Research Handbook on the Theory and History of International Law

Acclaim for the First Edition: 'It is a good time in which to be a thinker about the remarkable present and the daunting future of the human world. The present volume will encourage more thinkers and more thought. It could not be more timely or more necessary.' -- From the Foreword to the First Edition by Philip Allott

Edited by Alexander Orakhelashvili, Professor, School of Law, University of Birmingham, UK

Contents: Foreword to the First Edition viii Editors Preface to the Second Edition x PART I THE ESSENCE AND DEVELOPMENT OF INTERNATIONAL LEGAL THEORY 1 The relevance of theory and history: the essence and origins of international law 2 Alexander Orakhelashvili 2 Early-modern scholarship on international law 19 Alain Wijffels 3 Natural law and the law of nations 58 Patrick Capps 4 The origins of consensual positivism: Pufendorf, Wolff and Vattel 90 Alexander Orakhelashvili 5 The transformation of international law in the nineteenth century 108 Amnon Lev 6 Hans Kelsens place in international legal theory 139 Jrg Kammerhofer PART II THEMATIC ASPECTS OF INTERNATIONAL LEGAL THEORY 7 International human rights law theory 164 Frdric Mgret 8 The philosophy of international criminal law 200 Robert Cryer and Albert Nell 9 International law, international politics and ideology 240 Alexander Orakhelashvili PART III HISTORY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 10 Periodization and international law 281 William E. Butler 11 Origins, record and narratives: uses and abuses of international legal history 296 Alexander Orakhelashvili 12 Acculturation through the Middle Ages: the Islamic law of nations and its place in the history of international law 312 Jean Allain 13 The classical law of nations 326 Randall Lesaffer 14 The nineteenth-century life of international law 359 Alexander Orakhelashvili 15 International law between universality and regional fragmentation: the historical case of Russia 373 Lauri Mlksoo 16 International law in the twentieth century 394 Carlo Focarelli 17 International law in the early twenty-first century 444 Tom Ruys and Anemoon Soete Index 474