International Law in the Long Nineteenth Century (1776-1914): From the Public Law of Europe to Global International Law?

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-39114-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 28, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 475 g

Reihe: Legal History Library

International Law in the Long Nineteenth Century gathers ten studies that reflect the ever-growing variety of themes and approaches that scholars from different disciplines bring to the historiography of international law in the period.


Three themes are explored: ‘international law and revolutions’ which reappraises the revolutionary period as crucial to understanding the dynamics of international order and law in the nineteenth century. In ‘law and empire’, the traditional subject of nineteenth-century imperialism is tackled from the perspective of both theory and practice. Finally, ‘the rise of modern international law’, covers less familiar aspects of the formation of modern international law as a self-standing discipline.

Contributors are: Camilla Boisen, Raphaël Cahen, James Crawford, Ana Delic, Frederik Dhondt, Andrew Fitzmaurice, Vincent Genin, Viktorija Jakjimovska, Stefan Kroll, Randall Lesaffer, and Inge Van Hulle.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hulle, Inge van

Lesaffer, Randall C. H.

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Öffentliches Recht, Völkerrecht, Internationale Organisationen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Randall Lesaffer and Inge Van Hulle

Part 1: International Law and Revolution

1 Napoleon 1814–1815: A Small Issue of Status

James Crawford

2 The Law of Nations and the Common Law of Europe: The Case of Edmund Burke

Camilla Boisen

3 Uneasy Neutrality: Britain and the Greek War of Independence (1821–1832)

Viktorija Jakjimovska

Part 2: International Law and Empire

4 Equality of Non-European Nations in International Law

Andrew Fitzmaurice

5 British Humanitarianism, International Law and Human Sacrifice in West Africa

Inge Van Hulle

6 The Mahmoud Ben Ayad Case and the Transformation of International Law

Raphael Cahen

7 Public-Private Colonialism: Extraterritoriality in the Shanghai International Settlement

Stefan Kroll

Part 3: The Rise of Modern International Law

8 Permanent Neutrality or Permanent Insecurity? Obligation and Self-Interest in the Defence of Belgian Neutrality, 1830–1870

Frederik Dhondt

9 The Role of Comparative Law in the Development of Modern Private International Law (1750–1914)

Ana Delic

10 The Institute of International Law’s Crisis in the Wake of the Franco-Prussian War (1873–1899)

Vincent Genin

Über Autor(innen)

Inge Van Hulle, Ph.D. (2016), KU Leuven, is Assistant Professor of Legal History at Tilburg University. She specializes in the history of international law and empire in the nineteenth century on which she has published several articles.

Randall Lesaffer is Professor of Legal History at Tilburg University and at the University of Leuven. He specializes in the history of international law since the fifteenth century on which he has published monographs and many articles. He is editor of Oxford Historical Treaties and president of the Grotiana Foundation.