Wilfred Jenks

C. Wilfred Jenks (7 March 1909 – 9 October 1973) was an international lawyer and director-general of the International Labour Organization (1970–1973).

Early life and education Clarence Wilfred Jenks was born 7 March 1909 in Bootle, Lancashire. His father, a merchant navy officer, drowned when Jenks was eleven and he assumed responsibility with his mother for the family.

ILO Upon finishing his studies at Cambridge, Jenks joined the International Labour Organisation (ILO) in Geneva as a legal adviser in the Legal Division. He became Assistant Director-General, Deputy Director-General, principal Deputy Director-General and Director-General. As Director-General, he was preceded by David A. Morse and succeeded by Francis Blanchard.

In 1936, he was called to the English bar by Gray's Inn. 1928 Cecil Peace Prize 1959 American Society of International Law award 1967 Hon LLD, University of Edinburgh 1971 Hon LLD, University of Delhi 1971 Hon LLD, Seoul National University 1971 Hon LLD, University of La Plata 1972 Hon LLD, University of Costa Rica

Jenks was an honorary fellow of Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge and an honorary professor of Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos de Lima and University of Lima.

Publications (editor) The International Labour Code, 1939: A Systematic Arrangement of the Conventions and Recommendations Adopted by the International Labour conference, 1919-1939 (1941, 1952 revised edition: The International Labour Code, 1951: A Systematic Arrangement of the Conventions and Recommendations Adopted by the International Labour Conference, 1919-1951) (editor) Constitutional Provisions Concerning Social and Economic Policy: An International Collection of Texts Covering 450 Countries and Other Governments (1944) The headquarters of international institutions : a study of their location and status (1945) The international protection of trade union freedom (1957) The common law of mankind (1958) Human Rights and International Labour Standards (1960) International immunities (1961) The proper law of international organisations (1962) Law, freedom and welfare (1963) International law in a changing world (1963; with others) The prospects of international adjudication (1964) Space law (1965) Sovereignty within the law (1965; with Arnold Larson and others) Law in the world community (1967) A new world of law? A study of the creative imagination in international law (1969) Britain and the International Labor Office (1969) The world beyond the charter in historical perspective: a tentative synthesis of four stages of world organization (London, 1969) Social justice in the law of nations: the ILO impact after fifty years (1970) Orthodoxy and Innovation in the Law of Nations, Oxford University Press (1971) The International Labour Organisation in the U.N. family (1971) Social security as a world problem (Wellington, New Zealand, 1972) Prosperity for welfare: social purpose in economic growth and change (1973) Social policy in a changing world (selected lectures) (1976).

Contributor to British Yearbook of International Law and to legal journals.