JOURNAL: Journal of the History of International Law/Revue d'histoire du droit international XXVI (Volume 26/2, 2024)

 

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A New History for Human Rights: Conflict of Laws as Adjacent Possibility (León Castellanos-Jankiewicz) [OPEN ACCESS]

DOI 10.1163/15718050-bja10095
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The pivotal contributions of private international law to the conceptual emergence of international human rights law have been largely ignored. Using the idea of adjacent possibility as a theoretical metaphor, this article shows that conflict of laws analysis and technique enabled the articulation of human rights universalism. The nineteenth-century epistemic practice of private international law was a key arena where the claims of individuals were incrementally cast as being spatially independent from their state of nationality before rights universalism became mainstream. Conflict of laws was thus a vital combinatorial ingredient contributing to the dislocation of rights from territory that underwrites international human rights today. 

International Lawyers as Hope Mongers: How Did We Come to Believe That Democracy Was Here to Stay? (Işıl Aral)
DOI 10.1163/15718050-bja10098
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It is common these days to lament the recession of democracy around the world. The way scholars address the issue of democratic backsliding shows that there is a significant gap between the expectation about democracy’s anticipated course of development and the current state of affairs. This article argues that the expectation that democracy would consolidate over time was produced by the progress narrative of democratic governance discourses. Drawing on narratology, it conducts a discourse analysis to demonstrate that today’s dismay about the recession of democracy is due to an unwarranted expectation that was created by the progress narrative of democratic governance discourses. It focuses on the periodisation of history in the construction of these discourses and investigates how scholars used the Cold War – post-Cold War dichotomy to create a progress narrative.

The Twilight of the Law of the Fairs: Inventing International Cooperation on Bankruptcies in Early Modern Europe (Lyon, 1660–1710) (Benoît Saint-Cast)
DOI  10.1163/15718050-bja10094
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Bankruptcy was a key institution in the development of markets in Europe. However, the territoriality of jurisdictions and legal systems made international insolvencies difficult to manage. In the middle of the seventeenth century, cities such as Lyon developed networks of cooperation by granting foreign merchants equal rights to local creditors on a reciprocal basis. However, courts were reluctant to give foreign authorities control over assets and creditors on their territory. The article examines how the Lyon commercial court changed its policy towards international insolvencies during the second half of the seventeenth century. Whereas equal treatment of foreign creditors was conditioned on the recognition of an extraterritorial jurisdiction in the medieval fairs system, it now depended on the reciprocity of the legal status granted to merchants abroad. This system of cooperation between equally sovereign courts prefigured in many ways the current situation of private international law in bankruptcy matters.

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The Political Economy of International Commodity Cartels: An Economic History of the European Timber Trade in the 1930s , written by Elina Kuorelahti (Florenz Volkaert) 
DOI 10.1163/15718050-bja10108

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BOOK: Anthony LANG & Antjie WIENER (eds.), "Handbook on Global Constitutionalism" (2nd edition, Edward Elgar, 2024)

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This thoroughly revised Handbook presents an up-to-date political and philosophical history of global constitutionalism. By exploring the constitutional-like qualities of international affairs, it provides key insights into the evolving world order.

Through a sustained examination of current events, as well as an acknowledgement of the significance of early constitutional history, this erudite Handbook brings together contributions from world-leading academics. New chapters offer timely commentaries on important developments in methodology such as postcolonial and feminist approaches. By providing additional scope for analysis, this updated edition further emphasises the central message of the first: that the global order cannot be understood without a clear comprehension of constitutional theory.

The Handbook on Global Constitutionalism will act as an essential resource for scholars and academics of law, politics and human rights. Due to its comprehensive examination of vital concepts such as legal theory, it will additionally be beneficial for practitioners and policy makers.

Table of contents:

Preface and acknowledgments xvii

1 Introduction to the Handbook on Global Constitutionalism: protecting

rights and democracy while binding power 1

Anthony F. Lang, Jr. and Antje Wiener

PART I HISTORICAL ANTECEDENTS

2 Global constitutionalism: the ancient worlds 24

Jill Harries

3 Medieval constitutionalism 36

Francis Oakley

4 Global constitutionalism in the early modern period: the role of

empires, treaties and natural law 47

Martine van Ittersum

5 The Enlightenment and global constitutionalism 60

Chris Thornhill

6 Modern historical antecedents of global constitutionalism in theoretical

perspective 77

Michel Rosenfeld

PART II POLITICAL AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS THEORIES

