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America and the Law of Nations 1776-1939

Mark Weston Janis

Print publication date: 2010

Print ISBN-13: 9780199579341

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: May 2010

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199579341.001.0001

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International Law After the Great War

International Law After the Great War

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(p.194) 11 International Law After the Great War
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America and the Law of Nations 1776-1939
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Mark Weston Janis

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Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199579341.003.0011

This chapter argues that Wilson's failed project — integrating the United States into the League of Nations — haunted American international lawyers for the two decades 1919-1939. To a considerable extent, the haunting continues to this day. World War I, Wilson, Lodge, and the Versailles Conference all shattered the long-standing American consensus that the law of nations was inherently a good thing. International law became and remains a divisive issue in American politics.

Keywords:   international law, law of nations, World War I, Woodrow Wilson

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