IIO FINAL ACT OF SECOND PAN AMERICAN SCIENTIFIC CONGRESS. 



present paragraph, which is the shortest of the articles dealing with this 

 topic, and which, looking away from the special uses which might be 

 made of international law, declares that "the study of international law 

 be required in specialized courses in preparation for business." 



ARTICLE 32. The Second Pan American vScientific Congress urges that 

 in the study and teaching of international law in American insti- 

 tutions of learning special stress be laid upon problems affecting 

 the American Republics and upon doctrines of American origin. 



Heretofore the desirability of a training in international law has been 

 stated in general and with reference to particular callings in terms 

 applicable alike to Europe and Asia as well as the Americas, but in Article 

 32 the Congress recognizes, without attempting to enter into detail or to 

 specify them, that there are problems affecting the American republics 

 which do not of necessity affect other countries, or which do not affect 

 them in the same way or to the same extent. At the same time it recog- 

 nizes, without stating or defining them, that there are what may be called 

 doctrines of American origin. 



Regarding these problems and these doctrines the Congress makes a 

 very simple, a very specific and a very wise recommendation, namely, 

 that, by reason of the effect which these problems have upon American 

 countries and by reason of the American origin of certain doctrines, 

 special stress should be laid upon them in all courses of international law 

 offered in American institutions. 



The recommendation of the Congress accords with the views of Ameri- 

 can publicists as expressed in the Constitution of the American Institute 

 of International Law, which is the object of the next article, and in the 

 constitutions of the societies of international law which happily exist in 

 every American Republic. A single example will suffice. Thus, Article 

 2 of the Constitution of the American Institute of International Law 

 states the purpose of this body to be "to study questions of interna- 

 tional law, particularly questions of an American character, by endeav- 

 oring to decide them either in conformity with generally accepted prin- 

 ciples, or by enlarging and developing these principles, or by creating 

 them in conformity with the special conditions obtaining in the American 

 continent." 



This article has the advantage of stating the point of approach to 

 American problems and questions and proposes a method of solving them. 



