James Brown Scott

International lawyer and educator, born in Kincardine, Ontario, Canada. He went to the USA in 1876 and served in the Spanish-American War. After a series of posts at law schools, he organized and was first dean of Los Angeles Law School (1896–9), dean at the law college of the University of Illinois (1899–1903), and professor of law at Columbia University (1903–6). He then became the chief legal officer of the state department (1906–11). Appointed secretary of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (1911–40), during those years he taught occasionally at law schools in the capital's region, and was a strong advocate for an international court of justice to settle disputes.

James Brown Scott, J.U.D. (1866–1943) was an American authority on international law, born at Kincardine, Ontario, Canada. He founded the law school at the University of Southern California, and was its dean, though his participation in the Spanish-American War interrupted that role. He was dean of the college of law at the University of Illinois (1899-1903), professor of law at Columbia, and professor of law at George Washington University (1905-06). In 1907 he was expert on international law to the United States delegation at the Second Hague Peace Conference. Besides serving as editor in chief of the American Journal of International Law and as editor of the American Case Book, and writing numerous articles on international law and the peace movement, he published:

Cases on International Law (second edition, 1908) Cases on Quasi Contracts (1905) Cases on Equity Jurisdiction (two volumes, 1906) Argument of Senator Root in the Fisheries Arbitration (1911} The State of the International Court of Justice (1914) De indis De Jure Bellie (1917)