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

Year:	1911
Number:	4-1
Nominee 1:
Name:	Tobias Michael Carel Asser
Gender:	M
Year, birth:	1838
Year, death:	1913
Profession/Category:	International jurist. Cabinet Minister. Member of the Permanent Court of Arbritration.
City:	The Hague
Country:	NL (NETHERLANDS)
Received prize:	Pea 1911 »
Nominee 2:
Name:	Léon Victor Auguste Bourgeois
Gender:	M
Year, birth:	1851
Year, death:	1925
Profession/Category:	Senator (1905-1923). Former cabinet minister.
City:	Paris
Country:	FR (FRANCE)
Received prize:	Pea 1920 »
Motivation:	Asser initiated the Conferences on International Private Law (Conférences de Droit international privé) at The Hague. He contributed to the founding of the Institute of International Law (Vice President 1875-1879, member of the Council 1902-1904 and Honorary member 1906) and he was a proponent of international law and arbitration. Bourgeois was chairman of the French delegation to the Peace Conferences at The Hague in 1899 and 1907. He was a member of the French parliament's peace group, and he promoted international law and arbitration.
Nominator:
Name:	Charles Lyon-Caen
Gender:	M
Profession/Category:	Professor of Law. Member of the Institute of International Law
University:	Sorbonne
City:	Paris
Country:	FR (FRANCE)
Evaluation:
Evaluator 1:
Name:	Mikael Lie
Gender:	M
Comment:	Bourgeois was also on the short list, but no new evaluation was requested.