COPYRIGHT, 1916, BY ELLERY C. STOWELL AND HENRY F. MUNRO ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 311833 The Riverside Bress CAMBRIDGE. MASSACHUSETTS U.S.A PREFACE of cases. THE primary purpose of this collection of international cases is to afford an adequate book for use in the classroom. My own experience as a teacher of international law has made The purpose of me feel the need of such a book. Many hand- this collection books and systematic treatises have appeared to set forth the principles of the law of nations, and one or the other serves as a basis for the instruction in a majority of the institutions where international law is studied. A rival system which seems more in accord with the nature of the subject is that known as the case method, in which the actual cases or precedents are studied, thus helping the student by an inductive method to arrive at sound principles. He learns directly from the open book of history what is the actual practice of nations, so that he is able to reason out the underlying principles, - his vision is not limited in that he must look through the eyes of one writer. This method is more alive than any course based entirely upon the study of a systematic text can hope to be. But even the case method may be carried to an extreme, and if it is undoubted that textbook instruction can be vitalized by a supplemental study of the cases, it is equally true that the case-book method may be strengthened by a parallel use of some good text. This latter method is the ideal one, and when it is not feasible to require the student to supply himself with a good textbook, constant recourse to the library shelves should be encouraged. In consequence, the explanations supplied by the instructor will be more fruitful. This collection may serve, therefore, either as the basis of classroom study, which is the preferable method, or it may be employed to vitalize the textbook method by a supplemental supply of illustrative cases. In addition to the main purpose of furnishing a book of cases for classroom study, this collection is intended to present a concise account of some of the most important arbitrations. These international arbitrations are employed as illustrative cases under appropriate headings and are interspersed throughout the volume |