History of International Legal Thought Research Papers

This reference dictionary contains biobibliographic materials about 27 scientists who worked or works at the Department of International and European (International) Law, Faculty of Law, Kharkiv University. The publication is intended for... more

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On 11 June 2011, the United Nations Human Rights Council endorsed the ‘Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights’ as a new set of guiding principles for global business designed to provide a global standard for preventing and... more

This book presents a legal genealogy of biodiversity – of its strategic use before and after the adoption of the Convention on Biological Diversity, 1993. This history of ‘genetic gold’ details how, with the aid of international law, the... more

The theme running through this analysis is the medium, rather than the content, is the most important aspect of communication and command. The paper thinks of law through the lens of communication theory and cybernetics. Law is... more

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- by John Haskell
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  Critical Theory, Jurisprudence, Sociology of Law, Legal Profession

European Journal of International Law, vol. 13 (2002), no. 2, pp. 479-512. -- This essay presents some reflections on what today is widely regarded as the standard book on the history of international law, and on its author, Wilhelm G.... more

This article presents a summary of the author’s current project on contemporary and nineteenth century approaches to international legal history writing. It asks questions on writing history today and presents a sketch of a few jurists... more

Peripheral international legal histories are considered a new subfield of the discipline's historiography, though there is no defined canon, chronology, or accepted set of theoretical questions or conflicts. Despite the absence of an... more

It is clear that the Lutheran Reformation greatly contributed to changes in theological and legal ideas – but what was the extent of its impact on the field of contract law? Historians have extensively studied the contract doctrines... more

2008) © Dott. A. Giuffrè Editore -Milano PAOLO CARTA PENSIERO GIURIDICO E RIFLESSIONE POLITICA IN ANTONIO PIGLIARU: DALLA LEZIONE DI CAPOGRASSI ALL'EREDITA v DI GRAMSCI L'intensa esperienza di Antonio Pigliaru (Orune, 17 agosto 1922... more

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- by Paolo Carta
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  Law, Anthropology, Political Theory, Postcolonial Studies

Bartolomé de las Casas and the Defense of Amerindian Rights: A Brief History with Documents provides the most wide-ranging and concise anthology of Las Casas's writings, in translation, ever made available. It contains not only excerpts... more

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- by David Lantigua and +1
  Lawrence Clayton
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- 19
  Latin American Studies, Latin American and Caribbean History, Human Rights, Postcolonial Studies

Alberico Gentili (San Ginesio 1552 - Londra 1608) studia presso l’Università di Perugia dove si laurea in diritto civile il 23 settembre 1572. Nel 1580 è costretto a fuggire dall’Italia, per motivi religiosi, per giungere a Londra in... more

