Politics and the Histories of International Law

Raphael Schäfer is a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute of Comparative Public Law and International Law, a doctoral candidate at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, and the managing editor of the Journal of the History of International Law. Anne Peters is a Director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, a Professor at Heidelberg, Freie Universität Berlin, and Basel, and a L. Bates Lea Global Law Professor at the University of Michigan. She is a co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of the History of International Law (OUP 2012) and currently serves as the editor-in-chief of the Journal of the History of International Law.

• Politics and the Histories of International Law: An IntroductionAnne Peters, Raphael Schäfer and Randall LesafferPart 1: International Law and Vulnerable Groups1 Strength through Diversity? The Paradox of Extraterritoriality and the History of the Odd Ones OutMadeleine Herren-Oesch2 The Politics of Writing on the History of Slavery in International LawAnne-Charlotte Martineau3 Edmund Burke and the Ambivalence of Protection for Slaves: Between Humanity and ControlParvathi Menon4 One Hundred Years of Soli(dari)tude: The Creation of the Refugee Regime and the Politics of HumanitarianismMomchil MilanovPart 2: The Use of Force Discourse in a Historical Perspective5 Theorising Order in the Shadow of War: The Politics of International Legal Knowledge and the Justification of Force in ModernityHendrik Simon6 The Road to Collective Security: Soviet Russia, the League of Nations, and the Emergence of the ius contra bellum in the Aftermath of the Russian Revolution (1917–1934)Etienne Henry7 Three Wartime Textbooks of International LawDeborah WhitehallPart 3: Regional and Cultural Variations of International Law 8 The Politics of History in the Late Qing Era: William A. P. Martin and a History of International Law for ChinaMaria Adele Carrai9 Mixed Claims Commissions in Latin America during the 19th and 20th Centuries: The Development of International Law in between Caudillos and RevolutionsGustavo Prieto10 The Forgotten Continent? A South African Perspective on the Development of African International Legal ThoughtAngelo Dube and Lindelwa Mhlongo11 International Law and the European Court of Justice: The Politics of Avoiding HistoryMichel ErpeldingPart 4: The Looming of the Past over the 20th Century12 Civilisation, Protection, Restitution: A Critical History of International Cultural Heritage Law in the 19th and 20th CenturySebastian M. Spitra13 International Law, Science and Psychology in the New Haven SchoolRíán Derrig14 Histories Hidden in the Shadow: Vitoria and the International Ostracism of Francoist SpainJulia BühnerPart 5: New Methods and Approaches 15 Turntablism in the History of International LawJean d’Aspremont16 The Politics of Anti-Politics: Historiographies of International Law and the Paradox of AntiquityEmiliano J. Buis17 Combatting Naïve Positivism by Quellenkritik: Lassa Oppenheim and His Ascertainment of Customary International LawHirofumi Oguri18 A History of International Law in the VernacularJacob Katz CoganIndex