Books in the The History and Theory of International Law series

In this original study, Will Smiley reassesses an aspect of the legacy of the Ottoman-Russian wars in the eighteenth century: both empires had a long history of slavery, but in the course of the eighteenth century they worked out a new regional international law that transformed captivity, introducing the concept of prisoners of war.

Jews, Sovereignty, and International Law explores Israel's engagement with international law during the early years of statehood. Drawing upon three case studies, Giladi illuminates the shift from Jewish advocacy to Israeli diplomacy.

This book explores how states, scholars and other actors have justified war from early modernity to the present. Looking at narratives of the justification of war in theory and practice, this book offers a comprehensive investigation of the emergence of the modern international order and its normative foundation.

A pioneering regional approach to the study of international order in Central Europe following the dissolution of the Habsburg Empire, and the subsequent creation of the League of Nations.

This edited collection represents the first comprehensive analysis of international legal debates between 1955 and 1975 related to the formal decolonization process, which brought a new perspective on topics such as self-determination, wars of national liberation, and multinational corporations.

In the interwar years, James Brown Scott wrote a series of works on the history international law, arguing that the foundation of modern international law rested with the 16th century Spanish theologian Francisco de Vitoria. This book describes the Spanish origin project in context, and explores its impact on international law as we know it today.

This volume provides a comprehensive, innovative, and critical analysis of the development and impact of international law in Italy. Through its scholars and due to political and historical events, Italy has contributed significantly to the formation and definition of international law and its academic community.

This innovative edited collection brings together some of the world's leading international lawyers to re-evaluate ('retry') the dominant historiographical tradition of international criminal law.

In this 1927 work, Hermann Heller addresses the paradox of sovereignty, with a discussion spanning the disciplines of history, constitutional and political theory, and international law. The book includes a substantial introductory essay by David Dyzenhaus.

After the global food crisis of 2007-2011, many Non-Government Organizations blamed speculators trading in commodity derivatives, viewing speculator driven high price volatility in grain markets as culpable for the disaster. Chadwick disagrees, arguing that current legal regimes bear far more responsibility for the tragedy of world hunger.

How has the early development of private international law affected contemporary practice? Through a broad contextual and historical analysis, Roxana Banu offers new interpretations of nineteenth century canonical writings in private international law, while also resurfacing crucial forgotten and marginalized perspectives.

Bringing together experts on Roman history, the history of classical scholarship, and the history of international law, this book analyzes the context, making, and impact of the great Italian Renaissance scholar Carlo Sigonio (1522/3-84) and his reconstruction of the Roman colonial model.

This collection gathers together the most important articles written by the pioneering historian of international law, C.H. Alexandrowicz. The essays shed new light on the development of international law, and particularly the influence of States outside the West.

By examining the relationship between international law and empire from early modernity to the present, this volume improves current understandings of the way international legal institutions, practices, and narratives have shaped imperial ideas about and structures of world governance.

This book examines the influence of international organizations since the First World War, and explores how they have acted on behalf of, and at times instead of, states in the international arena. The International Labour Organization, the United Nations, and the World Bank are examined in depth.

This collective volume brings together contributions by academics in various fields of law and the humanities, in order to tackle the complex interactions between international law and religion. The originality and the variety of approaches makes this book a must-have for academics planning to approach the topic in the future.

This volume maps models of early international legal thought from Machiavelli to Hegel

The 1922-34 exchange of minorities between Greece and Turkey was the first legally mandated compulsory population movement of its scale and sophistication. The book will demonstrate how such population movements were justified at the time as a radical version of minority protection, and how it impacted on ideas of ethnic nation-building.

Positivism is seen as one of the most influential theoretical frameworks for understanding international law. This book investigates its origins and demonstrates how it has influenced the development of international law. It illuminates and re-assesses the work of Hans Kelsen and Lassa Oppenheim, two of the key architects of positivist thought.

This book provides an in-depth contextual analysis of the role of international law in the growth of British presence in West Africa during the early- and mid-nineteenth century. It highlights this period as an important experimentation phase which saw the genesis of the treaties that have now become associated with the Scramble for Africa.

This book investigates the intellectual history of the laws of war. It reconstructs the distinctive ways of thinking about the legal regulation of war in history, contrasts these to more familiar just war and realist approaches, and shows how closely connected they have been to the process of spelling out the nature, function, and powers of state sovereignty.