The Nomination Database for the Nobel Prize
in Peace, 1901-1956

Year:	1901
Number:	31-2
Nominee 1:
Name:	The Institute of International Law (Institut de Droit International)
Profession/Category:	Scientific society aimed at developing international law as a codified science.
City:	Ghent
Country:	BE (BELGIUM)
Received prize:	Pea 1904 »
Nominee 2:
Name:	Chevalier Edouard Eugène F Descamps
Gender:	M
Year, birth:	1847
Year, death:	1933
Profession/Category:	Professor of Law
University:	Louvain
City:	Louvain
Country:	BE (BELGIUM)
Motivation:	The Institute of International Law was nominated for its work to draft the first international arbitration regulations, and for its efforts to establish a codification of the laws of war. Descamps was nominated for his inter-parliamentary peace work. President of the sixth Inter-Parliamentary Peace Conference in Brussels in 1895, and Belgian delegate to the peace conference at The Hague in 1899. He was elected Secretary General of the Institute of International Law in 1900. Descamps wrote significant works on neutrality and disarmament, and he also contributed to the abolitionist movement.
Nominator:
Name:	Ernest Lehr
Gender:	M
Profession/Category:	Member of the Institute of International Law
City:	Lausanne
Country:	CH (SWITZERLAND)
Evaluation:
Evaluator 1:
Name:	Christian Lous Lange
Gender:	M
Comment:	Lehr had earlier nominated Descamps. The nomination of the Institute of International Law was made in case the Nobel Committee decided to give the prize to an organisation.