ISBN : 9780199599752
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.
Introduction: Towards a Global History of International Law
PART ONE: ACTORS
1. Peoples and Nations
2. States
3. Peace Treaties and the Formation of International Law
4. Minorities and Majorities
5. Hostes humani generis: Pirates, Slavers, and other Criminals
6. International Arbitration and Courts
7. International Organizations: Between Technocracy and Democracy
8. Peace Movements, Civil Society, and the Development of International Law
PART TWO: THEMES
9. Territory and Boundaries
10. Cosmopolis and Utopia
11. Peace and War
12. Religion and Religious Intervention
13. The Protection of the Individual in Times of War and Peace
14. Trade, Chartered Companies, and Mercantile Associations
15. The Sea
PART THREE: REGIONS
I. AFRICA AND ARABIA
16. Africa North of the Sahara and Arab Countries
17. Africa
18. The Ottoman Empire and the Abode of Islam
II. ASIA
19. China
20. Japan
21. India
III. THE AMERICAS AND THE CARIBBEAN
22. North America: American Exceptionalism in International Law
23. Latin America
24. The Caribbean
IV. EUROPE
25. From the Late Middle Ages to the Peace of Westphalia
26. From the Peace of Westphalia to the Congress of Vienna
27. From the Congress of Vienna to the Paris Peace Treaties of 1919
28. From the Paris Peace Treaties to the End of the Second World War
V. ENCOUNTERS
29. China - Europe
30. Japan - Europe
31. India - Europe
32. Russia - Europe
33. North American Indigenous Peoples' Encounters
PART FOUR: INTERACTION OR IMPOSITION
34. Diplomacy
35. Discovery, Conquest, and Occupation of Territory
36. Colonialism and Domination
37. Slavery
38. The Civilized and the Uncivilized
PART FIVE: METHODOLOGY AND THEORY
39. A History of International Law Histories
40. Doctrine versus State Practice
41. The Periodization of the History of International Law
42. The Reception of Ancient Legal Th ought in Early Modern International Law
43. Eurocentrism in the History of International Law
44. Identifying Regions and Sub-Regions in the History of International Law
PART SIX: PEOPLE IN PORTRAIT
45. Muhammad al-Shaybani (749/50-805)
46. Francisco de Vitoria (1480-1546) and Francisco Suarez (1548-1617)
47. Alberico Gentili (1552-1608)
48. Hugo Grotius (1583-1645)
49. Samuel Pufendorf (1632-1694)
50. Christian Wolff (1679-1754)
51. Cornelius van Bynkershoek (1673-1743)
52. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)
53. Emer de Vattel (1714-1767)
54. Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
55. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831)
56. Henry Wheaton (1785-1848)
57. Francis Lieber (1798-1872)
58. Bertha von Suttner (1843-1914)
59. Friedrich Fromhold von Martens (Fyodor Fyodorovich Martens) (1845-1909)
60. Lassa Oppenheim (1858-1919)
61. Max Huber (1874-1960)
62. Georges Scelle (1878-1961)
63. Hans Kelsen (1881-1973)
64. Carl Schmitt (1888-1985)
65. Sir Hersch Lauterpacht (1897-1960)