ABSTRACT
Leonid Kamarovskii (1846–1912) was a specialist in international law. His training included a year of study at Heidelberg University, where he was mentored by the Swiss jurist Johann Kaspar Bluntschli. In 1874, he began a teaching career in the law faculty of Moscow University that lasted until shortly before his death. His monograph proposing a world court (O mezhdunarodnom sude [On an International Court], 1881), appearing also in French translation (Le tribunal international, 1887), established his international reputation. He was a prolific writer on a wide range of topics bearing on international law and world peace. In 1909, Nicholas II appointed Kamarovskii to the Permanent Court of Arbitration established by the Hague Peace Conference of 1899. Kamarovskii’s Orthodox Christian faith and friendships with Orthodox clergy were important sources of orientation in his life. Kamarovskii’s career shows that, by the end of the nineteenth century, Russian jurisprudence had come of age and was playing a creative role on the world stage.
