Word: internationale
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Cambridge residents were subdued last night in their reaction to revised plans for the Knafel Center for Government and International Studies.
Christopher G. Weeramantry, vice president of the International Court of Justice (ICI), urged law students to take a part in shaping the changing future of international law in a talk yesterday at the Law School's Pound Hall.
Weeramantry said the 20th century was "a century of lost opportunities," pointing to the unwillingness of world leaders to use the power of international law to challenge Hitler and the rise of Nazism.
Because international leaders naively believed in the possibility of world peace, they refused to aggressively pursue Hitler until it was too late.
Weeramantry also stressed that it was up to future lawyers to determine how international law will develop.