International Bar Association
Website: http://www.ibanet.org/
Category: Law
Year of Foundation: 1946
Location of Foundation: New York, USA
Location of Headquarters: New York, USA
Brief Description: The International Bar Association describes itself as 'the world’s leading organisation of international legal practitioners, bar associations and law societies' (source: www.ibanet.org; accessed 9 April 2010).
Founding Rationales:
At the Conference of Representatives of National Bar Associations held in New York in October 1946, Willis Smith, President of the American Bar Association stated: 'It will be a notable objective for this conference and the organization which we hope will grow out of this conference that we keep the law supreme in our various nations, and thus keep tyrrany from the earth.' Edgar Turlington, Chairman of the Section of International and Comparative Law of the American Bar Association 'stated that the primary purpose of the association was to back the establishment of law and the administration of justice by law throughout the world; to promote the principles and aims of the United Nations.'
Source: R. N. Anderson, 'Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the I.B.A.', International Bar Journal, 3/1 (May 1972), pp. 6, 7.
Evolution of Membership:
Sources: http://www.ibanet.org/About_the_IBA/About_the_IBA.aspx; http://www.ibanet.org/About_the_IBA/Key_milestones.aspx (accessed 9 April 2010).