 the whewell professorship of international law is a professorship in the university of cambridge. the professorship was established in 1868 by the will of the 19th-century scientist and moral philosopher, william whewell, with a view to devising "such measures as may tend to diminish the causes of war and finally to extinguish war between nations". ==incumbents of the whewell professorship of international law== holders of the whewell chair have included three judges of the international court of justice. *1869: william vernon harcourt *1887: sir henry maine *1888: john westlake *1908: lassa francis lawrence oppenheim *1920: alexander pearce higgins *1935: arnold mcnair *1938: sir hersch lauterpacht *1955: sir robert jennings *1981: sir derek bowett *1992: prof james crawford ==see also== *list of professorships at the university of cambridge 
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