Bustamante y Sirvén, Antonio Sánchez de, 1865-1951

Antonio Sánchez de Bustamante y Sirven (13 April 1865 – 24 August 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.