# Jules Basdevant

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{{Short description|French legal scholar}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name             = Jules Basdevant
| image            = Jules Basdevant.JPG
| caption          = The ''Commandeur'' badge of the [Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur](/source/Ordre_national_de_la_L%C3%A9gion_d'honneur) being awarded to Basdevant (center) by [Charles de Gaulle](/source/Charles_de_Gaulle) (left), 1964
| birth_date       = April 15, 1877
| birth_place      = Anost, Saône-et-Loire, France
| death_date       = {{death date and age|1968|03|17|1877|04|15}}
| death_place      =
| occupation       = Law professor, Jurist
| spouse           = 
| children         = Suzanne Bastid
| alma_mater       = 
| doctoral_advisor = 
| office3          = Vice President, International Court of Justice
| term_start3      = 1946
| term_end3        = 1949
| predecessor3     = None
| successor3       = [José Gustavo Guerrero](/source/Jos%C3%A9_Gustavo_Guerrero)
| office2          = President, International Court of Justice
| term_start2      = 1949
| term_end2        = 1952
| predecessor2     = [José Gustavo Guerrero](/source/Jos%C3%A9_Gustavo_Guerrero)
| successor2       = [Sir Arnold McNair](/source/Sir_Arnold_McNair)
| office1          = Judge of International Court of Justice
| term_start1      = 1946
| term_end1        = 1964
| predecessor1     = None
| successor1       = André Gros 
}}

'''Jules Basdevant''' (April 15, 1877 – March 17, 1968 in Anost) was a French law professor.

He was born in [Anost](/source/Anost), [Saône-et-Loire](/source/Sa%C3%B4ne-et-Loire), a village in the [Parc naturel régional du Morvan](/source/Parc_naturel_r%C3%A9gional_du_Morvan) about halfway between Paris and [Lyon](/source/Lyon) in eastern France.

After obtaining his Ph.D. in law, he began teaching at the law faculty in Paris, in February 1903, as an ''[agrégé](/source/Agr%C3%A9gation)''. He was later transferred to the law faculty of [Rennes](/source/Rennes) where he lectured from 1903 to 1907. He then went to [Grenoble](/source/Grenoble), where he was a professor until 1918, when he went back to Paris. Basdevant was promoted several times; in 1922 as professor of international law and historical treaties, in 1924 as professor of people's law and also became a technical expert for the French delegation at the Peace preliminary conference of 1919.

He worked for the [Foreign Affairs](/source/Foreign_Affairs) Department from 1930 to 1941 as a law consultant. He was elected a member of the [Academy of Political and Moral Sciences](/source/Academy_of_Political_and_Moral_Sciences) in 1944. In 1946 took up an inaugural seat on the [International Court of Justice](/source/International_Court_of_Justice), a position he held until 1964. He served as the Court's first Vice President, from 1946 to 1949 and as president from 1949 to 1952.

Jules Basdevant is the father of [Suzanne Bastid](/source/Suzanne_Bastid).

==References==
* {{cite web | title=F delta 1830 : Fonds d'archives de Jules Basdevant (1877–1968) | work=Bibliothèque de documentation internationale contemporaine | url=http://www.bdic.fr/internet/goto.php3?id=967 | accessdate=2006-10-04 }}{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
* Académie de Droit International de La Haye. (1968) ''Recueil Des Cours, Collected Courses 1936'', Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. p. 473. {{ISBN|90-286-0952-0}}.

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