History
The institute was founded by Gustave Moynier and Gustave Rolin-Jaequemyns, together with 9 other renowned international lawyers, on 8 September 1873 in the Salle de l'Arsenal of the Ghent Town Hall in Belgium.
The founders of 1873 were:
- Pasquale Stanislao Mancini (from Rome), President
- Emile de Laveleye (from Liege)
- Tobias Michael Carel Asser (from Amsterdam)
- James Lorimer (from Edinburgh)
- Wladimir Besobrassof (from Saint-Petersburg)
- Gustave Moynier (from Geneva)
- Jean Gaspar Bluntschli (from Heidelberg)
- Augusto Pierantoni (from Naples)
- Charles Calvo (from Buenos Aires)
- Gustave Rolin-Jaequemyns (from Ghent)
- David Dudley Field (from New York)
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