7 Cosmopolitanism and global constitutionalism 90

Garrett Wallace Brown

8 Liberal theory 102

Iain Ferguson

9 Constructivism and global constitutionalism 116

Jan Wilkens

10 Realist perspectives on global constitutionalism 130

Oliver Jütersonke

11 Critical theory 141

Gavin W. Anderson

12 The English School and global constitutionalism 153

Filippo Costa Buranelli

13 Postcolonial global constitutionalism 167

Sigrid Boysen

14 Feminist approaches to global constitutionalism 186

Ruth Houghton

PART III LEGAL THEORIES

15 Natural law at the foundation of global constitutionalism 209

Mary Ellen O’Connell

16 International legal constitutionalism, legal forms and the need for villains 226

Jean d’Aspremont

17 Interactional legal theory, the international rule of law and global

constitutionalism 241

Jutta Brunnée and Stephen J. Toope

18 The shifting relationship between functionalism and global constitutionalism 254

Jeffrey L. Dunoff

19 Global constitutionalism and international public authority in the crisis

of liberal internationalism 266

Armin von Bogdandy, Matthias Goldmann and Ingo Venzke

PART IV PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES

20 Global constitutionalism and the rule of law 295

Mattias Kumm

21 Balance of powers 309

Eoin Carolan

22 Constituent power in global constitutionalism 319

Peter Niesen

23 Human rights as transnational constitutional law 332

Samantha Besson

24 Proportionality as a global constitutional principle 347

Anne Peters

25 Written versus unwritten: two views on the form of an international

constitution 364

Bardo Fassbender

26 Transnational litigation networks: agents of change in the global

constitutional order 374

Jill Bähring

27 Human rights, sovereignty and the use of force 396

Sassan Gholiagha

PART V INSTITUTIONS AND FRAMEWORKS

28 International judicial review 410

Başak ‚alõ

29 Legislatures 424

M.J. Peterson

30 Executive and exception 437

William E. Scheuerman

31 Federalism: from constitutionalism to constitutionalization? 448

Thomas O. Hueglin

32 The UN Charter and global constitutionalism? 460

Michael W. Doyle

33 Functionalism, constitutionalism and the United Nations 477

Jan Klabbers

34 The European Union and global constitutionalism 490

Jo Shaw

35 The International Criminal Court and global constitutionalism 508

Andrea Birdsall and Anthony F. Lang, Jr.

36 Global commercial constitutionalization: the World Trade Organization 519

Joel P. Trachtman

PART VI NEW HORIZONS

37 Global constitutionalism and outer space governance 529

Adam Bower

38 The political economy of global constitutionalism 542

Christine Schwöbel-Patel

39 Global religion in a post-Westphalia world 556

Susanna Mancini

40 Constitutionalism and pluralism 568

Neil Walker

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BOOK: Marco ROSCINI, "International Law and the Principle of Non-Intervention: History, Theory and Interactions with Other Principles" (Oxford University Press, 2024)

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The principle of non-intervention in the domestic affairs of states is one of the most venerable principles of international law but the determination of its exact content has remained an enigma that has haunted generations of international lawyers. This book solves this problem and identifies what the principle of non-intervention specifically prohibits, and what it does not. The principle in question is strictly linked to some fundamental notions of international law, such as sovereignty, use of force, and self-determination: its study, therefore, is of great significance as it offers a fascinating opportunity to explore the macrostructures of international law. Through a comprehensive survey of primary documents, as well as through an extensive evaluation of state practice and literature search, the book provides a systematic and coherent analysis of the principle of non-intervention. The first two chapters tell the story of the principle of non-intervention throughout the centuries up to the present day. Chapters III and IV focus on theory and identify what coercion of state means, what forms of coercion (armed, economic, political subversive) can constitute an unlawful intervention, and the role played by consent in this context. Chapters V, VI, and VII explore the interactions of the principle of non-intervention with other fundamental principles of contemporary international law, namely the principle of internal and external self-determination and the respect for international human rights law and international humanitarian law. Finally, Chapter VIII investigates whether and when cyber operations can constitute an unlawful intervention in the domestic affairs of other states.

