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3 Brief Case 1 (1928-1929)

handle is hein.journals/briecas3 and id is 1 raw text is: SE VOL. III DETROIT, MICH., OCTOBER, 1928 No. 1 The International Law Association, which held a conference at Warsaw, Poland, during the past summer, was originally called The Association for the Reform and Codification of the Law of Nations, and was founded at Brussels in a conference held on the 10th, 11th and 13th of October, 1873. The thirty-fourth report of this association published in 1927 contains the following paragraph: The idea which led to the formation of our Association emanated from Amer- ica. It appears to have had its inception in the fertile brain of that far-sighted worker for peace, Elihu Burritt, the learned blacksmith. It was taken up by his friend and colleague, the Rev. Dr. Miles, a fervent apostle of the same cause and Secretary of the American Peace So- ciety. Dr. Miles brought it before the Hon. David Dudley Field, an eminent member of the New York Bar, the drafts- man of the Civil Code of New York State, and subsequently of a Code of Interna- tional Law. Under the auspices of Mr. Field and other American gentlemen, Dr. Miles came over to Europe to invite adhesions to the idea of an International Association to prepare a Code of Inter- national Law, and on his return an Ameri- can committee was formed under the title of 'The International Code Com- mittee. The idea of confining the attention of the Association mainly to the reform and codification of the law of nations seems to have been founded upon the belief that little could be accomplished by arbitra- tions or the establishment of any World Court until the law of nations should be made a more perfect system by codifica- tion. However, the settlement of inter- national disputes through peaceful means had resulted from 1794 to the end of 1840 in twenty-three arbitrations, being an average of one in two years; from 1841 to the end of 1860 in twenty arbitrations, being an average of one each year; from 1861 to the end of 1880 there were forty- four arbitrations, being an average of nearly two every year, and from 1881 to 1900 there were ninety arbitrations, being an average of four and one-half each year. This table was printed in the report above mentioned with the statement and it may be added that in a paper read at our twenty-first conference held at Antwerp in 1903, Dr. W. Evans Darby, Secretary of the Peace Society, enumerated fifty- four fresh cases of arbitration within the two and three-quarter years since the be- ginning of the twentieth century, being at the rate of twenty per annum. The history of arbitrations and the crea- tion of International Courts, and Court procedure since the beginning of this cen- tury are fresh in the minds of all of your readers. Notwithstanding the World War which seemed to demonstrate the futility of any effort to settle international diffi- culties by peaceful means, there has been a general progress toward a world organ- ization in which peaceful means of settling international difficulties will be found effective to make wars obsolete. I AI I I il JUDGE FRED H. ALDRICH Some of the greatest systems of juris- prudence have developed without a code. At best, a code is only a re-statement of laws which exist independent of a code together with such new enactments as are found necessary to give symmetry to the whole system. This Association, finding so much that might be done without an international code turned its attention to more imme- diately practical questions, always main- taining the subject of international arbi- tration at the head of its program; it has done very much for the unification of the rules of general average and it has at- tempted from time to time to promote uniformity in the preparation of treaties between the different nations in relation to many international questions. (Continued on Page 6.) The International Law Association By JUDGE FRED H. ALDRICH I Welcome Freshmen Have you stood on some sultry day in August, when the parched earth cried to the pitiless skies for life-giving showers, and have you watched some tiny cloud appear on the horizon and rapidly expand until it filled the heavens and descended upon the fields in gratified rain? It was from such small beginnings that the Detroit College of Law took its origin. Back of every human action i's a definite motive, and to become a member of the Detroit College of Law is to express a motive which may he defined as reaching out toward knowledge. It was this aspira- tion that inspired the Thracian youth Antisthenes, upon hearing the fame of the teachings of Socrates, to leave a house of ill repute, where he was employed as a slave, and travel 200 Grecian stadia by night, in order that he might sit down at the feet of the master, and partake of the banquets of pure reason. The ideal of better things had existed in his soul. and the impediments of distance and environ- ment crumbled to earth before the invin- cible strength of his awakened purpose. So it is with you members of the fresh- man class. Your invincible strength has been awakened. It is prepared to sur- mount the long journey of four years at night, and the impediments of distance from the home to the class rooms. If you should falter during this journey, remen- ber that others have sat at the feet of the master, and have partaken of his banquets, and now are reaping the rewards of his teachings. The Detroit College of Law that wel- comes you here includes in its member- ship all parts of its collegiate body from the youngest student to the oldest pro- fessor. Nor is it the membership alone that welcomes you. That great body of alumni whose feet have trod the very paths that you are now standing upon, they also welcome you. In the name of the faculty and students, we welcome you to the Detroit College of Law, feeling that if this college can inspire you, you in turn will see that its future is inspired. Calendar DeCoLaw Club-Oct. 18. 8:15. All welcome. Oratorical Club Meeting-Oct. 18. All welcome. Soph. Prom.-Oct. 27. Book Cadillac. $2.50.

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