Abstract

This article was sparked by a critical reading of Henri de Waele’s article ‘A New League of Extraordinary Gentlemen? The Professionalization of International Law Scholarship in the Netherlands, 1919–1940’, and aims to offer an alternative perspective on this period in the history of Dutch international legal scholarship. While it appreciates the author’s examination of Dutch international law scholarship during the interwar period and concurs with the idea that this scholarship needs to be examined more closely, it argues that doing history today requires us first to raise ‘the woman question’, especially in the context of the so-called ‘professionalization’ of international law in the 1920s and 1930s, and second to include Dutch colonialism as an important backdrop to the work of the interwar international law scholars. I will give some pointers and illustrations to support this argument. The specific Dutch material brought to bear aims to show more generally the importance of questioning rather than reproducing traditional historiography, within which ‘the woman question’ and ‘the colonial question’ were left unmentioned. As such this article also deals with the issue of expanding and remaking international legal history as an issue of present and future purport.

中文翻译：

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明显缺席：在国际法律史中定位性别和种族

摘要

这篇文章是由对Henri de Waele的文章“新的非凡绅士联盟？1919年至1940年在荷兰进行的国际法奖学金专业化工作，旨在为荷兰国际法奖学金历史上的这一时期提供另一种观点。它赞赏作者在两次世界大战期间对荷兰国际法奖学金的审查，并同意需要更仔细地审查这一奖学金的观点，但认为今天的历史要求我们首先提出“妇女问题”，尤其是在在1920年代和1930年代所谓的国际法“专业化”背景下，其次是将荷兰殖民主义作为战间国际法学者工作的重要背景。我将提供一些指针和插图以支持该论点。所采用的特定荷兰资料旨在更普遍地显示质疑的重要性，而不是再现传统的史学，在传统史学中未提及“妇女问题”和“殖民地问题”。因此，本文还将处理扩展和重塑国际法律历史的问题，作为当前和未来的目的。