Table of contents:

Introduction

I The Development of the Principle of Non-Intervention from the End of the Religious Wars in Europe to the Outbreak of the Second World War

II The Principle of Non-Intervention in the Framework of the Sources of Contemporary International Law and in the Current Scholarly Debate

III The Content of the Principle of Non-Intervention

IV The Application of the Principle of Non-Intervention to Civil Strife and the Role of Consent

V The Interaction between the Principle of Non-Intervention and that of Internal Self-Determination

VI The Interaction between the Principle of Non-Intervention and that of External Self-Determination

VII The Interaction between the Principle of Non-Intervention and Respect for International Human Rights Law and International Humanitarian Law

VIII The Principle of Non-Intervention in the Information Age: Cyber Operations as a New Means of Coercion in the Domestic Affairs of States

General Conclusions

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CONFERENCE PROGRAM: 19th ESIL Annual Conference, IG History of International Law Pre-conference Workshop, "Historical Perspectives on Technological Change and International Law" (4 September, 2024, Vilnius)

 

2024 ESIL Annual Conference Technological Change and International Law

Pre-Conference Workshop:

Historical Perspectives on Technological Change and International Law

Wednesday 4th September 2024, 15.45-18.45, Vilnius

Centuries have witnessed the inexorable march of technological innovation, each stride leaving an indelible mark on the canvas of international law. History is rife with examples illustrating the intricate interplay between technology and international law, with new disciplines emerged, and old doctrines disappeared. This year, our speakers from two panels will discuss the way and way different disciplines of international law dealt with technological changes in various historical periods to shed light on the future.

Programme

15:45 – 16:00	Introduction and words of welcome (Jaanika Erne)
16:00 – 16:45	Panel 1: Technological changes in the history of the law of the sea
	Zhaoran Lin (Peking University): Unmanned Maritime Vehicles and the Changing Law of Naval Warfare: A Historical Perspective
	Stefano Cattelan (Vrije Universiteit Brussel): Visualising, exploring, and claiming the oceans: cartography and nautical technology in an age of transition (c. 15th-16th centuries)
	Moderator: Sze Hong Lam (Leiden University)
16:45-17:00	Questions & Answers
17:00-17:15	Break
17:15-18:15	Panel 2: Technological changes since the 1920s
	María Belén Paoletta (Georgetown University) & Iván Levy (Columbia University): Tech-Fueled Aspects on State Responsibility
	Aathira Raju (Central University of Kerala): The Impact of the Industrial Revolution on Colonial Labour- A Critique
	Dénes Legeza (University of Szeged): The Impact of Sound Recording on International Copyright Law
	Moderator: Anastasia Hammerschmied (University of Vienna)
18:15:18:30	Questions & Answers
18:30-18:45	Conclusive remarks (Jaanika Erne)

 

Convenors

Anastasia Hammerschmied – Florenz Volkaert - Jaanika Erne – Sze Hong Lam (Ocean)

 

BOOK: Randall LESAFFER & Anne PETERS (eds), "The Cambridge History of International Law. Volume 1. The Historiography of International Law" (The Cambridge History of International Law, Cambridge University Press, 2024)

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Volume I of The Cambridge History of International Law introduces the historiography of international law as a field of scholarship. After a general introduction to the purposes and design of the series, Part 1 of this volume highlights the diversity of the field in terms of methodologies, disciplinary approaches, and perspectives that have informed both older and newer historiographies in the recent three decades of its rapid expansion. Part 2 surveys the history of international legal history writing from different regions of the world, spanning roughly the past two centuries. The book therefore offers the most complete treatment of the historical development and current state of international law history writing, using both a global and an interdisciplinary perspective.

Introduces The Cambridge History of International Law series

Offers a wide ranging survey of the historiography of international law from a global perspective

Addresses the contributions of various disciplines – law, history, political thought, economics – and regional traditions to the historiography of international law

Table of Contents

1. Scope, scale and humility in the history of international law 

Randall Lesaffer

Part I. 

The Historiography of International Law: Methods and Approaches Randall Lesaffer and Anne Peters

2. A thousand flowers blooming, or the desert of the real? International Law and its many problems of history 

Nehal Bhuta

3. Political thought and the historiography of international law

Mark Somos

4. The turn to the history of international law in the discipline of international relations 

Giovanni Mantilla and Carsten-Andreas Schulz

5. Economic history and international law: a peculiar absence 

Christopher Casey

Part II. The Historiography of International Law: Regional Traditions 

Randall Lesaffer and Anne Peters

6. The historiography of international law in East Asia 

Keun-Gwan Lee

7. The historiography of international law in sub-Saharan Africa 

Inge Van Hulle

8. The historiography of international law on the European continent

Frederik Dhondt

9. The historiography of international law in Russia and its successor states

Lauri Mälksoo

10. 'The most neglected province': British historiography of international law

David Armitage and Ignacio de la Rasilla

11. The view from the Leviathan: history of international law in the hegemon

John Fabian Witt

12. Using history in Latin America

Arnulf Becker Lorca

Index.

