The Academy is a prestigious international institution for the study and teaching of Public and Private International Law and related subjects. The work of the Hague Academy receives the support and recognition of the UN. Its purpose is to encourage a thorough and impartial examination of the problems arising from international relations in the field of law. The courses deal with the theoretical and practical aspects of the subject, including legislation and case law. All courses at the Academy are, in principle, published in the language in which they were delivered in the "Collected Courses of the Hague Academy of International Law .

"With American notes and additions, and with notes and maxims of constitutional and of statute construction. Also a treatise on constitutional limitations upon the national and state legislative power ; with a chapter on parliamentary law and parliamentary privileges ; by Platt Potter."--T.p.