Manley Hudson, New Judge of World Court, Not to Resign from Law School

Manley O. Hudson, Bemis professor of International Law in the Law School will leave October 17 for The Hague, to assume his new duties as American judge on the Permanent Court of International Justice, (the World Court.)

Hudson, fourth American to sit on the bench of the World Court, said yesterday that his appointment would not necessitate his resignation from the Law School. Also he will keep his post on the Permanent Court of Arbitration to which he was appointed by President Roosevelt in 1933.

The first case that will come before the Court after he is inducted into office will be a case between Hungary and Yugoslavia dealing with a dispute in mining claims between the two countries. Professor Hudson said.

Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, former Secretary of State Frank Billings Rellogg, and John Bussett Moore are the three Americans who have been elected in the past to the World Court. All three resigned before their terms expired, and it is Kellogg's vacant post that Hudson will fill.

Together with George Grafton Wilson, professor of International Law, and Mr. Moore. Hudson is considered the fore-most authority on his subject in the world. He was member of President Wilson's staff at the Versailles Peace conference in 1919. He has been a member of numerous international commissions, and was for a time attached to the legal section of the Secretariat of the League of Nations.

The World Court has jurisdiction to submit binding decisions only when both parties to the dispute agree to abide by that decision. Also the Court has the power to hand down advisory decisions when requested to do so by the League of Nations. In contrast the Permanent Court of Arbitration is in reality more a panel of judges than a court. Over a hundred justlees are listed and in a dispute sumitted to arbitration a council of judges is selected from the list.

Professer Hudson has long been one of the strongest advocates of American adherence to the World Court, and sided Senators who favored adherence in the last debate in the Senate.