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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “He teaches us to see international law not as a series of abstract rules, but as the product of experience in operating…”

On the recordOctober 31, 1962
He teaches us to see international law not as a series of abstract rules, but as the product of experience in operating actual institutions of the international community.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Statement Commending Judge Philip C. Jessup, Member of the International Court of Justice.

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