"The Oxford Handbook of the History of International Law provides an authoritative and original overview of the origins, concepts, and core issues of international law. The first comprehensive Handbook on the history of international law, it is a truly unique contribution to the literature of international law and relations. Pursuing both a global and an interdisciplinary approach, the Handbook brings together some sixty eminent scholars of international law, legal history, and global history from all parts of the world. Covering international legal developments from the 15th century until the end of World War II, the Handbook consists of over sixty individual chapters which are arranged in six parts. The book opens with an analysis of the principal actors in the history of international law, namely states, peoples and nations, international organisations and courts, and civil society actors. Part Two is devoted to a number of key themes of the history of international law, such as peace and war, the sovereignty of states, hegemony, religion, and the protection of the individual person. Part Three addresses the history of international law in the different regions of the world (Africa and Arabia, Asia, the Americas and the Caribbean, Europe), as well as 'encounters' between non-European legal cultures (like those of China, Japan, and India) and Europe which had a lasting impact on the body of international law. Part Four examines certain forms of 'interaction or imposition' in international law, such as diplomacy (as an example of interaction) or colonization and domination (as an example of imposition of law). The classical juxtaposition of the civilized and the uncivilized is also critically studied. Part Five is concerned with problems of the method and theory of history writing in international law, for instance the periodisation of international law, or Eurocentrism in the traditional historiography of international law. The Handbook concludes with a Part Six, entitled ""People in Portrait"", which explores the life and work of twenty prominent scholars and thinkers of international law, ranging from Muhammad al-Shaybani to Sir Hersch Lauterpacht.
The Handbook will be an invaluable resource for scholars and students of international law. It provides historians with new perspectives on international law, and increases the historical and cultural awareness of scholars of international law. It aims to become the new standard reference work for the global history of international law."
Edited by:
Bardo Fassbender (Professor of International Law Bundeswehr University Munich),
Anne Peters (Professor of Public International Law and Swiss Constitutional Law,
University of Basel,
Switzerland)
Associate editor:
Simone Peter (Lawyer in the public administration of Basel-Stadt),
Daniel Högger (,
Research assistant and PhD candidate,
University of Basel)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 246mm,
Width: 171mm,
Spine: 59mm
Weight: 1.794kg
ISBN: 9780199599752
ISBN 10: 0199599750
Series: Oxford Handbooks
Pages: 1272
Publication Date: 20 November 2012
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Professional and scholarly
,
Primary
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Bardo Fassbender and Anne Peters: Introduction: Towards a Global History of International Law Part One: Actors 1: Jörg Fisch: Peoples and Nations 2: Antonio Cassese: States 3: Randall Lesaffer: Peace Treaties and the Formation of International Law 4: Janne Elisabeth Nijman: Minorities and Majorities 5: Joaquín Alcáide Fernandez: Hostes humani generis: Pirates, Slavers, and other Criminals 6: Cornelis G. Roelofsen: International Arbitration and Courts 7: Anne Peters and Simone Peter: International Organizations: Between Technocracy and Democracy 8: Cecelia M. Lynch: Peace Movements, Civil Society, and the Development of International Law Part Two: Themes 9: Bardo Fassbender: Sovereignty and Equality of States 10: Daniel-Erasmus Khan: Territory and Boundaries 11: Reinhard Blänkner: Hegemony and Balance of Power 12: Dominique Gaurier: Cosmopolis and Utopia 13: Mary Ellen O'Connell: Peace and War 14: Antje von Ungern-Sternberg: Religion and Religious Intervention 15: Robert Kolb: The Protection of the Individual in Times of War and Peace 16: Koen Stapelbroek: Trade, Chartered Companies, and Mercantile Associations 17: David J. Bederman: The Sea Part Three: Regions I. Africa and Arabia 18: Fatiha Sahli and Abdelmalek El Ouazzani: Africa North of the Sahara and Arab Countries 19: James Thuo Gathii: Africa 20: Umut Özsu: The Ottoman Empire and the Abode of Islam II. Asia 21: Shin Kawashima: China 22: Masaharu Yanagihara: Japan 23: Bimal N. Patel: India III. The Americas and the Caribbean 24: Mark W. Janis: North America: American Exceptionalism in International Law 25: Jorge L. Esquirol: Latin America 26: David Berry: The Caribbean IV. Europe 27: Martin Kintzinger: From the Late Middle Ages to the Peace of Westphalia 28: Heinz Duchhardt: From the Peace of Westphalia to the Congress of Vienna 29: Milos Vec: From the Congress of Vienna to the Paris Peace Treaties of 1919 30: Peter Krüger: From the Paris Peace Treaties to the End of the Second World War V. Encounters 31: Chi-Hua Tang: China - Europe 32: Kinji Akashi: Japan - Europe 33: Upendra Baxi: India - Europe 34: Lauri Mälksoo: Russia - Europe 35: Kenneth Coates: North American Indigenous Peoples' Encounters Part Four: Interaction or Imposition 36: Arthur Eyffinger: Diplomacy 37: Andrew Fitzmaurice: Discovery, Conquest, and Occupation of Territory 38: Matthew Craven: Colonialism and Domination 39: Seymour Drescher: Slavery 40: Liliana Obregón Tarazona: The Civilized and the Uncivilized Part Five: Methodology and Theory 41: Martti Koskenniemi: A History of International Law Histories 42: Anthony Carty: Doctrine versus State Practice 43: Oliver Diggelmann: The Periodization of the History of International Law 