Inge Van Hulle is Assistant Professor of Legal History at Tilburg University, The Netherlands. Prior to joining Tilburg University she worked as a PhD research assistant at the department of Roman law and legal history at KU Leuven where she obtained here PhD in 2016. At Tilburg University she teaches courses such as 'History and Theory of International Law', 'History of International Law', 'History of Government and Public Institutions' and 'Early Modern History'.
In sum, Inge Van Hulle has written a compelling account of the historical developments of individual features of international law over the nineteenth century as they related to West Africa and the tendencies of British Empire building at the end of the century. * Jakob Zollmann, Berlin, Buchbesprechungen *