SECOND PAN AMERICAN SCIENTIFIC CONGRESS. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. WILLIAM PHILLIPS, Assistant Secretary of State, Chairman ex officio. WILLIAM H. WELCH, President, National Academy of Sciences, Honorary Vice JOHN BARRETT, Director General, Pan American Union. W. H. BIXBY, Brigadier General, United States Army, retired. PHILANDER P. CLAXTON, Commissioner of Education. WILLIAM C. GORGAS, Surgeon General, United States Army. WILLIAM H. HOLMES, Head Curator, Smithsonian Institution. HENNEN JENNINGS, former President, London Institution Mining and Metallurgy. L. S. Rowe, President, American Academy of Political and Social Science. ORGANIZATION OFFICERS. JOHN BARRETT, Secretary General. GLEN LEVIN SWIGGERT, Assistant Secretary General. 3 SECTION VI.-INTERNATIONAL LAW, PUBLIC LAW, AND JURISPRUDENCE. JAMES BROWN SCOTT, Chairman. COMMITTEES. SUBSECTION ON INTERNATIONAL LAW. CHARLES NOBLE GREGORY, Washington, D. C., Chairman. CLEMENT L. BOUVÉ, of the Bar of the District of Columbia, Secretary. FREDERICK R. COUDERT, of the New York Bar, New York, N. Y. WILLIAM R. DAY, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. JOHN W. FOSTER, formerly Secretary of State, Washington, D. C. AMOS S. HERSHEY, Professor of International Law, Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind. DAVID JAYNE HILL, formerly American Ambassador to Germany, Washington, D. C. CHARLES CHENEY HYDE, of the Illinois Bar, Chicago, Ill. Capt. HARRY S. KNAPP, United States Navy, Washington, D. C. ARTHUR K. KUHN, of the New York Bar, New York City. J. HAMILTON LEWIS, Senator of the United States. HENRY CABOT LODGE, Senator of the United States. JOSEPH MCKENNA, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. JOHN BASSETT MOORE, formerly Counselor for the Department of State, Columbia University, New York, N. Y. Capt. JAMES H. OLIVER, United States Navy, Washington, D. C. WALTER S. PENFIELD, of the Bar of the District of Columbia, Washington, D. C. JACOB GOULD SCHURMAN, President of Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. ALPHEUS H. SNOW, Attorney at Law, Washington, D. C. W. VAN DEVANTER, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. HENRY WHITE, formerly Ambassador to France, Washington, D. C. GEORGE GRAFTON WILSON, Professor of International Law, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. THEODORE S. WOOLSEY, formerly Professor of International Law, Yale University, New Haven, Conn. SUBSECTION ON PUBLIC LAW. SIMEON E. BALDWIN, formerly Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Errors of Connecticut, New Haven, Conn.. Chairman. I. J. COSTIGAN, of the Bar of the District of Columbia, Secretary. LUCILIUS A. EMERY, formerly Chief Justice of Maine, Ellsworth, Me. CHARLES NOBLE GREGORY, Washington, D. C. MAHLON PITNEY, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. EUGENE WAMBAUGH, Professor of Law in Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Mass. ANDREW D. WHITE, President Emeritus, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. SUBSECTION ON JURISPRUDENCE. EUGENE WAMBAUGH, Professor of Law in Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Mass., Chairman. SIMEON E. BALDWIN, formerly Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Errors of Connecticut, New Haven, Conn. JOSEPH H. CHOATE, formerly American Ambassador to Great Britain, New York, N. Y. MOREFIELD STOREY, of the Massachusetts Bar, Boston, Mass. WILLIAM H. TAFT, formerly President of the United States, New Haven, Conn. JOHN H. WIGMORE, Dean of the Law School, Northwestern University, Chicago, Ill. 68436-17-VOL VII- -2 SECOND PAN AMERICAN SCIENTIFIC CONGRESS. AIMS AND PURPOSES. The congress, in accordance with its high aims and purposes, namely, to increase the knowledge of things American, to disseminate and to make the culture of each American country the heritage of all American Republics, to further the advancement of science by disinterested cooperation, to promote industry, inter-American trade and commerce, and to devise the ways and means of mutual helpfulness in these and in other respects considered the following general program of subjects, divided into appropriate sections and sub sections. SECTION VI.-INTERNATIONAL LAW, PUBLIC LAW, AND JURISPRUDENCE. INTERNATIONAL LAW. The relation of international law to national law in American countries; the study of international law in American countries and the means by which it may be made more effective. How can the people of the American countries best be impressed with the duties and responsibilities of the State in international law? Are there specific American problems of international law? The attitude of American countries toward international arbitration and the peaceful settlement of international disputes. Should international law be codified, and if so, should it be done through governmental agencies or by private scientific societies? Mission of the American Institute of International Law. Pan Americanism in the light of the traditional international policy of Argentina. PUBLIC LAW. The relation of public law to international law; the historical evolution of public law; public law as affecting legal procedure in civil causes. The effect of American public law on our written constitutions. (a) In their bearing on the sovereignty of the State. (b) Constitu tional provisions making treaties law. Is there an American public law that can be differentiated from that of other continents? |