Despite the historical turn in the study of public international law and the advance of comparative approaches, still too little attention is paid nowadays to specific national traditions. This holds, inter alia, for the scholarly views and practices in the Netherlands during the first half of the 20th century. This article seeks to shed light on the experiences here at the advent of the League of Nations and its tentative ‘new world order’. Offering a meso-level analysis, it portrays the leading protagonists during the 1920s and 1930s, aiming to provide a snapshot of how their discipline and activities underwent an unexpectedly swift professionalization. This process is perceived to have run along three distinct vectors – academic, societal and diplomatic/bureaucratic – which are each examined in turn. Novel opportunities stemming from the rise of the international judiciary, especially the two Permanent Courts established on Dutch soil, are looked at separately. The research delivers a greater insight into the inter-war era and the challenges faced by (academics from) smaller nations, enabling us to situate underexplored local experiences within a global frame, and offering useful lessons for (the writing of) international law history more generally.

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一个新的非凡绅士联盟？1919–1940年荷兰国际法奖学金的专业化

尽管国际公法研究有了历史性的转变，比较方法也有所进步，但如今对特定的民族传统仍然很少关注。这尤其适用于20世纪上半叶荷兰的学术观点和实践。本文旨在阐明国际联盟及其临时的“新世界秩序”出现时的经验。它提供了一个中观分析，描绘了1920年代和1930年代的主要人物，目的是简要概述他们的纪律和活动是如何迅速地专业化的。人们认为，这一过程是沿着三个不同的媒介-学术，社会和外交/官僚主义-进行依次研究的。国际司法机构的崛起带来了新的机遇，尤其是在荷兰本土建立的两个常设法院。这项研究对战时时代和较小国家（学术界）面临的挑战提供了更深刻的见解，使我们能够在全球框架内把握未充分开发的本地经验，并为（撰写）国际法历史提供有益的经验教训。通常。