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BOOK: Raphaël CAHEN, Sarah KIMBLE, Pierre ALLORANT, Walter BADIER & Sean MORRIS (eds), Relations internationales et droit(s): acteurs, institutions et législations comparées (1815-1914) / Law(s) and international relations: actors, institutions, and comparative legislation (1815-1914) (Pédone, 2024)

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L’histoire du droit international et l’histoire des relations internationales connaissent un renouveau historiographique depuis une vingtaine d’années. Le bicentenaire du congrès de Vienne a notamment permis de reconsidérer la mise en place du concert européen, comme système international, au XIX^e siècle. L’étude des rapports entre relations internationales et droit(s) permet ainsi de faire émerger un champ de recherche qui se révèle d’une grande richesse. Ce livre en apporte la preuve. Il s'articule autour de trois axes : les actrices et acteurs des relations internationales et du droit international (juristes, magistrats, avocats, activistes, éditeurs) ; les institutions du droit international et du droit comparé (ministère des affaires étrangères, tribunaux, Conseil d’État, universités, académies) ; les experts et les expertises en droit international. L’ouvrage réunit plus d’une vingtaine de contributions inédites, en anglais et en français, proposées par des auteurs venant de plusieurs continents. Chaque contribution explore des aspects novateurs du rapport entre droit(s) et relations internationales au XIX^e  siècle. Soit en s’intéressant à une ou des institutions, soit à un groupe d'actrices ou d’acteurs, conseillers juridiques, avocats, juges, activistes, publicistes, ou encore à travers la biographie d’un juriste. Plusieurs chapitres éclairent la naissance de la profession de « juriste internationaliste », de même que le lien entre les législations comparées et le droit international.

The history of international law and international relations has been revived in the last twenty years. In particular, the bicentenary of the Congress of Vienna has provided an opportunity to reconsider the establishment of the European concert as an international system in the 19th century. The study of the relationship between international relations and law(s) has given rise to a rich field of research. This book is proof of that. It focuses on three main areas: those involved in international relations and international law (jurists, magistrates, lawyers, activists, publishers); international and comparative law institutions (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, courts, Council of State, universities, academies); and experts and expert reports on international law. The book combines more than twenty original contributions, in English and French, by authors from several continents. Each contribution explores innovative aspects of the relationship between law and international relations in the nineteenth century. The focus is either on one or more institutions or on a group of actors - legal advisers, lawyers, judges, activists, publicists - or on the biography of a jurist. Several chapters shed light on the birth of the profession of 'internationalist lawyer', as well as the link between comparative legislation and international law.

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INTRODUCTION 

Chapter 1. Introduction : law(s) and international relations – actors, institutions and comparative legislation (1815-1914) Raphaël CAHEN and P. Sean MORRIS ............................................................. 17 

PREMIÈRE PARTIE ACTRICES ET ACTEURS DES RELATIONS INTERNATIONALES ET DU DROIT INTERNATIONAL 

Chapitre 2. Aux origines du droit international public contemporain : la mission londonienne de Walewski, émissaire du Gouvernement national de Varsovie, en 1831 Bruno MARTIN-GAY ....................................................................................... 31 

Chapter 3. Women’s rights and the rights of man : women’s status under law as the measure of « civilization » in French political and legal discourse, 1869-1914 Sara L. KIMBLE ............................................................................................... 59 

Chapter 4. Women’s leagues of nations. Women formulating international peace law in the long XIXth century Marion RÖWEKAMP ......................................................................................... 89 

Chapitre 5. Alphonse Rivier, Internationaliste fonctionnel et juriste disponible ? Retour sur la génération de 1873 Philippe RYGIEL ............................................................................................ 115 

Chapter 6. Gustaw Roszkowski on the changes in public international law, 1870–1910 Paweł FIKTUS ................................................................................................ 139 

Chapter 7. Teaching the Law of Nations in King Leopold’s Foreign Office : Léon Arendt’s Droit des gens Course (1903) Frederik DHONDT .......................................................................................... 169

DEUXIÈME PARTIE INSTITUTIONS DU DROIT INTERNATIONAL ET DU DROIT COMPARÉ Chapter 8. Peace through law in early nineteenth century Switzerland. Jean-Jacques de Sellon (1782-1839) and the Société de la paix de Genève (1830-1839) Wouter DE RYCKE ......................................................................................... 203 

Chapitre 9. L’Académie des sciences morales et politiques et le droit international (1832-1914) Raphaël CAHEN ............................................................................................. 245 

Chapitre 10. La note d’Alphonse Royer (1856). Une contribution méconnue à la réflexion sur la codification du droit civil ottoman Jean-Romain FERRAND-HUS ......................................................................... 269 

Chapitre 11. Les relations internationales dans la jurisprudence du Conseil d’Etat (1815-1914) Maxime CHARITÉ .......................................................................................... 299 

