (Text of the Covenant available on the website of Yale Law School’s Avalon Project).

Charter of the United Nations and Statute of the International Court of Justice, San Francisco, 26 June 1945.

Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, Rome, 4 November 1950, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 213, p. 221.

American Convention on Human Rights, San José, 22 November 1969, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1144, p. 144.

United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, Montego Bay, 10 December 1982, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1833, p.3.

Marrakesh Agreement establishing the World Trade Organization (with final act, annexes and protocol), Marrakesh, 15 April 1994, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1867, p. 3.

Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, Rome, 17 July 1998, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2187, p. 3.

B. References

For more information on the Court of Justice of the European Union, see the official website.

For more information on the European Court of Human Rights, see the official website.

For more information on the International Criminal Court, see the official website.

For more information on the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, see the official website.

For more information on the Permanent Court of Arbitration, see the official website.

For more information on the World Trade Organization, see the official website.


Legal Theory
The Invention of "International Law": Jeremy Bentham and His 1789 Refashioning of the Classical "Law of Nations"
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