Law
Tobias Asser
Jurist, Nobel Peace Prize 1911
Born 1838 · Died 1913
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Tobias Asser founded the Hague Conference on Private International Law, which still writes the rules governing cross-border family law, contracts and child abduction cases. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1911.
Key achievements
- Nobel Peace Prize, 1911, for international arbitration
- Founded the Hague Conference on Private International Law
- Helped create the Permanent Court of Arbitration, 1899
Universities
Amsterdam
Professor of law at the Athenaeum Illustre, the predecessor of the University of Amsterdam, from 1862.
Facts
- He was made a professor at twenty-four, a few years after finishing his own studies.
- He helped organise the Hague Peace Conferences, which produced the first modern treaties on the laws of war.
- The Asser Institute in The Hague, a research centre for international law, is named after him.