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Regeneration and Hegemony
Franco-Batavian Relations in the Revolutionary Era, 1795-1803
Inbunden, 2011
3193 kr
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What is the relevance of law to a world dominated by a hegemon? What is the relation between power and law at the international level? In this volume, these questions are approached based on a case study of relations between France and the Netherlands throughout the Revolutionary Wars. It shows …
Theory and Politics of the Law of Nations
Political Bias in International Law Discourse of Seven German Court Councilors in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Inbunden, 2011
2184 kr
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Emergence of the modern science of international law in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries is usually attributed to Hugo Grotius (1583-1645) and other “founders of international law.” Based on the belief that “all seventeenth and eighteenth-century writers of international law had their own …
Tracing the Earliest Recorded Concepts of International Law
The Ancient Near East (2500-330 BCE)
Av Amnon Altman
Inbunden, 2012
2550 kr
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This book offers a unique survey of legal practices and ideas relating to international relations in the Ancient Near East between 2500 and 330 BCE. Rather than entering into the debate on the continuous development of international law in Antiquity, the book discloses a vast amount of textual …
Roots of International Law / Les fondements du droit international
Liber Amicorum Peter Haggenmacher
Inbunden, 2013
3995 kr
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This collection of essays gathers contributions from leading international lawyers from different countries, generations and angles with the aim of highlighting the multifaceted history of international law. This volume questions and analyses the origins and foundations of the international legal …
Twelve Years Truce (1609)
Peace, Truce, War and Law in the Low Countries at the Turn of the 17th Century
Inbunden, 2014
2388 kr
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The Twelve Years Truce of 9 April 1609 made a temporary end to the hostilities between Spain and the Northern Netherlands that had lasted for over four decades. The Truce signified a crucial step in the recognition of the Republic of the Northern Netherlands as a sovereign power. As the direct …
Balance of Power and Norm Hierarchy: Franco-British Diplomacy after the Peace of Utrecht
Inbunden, 2015
3600 kr
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Balance of Power and Norm Hierarchy: Franco-British Diplomacy after the Peace of Utrecht offers a detailed study of French and British diplomacy in the age of ‘Walpole and Fleury’. After Louis XIV’s decease, European international relations were dominated by the collaboration between James Stanhope …
In the Shadow of Vitoria: A History of International Law in Spain (1770-1953)
Av Ignacio de la Rasilla del Moral
Inbunden, 2017
2208 kr
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In the Shadow of Vitoria: A History of International Law in Spain (1770-1953) offers the first comprehensive treatment of the intellectual evolution of international law in Spain from the late 18th century to the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War. Ignacio de la Rasilla del Moral recounts the …
War and Peace
Alberico Gentili and the Early Modern Law of Nations
Inbunden, 2020
3130 kr
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This treatise investigates the emergence of the early modern law of nations, focusing on Alberico Gentili’s contribution to the same. A religious refugee and Regius Professor at the University of Oxford, Alberico Gentili (1552–1608) lived in difficult times of religious wars and political …
Taming Ares: War, Interstate Law, and Humanitarian Discourse in Classical Greece
Inbunden, 2018
2642 kr
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In Taming Ares Emiliano J. Buis examines the sources of classical Greece to challenge both the state-centeredness of mainstream international legal history and the omnipresence of war and excessive violence in ancient times. Making ample use of epigraphic as well as literary, rhetorical, and …
Conflict Management in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, 1000-1800
Actors, Institutions and Strategies of Dispute Settlement
Inbunden, 2020
2553 kr
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Pre-modern long-distance trade was fraught with risks which often created conflicts of interest. The ensuing disputes and the ways the actors involved dealt with them belong to the field of conflict management. How did victims of maritime conflicts claim compensation? How did individual actors and …
Whiggish International Law
Elihu Root, the Monroe Doctrine, and International Law in the Americas
Inbunden, 2019
1741 kr
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International law’s turn to history in the Americas receives invigorated refreshment with Christopher Rossi’s adaptation of the insightful and inter-disciplinary teachings of the English School and Cambridge contextualists to problems of hemispheric methodology and historiography. Rossi sheds new …
International Law in the Long Nineteenth Century (1776-1914)
From the Public Law of Europe to Global International Law?
