Tobias Michael Carel Asser (April 28, 1838,
AmsterdamAmsterdam is the capital and largest city of the Netherlands, located in the province of North Holland in the west of the country...
– July 29, 1913,
The HagueThe Hague is the third largest city in the Netherlands after Amsterdam and Rotterdam, with a population of 485,818 and an area of approximately 100 km²...
) was a
DutchThe Netherlands is a country in Northwestern Europe, constituting the major portion of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is a parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy. The Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east...
jurist, cowinner (with Alfred Fried) of the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1911 for his role in the formation of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the first Hague peace conference (1899). He also advocated for the creation of an international academy of law, which led to founding of the
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John WestlakeJohn Westlake was an English law scholar, born at Lostwithiel, Cornwall. He graduated at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1850, was fellow of the college in 1851-60, was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1854, and became a bencher of the Inn in 1874...
and
Gustave Rolin-JaequemynsGustave Henri Ange Hippolyte Rolin-Jaequemyns was a Belgian attorney at law, diplomat and Minister of the Interior as a member of the Unitarian Liberal Party...
, the
Institut de Droit InternationalThe Institut de droit international is an organization devoted to the study and development of international law, receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in 1904, whose membership comprises the world's leading public international lawyers.-History:The institute was founded by Gustave Moynier and Gustave...
and the creation of the
Hague Academy of International LawThe Hague Academy of International Law is a center for high-level education in both public and private international law housed in the Peace Palace in The Hague, The Netherlands...
.
He was son of Carel Daniel Asser (1813-85), and grandson of Carel Asser (1780-1836).
A research institute in the fields of Private and Public International Law, European Law and International Commercial Arbitration is named after Tobias Michael Carel Asser.
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Tobias Michael Carel Asser (April 28, 1838,
AmsterdamAmsterdam is the capital and largest city of the Netherlands, located in the province of North Holland in the west of the country...
– July 29, 1913,
The HagueThe Hague is the third largest city in the Netherlands after Amsterdam and Rotterdam, with a population of 485,818 and an area of approximately 100 km²...
) was a
DutchThe Netherlands is a country in Northwestern Europe, constituting the major portion of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is a parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy. The Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east...
jurist, cowinner (with Alfred Fried) of the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1911 for his role in the formation of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the first Hague peace conference (1899). He also advocated for the creation of an international academy of law, which led to founding of the
Revue de Droit International et de Législation Comparée with
John WestlakeJohn Westlake was an English law scholar, born at Lostwithiel, Cornwall. He graduated at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1850, was fellow of the college in 1851-60, was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1854, and became a bencher of the Inn in 1874...
and
Gustave Rolin-JaequemynsGustave Henri Ange Hippolyte Rolin-Jaequemyns was a Belgian attorney at law, diplomat and Minister of the Interior as a member of the Unitarian Liberal Party...
, the
Institut de Droit InternationalThe Institut de droit international is an organization devoted to the study and development of international law, receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in 1904, whose membership comprises the world's leading public international lawyers.-History:The institute was founded by Gustave Moynier and Gustave...
and the creation of the
Hague Academy of International LawThe Hague Academy of International Law is a center for high-level education in both public and private international law housed in the Peace Palace in The Hague, The Netherlands...
.
He was son of Carel Daniel Asser (1813-85), and grandson of Carel Asser (1780-1836).
A research institute in the fields of Private and Public International Law, European Law and International Commercial Arbitration is named after Tobias Michael Carel Asser. This is the
T.M.C. Asser InstituutThe T.M.C. Asser instituut is a professional inter-university centre of knowledge and research. The institute carries out research in private and public international law, European law, international commercial arbitration and all other related fields, such as international sports law and...
, based in
The HagueThe Hague is the third largest city in the Netherlands after Amsterdam and Rotterdam, with a population of 485,818 and an area of approximately 100 km²...
, The Netherlands.
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