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James

Brown Scott, J.U.D. (June

3, 1866 – June 25, 1943) was an American authority on international law. Scott was born

at Kincardine, Ontario, Canada. He was educated at Harvard University (A.B.,

1890; A.M., 1891). As Parker

fellow of Harvard he traveled in Europe and studied in Berlin, Heidelberg (J.U.D.), and Paris. Following his return to the United States, Scott

practiced law at Los Angeles, California from

1894 to 1899. He founded the law school at the University of Southern

California, and was its dean, though his participation in the Spanish–American War interrupted

that role. He was dean of the college of law at the University

of Illinois (1899–1903), professor of law at Columbia, and professor of

law at George In 1907 he was expert on international

law to the United States delegation at the Second Hague Peace

Conference. He also served on a State Department commission

which made recommendations to Congress on the reform of United States nationality

law, which would result in the Expatriation Act of 1907. In

1909 Professor Scott lectured at Johns Hopkins. He served

as secretary of the Carnegie

Endowment for International Peace, and wrote several works on the

Hague Conferences of 1899 and 1907 (1908, 1909, 1915). Besides serving as

editor in chief of the American

Journal of International Law and as editor of the American

Case Book, and writing numerous articles on international law and the peace

movement. He also was the champion of the Spanish school of international law

of the 16th century, claiming that writers like Francisco de Vitoria and

Suarez had already said about that department of the law what about a century

later was stated by Hugo de Groot in

his De iure belli ac pacis (About

the law of war and peace).