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The Oxford Handbook of the History of International Law

The Oxford Handbook of the History of International Law

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  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN: 9780199599752
  • Published In: October 2012
  • Format: Hardback , 1272 pages
  • Jurisdiction: International ? Disclaimer:
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  • This Oxford Handbook gives a truly international and inter-disciplinary account of the history of international law, written by contributors from accross the globe
  • Comprehensively covers the growth and evolution of international law from the 15th century until the end of World War II
  • Investigates how international law developed across different regions of the world, from the Ottoman Empire to the Caribbean
  • Gives crucial insights into the lives and philosophies of those individuals most responsible for shaping the development of international law

The Oxford Handbook of the History of International Law provides an authoritative and original overview of the origins, concepts, and core issues of international law. The first comprehensive Handbook on the history of international law, it is a truly unique contribution to the literature of international law and relations. Pursuing both a global and an interdisciplinary approach, the Handbook brings together some sixty eminent scholars of international law, legal history, and global history from all parts of the world. 

Covering international legal developments from the 15th century until the end of World War II, the Handbook consists of over sixty individual chapters which are arranged in six parts. The book opens with an analysis of the principal actors in the history of international law, namely states, peoples and nations, international organisations and courts, and civil society actors. Part Two is devoted to a number of key themes of the history of international law, such as peace and war, the sovereignty of states, hegemony, religion, and the protection of the individual person. Part Three addresses the history of international law in the different regions of the world (Africa and Arabia, Asia, the Americas and the Caribbean, Europe), as well as 'encounters' between non-European legal cultures (like those of China, Japan, and India) and Europe which had a lasting impact on the body of international law. Part Four examines certain forms of 'interaction or imposition' in international law, such as diplomacy (as an example of interaction) or colonization and domination (as an example of imposition of law). The classical juxtaposition of the civilized and the uncivilized is also critically studied. Part Five is concerned with problems of the method and theory of history writing in international law, for instance the periodisation of international law, or Eurocentrism in the traditional historiography of international law. The Handbook concludes with a Part Six, entitled "People in Portrait", which explores the life and work of twenty prominent scholars and thinkers of international law, ranging from Muhammad al-Shaybani to Sir Hersch Lauterpacht.

The Handbook will be an invaluable resource for scholars and students of international law. It provides historians with new perspectives on international law, and increases the historical and cultural awareness of scholars of international law. It aims to become the new standard reference work for the global history of international law.

Readership: Academics and students of public international law and legal history; practitioners and legal advisers interested in the evolution of international law

