The League of Nations and the development of international law: from promotion strategies to giving shape to international legal instruments

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This postdoc project provides the first historical account of how the predecessor of today’s United Nations, the League of Nations, fundamentally contributed to the development of international law in the early Twentieth Century. With the help of an innovative methodology, the project will lay bare how: firstly, the League forged diplomatic strategies to convince member states to accept the regulation of their actions through the signature of over one hundred international treaties and conventions; secondly, it developed techniques to draft and implement multilateral legal instruments, which still prevail today. Thus, the project will make a pathbreaking contribution to both the history of international law and the history of international organizations, and it will be of interest for historians, legal scholars and political scientists. It will be carried out in an environment which currently represents Europe’s most thriving research hub in the history of international law. Moreover, it is specifically designed to provide the scientific and non-scientific training activities that I need at this stage to take my career to the next level.