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The World Bank's Lawyers
The Life of International Law as Institutional Practice
Inbunden, 2022
1450 kr
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The World Bank's Lawyers provides an original socio-legal account of the evolving institutional life of international law. Informed by oral archives, months of participant observation, interviews, legal memoranda, and documents obtained through freedom-of-information requests, it tells a previously …
A Century of Anarchy?
War, Normativity, and the Birth of Modern International Order
Inbunden, 2024
1515 kr
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The nineteenth century has been understood as an age in which states could wage war against each other if they deemed it politically necessary. According to this narrative, it was not until the establishment of the League of Nations, the Kellogg-Briand Pact, and the UN Charter that the 'free right …
Sovereignty, International Law, and the Princely States of Colonial South Asia
Inbunden, 2023
1476 kr
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What constitutes a sovereign state in the international legal sphere? This question has been central to international law for centuries. Sovereignty, International Law, and the Princely States of Colonial South Asia provides a compelling exploration of the history of sovereignty through an analysis …
The New Haven School
American International Law
Av Ríán Derrig
Inbunden, 2025
1640 kr
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The New Haven School was a school of legal theory and practice that was developed and taught at Yale Law School and named for its place of origin. At its centre stood a 'policy-oriented jurisprudence' - so-called for its emphasis on using law to pursue acknowledged policy aims. It was developed by …
Pufendorf's International Political and Legal Thought
Inbunden, 2024
1749 kr
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Contemporary research on the genealogy of human rights and the foundations of international law has brought renewed interest to the study of natural law in the early-modern period. German-born Samuel Pufendorf (1632-1694) is one of the eminent thinkers of this tradition, shaping the period's …
Odious Debt
Bankruptcy, International Law, and the Making of Latin America
Inbunden, 2024
1384 kr
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What are fallen tyrants owed? What makes debt illegitimate? And when is bankruptcy moral? Drawing on new archival sources, this book shows how Latin American nations have wrestled with the morality of indebtedness and insolvency since their foundation, and outlines how their history can shed new …
Victims
Perceptions of Harm in Modern European War and Violence
Inbunden, 2023
1318 kr
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Classifying people as 'victims' is a historical phenomenon with remarkable growth since the second half of the 20th century. The term victim is widely used to refer both to those who have died in wars and to people who have experienced some form of physical or psychological violence. Moreover, …
The Invention of Custom
Natural Law and the Law of Nations, ca. 1550-1750
Inbunden, 2021
1418 kr
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The concept of customary international law, although differently formulated, is already present in early modern European debates on natural law and the law of nations. However, no scholarly monograph has, until now, addressed the relationship between custom and the European natural law and ius …
Laws of All the Greeks
International Law as Social Reality in Ancient Greece
Av Jesse James
Inbunden, 2026
1712 kr
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The ancient Greek world was permeated with international law, the binding rules of behavior that Greeks across the Mediterranean followed and enforced for centuries. But why was international law effective in this world? Laws of All the Greeks offers an original answer rooted in contemporary social …
Formalizing Displacement
International Law and Population Transfers
Av Umut Özsu
Inbunden, 2014
2333 kr
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Large-scale population transfers are immensely disruptive. Interestingly, though, their legal status has shifted considerably over time. In this book, Umut Özsu situates population transfer within the broader history of international law by examining its emergence as a legally formalized mechanism …
The Right of Sovereignty
Jean Bodin on the Sovereign State and the Law of Nations
Av Daniel Lee
Inbunden, 2021
1816 kr
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Sovereignty is the vital organizing principle of modern international law. This book examines the origins of that principle in the legal and political thought of its most influential theorist, Jean Bodin (1529/30-1596). As the author argues in this study, Bodin's most lasting theoretical …
To Reform the World
International Organizations and the Making of Modern States
Inbunden, 2017
1880 kr
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This book explores how international organizations (IOs) have expanded their powers over time without formally amending their founding treaties. IOs intervene in military, financial, economic, political, social, and cultural affairs, and increasingly take on roles not explicitly assigned to them by …
The Law of Nations in Global History
Av C. H. Alexandrowicz, David Armitage m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
2248 kr
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The history and theory of international law have been transformed in recent years by post-colonial and post-imperial critiques of the universalistic claims of Western international law. The origins of those critiques lie in the often overlooked work of the remarkable Polish-British lawyer-historian …
System, Order, and International Law
The Early History of International Legal Thought from Machiavelli to Hegel
Av KADELBACH ET AL, Stefan Kadelbach m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
2241 kr
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For many centuries, thinkers have tried to understand and to conceptualize political and legal order beyond the boundaries of sovereign territories. Their concepts, deeply entangled with ideas of theology, state formation, and human nature, form the bedrock of todays theoretical discourses on …
From Slaves to Prisoners of War
The Ottoman Empire, Russia, and International Law
Av Will Smiley
Inbunden, 2018
1998 kr
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The Ottoman-Russian wars of the eighteenth century reshaped the map of Eurasia and the Middle East, but they also birthed a novel concept - the prisoner of war. For centuries, hundreds of thousands of captives, civilians and soldiers alike, crossed the legal and social boundaries of these empires, …
The Laws of War in International Thought
Inbunden, 2020
1785 kr
