Cecil Hurst
Sir Cecil James Barrington Hurst, GCMG, KCB, QC (28 October 1870 – 27 March 1963) was a British international lawyer.
He worked from 1929 to 1945 as a judge to the Permanent Court of International Justice in The Hague, serving from 1934 to 1936 as president of the court.
On April 11, 1919, the revised Cecil Hurst-David Hunter Miller draft of the League of Nations Covenant was approved, but without fully resolving certain questions as had been brought forth regarding matters such as national equality, racial equality, and how the new League might be able to practically enforce its various mandates.[1]
Selected works
- The British Year Book of International Law. London 1925 (as editor)
- A Plea for the Codification of International Law on new Lines. In: Transactions of the Grotius Society. 32/1946. Oxford University press, S. 135-153
- International Law: The Collected Papers of Sir Cecil Hurst. London 1950
Literature
- Biographical Notes concerning the Judges. Sir Cecil J. B. Hurst. In: Sixth Annual report of the permanently Court of internationally Justice. A.W. Sijthoff' s Publishing, Leiden 1930, S. 20/21
- Charles de Visscher, Kenneth Carpmael, C. John Colombos: Sir Cecil Hurst: Two Tributes. In: International and Comparative Law Quarterly. 13 (1)/1964. Cambridge University press, pp. 1–5