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Aug 5, 2020 · Francis Lieber was a soldier-scholar-lawyer. In 1862, Lieber was lecturing on the “Laws and Usages of War,” when he captured the attention of General Henry Halleck, then the general-in-chief of the Union Army.
Mar 23, 2023 · Francis Lieber, a Prussian-born American political philosopher and public intellectual, was an internationally recognized authority on international and military law and a key legal advisor to the Lincoln administration during the Civil War.
Apr 24, 2018 · On April 24, 1863, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln issued “General Orders No. 100: Instructions for the Government of the Armies of the United States in the Field,” commonly known as the “Lieber Code” after its main author Francis (Franz) Lieber.
Preserving institutional liberty and the Union led Lieber to a full-throated defense of the United States as an organic nation-state capable of squashing secession and advancing civilization and freedom through constitutional reform and international law.
Francis Lieber was a Prussian-American jurist and political philosopher. He is most well known for the Lieber Code, the first codification of the customary law and the laws of war for battlefield conduct, which served a later basis for the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907 and for the Geneva Conventions.
Aug 5, 2022 · Histories of political science and of the laws of war identify the nineteenth-century scholar Francis Lieber as their modern founder. His 1863 General Orders 100 codified the modern laws of war, internationalizing his political thought.
The German-born Francis (originally Franz) Lieber referred to himself as a ‘philosophic historian’ and was not only one of the most important American juri.
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