Download or read book The Hague Peace Conferences of 1899 and 1907 and International Arbitration:Reports and Documents written by Shabtai Rosenne and published by T.M.C. Asser Press. This book was released on 2001-11-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a Foreword by Tjaco T. van den Hout, Secretary-General of the Permanent Court of Arbitration This volume is presented in commemoration of the centenary of the establishment of the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) at the First Hague Peace Conference of 1899 and its continuation at the Second Hague Peace Conference of 1907. It makes widely available, in English, the reports of the competent Commissions of each Conference dealing with the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes and the PCA, together with the proposal of the Second Conference for a permanent court of arbitral justice. The reports of the Commissions in the 1899 and 1907 conferences contain a full account of the considerations that prevailed in the negotiation of every provision of each Convention. They are authoritative commentaries on each Convention. This important book will facilitate access to the drafting history of the 1899 and 1907 Hague Peace Conventions and as such will be of interest to practitioners, historians and scholars of international law.