Sánchez de Bustamante y Sirven, Antonio (1865–1951)
Sánchez de Bustamante y Sirven, Antonio (1865–1951)
Antonio Sánchez de Bustamante y Sirven (b. 13 April 1865; d. 24 August 1951), Cuban jurist and politician. A professor of international law at the University of Havana, Bustamante achieved widespread prestige and distinction as an orator and the author of numerous scholarly books that were translated into many languages, including Turkish and modern Greek. Upon the inauguration of the Cuban republic in 1902, he was elected to the Cuban Senate, serving several terms. In 1922 he was chosen as one of the first eleven justices who sat on the Permanent Court of International Justice established at The Hague, and in 1929 he was chosen for a second term. His most celebrated contribution to international law, however, was the Code of International Private Law (known as the Bustamante Code), approved by the Sixth International Conference of American States that met in Havana in 1928 and subsequently ratified by fifteen member states. Accused of supporting the Machado dictatorship (1925–1933), he was exonerated and continued to teach international law until his death.
See alsoPan-American Conferences: Havana Conference (1928) .
BIBLIOGRAPHY
For a short biography of Bustamante see José I. Lasaga, Cuban Lives: Pages from Cuban History, vol. 2 (1988), pp. 397-409; also, Otto Schoenrich, "Dr. Antonio Sánchez de Bustamante," in The American Journal of International Law 45 (1951): 746-749.
JosÉ W. HernÁndez