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Jules Basdevant

French legal scholar


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French legal scholar

FieldValue
nameJules Basdevant
imageJules Basdevant.JPG
captionThe Commandeur badge of the Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur being awarded to Basdevant (center) by Charles de Gaulle (left), 1964
birth_dateApril 15, 1877
birth_placeAnost, Saône-et-Loire, France
death_date
nationalityFrench
occupationLaw professor, Jurist
childrenSuzanne Bastid
office3Vice President, International Court of Justice
term_start31946
term_end31949
predecessor3None
successor3José Gustavo Guerrero
office2President, International Court of Justice
term_start21949
term_end21952
predecessor2José Gustavo Guerrero
successor2Sir Arnold McNair
office1Judge of International Court of Justice
term_start11946
term_end11964
predecessor1None
successor1André Gros

Jules Basdevant (April 15, 1877 – March 17, 1968 in Anost) was a French law professor.

He was born in Anost, Saône-et-Loire, a village in the Parc naturel régional du Morvan about halfway between Paris and Lyon in eastern France.

After obtaining his Ph.D. in law, he began teaching at the law faculty in Paris, in February 1903, as an agrégé. He was later transferred to the law faculty of Rennes where he lectured from 1903 to 1907. He then went to Grenoble, where he was a professor until 1918, when he went back to Paris. Basdevant was promoted several times; in 1922 as professor of international law and historical treaties, in 1924 as professor of people's law and also became a technical expert for the French delegation at the Peace preliminary conference of 1919.

He worked for the Foreign Affairs Department from 1930 to 1941 as a law consultant. He was elected a member of the Academy of Political and Moral Sciences in 1944. In 1946 took up an inaugural seat on the International Court of Justice, a position he held until 1964. He served as the Court's first Vice President, from 1946 to 1949 and as president from 1949 to 1952.

Jules Basdevant is the father of Suzanne Bastid.

References

  • Académie de Droit International de La Haye. (1968) Recueil Des Cours, Collected Courses 1936, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. p. 473. .
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