Education
Sciences Po.
Sciences Po.
Professor at the Law Faculty of Dijon for 20 years (Public International Law and Industrial Relations Law). Published the first volume of the Précis de droit des gens shortly before joining the University of Paris (1933) where he taught Public International Law until his retirement in 1948. He exerted a considerable influence on the generation which dominated both French public service and academic law circles from the 1930s until today.
Technical adviser to the French delegation at the 5th session of the Assembly of the League of Nations in 1924
French Delegate at the last session of that Assembly of the League of Nations in 1946.
Member and vice-president of the Administrative Tribunal of the International Labour Organisation. Member associé of the Institut de Droit International from 1929.
Counsel for France and Peru before the International Court of Justice in the Admission (1948) and Asylum (Colombia v Peru - 1950) cases. The first "Secrétaire de la présidence" and then Secretary General of the Hague Academy of International Law (1935 to 1958)
Scelle supported the codification of the laws of war in an international convention.
In this regard, he believed that even United Nations forces "did not stand above all law", and was in favor of subjecting them as well to the provisions of the Geneva convention.
Institut de Droit International]
Member of the Commission of Enquiry on International Labour Conventions (From 1922 to 1958)
Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration from 1950
Member of the International Law Commission from its inception (elected on 3 November 1948).