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Scott (JAMES BROWN an American)

JAMES BROWN, an American educator and lawyer, born in Kincardine, Ontario, in 1866. He graduated from Harvard in 1890. Winning the Parker fellowship of that university, he traveled in Europe and studied at the universities of Berlin, Heidelberg, and Paris. From 1894 to 1899 he practiced law in Los Angeles. He founded and for three years was dean of the law school of the University of Southern California.

From 1899 to 1903 he was dean of the college of law at the University of Illinois, and for the three years following was professor of law at Columbia. From 1905 to 1906 he was professor of law at George Washington University, and from the latter year was professor of international law. From 1906 to 1911 he served as solicitor of the State Department and was counsel for the United States on many important litigations, including the North Atlantic Fisheries Arbitration before The Hague. In 1909 he became lecturer on international law at Johns Hopkins University. He was appointed secretary of the Carnegie Endowment for nois, SCOTT International Peace, was president of the American Institute of International Law, and was a delegate to many scientific and political conferences. During the Spanish-American War he served in the 7th California Infantry. He edited many volumes dealing with international law, and was the author of "The Hague Peace Conferences of 1899 and 1907" (1909); "An International Court of Justice" (1916); "Survey of International Relations Between the United States and Germany" (1918).