Whewell Professor of International Law

The Whewell Professorship of International Law is a professorship in the University of Cambridge.

The Professorship was established in 1868 by the will of the 19th-century scientist and moral philosopher, William Whewell, with a view to devising "such measures as may tend to diminish the causes of war and finally to extinguish war between nations". ^{[1] [2]}

Incumbents of the Whewell Professorship of International Law

Holders of the Whewell chair include four judges of the International Court of Justice.

• 1869: Sir William Vernon Harcourt
• 1887: Sir Henry James Sumner Maine
• 1888: John Westlake
• 1908: L. F. L. Oppenheim
• 1920: Alexander Pearce Higgins
• 1935: Lord Arnold McNair
• 1938: Sir Hersch Lauterpacht
• 1955: Sir Robert Jennings
• 1981: Sir Derek Bowett
• 1992: Prof James Crawford
• 2016: Prof Eyal Benvenisti
• From 2024: Prof Jan Klabbers ^[3]

See also

• List of Professorships at the University of Cambridge

References

1. See Maine, Henry Sumner (1888). Whewell Lectures, International Law, A Series of Lectures Delivered before the University of Cambridge, 1887 (1 ed.). London: John Murray. p.  1 . Retrieved 8 September 2015– via Internet Archive.
2. See Oppenheim, Lassa (1919). The League of Nations and Its Problems, Three Lectures (1 ed.). London: Longmans, Green & Co. p.  4 . Retrieved 9 September 2015– via Internet Archive.
3. "Professor Jan Klabbers elected to the Whewell Professorship of International Law". University of Cambridge. 2024-08-09. Retrieved 2024-10-25.