Cambridge University Press, 2001. — 322 p. — ISBN: 0-521-79197-9 ; 978-0-521-79197-7; 0-521-03359-4 ; 978-0-521-03359-6. This study of the origins of international law combines techniques of intellectual history and historiography to investigate the earliest developments of the law of nations. The book examines the sources, processes, and doctrines of international legal...
Springer, 2017. — 211 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-62997-1 ; ISBN: 978-3-319-62998-8. This book seeks to demonstrate Francisco de Vitoria’s attempt to create a new supra-national juridical order. This, although it was clearly intended to offer some degree of legitimacy for the Spanish occupation of the Americas, was also conceived as a “law of nations” that, while grounded ultimately...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 301 p. Law and Colonial Cultures advances a new perspective in world history, arguing that cultural practice and institutions – not just the global economy – shaped colonial rule and the international order. The book examines the shift from the multicentric law of early modern empires to the state-centered law of high colonialism. In the...
Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2007. — 264 p. — ISBN13: 978-90-04-15481-0 ; ISBN10: 90-04-15481-7. This book examines theoretical and practical issues concerning the relationship between international law, time and history. Problems relating to time and history are ever-present in the work of international lawyers, whether understood in terms of the role of historic practice in...
Firenze: Fratelli Cammelli. 1900 — 1380 p. I trattati di diritto internazionale privato generalmente hanno per principale oggetto la risoluzione dei conflitti di legislazione che sorgono dalle diversità delle leggi civili dei vari Stati; mentre le questioni che riguardano i conflitti fra le leggi o gli usi commerciali vigenti nei singoli paesi, vi sono discusse incidentalmente...
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 734 p. — ISBN: 978-1-107-12399-1. At the beginning was the Bandung Conference. For those who were there at the creation – Nehru, Cho-en-Lai, Sukarno, Nasser, among others – it was a defining moment; a moment of self-awareness and recognition that they were the witnesses and agents of the advent of a new and potentially potent force on the...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. — 950 p. — (Oxford Handbooks Online). — ISBN 978–0–19–959975–2 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...
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 390 p. — ISBN: 978-1-107-07649-5. This book analyses the laws that shaped modern European empires from medieval times to the twentieth century. Its geographical scope is global, including the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia and the Poles. Andrew Fitzmaurice focuses upon the use of the law of occupation to justify and critique the...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. — 280 p. Women were historically treated in wartime as property. Yet in the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907, prohibitions against pillaging property did not extend to the female body. There is a gap of nearly a hundred years between those early prohibitions of pillage and the prohibition of rape finally enacted in the Rome Statute of...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 417 p. — ISBN 978–0–19–879557–5. This book is an attempt make sense of the highly complex, shifting, and allusive relationship between law and empire by examining key aspects of its history across the globe from AD to the present. It takes a broad and nuanced view of what constitutes ‘international law’ and, more problematical still, what...
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 263 p. — IISBN 978 — 0 — 19 — 539162 — 6. Britain and Slave Trade : The Rise of Abolitionism The United States and the Slave Trade : An Ambivalent Foe The Courts of Mixed Comission for the Abolition of Slave Trade Am I Not a Man and a Brother? Hostis Humani Generis : Enemies of Mankind From Crisis to Success : Final Abolition of the Slave Trade...
Harvard University Press, 2014. — 641 p. — ISBN: 978-0-674-72529-4. Part One : Law and Morality Abroad ( to ca. ad 1550 ) Part Two : Reason and Its Rivals ( ca. 1550-1815 ) Part Three : Positive Century ( 1815-1914 ) Part Four : Between Yesterday and Tomorow ( 1914- ) Bibliographic Essay
Princeton University Press, 2012. — 379 p. — (Human Rights and Crimes Against Humanity). "During the past several decades, the international human rights movement has had a crucial hand in the struggle against totalitarian regimes, cruelties in wars, and crimes against humanity. Today, it grapples with the war against terror and subsequent abuses of government power. In The...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 436 p. Institutional and political developments since the end of the Cold War have led to a revival of public interest in, and anxiety about, international law. Liberal international law is appealed to as offering a means of constraining power, representing universal values and governing relations between sovereign states. This book brings...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 278 p. — ISBN: 9780190622343. International law has played a crucial role in the construction of imperial projects. Yet within the growing field of studies about the history of international law and empire, scholars have seldom considered this complicit relationship in the Americas. The Hidden History of International Law in the Americas offers...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 413 p. The presence of Great Powers and outlaw states is a central but under-explored feature of international society. In this book, Gerry Simpson describes the ways in which an international legal order based on ‘sovereign equality’ has, since the beginning of the nineteenth century, accommodated the Great Powers and regulated outlaw...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 288 p. The language of international criminal law has considerable traction in global politics, and much of its legitimacy is embedded in apparently "axiomatic" historical truths. This innovative edited collection brings together some of the world's leading international lawyers with a very clear mandate in mind: to re-evaluate ("retry") the...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 539 p. The International Court of Justice at The Hague is the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, and the successor of the Permanent Court of International Justice (1923--46), which was the first real permanent court of justice at the international level. This book analyses the ground-breaking contribution of the Permanent Court...
N.Y., 1845 This work was originally written and published in the French language as a Memoire in answer to the following prize question proposed by the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences in the Institute of France : "Quels sont les progres qu'a fait le droit des gens en Europe depuis la Paix de Westphalie ?" In rendering it into our language the author has considerably...
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