Excerpt from Handbook of International LawT hus, after nearly three hundred years from the founda tions laid by Grotius, the father of International Law, in 1625, there rises a worthy structure and in a single decade the advance made in centuries is surpassed. Where earlier writ ers referred to philosophical or religious sanctions to fortify their expression of hope that justice might prevail among the nations, the writers of the present day refer to the sanction of international conventions embodying the realization of these hopes. Hubner, a century and a half ago, suggested an international prize court, in 1907 a convention for establish ing such a court was drawn up, and is a typical example of the modern realization of the hopes of the early writers.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.