Item #08389 Five publications by James Brown Scott on nationalism and equal rights. James Brown SCOTT.

Five publications by James Brown Scott on nationalism and equal rights

Washington, D. C.: Various publishers, 1930-1934. Five publications related to James Brown Scott (1866-1943), an authority on international law, who became involved with Doris Stevens and the National Woman’s Party during the late 1920s. As the NWP expanded its scope to include an international recognition of equal rights for women, Scott, who’d already worked in the international peace movement, was promulgating a new standard of nationalism that included “the adoption of nationality rules based on full individual equality” (Amorosa, p. 286). The publications below focus on this intersection and at least two of them were originally published in “Equal Rights,” the National Woman’s Party’s magazine. Scott became Doris Stevens’ law teacher and mentor at Columbia and they maintained a very close working relationship in the fight for equal rights. (For the best account of Scott’s involvement with the NWP, Paolo Amorosa, Rewriting the History of the Law of Nations: How James Brown Scott Made Francisco de Vitoria the Founder of International Law (The History and Theory of International Law Series). Oxford University Press, 2019.)

Equality Triumphs, Montevideo [cover title]. Washington, D. C.: [National Woman’s Party], 1934. Collects a number of Scott addresses, including, “The Inter American Commission of Women Reports at Montevideo: Address Delivered before the Biennial Convention of the National Woman’s Party in Wilmington, Delaware, on November 4, 1933” and “Conflict and Victory: The Inter American Commission of Women at Montevideo, December 3-26, 1933.” Reprinted from three issues of “Equal Rights.” Stapled wrappers (4” x 8 ½”), 47 p. 2 ½” closed tear along the top spine, some chipping and creasing at the top corner. One copy in OCLC at NYPL.

Institute of International Law Takes Action: The Married Woman Emerges with her Separate Nationality from the Institut de Droit International at Oslo, August 16-23, 1932. [Washington, D. C.]: [National Woman’s Party], [ca. 1932]. Originally published in the November 19, 1932 issue of “Equal Rights.” Stapled wrappers (4” x 8 ½”), 22 p. Near Fine. Although a record exists in OCLC, no holding libraries identified.

Nationality: Address at the opening session of the American Institute’s Academy of International Law at Havana, November 8, 1929. Washington, D. C.: American Peace Society, [1930]. Advance print from “Advocate of Peace” of February, 1930. Stapled wrappers (6 ¾” x 9 ¾”), 13 p. One word correction penciled to the margin of p. 13, else Fine. Two copies in OCLC at Harvard Law School and American Univ.

Observations on Nationality with Especial Reference to the Hague Convention of April 12th, 1930. A Plea for a Single Impersonal Standard of Nationality in the Law and Practice of Nations. New York: Oxford University Press, 1931. Stiff wrappers (7” x 10 ¼”), 145 p. Sticker from the Doris Stevens Collection affixed to the front wrapper, toning to wrapper edges, else Near Fine. Half a dozen copies in OCLC.

“Our American Women in Action” [in] Women Lawyers’ Journal, Vol. XXI, No. 2, November Issue, 1934. Washington, D. C.: National Association of Women Lawyers, 1934, p. 12-16. Stapled wrappers (7 ¾” x 10 ¾”), 60 p., photographs. Foxing and dampstaining to wrappers, Inter American Commission of Women stamp to the top of the front wrapper and ‘File Copy’ written along the top as well. Item #08389

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