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First Report Submitted to the Council by the Preparatory Committee for the Codification Conference*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 May 2017

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Conference for the Codification of International Law: The Hague, March 13, 1930
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1930

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Footnotes

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League of Nations Document C. 73. M. 38. 1929. V.

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1 The Committee consists of Professor Basdevaut (France), Chairman, M. Carlos Cabtro-Ruiz (Chile), M. François (Netherlands), Sir Cecil Hubst (Great Britain), and M. Massimo Pilotti (Italy). The Committee was appointed under the Council's resolution of September 28th, 1927, with the terms of reference contained in the Assembly's resolution of September 27th, 1927, worded as follows:

“The Assembly, “.......................... “ Decides: “.......................... “(5) To entrust the Council withthe task of appointing, at the earliest possible date,a Preparatory Committee, composed of five persons possessing a wide knowledge of international practice, legal precedents, and scientific data relating to the questions coming within the scope of the first Codification Conference, this Committee being instructed to prepare a report comprising sufficiently detailed bases of discussion on each question, in accordance with the indications contained in the report of the First Committee; “..........................”

[The complete text of this resolution is printed in Special Supplement to thisJournal ,Vol. 22 (1929) pp. 231-232.]