ESIL Interest Group History of International Law

ESIL Interest Group History of International Law

vrijdag 29 september 2023

SPECIAL ISSUE: Histoire, économie & société 2023/3 (42e année), "Souveraineté économique, souveraineté politique" (Volume 3, 2023)

 

Source: Histoire, économie & société


Table of contents:

Page 4 à 6

Autour de la souveraineté économique

Éric Bussière


Page 7 à 22

La possibilité d’un port. Impasses économiques et espoirs déçus dans la ville internationale de Tanger (1912-1956)

Antoine Perrier


Page 23 à 43

Le CIC et Haïti (1875-1910)

Nicolas Stoskopf


Page 44 à 57

Les enjeux de l’industrie du billet de banque en guerre dans la France métropolitaine et son Empire colonial (1938-1945)

Mathieu Bidaux


Page 58 à 75

Défendre le « crédit » du billet : la Banque de France face aux opérations d’échange monétaire à la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale

Matéo Teixeira


Page 76 à 87

Coordonner les politiques économiques en Europe du plan Werner à Maastricht. Autour des conceptions de Jacques Delors

Eric Bussière

donderdag 28 september 2023

BOOK: Catherine KESSEDJIAN, Olivier DESCAMPS, Teodolinda FABRIZI, "Au service du droit international: Les 150 ans de l’Association de droit international" (Éditions Panthéon-Assas, 2023)

 

Source: Editeurs Panthéon-Assas
Description:

Faire le bilan de 150 ans au service du droit international relève d’une gageure probablement insurmontable. Pourtant, il paraissait important de porter un regard rétrospectif, notamment sur ces femmes et ces hommes qui ont écrit les grandes heures de l’Association de droit international (ADI), apportant une contribution intellectuelle, à maints égards décisive, au droit international. Dans un monde en crise, à nouveau polarisé, il est urgent de retracer l’histoire et les apports de l’ADI au droit international.

Le livre a été conçu en trois parties. La première partie présente l’état du monde en 1873 pour tenter de comprendre le contexte dans lequel les fondateurs de l’ADI ont conçu cette société savante. La deuxième partie présente l’organisation et les personnalités qui l’ont fait vivre. La troisième partie analyse l’influence des travaux de l’organisation sur le développement du droit international.

Table of Contents:

Page 1 à 4
Pages de début

Page 4
Liste des contributeurs

Page 5 à 7
Foreword
Christine Chinkin

Page 9 à 12
Préface en quatre actes

Franck Latty
Page 13 à 34

Introduction
Olivier Descamps, Teodolinda Fabrizi, Catherine Kessedjian
Page 35 à 42

The Position of the Director of Studies
Alfred H. A. Soons

Partie I. Le moment 1873
Page 45 à 55
1873 : des mondes africains à la croisée des chemins
Jean-Pierre Bat

Page 57 à 68
The Latin American Context Around 1873
Paulo Borba Casella

Page 69 à 86
Le théâtre, miroir de la bourgeoisie européenne dans les trente dernières années du xixe siècle
Annamaria Cascetta

Page 87 à 99
Les mondes asiatiques en 1873
Frédéric Constant

Page 101 à 114
1873, à la croisée des mutations de l’ordre international
Isabelle Dasque

Page 115 à 130
La philosophie occidentale en 1873
Laurent Fedi

Page 131 à 149
La philosophie américaine en 1873 – D’un monde à l’autre
Mathias Girel

Page 151 à 162
La doctrine internationaliste en 1873
Jean-Louis Halpérin

Page 163 à 166
American Idealists and the Founding of the International Law Association
Mark Weston Janis

Page 167 à 197
International Law in 1873
Martti Koskenniemi

Page 199 à 213
Les arts à Paris en 1873 – Avant la tempête
Dominique Lobstein

Page 215 à 231
La justice internationale à la fin du xixe siècle
Raphaëlle Nollez-Goldbach

Page 233 à 248
Regards portés sur l’économie internationale en 1873
Jean-Pierre Williot

Partie II. Les branches de l’association
Page 251 à 256
The Albanian Branch (since April 2014)
Erjon Muharremaj, Fjorda Shqarri, Gentian Zyberi

