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Politics and the histories of international law : the quest for knowledge and justice /

"What are the implications of writing the history of legal issues? Eighteen authors from different legal systems and backgrounds offer different answers, by examining the history writing on issues ranging from slavery over the use of force to extraterritorial jurisdiction. Contributions show ho...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Schäfer, Raphael (Editor ), Peters, Anne, 1964- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill Nijhoff, [2021]
Colección:Legal history library ; v. 50.
Legal history library. Studies in the history of international law ; v. 18.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part 1: International law and vulnerable groups
  • Strength through diversity? : the paradox of extraterritoriality and the history of the odd ones out / Madeleine Herren
  • The politics of writing on the history of slavery in international law / Anne-Charlotte Martineau
  • Edmund Burke and the ambivalence of protection for slaves : between humanity and control / Parvathi Menon
  • One hundred years of soli(dari)tude : the creation of the refugee regime and the politics of humanitarianism / Momchil Milanov
  • Part 2: The use of force discourse in a historical perspective
  • Theorising order in the shadow of war : the politics of international legal knowledge and the justification of force in modernity / Hendrik Simon
  • The road to collective security : Soviet Russia, the League of Nations, and the emergence of the ius contra bellum in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution (1917-1934) / Etienne Henry
  • Three wartime textbooks of international law / Deborah Whitehall
  • Part 3: Regional and cultural variations of international law
  • The politics of history in the Late Qing Era : William A. P. Martin and a history of international law for China / Maria Adele Carrai
  • Mixed claims commissions in Latin America during the 19th and 20th centuries : the development of international law in between Caudillos and revolutions / José Gustavo Prieto Muñoz
  • The forgotten continent? : a South African perspective on the development of African international legal thought / Angelo Dube and Lindelwa Mhlongo
  • International law and the European Court of Justice : the politics of avoiding history / Michel Erpelding
  • Part 4: The looming of the past over the 20th century
  • Civilisation, protection, restitution : a critical history of international cultural heritage law in the 19th and 20th Century / Sebastian M. Spitra
  • International law, science, and psychology in the New Haven School / Ríán Derrig
  • Histories hidden in the shadow : Vitoria and the international ostracism of Francoist Spain / Julia Bühner
  • Part 5: New methods and approaches
  • Turntablism in the history of international law / Jean d'Aspremont
  • The politics of anti-politics : historiographies of international law and the paradox of antiquity / Emiliano J. Buis
  • Taming politics or naïveté of Positivism in international law : Lassa Oppenheim and his ascertainment of customary international law / Hirofumi Oguri
  • A history of international law in the vernacular / Jacob Katz Cogan.