Any student of international humanitarian law knows the story: “In 1861 Francis Lieber (1800-1872), a German-American professor of political science and law at Columbia University, N.Y., prepared on the behalf of President Lincoln a manual based on international law (the Lieber Code) which was put into effect for the first time in 1863 for the Union Army of the United … Continue reading Latin Lieber: Uncovering the History of the Treaty on the Regularisation of War