Av Inge Van Hulle, Randall C.H. Lesaffer
Inbunden, 2019
1948 kr
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International Law in the Long Nineteenth Century gathers ten studies that reflect the ever-growing variety of themes and approaches that scholars from different disciplines bring to the historiography of international law in the period. Three themes are explored: ‘international law and revolutions’ …
Empire and Legal Thought
Ideas and Institutions from Antiquity to Modernity
Inbunden, 2020
2964 kr
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Emphatic of the importance of legal thought to the rise and fall of empires, this book highlights the centrality of empires to the development of legal thought.Comprehension of the development of legal thought over time is necessary for any historical, philosophical, practical, or theoretical …
Origins of an International Legal Order of Peace and Justice
Peace through Law
Inbunden, 2026
1969 kr
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Globalisation and the fundamental transformations of the 19th and early 20th centuries also brought about a change in international law. In the face of the omnipresent struggle for influence between the great powers, a movement gained ground on the international scene that sought to base …
Intellectual Property and the Law of Nations, 1860-1920
Inbunden, 2022
2064 kr
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What was the state of the law and how states managed to fulfil their international legal obligations under the law of nations with respect to intellectual property protection? 13 contributors show how the transition of intellectual property from private rights holders and their non-state patrons …
Medieval Foundations of International Law
Baldus de Ubaldis (1327–1400), Doctrine and Practice of the Ius Gentium
Av Dante Fedele
Inbunden, 2021
3391 kr
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Dante Fedele’s new work of reference reveals the medieval foundations of international law through a comprehensive study of a key figure of late medieval legal scholarship: Baldus de Ubaldis (1327-1400). A student of Bartolus de Sassoferrato, Baldus wrote both extensive commentaries on Roman, canon …
Politics and the Histories of International Law
The Quest for Knowledge and Justice
Inbunden, 2021
1809 kr
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What are the implications of writing the history of legal issues? Eighteen authors from different legal systems and backgrounds offer different answers, by examining the history writing on issues ranging from slavery over the use of force to extraterritorial jurisdiction. Contributions show how …
History, Casuistry and Custom in the Legal Thought of Francisco Suárez (1548-1617)
Collected Studies
Inbunden, 2021
1585 kr
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The thought and work of the Jesuit Francisco Suárez (1548-1617) is widely acknowledged as the culmination point of the contribution of the theologians and jurists of the so-called School of Salamanca to the development of modern Western law. This collection of studies on the legal work of Suárez …
Role of Theoretical Debate in the Evolution of National and International Patent Protection
From the French Revolution to the Paris Convention of 1883
Inbunden, 2021
2017 kr
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This volume offers new insight into key developments in the history of protection for patent rights during the period 1791-1883. The author presents a detailed examination of the underlying theoretical bases advanced for the protection of patents in various key European countries, and including new …
Elisabeth Mann Borgese and the Law of the Sea
Av Tirza Meyer
Inbunden, 2022
1681 kr
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In the late twentieth century, as the United Nations struggled to come up with a new legal system for the oceans, one woman saw the opportunity to promote radical new ideas of justice and internationalism. Ocean governance expert Elisabeth Mann Borgese (1918–2002) spent decades working with the …
Emergence of Privateering
Av J.D. Ford
Inbunden, 2023
2499 kr
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Privateering was legal whereas piracy was illegal. That much everyone knows. But what exactly was privateering? Answering this question turns out to depend not so much on the relationship between privateering and piracy as on the relationship between privateering and other forms of maritime raiding …
Japan’s Territory under International Law
Inbunden, 2024
1873 kr
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This title is published in Open Access with the support of the Japan Institute of International Affairs.This volume sheds light on Japan's territorial situation from a unique perspective by analyzing the historical evolution of the concept of “territory” and the various legal theories on resolving …
Silent Peacemaker: Intellectual Property Rights and the Interwar International Legal Order, 1919–1939
Inbunden, 2024
1978 kr
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This collection of essays explores the role intellectual property played in the interwar period and the expansion and protection of intellectual property rights. The geographical scope of the book is global so as to give perspectives from different regions on how intellectual property law …
Justifying Utopia
A Legal History of the International Peace Movement (1815–1873)
Inbunden, 2025
2727 kr
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When and why did international law begin to oppose war? For centuries, sovereignty implied the right to wage war. Yet over the past hundred years, a remarkable succession of treaties, courts, and organisations sprang to life that sought to prohibit war. From a fringe ambition, the ideal of ‘peace …
Mare Clausum: The Formation of the Law of the Sea in Pre-modern State Practice and Legal Doctrine (c. 1350–1650)
Inbunden, 2025
2348 kr
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Who owns the sea? This book explores this timeless question by tracing the development of claims over the sea from the late Middle Ages to the early modern era, shedding light on the complex interplay between legal arguments, political interests, and geostrategic realities. By the time Hugo …
Consular Jurisdiction
On the History of the Judicial Functions of Consulates (12th–20th Century)
Inbunden, 2026
2044 kr
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For today’s practitioners, the history of the judicial functions of consulates is far more colourful and obscure than modern consular law might suggest. Take, for instance, Consul Annibale de Rossetti in Egypt, who had to arbitrate a lawsuit between two German merchants and was completely …
Carl Schmitt and Francisco de Vitoria
The Paradox of Universalism in International Law
Inbunden, 2026
2647 kr
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What could the critically labelled 'crown jurist of the Third Reich' and a 16th-century Dominican friar at Salamanca University—long revered as the founding father of international law during the age of discovery—possibly share? This pioneering multi-author volume is the first to examine the …
Accountability for War Crimes in the Policy of the Polish Government-in-Exile
A Legal and Historical Analysis
Inbunden, 2026
1525 kr
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This book excavates the often neglected role of the Polish government-in-exile within the Allied war crimes trial programme and post-1945 international law. Drawing on newly examined archival sources and biographies of key émigré lawyers, it reveals how Polish and other European jurists helped …
