INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNALS. A COLLECTION OF THE VARIOUS SCHEMES BY W: EVANS DARBY, LL.D. Secretary of the Peace Society. THIRD EDITION, LONDON: J. M. DENT AND CO., 29 & 30, BEDFORD STREET, STRAND, W.C. - PREFACE. THE present work was compiled, in the first instance, at the request of a Special Committee of the International Law Association, which was appointed, at the Brussels Conference, October 1st, 1895, to study the question of an International Court of Arbitration, and to report at the next Conference. When the Committee met to fulfil its commission, the Convener was requested to examine and report upon the various published schemes for the composition of a Court of Arbitration; such report to be printed and circulated among its members. This first draft was submitted to the Committee, and an edition of a thousand copies was printed by the Association and issued jointly with the Peace Society. Copies, suitably bound, were presented to the various Rulers of the civilised world, by most of whom an acknowledgment was sent, and appreciation expressed. It was followed by an appendix containing additional matter. In anticipation of the meeting of the Peace Conference at the Hague these two publications were combined and issued as a second edition by the Peace Society. Copies were distributed, through the courtesy of M. de Staal, among the delegates to the Hague Conference, who spontaneously and generously testified to its usefulness. This third edition has been considerably enlarged, and no pains have been spared to secure its completeness and accuracy. |