Empire and Legal Thought

Edward Cavanagh was a Fellow (2016-2019) of Downing College, after attaining his PhD from the University of Ottawa (2012-2015). His scholarly interests lie at the crossroads of law and history.

• PrefaceNotes on Contributors1Empire and Legal Thought: An IntroductionEdward Cavanagh2The First ‘Lawyers’? Judicial Offices, Administration and Legal Pluralism in Ancient Egypt, ca. 2500–1800BCEAlexandre A. Loktionov3After the Empire: Judicial Review and Athenian Interstate Relations in the Age of Demosthenes, 354–22BCEAlberto Esu4Public Law and Republican Empire in Rome, 200–27BCEClifford Ando5Compromise and Coercion: Imperial Motives Behind Justinianic Legislation in Sixth-century ConstantinopleHalcyon Weber6Muslims and Non-orthodox Christians in Byzantine Law until ca. 1100Zachary Chitwood7Roman Public Law in the Twelfth Century: Politics, Jurisprudence, and Reverence for AntiquityEmanuele Conte8Ius gentium: The Metamorphoses of a Legal Concept (Ancient Rome to Early Modern Europe)Dante Fedele9‘Exiit edictum a Caesare Augusto ut describeretur universus orbis’ (Luke 2:1–2): Debating Imperial Authority in Late Medieval Legal and Political Thought (12th–14th Centuries)Tiziana Faitini10Ideas of Empire in the Thought of the Late Medieval Roman Law JuristsJoseph Canning11Medieval Pisa as a Colonial Laboratory in the Historiographical Imagination of the Early Twentieth CenturyLorenzo Veracini12Open and Closed Seas: The Grotius-Selden Dialogue at the Heart of Liberal ImperialismMark Somos13Littoral Leviathan: Histories of Oceans, Laws, and EmpiresMatthew Crow14From Procedural Law to the ‘Rights of Humanity’: Habeas corpus,Ex parte Somerset (1771–72), and the Movement toward Collective Representation in Early British Antislavery CasesSarah Winter15Prerogative and Office in Pre-revolutionary New York: Feudal Legalism, Land Patenting, and Sir William Johnson, Indian Superintendent (1756-1774)P.G. McHugh16The Pure Reason of Lex Scripta: Jurisprudential Philology and the Domain of Instituted Laws during Early British Colonial Rule in India (1770s–1820s)Naveen Kanalu17James Bryce’s Home Rule Constitutionalism and Victorian HistoriographyJordan Rudinsky18Crown, Conquest, Concession, and Corporation: British Legal Ideas and Institutions in Matabeleland and Southern Rhodesia, 1889–1919Edward Cavanagh19British War Office Manuals and International Law, 1899–1907Lia Brazil20Reich, Imperium, Empire: Carl Schmitt and the ‘Overcoming of the Concept of the State’Joshua SmeltzerIndex