Alberico Gentili (San Ginesio 1552 - Londra 1608) studia presso l’Università di Perugia dove si laurea in diritto civile il 23 settembre 1572. Nel 1580 è costretto a fuggire dall’Italia, per motivi religiosi, per giungere a Londra in agosto, dopo aver attraversato l’Europa. Nel 1587 viene nominato da Elisabetta I regius professor di civil law presso l’Università di Oxford. Malgrado la solida preparazione giuridica ed i legami costruiti nei primi anni di permanenza sul suolo inglese con gli ambienti politici e accademici, la nomina a regius professor era stata profondamente avversata, da più parti: molto probabilmente dagli ambienti umanistici, ed in particolare da Jean Hotman il quale, pur avendo manifestato inizialmente sentimenti di affettuosa amicizia e solidarietà col giurista italiano, si distaccherà da lui dopo la pubblicazione, da parte di Gentili, della sua prima opera e, poco dopo, da parte degli ambienti religiosi puritani.
Mentre i dissensi con Hotman e gli umanisti erano destinati ad affievolirsi, anche in ragione della metodologia seguita dal Gentili nella pubblicazione delle opere successive, ben diverse saranno, a partire dal 1585, le relazioni del giurista italiano con alcuni esponenti della teologia puritana ed in particolare con John Rainolds, teologo autorevolissimo, col quale avrà, fra il 1593 e il 1594, un denso e polemico scambio epistolare. Alcune delle idee espresse nei volumi pubblicati fra il 1585 e il 1593 non solo non saranno condivise dagli ambienti puritani, ma risulteranno da essi fortemente avversate. Alcuni passaggi di queste opere, e gli inediti conservati nella Bodleian Library e nel Corpus Christi College di Oxford, che attestano, fra l’altro, le avversità di cui Alberico fu oggetto, anche in ragione della sua “italianità”, costituiscono la fonte da cui muovere per una migliore comprensione della sua vicenda umana e del suo pensiero.
Un percorso, quello del giurista di San Ginesio, che proseguirà nel 1598, allorquando darà alle stampe la sua opera più nota, i De iure belli libri tres, e che si completerà nel 1601, con la pubblicazione dei Disputationum de nuptiis libri VII: nel I Libro, riprendendo le ragioni della polemica con il Rainolds, esprimerà compiutamente il suo pensiero circa il rapporto fra diritto, teologia e religione e l’individuazione degli ambiti di competenza del giurista e del teologo. Convincimenti che la letteratura contemporanea tende talvolta a racchiudere nel Silete theologi in munere alieno: espressione notissima vergata a conclusione del capitolo XII del I Libro del De iure belli, che necessita, per essere pienamente compresa, di essere inserita nel lungo percorso compiuto dal giurista di San Ginesio nell’arco di circa un ventennio.
Giuristi e teologi si confrontarono, dunque, su questioni che, fra XVI e XVII secolo, furono cruciali nel dibattito scientifico del Vecchio Continente, e che, in modi e forme sostanzialmente diverse da quel lontano passato, stanno tornando prepotentemente di grande attualità. Su di esse, pertanto, appare necessario tornare criticamente a riflettere, anche alla luce delle idee espresse da uno dei maggiori pensatori della prima Età moderna.

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- by Giovanni Minnucci and +1
  Monduzzi Editoriale Cisalpino
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  History, Modern History, Intellectual History, Cultural History

Common accounts of the development of territorial jurisdiction follow a "rise and fall" narrative. Territorial jurisdiction began in the mid-17th century, and declined due to technological revolutions in communications and transportation... more

An ambitious State with multi-continental holdings, the legal authority of the Ottoman Empire was subject to different interpretations at different times. This chapter is con cerned primarily with the Ottoman capitulations. It argues that... more

Ethnicity and International Law presents an historical account of the impact of ethnicity on the making of international law. The development of international law since the nineteenth century is characterised by the inherent tension... more

Висвітлюється розвиток правового змісту моделей української державності, обумовлених у договорах Війська Запорозького із східноєвропейськими державами у другій половині XVII — на початку XVIII століття. Визначено теоретичне підґрунтя та... more

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- by Umut Özsu
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  International Law, Sovereignty, Legal History, African History

This paper presents an empirical case for inclusions of evidence from Indian Knowledge Systems into those history narratives of constitutional law that aspire to be inclusively global in their academic concern for, amongst other legal... more

The debates on how Europe can be organized as a unity took place in the National Socialist Germany too. The aim at that time was to unite Europe under German hegemony – as a “large space” around a German empire.... more

This Chapter seeks to problematize the blunt characterization of African international legal scholarship as either weak (‘contributionist’) or strong (‘critical’) by reading it through African literature. Returning to founding moments of... more

This Chapter seeks to problematize the blunt characterization of African international legal scholarship as either weak (‘contributionist’) or strong (‘critical’) by reading it through African literature. Returning to founding moments of these two disciplines (the ‘African Conference on the Rule of Law’ in Lagos (1961) and the ‘African Writers Conference’ in Makarere (1962)), it will consider how the evolving debates amongst African writers about the ‘decolonisation’ of the novel in English might be used to re-read this ‘weak’ and ‘strong’ division in international legal scholarship.

