An Appreciation of James Brown Scott

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In the history of the American Society of International Law since its beginning no one was more active or more enthusiastically represented its aims and its purposes than Doctor James Brown Scott, despite a life of very exceptional activity in connection with almost every phase of international relations. Perhaps none of these other relationships, so faithfully and assiduously carried on, was as close to his heart as the success of our Society and of its Journal, of which he so long held the Editorship. As a Founder, as Secretary, as President through a decade, there was no activity of the Society that did not receive his full-hearted, enthusiastic support and leadership. For him international law was more than a study or a profession; it was, in fact, a religion.