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The Law of Armed Conflict is usually understood to be a regime of exception that applies only during armed conflict and regulates hostilities among enemies. It assigns privileges to states far beyond what they are allowed to do in peacetime, and it mandates certain protections for non-combatants, …
International Law and Empire
Historical Explorations
Av Martti Koskenniemi, Martti Koskenniemi m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
2531 kr
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In times in which global governance in its various forms, such as human rights, international trade law, and development projects, is increasingly promoted by transnational economic actors and international institutions that seem to be detached from democratic processes of legitimation, the …
International Law and Religion
Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Av Martti Koskenniemi, Mónica García-Salmones Rovira m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
1679 kr
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This books maps out the territory of international law and religion challenging received traditions in fundamental aspects. On the one hand, the connection of international law and religion has been little explored. On the other, most of current research on international legal thought presents …
Divisions of Law
Legal Science in the Iuris Universi Distributio of Jean Bodin
Av Daniel Lee
Inbunden, 2026
1785 kr
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Legal science begins in the early modern effort to transform the academic study of classical Roman law into a systematic, rational discipline. In Divisions of Law, Daniel Lee investigates this transformation and focuses on the achievements of one major contributor to this effort, Jean Bodin …
Sovereignty
A Contribution to the Theory of Public and International Law
Av Hermann Heller, David Dyzenhaus
Inbunden, 2019
2093 kr
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Hermann Heller was one of the leading public lawyers and legal and political theorists of the Weimar era, whose main interlocutors were two of the giants of twentieth century legal and political thought, Hans Kelsen and Carl Schmitt. In this 1927 work, Hermann Heller addresses the paradox of …
Nineteenth Century Perspectives on Private International Law
Av Roxana Banu
Inbunden, 2018
1875 kr
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Private International Law is often criticized for failing to curb private power in the transnational realm. The field appears disinterested or powerless in addressing global economic and social inequality. Scholars have frequently blamed this failure on the separation between private and public …
Law and the Political Economy of Hunger
Inbunden, 2019
1869 kr
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This book is an inquiry into the role of law in the contemporary political economy of hunger. In the work of many international institutions, governments, and NGOs, law is represented as a solution to the persistence of hunger. This presentation is evident in the efforts to realize a human right to …
The New Histories of International Criminal Law
Retrials
Av Immi Tallgren, Thomas Skouteris
Inbunden, 2019
1515 kr
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The language of international criminal law has considerable traction in global politics, and much of its legitimacy is embedded in apparently 'axiomatic' historical truths. This innovative edited collection brings together some of the world's leading international lawyers with a very clear mandate …
A History of International Law in Italy
Av Giulio Bartolini, Giulio Bartolini
Inbunden, 2020
2007 kr
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This volume critically reassesses the history and impact of international law in Italy. It examines how Italy's engagement with international law has been influenced and cross-fertilized by global dynamics, in terms of theories, methodologies, or professional networks. It asks to what extent …
To Reform the World
International Organizations and the Making of Modern States
Häftad, 2019
492 kr
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This book explores how international organizations (IOs) have expanded their powers over time without formally amending their founding treaties. IOs intervene in military, financial, economic, political, social, and cultural affairs, and increasingly take on roles not explicitly assigned to them by …
Rewriting the History of the Law of Nations
How James Brown Scott Made Francisco de Vitoria the Founder of International Law
Inbunden, 2019
1581 kr
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In the interwar years, international lawyer James Brown Scott wrote a series of works on the history of his discipline. He made the case that the foundation of modern international law rested not, as most assumed, with the seventeenth-century Dutch thinker Hugo Grotius, but with sixteenth-century …
The Battle for International Law
South-North Perspectives on the Decolonization Era
Av Dann Von Bernstorff, Jochen von Bernstorff m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
2673 kr
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This volume provides the first comprehensive analysis of international legal debates between 1955 and 1975 related to the formal decolonization process. It is during this era, couched between classic European imperialism and a new form of US-led Western hegemony, that fundamental legal debates took …
The Renaissance of Roman Colonization
Carlo Sigonio and the Making of Legal Colonial Discourse
Av Jeremia Pelgrom, Arthur Weststeijn
Inbunden, 2020
1515 kr
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The colonization policies of Ancient Rome followed a range of legal arrangements concerning property distribution and state formation, documented in fragmented textual and epigraphic sources. When antiquarian scholars rediscovered and scrutinized these sources in the Renaissance, their analysis of …
Remaking Central Europe
The League of Nations and the Former Habsburg Lands
Av Wheatley Becker, Peter Becker m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
1745 kr
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Over the last two decades, the "new international order" of 1919 has grown into an expansive new area of research across multiple disciplines. With the League of Nations at its heart, the interwar settlement's innovations in international organizations, international law, and many other areas …
Jews, Sovereignty, and International Law
Ideology and Ambivalence in Early Israeli Legal Diplomacy
Av Rotem Giladi
Inbunden, 2021
1731 kr
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By departing from accounts of a universalist component in Israel's early foreign policy, Rotem Giladi challenges prevalent assumptions on the cosmopolitan outlook of Jewish international law scholars and practitioners, offers new vantage points on modern Jewish history, and critiques orthodox …
