In the Shadow of Vitoria: A History of International Law in Spain (1770-1953)

Ignacio de la Rasilla del Moral, Ph.D. (2011) The Graduate Institute, Geneva, is Senior Lecturer in Law at Brunel University London. He has published and edited extensively in the fields of public international law and its history including Historia del Pensamiento Internacionalista Español del siglo XX (Thompson Reuters, 2012).

• AcknowledgmentsA History of International Law in Spain, 1770–1953Introduction1 The Study of International Law in the Spanish Nineteenth CenturyThe Academic Study of International Law—An Early Spanish AwakeningEnlightened Despotism and the Study of the Law of Peoples in SpainThe Law of Peoples in Spain From the 1812 Constitution of Cadiz to the Aftermath of the Independence of the Latin-American RepublicsThe First Professorships in International Law in SpainRevolution in Spain and ‘Conscience Juridique du Monde Civilisé’The First ‘Professional Generation’ in SpainThe First ‘Renaissance’ of Francisco Vitoria2 A Point of Inflection for International Law in Spain and the United StatesThe Spanish-American War—A Point of Inflection for International LawThe Legacy of the Nineteenth Century in the U.S.’ International Legal AcademiaThe Insular Cases. The Standard of Civilization and Universal ParticularismEducation and Spanish International Lawyers—The ‘Institutionist’ CreedRevista de Derecho Internacional y Política ExteriorInternational Codification—The Hague ConferencesColonial Policy of Substitution—The Moroccan QuestionThe Founding of the American Society of International LawJames Brown Scott—The Omnipresent ‘Amigo Americano’3 The Silver Age of International Law in Spain‘The Strongest Breakthrough for the World at Large’The League—A Fundamental TransformationThe Spanish Policy of Prestige and Revisionism at the League and the Second ‘Professional Generation’ of Spanish International Law ScholarsThe Re-Awakening of Universalism—The ‘International Community’ in the Interwar DoctrineThe Founding of the Association Francisco de VitoriaThe Second Spanish Republic—A Principled Engagement with Internationalism4 The Spanish Civil War—Inter Armas Pugnant LegesNon-Intervention in the ‘Last Great Cause’Setting the Stage for the Localization of the Spanish Civil War and the League of NationsInternational Legal Aspects of the Spanish Civil WarH. Lauterpacht and the Practitioner’s Approach to the Spanish Civil WarFrancisco de Vitoria and the Spanish Civil War5 Noli Foras Ire. In Hispaniae Habitat VeritasUnity of Fate in the UniversalThe Fascist Mimesis of International Law in Spain and the Axis TemptationThe ‘Vitorian’ Aftermath and Autarchic OstracismHispanidad, International Law and International Re-AlignmentConclusionBibliographyIndex