page_title: Antonio Sánchez de Bustamante y Sirven
hierarchical_section_title: Antonio Sánchez de Bustamante y Sirven
caption_attribution_description: English: Photo of Antonio Sánchez de Bustamante y Sirven (April 13, 1865 in Havana, Cuba - August 24, 1951 in Havana, Cuba) was a Cuban lawyer and politician. He was a Cuban authority on international law and author of the Bustamante Code. A delegate to the Paris Peace Conference, 1919, he was later Justice of the Hague Tribunal (Permanent Court of Arbitration). He was also president of the Pan-American Conference (1928), which ratified his monumental code of private international law, coordinating legislation applying to the international security of person and property.
context_page_description: Antonio Sánchez de Bustamante y Sirven was a Cuban lawyer, educator, politician and international jurist. He promoted the existence of a common American regulation for private international law. For this reason, the sixth Pan-American Congress took place in Cuba in 1928, in the final document, the Treaty of Havana is attached in the annex of the Code of Private International Law.
  He was appointed in 1908 member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration of the Hague and in 1921 he was appointed judge of the Permanent Court of International Justice established by the League of Nations. He was also the first president of the National Academy of Arts and Letters of Cuba.
context_section_description: Antonio Sánchez de Bustamante y Sirven (April 13, 1865 – August 24, 1951) was a Cuban lawyer, educator, politician and international jurist. He promoted the existence of a common American regulation for private international law. For this reason, the sixth Pan-American Congress took place in Cuba in 1928, in the final document, the Treaty of Havana is attached in the annex of the  Code of Private International Law.
  He was appointed in 1908 member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration of the Hague and in 1921 he was appointed judge of the Permanent Court of International Justice established by the League of Nations. He was also the first president of the National Academy of Arts and Letters of Cuba.
caption: Taken about 1922 in his robes as Justice of the Permanent Court of International Justice at the Hague.
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