It will argue that the participants at Lagos (i.e. Elias) and Makarere (i.e. Achebe) adopted a thin, literal account of ‘decolonisation’, that did not pay attention to the ways in which their respective forms ‘inherited’ from colonialism – i.e. novels written in English and international law – might themselves demand decolonizing. By the 1970s, African writers like Ngugi wa Thiongo had shifted their attention from formal ‘decolonisation’ to the possibility (or otherwise) of the ‘decolonisation’ of form itself, a shift registered in the work of international lawyers such as Umozurike as well. By reading African international law scholarship through African literature, this Chapter aims to draw attention to the changing intellectual and political contexts that made different constructions of ‘decolonisation’ in both disciplines – paraphrasing Mudimbe - ‘both thinkable and feasible’, in different ‘postcolonial’ presents.

Re-reading African international legal scholarship in this light suggests that context can, in part, explain the comparative ‘weakness’ and ‘strength’ of Elias’ and Umozurike’s anti-colonialism. However, the analogy between African literature and international law cuts both ways; and the paper will end by considering the vastly different influences of the Nigeria-Biafra War on African writers and international lawyers, calling attention to the limits of ‘contextualization’, and the importance of biography and discipline.

In the past 10–15 years, an increasing number of revisionist scholars have rejected the most significant elements of the argument about the centrality of the Peace of Westphalia (1648) to the evolution and structure of international... more

Статья посвящена исследованию методологических оснований юридического позитивизма. Автор указывает на четыре основных значения "позитивизма в юриспруденции", раскрывает существенные различия между этатистским и социологическим позитивизмом.

A recently discovered political and legal treatise, Antineutralidad (1640), has been attracting attention in scholarship. This paper extensively scrutinizes the dating and authorship of the text. Sources found in several European archives... more

This study examines the history of Indian-settler legal relations in Indiana, from the state’s pre-territorial period to the late-nineteenth century. Through a variety of interdisciplinary sources and methods, the author constructs a... more

This study examines the history of Indian-settler legal relations in Indiana, from the state’s pre-territorial period to the late-nineteenth century. Through a variety of interdisciplinary sources and methods, the author constructs a broad narrative on the evolution and co-existence of Native and non-Native customary legal systems in the region, focusing on matters related to marriage, property rights, and testimony. The primary thesis—which emphasizes reciprocally formative relations, rather than persistent conflict—suggests that Indiana’s pre-modern legal past involved an ad hoc yet highly effective process of cultural brokerage, reciprocity and inter-personal accommodation. That the American Indians lost much of their self-governing status following the period of contact is clear; however, a closer look at the ways in which nations historically defined, exercised, asserted, and shared jurisdiction, reveals a more intricate story of influence, authority, and concession. During the French and British colonial and American territorial periods, settler society adjusted to and often accommodated Native concepts of law and justice. Through a complex order of social obligations and community-based enforcement mechanisms, a shared set of rules and jurisdictional practices merged, forming a hybrid system of Indian-settler norms that bound these individuals across the cultural divide. When Indiana entered the Union in 1816, legal pluralism defined jurisdictional practice. However, with the nineteenth-century rise of legal positivism—the idea of law as the sole command of the nation-state, a sovereign entity vested with exclusive authority—territorial jurisdiction and legal uniformity became guiding principles. Many jurists viewed the informal, pre-existing custom-based regulatory structures with contempt. With the shift to a state-centered legal order, lawmakers established strict standards for recognizing the law of the “other,” ultimately rejecting the status of the tribes as equal sovereigns and forcing them to concede jurisdiction to the settler polity.

