Research Handbook on the Theory and History of International Law

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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This updated and revised second edition provides a comprehensive scholarly framework for analyzing the theory and history of international law. Featuring an array of legal and interdisciplinary analyses, it focuses on those theories and developments that illuminate the central and timeless basic concepts and categories of the international legal system, highlighting the interdependency of various aspects of theory and history and demonstrating the connections between theory and practice.With contributions from renowned experts, this Research Handbook explores the essence and development of international legal theory, taking account of the key shifts and advances since the era of classical legal scholarship. Contributors examine several major areas of international law in depth, before transferring their focus to the history of international law from the medieval period up to the present day. Coverage has been expanded to include analysis of the origins of and Eurocentric narratives surrounding the present system, and to discuss significant developments of the 21st century. Scholars and students of international law and politics looking for an in-depth understanding of the current international legal system and its history will find this Research Handbook to be crucial reading. Its theoretical approach will also be of interest to legal theorists, as well as researchers in ethics and philosophy.

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Utgivningsdatum2020-12-08
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Upplaga2
FörlagEdward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN9781788116701

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Contents:Foreword to the First Edition viiiEditor’s Preface to the Second Edition xPART I THE ESSENCE AND DEVELOPMENT OFINTERNATIONAL LEGAL THEORY1 The relevance of theory and history: the essence and origins ofinternational law 2Alexander Orakhelashvili2 Early-modern scholarship on international law 19Alain Wijffels3 Natural law and the law of nations 58Patrick Capps4 The origins of consensual positivism: Pufendorf, Wolff and Vattel 90Alexander Orakhelashvili5 The transformation of international law in the nineteenth century 108Amnon Lev6 Hans Kelsen’s place in international legal theory 139Jörg KammerhoferPART II THEMATIC ASPECTS OF INTERNATIONAL LEGAL THEORY7 International human rights law theory 164Frédéric Mégret8 The philosophy of international criminal law 200Robert Cryer and Albert Nell9 International law, international politics and ideology 240Alexander OrakhelashviliPART III HISTORY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW10 Periodization and international law 281William E. Butler11 Origins, record and narratives: uses and abuses of international legal history 296Alexander Orakhelashvili12 Acculturation through the Middle Ages: the Islamic law of nations andits place in the history of international law 312Jean Allain13 The classical law of nations 326Randall Lesaffer14 The nineteenth-century life of international law 359Alexander Orakhelashvili15 International law between universality and regional fragmentation: thehistorical case of Russia 373Lauri Mälksoo16 International law in the twentieth century 394Carlo Focarelli17 International law in the early twenty-first century 444Tom Ruys and Anemoon SoeteIndex 474