Windows to Worlds: Eduardo Jiménez de Aréchaga’s Teachings at the Hague Academy

The Perspective of Gentlemen Politicians of the Law at the Hague AcademyThe assertion that most international institutions and prominent centres of international law have historically been confined to, or run by, elites is neither novel nor provocative.The Hague Academy of International Law is no exception.The characteristics of elites, however, vary across different contexts and times.One common feature of the Latin American lecturers at the Academy during the 20 th century, themselves a minority in a North Atlantic-dominated community, was their identity as 'gentlemen-politicians of the law'. 1 This concept, coined to describe jurists who bore a 'dual heading of political notables and international legal experts', 2