Salmon Oliver Levinson (1865 – 1941) was a practicing attorney who specialized in industrial organizations and corporate law. He was active in the

peace movement A peace movement is a social movement which seeks to achieve ideals, such as the ending of a particular war (or wars) or minimizing inter-human violence in a particular place or situation. They are often linked to the goal of achieving world peac ...

in the 1920s and was responsible for drafting the

Kellogg–Briand Pact The Kellogg–Briand Pact or Pact of Paris – officially the General Treaty for Renunciation of War as an Instrument of National Policy – is a 1928 international agreement on peace in which signatory states promised not to use war to ...

, signed in 1928. Levinson noted: "We should have, not as now, laws of war, but laws against war; just as there are no laws of murder or of poisoning, but laws against them.” The treaty was the first international agreement to make war illegal. Hathaway & Shapiro, p. 21. The treaty commits the parties to "condemn recourse to war for the solution of international controversies, and renounce it, as an instrument of national policy" and agree that all disputes should be settled peacefully..

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Guide to the Salmon Levinson Papers 1905-1998
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University of Chicago Special Collections Research Center
{{DEFAULTSORT:Levinson, Salmon 1865 births 1941 deaths Corporate lawyers American lawyers American anti-war activists