Page 257 à 266
The American Branch
James A. R. Nafziger, John E. Noyes

Page 267 à 272
The Argentine Branch
Ricardo R. Balestra

Page 273 à 283
The History of the Australian Branch
Keith Suter

Page 285 à 294
The Austrian Branch
August Reinisch

Page 295 à 299
The Brazilian Branch – An Overview of its 73-Year History
Lucas Carlos Lima, Marcílio Franca, Aziz Tuffi Saliba

Page 301 à 312
The British Involvement in the ILA
Jeremy Carver

Page 313 à 322
ILA-Canada – A History of Innovation and Forward-Thinking on International Law
Konstantia Koutouki

Page 323 à 327
The History of the Caribbean Branch
Chantal Ononaiwu

Page 329 à 340
The Dutch Branch – Koninklijke Nederlandsche Vereeniging voor International Recht (KNVIR)
Arthur Eyffinger

Page 341 à 345
The History of the Finnish Branch
Gustaf Möller, Lina Tornberg

Page 347 à 358
Regard historien sur la Branche française (1925-2021)
Dzovinar Kévonian

Page 359 à 367
The German Branch – Deutsche Vereinigung für Internationales Recht (DVIR)
Stephan Hobe

Page 369 à 373
A Short History of the Hungarian Branch
Vanda Lamm

Page 375 à 383
The History of the Irish Branch
Patricia Conlan

Page 385 à 392
Italy and the ILA – A History Spanning over Three Centuries
Gabriella Venturini

Page 393 à 403
One Hundred Years of the ILA Japan Branch
Shinya Murase

Page 405 à 406
The Korean Branch – Introduction and Achievements
Chang-Wee Lee

Page 407 à 408
The Founding of the Nicaraguan Branch
Amílcar Navarro Amador

Page 409 à 413
The History of the Norwegian Branch – Norsk forening for internasjonal rett
Stian Øby Johansen, Geir Ulfstein

Page 415 à 418
The Pakistan Branch
Arshad Ghaffar

Page 419 à 426
The Polish Branch
Ewelina Cała-Wacinkiewicz, Jerzy Menkes, Joanna Nowakowska-Małusecka, Wojciech Sz. Staszewski

Page 427 à 430
The History of the Portuguese Branch
Manuel de Almeida Ribeiro

Page 431 à 434
The Singapore Branch
Daphne Hong

Page 435 à 438
The History of the South African Branch
Clea Strydom

Page 439 à 444
The Spanish Branch
Julio González-Soria

Page 445 à 451
A Short History of the Swiss Branch
Andreas R. Ziegler

Partie III. L’influence des travaux de l’ADI sur le développement du droit international

Page 455 à 465
The Contribution of the ILA Committee on International Trade Law
Frederick M. Abbott

Page 467 à 479
The ILA’s Human Rights Committee and the Progressive Development of International Law
Christina M. Cerna

Page 481 à 498
L’influence du travail de l’ADI sur le développement du droit international dans les domaines de la protection des biens culturels
Marie Cornu, Manlio Frigo

Page 499 à 513
The Contribution of the ILA to the Development of International Water Law
Joseph W. Dellapenna

Page 515 à 520
Framing International Law for Sustainable Development
Kamal Hossain

Page 521 à 533
L’influence des travaux de l’ADI sur le développement du droit international en matière de procédure civile et commerciale
Patrick Kinsch, Vincent Richard

Page 535 à 550
The Influence of the Work of the ILA’s Space Law Committee on the Development of International Law
Irmgard Marboe

Page 551 à 565
Le droit à réparation des victimes de violations du droit international humanitaire
Photini Pazartzis

Page 567 à 582
Investment Law
August Reinisch

Page 583 à 608
Major Developments in the Law of State Immunity since the ILA Revised Articles for a Convention on State Immunity Presented at the Buenos Aires Conference in 1994
Jürgen Bröhmer, Georg Ress

Page 609 à 621
The Contribution of the International Law Association to the Development of International Law in Relation to Climate Change
Sara L. Seck

Page 623 à 646
L’influence des travaux de l’ADI sur la pratique de l’arbitrage international
Julie Spinelli

Page 647 à 659
Committee on International Securities Regulation
Peter Willis SC

Page 661 à 665
Les conférences de l’ADI
The ILA Conferences
Peter Willis SC

Page 667 à 677
Building Tomorrow’s ILA
From the Perspective of the ILA’s Younger Members

