PROCEEDINGS

OF THE

American Society of International Law

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AT ITS

NINTH ANNUAL MEETING

HELD AT

WASHINGTON, D. C.

DECEMBER 28-30, 1915

UNIVERSITY

BYRON S. ADAMS, PRINTER

Washington, D. C.

1916

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OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES For the Year 1915–1916..............

CONSTITUTION OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW.......

REPORT OF THE NINTH ANNUAL MEETING....

FIRST SESSION

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1915, 8 O'CLOCK P.M.

Opening remarks of the President of the Society..

The outlook for international law. ELIHU ROOT...

The relation of international law to national law in the American Republics :

JOHN BASSETT MOORE.......

GEORGE GRAFTON WILSON...

The duties and obligations of neutral governments, parties to the Hague

conventions, in case of actual or threatened violations by belligerents

of the stipulations of the said conventions:

NORMAN DWIGHT HARRIS......

SECOND SESSION

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1915, 10 O'CLOCK A.M.

The attitude of American countries toward arbitration and the peaceful

settlement of international disputes:

WALTER S. PENFIELD....

JACKSON H. RALSTON.....

Retaliation and punishment. THEODORE S. WOOLSEY...

What means should be provided and procedure adopted for authoritatively

determining whether the Hague conventions or other general inter-

national agreements, or the rules of international law, have been vio-

lated? EDWARD A. HARRIMAN...

THIRD SESSION

Wednesday, DECEMBER 29, 1915, 8 O'CLOCK P.M.

The justiciability of international disputes. JESSE S. REEVES.

The nature and form of the agreement for the submission of justiciable dis-

putes to an international court. JAMES BROWN SCOTT.....

The unification of the laws of neutrality. A. DE LAPRADELLE.

FOURTH SESSION

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1915, 10 O'CLOCK A.M.

What modifications, if any, should be made in the law and practice as now
applied by the principal maritime nations concerning blockade and con-