Excerpt from A World Court in the Light of the United States Supreme Court Nations and which they fail to settle by ordinary diplomatic intercourse. In addition, however, the Conference of 1899 made provisions to facilitate the establishment cd hoc of International Courts of Justice, such as the Geneva Tribunal of 1871-72 that judged the Alabama Claims, and the Paris T ribunal of 1893 that decided the Bering Sea Fur Seal fisheries, to judge causes of difference arising between the Nations instead of allowing the dis puting powers gradually to drift, sooner or later, into war. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.