| Nomination for Nobel Peace Prize |
| Year: | 1931 |
| Number: | 29 - 2 |
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Nominee 1:
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| Name: | Walther Adrian Schücking |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1875 |
| Year, Death: | 1935 |
| Profession: | Professor of Law. Member of the German parliament. Member of the Permanent Court of International Justice. |
| University: | Philipps University of Marburg |
| City: | Marburg |
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) |
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Nominee 2:
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| Name: | James Brown Scott |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1866 |
| Year, Death: | 1943 |
| Profession: | Professor of International Law. Member of the Institute of International Law. |
| City: | Washington, DC |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
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| Motivation: | Schücking promoted international law and arbitration. He had been associated with the Institute of International Law since 1910. After WWI Schücking became a leading member of the "Deutsche Liga für den Völkervorbund" and he worked primarily on a draft of a covenant for the League of Nations. He was a member of the German delegation to the Versailles peace negotiations. In 1919 Schücking initiated the founding of a new German Inter-Parliamentary Group, over which he presided. He was also a member of the Council of the Inter-Parliamentary Union.
Scott was secretary of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (1911-1940) and director of its Division of International Law. He worked for the US conscription service during WWI, and he was one of the organizers of the US Foreign Policy Conference in New York in 1917. Scott was editor-in-chief of the "American Journal of International Law", and he was the author of "The Status of the International Court of Justice" (1914). He advocated and strongly favored the establishment of an international court of justice. |
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Nominator:
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| Name: | Hans Wehberg |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1885 |
| Year, Death: | 1962 |
| Profession: | Member of the Institute of International Law. Member of the Commission of the Permanent International Peace Bureau. |
| City: | Düsseldorf |
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) |
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| Comments: |
Schücking was on the short list, but no new evaluation was requested.
The nominator suggested a divided prize between the two candidates. |
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