Jessup, Philip C. (Philip Caryl), 1897-1986

Judge, diplomat.

From the description of Reminiscences of Philip Caryl Jessup : oral history, 1974. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122419673

From the description of Reminiscences of Philip Caryl Jessup : oral history, 1980. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309739696

From the description of Reminiscences of Philip Caryl Jessup : oral history, 1958. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309739713

Jurist, diplomat, and educator. Died 1986.

From the description of Philip C. Jessup papers, 1574-1983 (bulk 1925-1983). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70980134

Biographical Note

• 1897, Jan. 5: Born, New York, N.Y.
• 1919: A.B., Hamilton College, Clinton, N.Y.
• 1921: Married Lois Walcott Kellogg
• 1924: LL.B., Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
• 1924 - 1925 : Assistant solicitor, State Department
• 1925 - 1946 : Lecturer and professor, international law, Columbia University, New York, N.Y.
• 1929: Assistant to Elihu Root, Conference of Jurists on the Permanent Court of International Justice, Geneva, Switzerland
• 1938: Published Elihu Root (New York: Dodd, Mead. 2 vols.)
• 1938 - 1951 : Chairman and member, Pacific Council, Institute of Pacific Relations
• 1942 - 1944 : Assistant director, Naval School of Military Government and Administration, Columbia University, New York, N.Y.
• 1943 - 1944 : Assistant secretary-general, Council of United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA)
• 1943 - 1945 : Chief, Division of Personnel and Training, Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation Operations, State Department
• 1944: Assistant secretary-general, United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference, Bretton Woods, N.H.
• 1945: Assistant on judicial organization, United States delegation, United Nations Conference, San Francisco, Calif.
• 1946 - 1961 : Hamilton Fish Professor of International Law and Diplomacy, Columbia University, New York, N.Y.
• 1947: United States representative, United Nations Committee on Codification of International Law
• 1948: Published A Modern Law of Nations (New York: Macmillan Co. 236 pp.)
• 1948 - 1952 : United States representative to the second, third, and fourth special sessions, General Assembly; deputy United States representative, Interim Committee, General Assembly and Security Council; and deputy chief of the United States Mission to the United Nations
• 1949 - 1953 : Ambassador-at-large
• 1956: Published Transnational Law (New Haven: Yale University Press. 113 pp.) Trustee, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• 1960: Elected member of the International Court of Justice, Hague, Netherlands
• 1961 - 1970 : Judge, International Court of Justice, Hague, Netherlands
• 1967 - 1986 : Chairman, Chile-Norway Permanent Commission Honorary member, Governing Council, International Institute for Unification of Private Law
• 1970: Sibley lecturer, University of Georgia School of Law, Athens, Ga.
• 1970 - 1971 : Whitney H. Shepardson senior research fellow in residence, Council on Foreign Relations, Columbia University, New York, N.Y.
• 1971: Barnette Miller lecturer, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass.
• 1974: Published The Birth of Nations (New York: Columbia University Press. 361 pp.)
• 1986, Jan. 31: Died, Newton, Pa.

From the guide to the Philip C. Jessup Papers, 1574-1983, (bulk 1925-1983), (Manuscript Division Library of Congress)