Le rêve d’une entente internationale. Walther Schücking à Versailles

Abstract

The German professor of public international law Walther Schücking (1875-1935) was an advocate of the international peace movement, a liberal politician and one of the German delegates to the Paris Peace Conference . Schücking was strongly opposed to the harsh peace terms of the Versailles Treaty and Germany’s exclusion from the then created League of Nations. He remained nevertheless attached to his idea of “peace through law” and a corresponding legal world order. In 1930, Schücking became the first German judge at the Permanent Court of International Justice in The Hague.

Keywords

• international public law
• peace movement
• Treaty of Versailles (1919)
• Weimar Republic
• League of Nations
• Schücking Walther (1875-1935)