Bardo Fassbender and Anne Peters: Introduction: Towards a Global History of International Law
Part One: Actors
1: Jörg Fisch: Peoples and Nations
2: Antonio Cassese: States
3: Randall Lesaffer: Peace Treaties and the Formation of International Law
4: Janne Elisabeth Nijman: Minorities and Majorities
5: Joaquín Alcáide Fernandez: Hostes humani generis: Pirates, Slavers, and other Criminals
6: Cornelis G. Roelofsen: International Arbitration and Courts
7: Anne Peters and Simone Peter: International Organizations: Between Technocracy and Democracy
8: Cecelia M. Lynch: Peace Movements, Civil Society, and the Development of International Law
Part Two: Themes
9: Bardo Fassbender: Sovereignty and Equality of States
10: Daniel-Erasmus Khan: Territory and Boundaries
11: Reinhard Blänkner: Hegemony and Balance of Power
12: Dominique Gaurier: Cosmopolis and Utopia
13: Mary Ellen O>'Connell: Peace and War
14: Antje von Ungern-Sternberg: Religion and Religious Intervention
15: Robert Kolb: The Protection of the Individual in Times of War and Peace
16: Koen Stapelbroek: Trade, Chartered Companies, and Mercantile Associations
17: David J. Bederman: The Sea
Part Three: Regions
I. Africa and Arabia
18: Fatiha Sahli and Abdelmalek Elouazzani: Africa North of the Sahara and Arab Countries
19: James Thuo Gathii: Africa in the History of International Law
20: Umut Öszu: The Ottoman Empire and the Abode of Islam
II. Asia
21: Shin Kawashima: China
22: Bimal N. Patel: India
23: Masaharu Yanagihara: Japan
III. The Americas and the Caribbean
24: Mark W. Janis: North America: US Exceptionalism in International Law
25: Jorge L. Esquirol: Latin America
26: David Berry: The Caribbean
IV. Europe
27: Martin Kintzinger: From the Late Middle Ages to the Peace of Westphalia
28: Heinz Duchhardt: From the Peace of Westphalia to the Congress of Vienna
29: Milos Vec: From the Congress of Vienna to the Paris Peace Treaties of 1919
30: Peter Krüger: From the Paris Peace Treaties to the End of World War II
V. Encounters
31: Chi-Hua Tang: China DS Europe Encounters and International Law (1500?1945)
32: Kinji Akashi: Japan - Europe
33: Upendra Baxi: India - Europe
34: Lauri Mälksoo: Russia - Europe
35: Kenneth Coates: <'Indigenous Peoples and International Law: Encounters with Europe (North America)
Part Four: Interaction or Imposition
36: Arthur Eyffinger: Diplomacy
37: Andrew Fitzmaurice: Discovery, Conquest, and Occupation of Territory
38: Matthew Craven: Colonization and Domination
39: Seymour Drescher: Slavery
40: Liliana Obregón Tarazona: The Civilized and the Uncivilized
Part Five: Methodology and Theory
41: Martti Koskenniemi: A History of International Law Histories
42: Anthony Carty: Doctrine versus State Practice
43: Oliver Diggelmann: The Question of the Periodisation of International Law
44: Kaius Tuori: The Reception of Antique International Law in the Early Moderns
45: Arnulf Becker Lorca: The Problem of Eurocentrism in the History of International Law
46: Anthony Anghie: The Problem of Identifying Regions and Sub-Regions in the History of International Law
Part Six: People in Portrait
47: Mashood A. Baderin: Muhammad al-Shaybani (749/50-805)
48: Annabel Brett: Francisco de Vitoria (1480-1546) and Francisco Suárez (1548-1617)
49: Merio Scattola: Alberico Gentili (1552-1608)
50: Peter Haggenmacher: Hugo Grotius (1583-1645)
51: Knud Haakonssen: Samuel Pufendorf (1632-1694)
52: Knud Haakonssen: Christian Wolff (1679-1754)
53: Kinji Akashi: Cornelius van Bynkershoek (1673-1743)
54: Georg Cavallar: Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)
55: Emmanuelle Jouannet: Emer de Vattel (1714-1767)
56: Pauline Kleingeld: Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
57: Armin von Bogdandy and Sergio Dellavalle: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831)
58: Lydia H. Liu: Henry Wheaton (1785-1848)
59: Silja Vöneky: Francis Lieber (1798-1872)
60: Simone Peter: Bertha von Suttner (1843-1914)
61: Lauri Mälksoo: Friedrich Fromhold von Martens (Fyodor Fyodorovich Martens) (1845-1909)
62: Mathias Schmoeckel: Lassa Oppenheim (1858-1919)
63: Oliver Diggelmann: Max Huber (1874-1960)
64: Oliver Diggelmann: Georges Scelle (1878-1961)
65: Bardo Fassbender: Hans Kelsen (1881-1973)
66: Bardo Fassbender: Carl Schmitt (1888-1985)
67: Iain G.M. Scobbie: Sir Hersch Lauterpacht (1897-1960)

Edited by Bardo Fassbender, Professor of International Law, Bundeswehr University Munich, and Anne Peters, Professor of Public International Law and Swiss Constitutional Law, University of Basel, Switzerland

Simone Peter, Lawyer in the public administration of Basel-Stadt, and Daniel Högger, Research assistant and PhD candidate, University of Basel

Bardo Fassbender is Professor of International Law at the Bundeswehr University in Munich. He studied law, history and political science at the University of Bonn (Germany) and holds an LL.M from Yale Law School (1992) and a Doctor iuris from the Humboldt University in Berlin (1997), where he also completed his Habilitation in 2004 and became Privatdozent for the disciplines of public law, international law, European law and constitutional history. He was a Ford Foundation Senior Fellow in Public International Law at Yale University and a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. His principal fields of research are international law, United Nations law, German constitutional law, comparative constitutional law and theory, and the history of international and constitutional law. He advised the Legal Counsel and Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations on the subject of <"Targeted sanctions of the UN Security Council and Due Process of Law>".

