International Law and the Great War

Book Description

2005. Phillipson, Coleman. International Law and the Great War. With Introduction by Sir John MacDonnell. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1915. xxiv, 407 pp. Reprinted 2005 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584775690. ISBN-10: 1584775696. Hardcover. * Phillipson addressed the future of international law at a time when many questioned its validity. Although he acknowledges that the war made a shambles of international law, he is hopeful that memories of the war's human and material costs when the fighting ends will lead to a renaissance of international law. Indeed, he predicts that nations will work to enforce it through a "World Tribunal." His conclusions are based an a careful analysis of the war's causes, its immediate effects on combatants, non-combatants and prisoners of war.

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