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Ventriloquism in Geneva: The League of Nations as International Organisation

Donaldson, Megan; (2021) Ventriloquism in Geneva: The League of Nations as International Organisation. In: Brett, A and Donaldson, M and Koskenniemi, M, (eds.) History, Politics, Law: Thinking through the International. (pp. 253-281). Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK. Green open access

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Abstract

For international lawyers, the League of Nations is an institution of great symbolic and doctrinal importance. With its quasi-universal membership (‘universal’ of course heavily qualified), open-ended mandate, and inauguration of an ‘international civil service’, the League broke from the more limited institutional forms of nineteenth-century interstate cooperation, and helped shift ‘international organisation’ from a general aspiration of ordered interaction to a more specific legal category of inter-governmental entities.1 However, the League was an irritant in the international legal order as well as an agent of law’s expansion. It posed new legal questions concerning its own status and personality; the nature of relations with states and others; and the regulation of officials working within it. The emergence of the League thus offers a revealing vantage point on the workings of early-twentieth-century international legal thought, and the modes of analysis we can bring to bear upon it.

Type: Book chapter
Title: Ventriloquism in Geneva: The League of Nations as International Organisation
ISBN: 9781108903516
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1017/9781108903516.016
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108903516.016
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Laws
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10103882
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