In Memoriam: Edwin M. Borchard, 1884-1951

• Published in: American Journal of International Law
• Main Author: Briggs, Herbert W.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1951
• Subjects: Law; Political Science and International Relations; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2194251; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0002930000090096

Edwin M. Borchard, lawyer, scholar, teacher, public servant, and kindly humanitarian, died July 22, 1951, after a lingering illness. Born in New York, October 17, 1884, he received his LL.B. at New York Law School in 1905 and a Ph.D. at Columbia University in 1913. He was awarded honorary degrees of Doctor of Laws by the University of Berlin in 1925 and by the University of Budapest in 1935. He served as expert on international law to the American Agency, North Atlantic Coast Fisheries Arbitration at The Hague in 1910; as Law Librarian of Congress from 1911 to 1913 and from 1914 to 1916; as Assistant Solicitor, Department of State, 1913-1914; as chief counsel for Peru in the Tacna-Arica Arbitration; as special legal adviser to the Treasury Department; as technical adviser to theAmerican Delegation to The Hague Codification Conference of 1930; and as a member of the Pan American Committee of Experts for the Codification of International Law.