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Saavedra Lamas was a leading Argentine academician in two areas.

A pioneer in the field of labor legislation, he edited several treatises on labor legislation in Argentina and on the need for a universally recognized doctrine on the treatment of labor-among them, Centro de legislacíon social y del trabajo ( 1927 ) of Social and Labor Legislation, Traités internationaux de type social ( 1924 ), Código nacional del trabajo ( three volumes, 1933 ) Code of Labor Law.

In the arena of practical affairs, Saavedra Lamas drafted legislation affecting labor in Argentina, supported the founding of the International Labor Organization in 1919, and presided over the ILO Conference of 1928 in Geneva while serving simultaneously as leader of the Argentine delegation.