Edited by Helmut Philipp Aust, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public and International Law, Heidelberg, Germany, Janne E. Nijman, Professor of History and Theory of International Law, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands and Miha Marcenko, Assistant Editor

• Contents:1 The emerging roles of cities in international law – introductory remarkson practice, scholarship and the Handbook 1Helmut Philipp Aust and Janne E. NijmanPART I INTERNATIONAL LEGAL HISTORIES OF CITIES2 Silk Road cities and their co-existing legal traditions 17Valerie Hansen3 Legitimizing interurban cooperation in the Middle Ages: the legalsystem of the Hanse 29Tobias Boestad4 The legal system among Italian city republics 41Susanne Lepsius5 Cities and international law: an imperial perspective 52Luigi Nuzzo6 Invisibility of cities in classical international law 64Mirko Sossai7 Cities, post-coloniality and international law 77Luis Eslava and George Hill8 Global city networks and the nation-state: rethinking a false tradeoff 90Boris VormannPART II CITIES AND FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS OFINTERNATIONAL LAW9 International legal personality/subjectivity of cities 103Yishai Blank10 Sources and law-making 121Yukiko Takashiba11 Responsibility 135Katja Creutz12 Dispute settlement 147Moritz Baumgärtel13 International organizations and cities 158Jacob Katz Cogan14 Sovereignty 173Anouche BeaudouinPART III PRACTICE AREAS: HOW CITIES ARE RESHAPINGINTERNATIONAL LAW15 Climate change law and sustainable development 187Anél du Plessis16 The role of transnational city networks in environmental governance 201Jolene Lin17 The global insecure counterterrorism city 214Alejandro Rodiles18 Finding international law ‘close to home’: the case of human rights cities 227Martha F. Davis19 Cities, refugees and migration 240Barbara Oomen20 Development cooperation and the city 251Michael Riegner21 The role of cities in the global governance of health 265Christian Iaione and Elena de Nictolis22 The law of economic globalization and cities 279Jorge E. Viñuales and Lucy Lu Reimers23 From global city to Olympic city: the transnational legal journey ofLondon 2012 293Antoine Duval24 City diplomacy: experience from the ground 305Mauricio RodasPART IV CROSS-CUTTING PERSPECTIVES ON CITIES ANDINTERNATIONAL LAW25 An international relations perspective 321Simon Curtis26 Urbanizing political concepts for analyzing politics in the city 329Nir Barak and Avner de Shalit27 Cities as democratic representatives in international law-making 341Samantha Besson and José Luis Martí28 Cities, the Anthropocene and earth system law 354Louis J. Kotzé29 City networks and the glocalization of urban governance 368Sheila R. Foster and Chrystie Swiney30 The relationship between the state and the city from a comparative(constitutional) perspective 381Geneviève Cartier31 How domestic legal systems respond to international local governmentlaw: between accommodation, resistance and transformation 398Carlo M. Colombo and Martijn L.P. Groenleer32 Global administrative law and cities: the perfect couple that never was 411Edouard Fromageau33 Inter-legality, cities and the changing nature of authority 419Jan Klabbers34 International lawyers and the city 430Daniel Litwin35 The hidden city in international legal thought 443Karen KnopAppendix 457Helmut Aust and Janne E. NijmanIndex

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