Anne Peters is Professor of Public International Law at the University of Basel, a position she has held since 2001. She is Dean of Research of the Law Faculty. She is a member of the Council of Europe's Commission for Democracy through Law (Venice Commission) in respect of Germany. She currently serves as the president of the European Society of International Law. In 2009, Anne was a visiting professor at Sciences Po, Paris. In the academic year 2004/05 she was Dean of the Basel law faculty. She obtained the Habilitation-qualification at the Walther-Schücking-Institute of Public International Law at the Christian Albrechts University Kiel on the basis of her Habilitation-Thesis <"Elemente einer Theorie der Verfassung Europas>" (Elements of a Theory of the Constitution of Europe) in 2000. Her research activities cover general public international law, especially its constitutionalization, European constitutional law, constitutional theory, and national and international human rights.@lt

Simone Peter holds a doctoral degree in law (Dr. iur.) and a degree in general history and German language (lic. phil., MA). She worked as a research assistant to the chair of International Law at the University of Basel from 2006 to 2012. Her research covered the field of general public international law and the history of international law. She currently works as a lawyer in the public administration of Basel-Stadt.

 

Contributors: 
Kinji Akashi, Keio University, Japan
Anthony Anghie, S.J. Quinney College of Law Utah, USA
Mashood A. Baderin, School of Oriental and African Studies London, United Kingdom
Upendra Baxi, Warwick University, United Kingdom
David J. Bederman, Emory University School of Law, USA
David Berry, University of the West Indies, Barbados
Reinhard Blänkner, University of Frankfurt/Oder, Germany
Armin von Bogdandy, Max Planck Institute for Public and International Law, Heidelberg, Germany
Annabel Brett, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Anthony Carty, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom
The late Antonio Cassese, University of Florence, Italy
Georg Cavallar, University of Vienna, Austria
Kenneth Coates, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Matthew Craven, School of Oriental and African Studies London, United Kingdom
Sergio Dellavalle, University of Turin, Italy
Oliver Diggelmann, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Seymour Drescher, University of Pittsburgh, USA (historian) and Paul Finkelman, Albany Law School,
New York, USA
Heinz Duchhardt, University of Mainz, Germany
Abdelmalek Elouazzani, Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakech, Morocco
Jorge L. Esquirol, Florida International University, USA
Arthur Eyffinger, Huygens Institute, The Hague, Netherlands
Joaquín Alcáide Fernandez, University of Sevilla, Spain
Jörg Fisch, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Andrew Fitzmaurice, University of Sidney, Australia
Dominique Gaurier, University of Nantes, France
James Thuo Gathii, Albany Law School, New York, USA
Knud Haakonssen, University of Sussex, United Kingdom
Peter Haggenmacher, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland
Mark W. Janis, University of Connecticut School of Law, USA
Emmanuelle Jouannet, University of Paris I (Sorbonne), France
Shin Kawashima, University of Tokio, Japan
Daniel-Erasmus Khan, Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany
Martin Kintzinger, University of Munster, Germany
Pauline Kleingeld, University of Groningen, Netherlands
Robert Kolb, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Martti Koskenniemi, University of Helsinki, Finland
Peter Krüger, University of Marburg, Germany
Randall Lesaffer, Tilburg University, Leuven, Belgium
Lydia H. Liu, Columbia University, New York, USA
Arnulf Becker Lorca, Brown University, USA
Cecelia M. Lynch, University of California, USA
Lauri Mälksoo, University of Tartu, Estonia
Janne Elisabeth Nijman, Amsterdam University, Netherlands
Mary Ellen O'Connell, University of Notre Dame Law School, Indiana, USA
Umut Özsu, University of Manitoba, Canada
Bimal N. Patel, Gujarat National Law University, India
Cornelis G. Roelofsen, Prof. em. University of Utrecht, Netherlands
Fatiha Sahli, Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakech, Morocco
Merio Scattola, University of Padova, Italy
Mathias Schmoeckel, University of Bonn, Germany
Iain G.M. Scobbie, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, United Kingdom
Koen Stapelbroek, University of Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Chi-Hua Tang, National Chengchi University, Taiwan
Liliana Obregón Tarazona, University of the Andes, Colombia
Kaius Tuori, University of Helsinki, Finland
Antje von Ungern-Sternberg, University of Munster, Germany
Milos Vec, Max Planck Institute for Legal History, Frankfurt, Germany
Silja Vöneky, University of Freiburg, Germany
Masaharu Yanagihara, Kyushu University, Japan

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