Book excerpt: Excerpt from Proceedings of the American Society of International Law: At Its Fifteenth Annual Meeting Held at Washington, D. C. April 27-30, 1921 Wednesday, April 27, 1921, o'clock, p. M. Opening Address. Elihu Root The Reconstruction of International Law. Manoel de Oliveira Lima. Second session Thursday, April 28, 1921, 10 o'clock, a. M. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.