Conventions and Treaties

  • Paris Declaration Respecting Maritime Law (April 16, 1856)
  • St. Petersburg Declaration Renouncing the Use, in Time of War, of Certain Explosive Projectiles (November 29 - December 11, 1868)
  • Oxford Laws of War on Land (September 9, 1880)
  • Hague Convention (Ratified 1899, 1907, 1926 & 1928)
  • Treaty of Portsmouth ending the Russo-Japanese War (1905)
  • Treaty of London (1915; excerpts)
  • Peace Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (1918)
  • Conditions of an Armistice with Germany (signed November 11, 1918)
  • The Peace Treaty of Versailles (signed June 28, 1919)
  • Treaty of Neuilly (November 27, 1919)
  • Treaty of Sèvres (1920; never adopted, superseded by the Treaty of Lausanne).
  • League of Nations Protocol for the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes (1920)
  • Treaty of Trianon (signed June 4, 1920)
  • US Peace Treaty with Austria (24 August, 1921)
  • US Peace Treaty with Germany (25 August, 1921)
  • US Peace Treaty with Hungary (29 August, 1921)
  • Washington Conference Establishing a Commission of Jurists to Consider Laws of War (February 4, 1922)
  • Washington Treaty in Relation to the Use of Submarines and Noxious Gases in Warfare (February 6, 1922)
  • San Remo Convention (24 July, 1922)
  • The Hague Rules of Air Warfare (December, 1922 - February, 1923: Never adopted)
  • Straits Treaty (June 24, 1923)
  • Treaty of Lausanne (July 24, 1923)
  • The Covenant of the League of Nations (with amendments to 1924)
  • Geneva Protocol for the Prohibition of Poisonous Gases and Bacteriological Methods of Warfare (June 17, 1925)
  • Treaty Providing for the Renunciation of War as an Instrument of National Policy
    (Kellogg-Briand Pact) (August 27, 1928)

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