18 Facts About Green Hackworth

Green Haywood Hackworth was an American jurist who served as the first US judge on the International Court of Justice, as President of the International Court of Justice, as the longest running Legal Adviser to the US Department of State and as a member of Secretary of State Cordell Hull's inner circle of advisers.

Green Hackworth served as a member of the Advisory Committee on Postwar Foreign Policy, as a member of Post War Programs Committee and as Chairman of the Committee of Jurists that drafted the initial statutes for the International Court of Justice.

Green Hackworth represented the US Delegation on Committee IV at the United Nations Conference on International Organization where the articles in the United Nations Charter pertaining to the International Court of Justice were finalized.

Green Haywood Hackworth was born in Prestonburg Kentucky and his youth was spent in the area of the Big Sandy River.

In 1916, after completion of his legal studies, Green Hackworth secured a job as a law clerk with the US Department of State and in 1918 was promoted to Assistant Solicitor within the department.

Green Hackworth was noted for being a skilled legal draftsman concerning the area of treaty provisions and was a perforce in matters involving the US and its foreign relations from the period of US neutrality to the country's entry into World War II.

Green Hackworth provided advice to the US President, the US Secretary of State, members of congress and other departments within the US State Department.

Green Hackworth was a US delegate in 1930 to the First Conference for the Codification of International Law, held at the Hague under the auspices of the League of Nations.

Green Hackworth participated in the 8th Conference of American States held in Lima, in the 8th Scientific Congress of American States and in the Inter - American Maritime Conference.

Green Hackworth's role was to consider past legal developments in the laws of war, the laws of neutrality, laws of belligerency and the effect of these laws on the US and other countries.

In 1943, Green Hackworth served as an adviser to Secretary of State Hull at the Moscow Conference and in 1945 he served as Adviser to Secretary of State Edward Stettinius at the Conference of American States on Problems of War and Peace held in Mexico City.

In Feb of 1942, Secretary of State Cordell Hull organized the Advisory Committee on Postwar Foreign Policy which was followed by the Special Subcommittee on International Organization of which Green Hackworth was an integral part.

Green Hackworth headed the second group charged with studying arrangements for the peaceful settlements of international disputes and the development of a World Court.

At the Dumbarton Oaks Conference, Green Hackworth chaired a special Legal Subcommittee that was established to deal with the issue of a World Court.

The subcommittee used as a base the American draft statute that Green Hackworth's section had developed prior to the conference.

Green Hackworth championed the American's view that retaining as much of the existing court statutes as possible.

Conference at San Francisco where Green Hackworth represented the US on Committee IV, which was tasked with finalizing statutes for the International Court of Justice.

Green Hackworth was nominated by three former US Secretaries of State for an initial six-year term on the Court and was elected to a full nine-year term in 1951.