Salmon Levinson

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Person.png Salmon Levinson  Rdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(lawyer)
Salmon Oliver Levinson.png
BornDecember 29, 1865
DiedFebruary 2, 1941 (Age 75)
NationalityUS
US lawyer who originated and publicized the “outlawry of war” movement in the United States. Later assisted in drafting the Kellogg-Briand Pact.

Salmon Oliver Levinson was a US lawyer who originated and publicized the “outlawry of war” movement in the United States.

Levinson practiced law in Chicago from 1891 and became noted for his skill in reorganizing the finances of distressed corporations. In an article in the New Republic, March 9, 1918, he argued that violence by nation-states should be declared illegal. During the waning months of World War I he was able to win leaders in many fields to his cause. Levinson later assisted in drafting the Kellogg-Briand Pact (1928), which “outlawed” war in a legal sense.[1]

“The real disease of the world is the legality and availability of war. 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.”
Salmon Oliver Levinson (August 1917)  [2]


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