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- by Ryan Schwier
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  History, American Indian History, Legal History, American Indian Law

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This article demonstrates the overlooked contribution of the ancient Near East to the development of constitutional law. The legal corpus of Deuteronomy provides a utopian model for the organization of the state, one that enshrines... more

The status of ‘international law’ is examined critically. In the first section, the basis of (national) legislation is described. This consists of an inquiry into a credible meaning of ‘natural law’. It is focused on the question whether... more

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- by Jasper Doomen
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  Business, Law, Jurisprudence, Comparative Law

Beginning in the early 1990s, Third World Approaches to International Law scholarship (TWAIL) destabilized the mainstream narrative within international law that its doctrines were constituted by the historic search for order between... more

The inauguration of the International Criminal Court and the proliferation of criminal tribunals over the last twenty years are often presented as historic and progressive moments in the trajectory of interna

This is the final table of contents, introduction and all 60 chapter abstracts for the volume "Concepts for International Law: Contributions to Disciplinary Thought." The introduction, entitled 'The Life of International Law and its... more

This article examines the history of suzerainty in international law and the use of that term in the 1914 Simla Agreement between Britain, China and Tibet. The Agreement has the distinction of being simultaneously obscure and a... more

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- by Amy Kellam
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  International Law, Tibetan Studies, Tibet, China

In a tribute to James Leslie Brierly (1881-1955) published in the British Yearbook of International Law shortly after his death, Hersch Lauterpacht (1897-1960) described the late jurist’s greatest contribution to international law in... more

In a tribute to James Leslie Brierly (1881-1955) published in the British Yearbook of International Law shortly after his death, Hersch Lauterpacht (1897-1960) described the late jurist’s greatest contribution to international law in having adopted what he termed ‘a progressive conception of international law’. In many respects, it is clear that Lauterpacht shared in this conception of international law. Most obviously, despite disagreement on one or two ‘fundamentals’, both jurists shared many similar commitments, which we might position towards the liberal-reformist end of the disciplinary spectrum – for instance, their aversion to a strictly positivist and State-centric approach to international law, as well as their belief that, ultimately, the individual human being stood centre stage as the primary subject of international law. However, it is really in terms of their method and core understanding of the role of the international lawyer in shaping international law doctrines that both jurists should be considered together as developing a progressive agenda. Indeed, insofar as both jurists emerged during the interbellum period – an era described by Lauterpacht himself as ‘a period of transition and reassessment of values’ that ‘witnessed radical changes in the doctrine of international law’ – the enduring influence of both lies in the path that they are able to steer between the moral certainties of international law’s historical origins, and the more sceptical modernity of the years that followed. It is this careful approach that makes both true progenitors to the kind of progressive internationalism which has become a hallmark of more ‘mainstream’ approaches to international law today. In this chapter, therefore, I give an account of Lauterpacht and Brierly’s method and approach, positioning it as a particular product of the disappointment and upheaval witnessed in the interbellum period.

Forthcoming in R McCorquodale and J-P Gauci (eds), British Influences on International Law 1915-2015 (Brill, 2016)

Before international relations in the West, there were Christian-infidel relations. Infidels and Empires in a New World Order decenters the dominant story of international relations beginning with Westphalia in 1648 by looking a century... more

Tor Krever on Jennifer Pitts, Boundaries of the International. Formation of international legal theory in Europe’s encounters with its eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Others.

in The Formation and Transmission of Western Legal Culture, 150 Books that made the Law in the Age of Printing, edd. S. Dauchy, G. Martyn, A. Musson, H. Pihlajamäki, A. Wijffels (Studies in the History of Law and Justice, 7; Springer ed.... more

We think of international lawyers as “a society of Brahmins,” Justice Robert Jackson declared in 1945, “but it would be nearer the truth to say that it is a collection of pariahs.” Do the rarified precincts of international law hold a... more

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- by James Loeffler and +1
  Moria Paz
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  Comparative Law, International Relations, Jewish Studies, Human Rights Law

The WWI artefact examined in this article is the Anti-Neutral Suit, designed in 1914 -- just as the fascist movement was being born -- by the Futurist artist Giacomo Balla. Juxtaposing the Suit's materiality against that of some... more

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- by Rose Sydney Parfitt
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  International Law, Critical Legal Theory, Fascism, Futurism

The authors analyze the contributions of William E. Butler to international and comparative law, setting his works within the larger framework of legal history, legal theory, legal philosophy, comparative jurisprudence, and international... more

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