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  • International Trade Union Associations

    International Trade Union Associations in Europe International Trade Union Associations between 2011 and 2022 The chief international trade union body is the International Federation of Trade Unions, to which most of the chief national trade union bodies are affiliated. Its headquarters […]

  • Ganga Singh Bikaner

    Ganga Singh Bikaner in Europe Sir Ganga Singh Bikaner, Maraha, (1880-1943), Indian soldier and statesman, was born Oct. 3 1880, and succeeded by adoption his elder brother, Dungar Singh, in 1887 as 21st ruler of the state. After education at the Mayo College, Ajmere, he was invested with […]

  • Herbert Henry Asquith

    Herbert Henry Asquith in Europe Herbert Henry Asquith (12 September 1852 – 15 February 1928), 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith, was a Liberal Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1908 to 1916. He succeeded Henry Campbell-Bannerman. He was succeeded by David Lloyd George. English […]

  • W. Willard Wirtz

    W. Willard Wirtz in Europe W. Willard Wirtz (March 14, 1912-April 24, 2010) graduated from Harvard Law School and is hired to teach by future Supreme Court Justice Wiley B. Rutledge. While at Northwestern University, he instructed another future Supreme Court justice: John Paul Stevens. […]

  • Arthur J. Goldberg

    Arthur J. Goldberg in Europe The son of immigrants, Arthur J. Goldberg (Aug. 8, 1908–Jan. 19, 1990) supervised an espionage group during World War II. He served as general counsel for the United Steelworkers of America and was the chief legal counsel for the AFL-CIO merger in 1955. As […]

  • Labour Department and Ministry

    Labour Department and Ministry in Europe One of the outward signs of the intensified governmental interest in labour has been the establishment in 1913 of a Department of Labor in the United States, and in 1917 of a Ministry of Labour in Great Britain. United Kingdom The demand for the […]

  • Grey of Fallodon, Edward Grey, 1st Viscount

    Grey of Fallodon, Edward Grey, 1st Viscount in Europe Grey of Fallodon, Edward Grey, 1st Viscount (1862-1933), British statesman, better known as Sir Edward Grey. He had a tenure of the Foreign Office which lasted exactly 11 years, from Dec. 1905 to Dec. 1916, the longest continuous of any […]

  • History of Yugoslavia

    Introduction This is the first part of the history of Yugoslavia, which has had hugue implications in international law, specially European law. The Country Also called Jugoslavia. The official name was the “Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes” (Kraljevina Srba Hnata i Slovcnaca). […]

  • Milovanovic, Milovan

    MilovanoviĆ, Milovan G. (1863-1912), Serbian statesman and diplomatist, was born at Belgrade on March 2 1863, and was educated there and in Paris, where he was the first Serb to take his degree as Doctor of Law and was awarded a gold medal for his thesis. He had become one of Europe’s leading […]

  • Desider Szilagyi

    Desider Szilagyi in Europe Desider Szilagyi (1840-1901), Hungarian statesman and jurist, was born at Nagyvarad (Grosswardein) on April 1 1840. He studied law at Budapest, Vienna, and in Germany, and early attracted attention by his articles on law and politics. As head of a section in the […]