Whewell Professor of International Law
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Template:Short description Template:Refimprove The Whewell Professorship of International Law is a professorship in the University of Cambridge.
The Professorship was established in 1868 by the will of the 19th-century scientist and moral philosopher, William Whewell, with a view to devising "such measures as may tend to diminish the causes of war and finally to extinguish war between nations".<ref>See Template:Cite book</ref><ref>See Template:Cite book</ref>
Incumbents of the Whewell Professorship of International Law
Holders of the Whewell chair include four judges of the International Court of Justice.
- 1869: Sir William Vernon Harcourt
- 1887: Sir Henry James Sumner Maine
- 1888: John Westlake
- 1908: L. F. L. Oppenheim
- 1920: Alexander Pearce Higgins
- 1935: Lord Arnold McNair
- 1938: Sir Hersch Lauterpacht
- 1955: Sir Robert Jennings
- 1981: Sir Derek Bowett
- 1992: Prof James Crawford
- 2016: Prof Eyal Benvenisti
- From 2024: Prof Jan Klabbers<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>