Whewell Professor of International Law
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The Whewell Professorship of International Law is a professorship in the University of Cambridge.
The Professorship was established in 1868 by the 19th-century scientist and moral philosopher, William Whewell, with a view to devising "such measures as may tend to diminish the causes of war and finally to extinguish war between nations".
[edit] Incumbents of the Whewell Professorship of International Law
Holders of the Whewell chair have included three judges of the International Court of Justice.
- William Vernon Harcourt 1869-
- L.F.L. Oppenheim, 1908-1914
- Arnold McNair, 1935-1937
- Sir Hersch Lauterpacht
- Sir Robert Jennings
- Sir Derek Bowett
- Prof James Crawford, 1992-
