Carlos Calvo

Background

He was born at Buenos Aires on the 26th of February 1824, and devoted himself to the study of the law.

Career

The Calvo Doctrine was first advanced in 1902. Because of a certain similarity, it is often confused with the Drago Doctrine, which claims that foreign nations have no right to use force in the collection of debts from the debtor country. His 15-volume collection of Latin American treaties and diplomatic papers, published between 1862 and 1867, is also a monumental work. Between 1864 and 1875 he also published a five-volume set, Annales historiques de la révolutionrevolution de l'Amériquel'Amerique latine. In 1884 he was one of the founders at the Ghent congress of the Institut de Droit International. In the following year he was Argentine minister at Berlin, and published his Dictionnaire du droit international public et prive in that city. Calvo died in May 1906 at Paris.

Achievements

• His fame rests principally on his authorship of the doctrine, bearing his name, that persons living in a foreign country should settle their complaints through local courts and not by demands made through their diplomatic representatives.