44: Kaius Tuori: The Reception of Ancient Legal Th ought in Early Modern International Law 45: Arnulf Becker Lorca: Eurocentrism in the History of International Law 46: Antony Anghie: Identifying Regions and Sub-Regions in the History of International Law Part Six: People in Portrait 47: Mashood A. Baderin: Muhammad al-Shaybani (749/50-805) 48: Annabel Brett: Francisco de Vitoria (1480-1546) and Francisco Suárez (1548-1617) 49: Merio Scattola: Alberico Gentili (1552-1608) 50: Peter Haggenmacher: Hugo Grotius (1583-1645) 51: Knud Haakonssen: Samuel Pufendorf (1632-1694) 52: Knud Haakonssen: Christian Wolff (1679-1754) 53: Kinji Akashi: Cornelius van Bynkershoek (1673-1743) 54: Georg Cavallar: Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) 55: Emmanuelle Jouannet: Emer de Vattel (1714-1767) 56: Pauline Kleingeld: Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) 57: Armin von Bogdandy and Sergio Dellavalle: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) 58: Lydia H. Liu: Henry Wheaton (1785-1848) 59: Silja Vöneky: Francis Lieber (1798-1872) 60: Simone Peter: Bertha von Suttner (1843-1914) 61: Lauri Mälksoo: Friedrich Fromhold von Martens (Fyodor Fyodorovich Martens) (1845-1909) 62: Mathias Schmoeckel: Lassa Oppenheim (1858-1919) 63: Oliver Diggelmann: Max Huber (1874-1960) 64: Oliver Diggelmann: Georges Scelle (1878-1961) 65: Bardo Fassbender: Hans Kelsen (1881-1973) 66: Bardo Fassbender: Carl Schmitt (1888-1985) 67: Iain G.M. Scobbie: Sir Hersch Lauterpacht (1897-1960)
"Bardo Fassbender is Professor of International Law at the University of St. Gallen. He studied law, history and political science at the University of Bonn (Germany) and holds an LL.M from Yale Law School (1992) and a Doctor iuris from the Humboldt University in Berlin (1997), where he also completed his Habilitation in 2004 and became Privatdozent for the disciplines of public law, international law, European law and constitutional history. He was a Ford Foundation Senior Fellow in Public International Law at Yale University and a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. Before joining the University of St. Gallen in 2013, he held the chair in international law and human rights law at the Bundeswehr University in Munich. His principal fields of research are public international law, United Nations law, comparative constitutional law and theory, and the history of international and constitutional law. Anne Peters is Professor of Public International and Constitutional Law at the University of Basel, a position she has held since 2001. She is Dean of Research of the Law Faculty. She is a member of the Council of Europe's Commission for Democracy through Law (Venice Commission) in respect of Germany. She currently serves as the president of the European Society of International Law. In 2009, Anne was a visiting professor at Sciences Po, Paris. In the academic year 2004/05 she was Dean of the Basel law faculty. She obtained the Habilitation-qualification at the Walther-Schücking-Institute of Public International Law at the Christian Albrechts University Kiel on the basis of her Habilitation-Thesis ""Elemente einer Theorie der Verfassung Europas "" (Elements of a Theory of the Constitution of Europe) in 2000. Simone Peter holds a doctoral degree in law (Dr. iur.) and a degree in general history and German language (lic. phil., MA). She worked as a research assistant to the chair of International Law at the University of Basel from 2006 to 2012. Her research covered the field of general public international law and the history of international law. She currently works as a lawyer in the public administration of Basel-Stadt. Daniel Högger is PhD candidate and works as Research and Teaching Assistant to the Chair of International Law at the University of Basel. He holds a degree (lic phil/MA) in political science, international law, and history from the University of Zurich, and a degree (MA with distinction) in international studies from the University of Birmingham, UK."
Reviews for The Oxford Handbook of the History of International Law
By any measure, the book is a substantial achievement, and it will be widely and rewardingly consulted for many years to come. Jacob Katz Cogan, University of Cincinnati, American Journal of International Law Impressive and timely volume Rose Parfitt, Global Law Books The volume does a marvelous job of hemming the topic in, but pays a price for its breadth and the erudition of its contributors by leaving the reader ungratefully greedy for further contextualization and (historical) policy detail - sparking this hunger in the reader though is a true vindication of a handbook of this sort. Wouter P. F. Schmit Jongbloed, ASIL Cables The Oxford Handbook of the History of International Law innovatively and comprehensively provides a timely and ambitious global history of international law from the sixteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. Under the skilled editorship of Bardo Fassbender and Anne Peters, the contributors, experts who themselves come from all parts of the world, present a history that imagines international law as the product of different regions, cultures, actors, and eras. Setting a new agenda for the field, the Handbook will be the indispensable starting point for students and researchers exploring the history of international law. ASIL Award Citation There is no doubt that i The Oxford Handbook of the History of International Law r will become what editors and authors intended, the new standard reference work for the global history of international law, provides the reader with a broad spectrum of useful information on a high level which is not easily assembled. Karl Heinz Ziegler, German Yearbook of International Law
- Winner of American Society of International Law Certificate of Merit 2014.
- Winner of Winner of the 2014 ASIL Certificate of Merit in a Specialized Area of International Law.
