INTERNATIONAL LAW
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
INTERNATIONAL LAW
VOL. I.—PEACE
2nd Edition
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The course of events since 1906, when the secondvolume of this work first made its appearance, andthe results of further research have necessitated, as inthe case of the first volume, the thorough revision ofthe text, the rewriting of many portions, and thediscussion of a number of new topics. The additionsto this volume are even more numerous than those tothe first, with the consequence that, in spite of thetypographical devices explained in the preface to thesecond edition of the first volume, the text of thisvolume has been increased by one hundred pages. Theincrease is, in some measure, due to the fact thatthe thirteen Conventions of the Second Hague PeaceConference, and, further, the Declaration of London,are fully discussed and expounded. But the increaseis also due to the fact that a number of other new topicshave been discussed; I will only mention the questionswhether enemy subjects have persona standi in judicio(§ 100a), and whether trading with enemy subjects ispermitted (§ 101).
The system of the work, with but occasional slightalterations in arrangement and the headings of thesections, remains the same. In those cases, however,in which a portion had to be entirely rewritten—as, forinstance, that on Enemy Character, that on Commencementof War, and that on Unneutral Service—thearrangement of the topics differs from that in the first[Pg vi]edition, and the headings of the sections also differ.Apart from many new sections, a whole chapter treatingof the proposed International Prize Court has beenadded at the end of the volume.
Since some of the Conventions produced by theSecond Peace Conference, and, further, the Declarationof London, have not yet been ratified, the task of thewriter of a comprehensive treatise on InternationalLaw is very difficult: he must certainly not treatthe ru