Chapitre 12. Ubi societas gentium ibi jus inter gentes. L’émergence d’un ordre juridique international Bilel HAMDI .................................................................................................. 315 

Chapitre 13. Droit égyptien, legal transplants et législations comparées. Aperçu historique, actualité et devenir des relations franco-égyptiennes dans le domaine juridique Yousra CHAABAN .......................................................................................... 333 

Chapitre 14 Naissance et affirmation de la Societé de législation comparée (1869-1900) Pierre ALLORANT et Walter BADIER ............................................................. 353 

TROISIÈME PARTIE EXPERTS ET EXPERTISES DU DROIT INTERNATIONAL 

Chapitre 15. Renseignement, diplomatie et relations internationales. Le rôle de la connaissance dans les origines de l’Empire du capital britannique en Amérique latine Mariano SCHLEZ ........................................................................................... 373 

Chapter 16. Mimicry of international law : Andres Bello’s Principios de Derecho Internacional Nina KELLER-KEMMERER ............................................................................. 399 

Chapter 17. Prussia and international slavery laws Saskia GEISLER ............................................................................................. 427 

Chapitre 18. L’économie des droits compensateurs dans le droit international du commerce avant-guerre : quel rôle pour la science économique dans la doctrine juridique ? Florenz VOLKAERT ....................................................................................... 439 

Chapter 19. Inseparable pairs for modernising Japan? Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and academia, 1880-1914 Hirofumi OGURI ............................................................................................ 463 

Chapitre 20. André Gros, Jurisconsulte du Ministère des affaires étrangères Pierre-François LAVAL .................................................................................. 493 

CONCLUSION 

Chapter 21. Conclusion : toxic Optimism ? Miloš VEC ..................................................................................................... 507

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BOOK: Hendrik SIMON, "A Century of Anarchy? War, Normativity, and the Birth of Modern International Order" (OUP, The History and Theory of International Law, 2024)

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The nineteenth century has been understood as an age in which states could wage war against each other if they deemed it politically necessary. According to this narrative, it was not until the establishment of the League of Nations, the Kellogg-Briand Pact, and the UN Charter that the 'free right to go to war' (liberum ius ad bellum) was gradually outlawed. Better times dawned as this anarchy of waging war ended, resulting in radical transformations of international law and politics.

However, as a 'free right to go to war' has never been empirically proven, this story of progress is puzzling. In A Century of Anarchy?: War, Normativity, and the Birth of Modern International Order, Hendrik Simon challenges this narrative by outlining a genealogy of modern war justifications and drawing on scientific, political, and public discourses. He argues that liberum ius ad bellum is an invention created by realist legal scholars in Imperial Germany who argued against the mainstream of European liberalism and, paradoxically, that the now forgotten Sonderweg reading was universalized in international historiographies after the World Wars.

A Century of Anarchy? is a compelling read for historians, jurists, political theorists, international relations scholars, and anyone interested in understanding the emergence of the modern international order. In this groundbreaking work, Simon not only artfully deconstructs the myth of liberum ius ad bellum but also traces the political and theoretical roots of the modern prohibition of war to the long nineteenth century (1789-1918).

Setting the Scene

1:Introduction: A Century of Anarchy, a Right to War?

2:Thesis and Antithesis: Why States Justify War

Part I. Justifying War in the Nineteenth Century: A European Discourse

3:On the Threshold of Modernity: From Revolutionizing to Reordering War

4:Birth of an International Order

5:Between Might and Right: Justified Wars and Multiple Normativities

6:The Promise of 'Peace through Law' in the Shadow of War

Part II. Emergence of a Myth: A German Sonderweg?

7:Recht zum Krieg: A Clausewitzian Tradition

8:A Hegemonic Discourse? On Mainstream(s) and Myth(s)

9:Antinomianism: The Kaiserreich's Politics of Justifying War

10:Old Order, New Order: Historiography between Anarchy and Progress

Conclusion

11:War, Normativity, and the Birth of Modern International Order

Hendrik Simon, Researcher, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt

Hendrik Simon is a postdoctoral researcher at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF) and Lecturer at Goethe University Frankfurt. He was Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Advanced International Theory/University of Sussex (2017), at the University of Vienna (2018, 2016), at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History Frankfurt (2015-16) and at the Cluster of Excellence 'Normative Orders' (2011-12). Publications include The Justification of War and International Order. From Past to Present (OUP 2021; co-edited with Lothar Brock); and 'The Myth of Liberum Ius ad Bellum. Justifying War in 19th-Century International Legal Theory and Political Practice', 29 European Journal of International Law (2018).

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