Nordic jurists and the League of Nations

During the League’s function, a substantial number of jurists from the five Nordic states contributed to the diverse discourses on the legal dimensions of the organisation, its character and its many functions. The legal expertise on international law grew out of the 19th century inter-Nordic union conflicts that prepared the Nordic jurists for the modern international law at the beginning of 20th century. The legal scholars were often both jurists and politicians and their legal reasoning and political considerations were intimately intertwined. This lecture builds upon Dag Michalsen's chapter in The Cambridge Handbook of the League of Nations and International Law (2026) where he studies the many contributions from over thirty Nordic lawyers that were involved with the legal issues of the League-system.