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This Day in Legal History: The First Hague Convention
On July 29, 1899, delegates from twenty-six nations signed the first Hague Convention, the product of an international peace conference convened at the initiative of Russia’s Tsar Nicholas II. It was one of the founding moments of modern international law—an attempt, at the close of a violent century, to subject the conduct of war and the resolution of disputes between nations to legal rules rather than raw power.
The 1899 Convention did two enduring things. First, it began the codification of the laws and customs of war—rules on the…
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