Georges Sauser-Hall (September 26, 1884 – March 12, 1966) was a Swiss scholar of international and comparative law. He was a professor in Neuchâtel, Geneva, and Istanbul, headed the legal service of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs in Bern, and was a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague.
Georges Sauser-Hall | |
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| Born | September 26, 1884 La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland |
| Died | March 12, 1966 (aged 81) Geneva, Switzerland |
| Occupation | Law Professor |
| Spouse | Agnès Hall |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Neuchâtel, University of Geneva |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Law |
| Sub-discipline | Comparative law, international law |
| Institutions | University of Neuchâtel, University of Geneva, University of Istanbul |
Early life and education
editGeorges Sauser-Hall was born Jean Georges Sauser, son of the merchant and watchmaker Georges Frédéric Sauser[1] and Marie-Louise Dorner. He was the older brother of the writer Blaise Cendrars.[2] He married Agnès Hall in 1908.[3]
As a young man, Sauser-Hall studied law, earning his licentiate in 1906 and becoming a lawyer in 1908.[4]
In 1910, Sauser-Hall earned a doctor of law degree from the University of Geneva.[5] His thesis was on the subject of "Belligerents interned in neutral countries in the event of a land war".[6]
Career
editFollowing his doctoral studies, Sauser-Hall was appointed privat-docent (1911), then Professor of Comparative Law (1912) at the University of Neuchâtel.[4]
From 1915 to 1924, he was deputy and then head of the legal department of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs in Bern. In 1924 he returned to teaching as Professor of Civil, Comparative and International Private Law at the University of Geneva, where he remained until 1954. From 1925 to 1931, he was also a legal advisor to the Turkish government and taught civil law at Istanbul University.[4]
In 1934, Sauser-Hall was asked by a Swedish court to give an opinion on the effect of the U.S. Executive Order 6102 on a European contract that provided for payment in gold dollars from a U.S. bank.[7] In 1937, he reworked this opinion into a course which he delivered at The Hague Academy of International Law on the subject of clauses in public and private contracts requiring payment in gold.[7][8]
In 1946, Switzerland appointed him as a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, and on several occasions he was asked to defend Switzerland before the International Court of Justice. He also chaired the arbitration tribunal set up in the Aramco arbitration between Saudi Arabia and Aramco in 1958, as well as the Italian-United States Conciliation Commission created by under the 1947 peace treaty between Italy and the Allies.[9]
From 1954, he was also a lecturer at the universities of Neuchâtel and Lausanne.[3] From 1957 to 1959, he was President of the Institut de Droit International.[10][4]
He authored numerous legal works as well as a handbook on Swiss civics for foreigners, Guide politique suisse, which reached its seventh edition in 1965.[4] In 1952, a volume of essays was published in his honor.
Sauser-Hall retired at the age of 70 in 1954 and died March 12, 1966 in Geneva.[4]
References
edit- ^ Tatu, Laurent; Ochsner, François; Piguet, Jean-Michel (2017). "Georges Sauser fabricant de montres à La Chaux-de-Fonds. L'itinéraire horloger du père de Blaise Cendrars" (PDF). constellation-cendrars.ch (in French).
- ^ Le Quellec Cottier, Christine (2008). "NOUVELLES DE LA FAMILLE SAUSER: Cendrars entre famille et fiction... ou «de l'existence des Sauser»". Continent Cendrars (in French) (13): 78–96.
- ^ a b Flury-Dasen, Eric (2012-01-13). "Sauser-Hall, Georges". Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz (HLS) (in German). Retrieved 2024-11-02.
- ^ a b c d e f Clerc, François (1966). "Nécrologie : Le Professeur Georges Sauser-Hall (1884-1966)". Revue internationale de droit comparé (in French). 18 (3): 731–732.
- ^ Plas, Pascal (2023). "Paul Moriaud, la paix par l'arbitrage : L'homme, les réseaux, les idées". In Ruiz Fabri, Hélène; Erpelding, Michel (eds.). The Mixed Arbitral Tribunals, 1919-1939: An Experiment in the International Adjudication of Private Rights (in French). Nomos. p. 258 n.46. ISBN 9783756004751.
- ^ Sauser-Hall, Georges (1910). Des Belligérants internés chez les neutres en cas de guerre terrestre (Dr. Iur. thesis) (in French). George & Co.
- ^ a b Fox, David; Ernst, Wolfgang (2016). "Swedish Government Bonds, their Gold Dollar clause, and the 1933 Roosevelt Act - Georges Sauser-Hall's 'Opinion on Loans issued by the Government of Sweden': Editors' Note". Money in the Western Legal Tradition: Middle Ages to Bretton Woods. Oxford University Press. p. 770. ISBN 9780191059179.
- ^ Sauser-Hall, Georges (1970). "La clause-or dans les contrats publics et privés". Recueil Des Cours, Collected Courses, 1937 (in French). Vol. 60. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. p. 657. ISBN 9789028609723.
- ^ Vignes, Daniel-Henri (1956). "Commission de conciliation italo-américaine, sentence du 10 juin 1955 : affaire Florence Mergé". Annuaire Français de Droit International (in French). 2: 430–435. doi:10.3406/afdi.1956.1255.
- ^ "Portrait de Georges Sauser-Hall, Président de l'institut de Droit international, 1957-1959" (in French). Institut de Droit international. Retrieved 2024-11-02.
External links
edit- Georges Sauser-Hall in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland.