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Our Martens (Hardcover)
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The rule of law, peace, disarmament, human rights: these are no
longer words, but legal concepts steadily gaining force among
nations. If the slow but sure codification of international law
that began with the first Geneva Convention of 1864 has put down
roots, against all odds, it is because of the passionate
determination of a few visionary but practical actors on the
world's stage. Pre-eminent among these "workers in the dawn" was
the Russian jurist, diplomat and arbitrator F.F. Martens
(1845-1909). Although Marten's reputation suffered during the
Soviet era and on both sides of the Cold War, the lasting effect of
his ideas and initiatives can be traced all the way from his early
years as a Law Professor at Petersburg University (when his writing
attracted the attention of the Czar), through his direct
participation in the great Peace Conferences at Brussels and The
Hague, to the legal underpinnings of the human rights regime
embodied in today's international conventions and tribunals. His
sense of community and the individual in a global context - a
difficult notion for lawyers to grasp in a world of competing
nation-states - has now become a widely-accepted norm with
increasingly effective enforcement mechanisms. And even his
contributions to procedural theory, in areas such as extradition of
political criminals and transnational enforcement of administrative
law, persist in coming to the forefront of today's international
legal practice. This English translation of Martens' biography is
the most complete text, as the Russian author, at the translator's
request, took the opportunity to revise his original work and
supplied two chapters missing from the original Russian edition of
1993 and subsequent editions and translations. Pustogarov was among
the first scholars to gain access to the Archive of the Foreign
Policy of Russia, and his biography of Martens contains hitherto
unavailable information on the more-or-less secret political
manoeuvres of the "Great Powers" in Martens' time.
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