Page 679 à 700
Les contributeurs

Page 701 à 706
Pages de fin

More details with the publisher.

dinsdag 26 september 2023

SEMINAR & GRANT OPPORTUNITY: The Haiti Seminar /Le Séminaire Haïti: Money, Finance and Sovereignty, 1825-2025

 The Haiti Seminar /Le Séminaire Haïti

Money, Finance and Sovereignty

1825-2025

 The Haiti Seminar

While not exclusively centered on Haiti, the Haiti Seminar finds its motivation in the profound impact of the tragedy of Haiti's debt on collective memory, as underlined for instance in the series of articles the New York Times devoted in the Spring of 2022 to the legacy of Haiti's debt of 1826. Haiti's "odious debt" started with the indemnification of slave-owners imposed by the French government in 1825 as a condition for acknowledging Haiti's sovereignty. This episode serves as a pivot, a prime illustration of the importance of sovereign debt, and a significant case study.

Inspiration

Haiti's debt is particularly noteworthy due to its role in highlighting the intricate connections between money, debt, sovereignty, and international law. The mechanics of Haiti's so-called double debt -- on the one hand the reparations owed to former plantation owners for the loss of their property, and on the other hand, the financial debt which the state of Haiti owed to the investors who had subscribed to the bond issued to pay-off the indemnity -- summon crucial aspects of modern global capitalism.

While the original focus will be on Haiti's debt (to which we will keep returning), the Seminar intends to operate a broadening of the perspective, covering diverse historical experiences during the two centuries following the original settlement of Haiti's double debt. More broadly, the Seminar is meant to provide a venue for researchers interested in the international politics of debt, money and state-making. It will feature a combination of paper presentations (based on circulated drafts) and less frequently, round tables devoted for instance to the discussion of new books.

The Seminar takes an interdisciplinary approach, aiming to bring together scholars from diverse academic backgrounds. In particular, it will invite historians, economists and legal scholars to debate their perspectives and engage in fruitful exchanges. It seeks in particular to foster discussions that encompass both case studies and comparative approaches and enable to put in historical perspective questions of debt sustainability, debt forgiveness, conditionality, political control, etc.

Organization

The Haiti Seminar is led by Marc Flandreau at the University of Pennsylvania in partnership with the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, and the School of Social Sciences and Government of the Tecnológico de Monterrey, Guadalajara. It is conceived to operate over a three-year period, commencing in 2023-24. The project will distribute a series of research grants. In particular, 10 Doctoral Prizes of 5,000 USD each will be awarded to registered PhD students located anywhere in the world and working on the history and economics of sovereign debt, a funding initiative supported by Crédit Mutuel, Paris. The Seminar takes place online on Thursdays at 12pm (Haiti Time)/ 6 pm (Paris Time). It will be concluded by an academic conference in the Summer of 2026.

Inquiries:  haiti.seminar@sas.upenn.edu 

Source: UPenn

maandag 25 september 2023

BOOK: George FORJI AMIN, "International Law and the History of Resource Extraction in Africa:Capital Accumulation and Underdevelopment, 1450-1918" (Routledge, 2023)

Source: Routledge
Description:
This book investigates the historical economic and legal regimes that legitimated the resource extraction and exploitation of Africa between the 15th and 19th centuries and led to the continent’s trajectory of underdevelopment in the world system. The book interrogates the economic and legal structures that supported European intervention in Africa. It explores the trade and private property rights which were to shape the economic future of the continent, most notably the trade in human beings as legitimate private property by European powers. The book then looks at the techniques used to submerge African sovereignty under European sovereignty during the scramble for territorial control in the 19th century, concluding with the validation of occupation in international law following the 1884–1885 Berlin Conference. The book argues that the doctrines of trade and property rights sanctioned by international law led to a trend of African dispossession that set the continent on a path to underdevelopment, with long-reaching consequences. This book will be of interest to researchers and students across law, history, economics, international relations, and African studies

Table of Contents: 
1 The Third World and Nature of World Order
2 From Latin America to Africa: Primitive Accumulation, the Modality of Sub-Saharan Africa’s Incorporation into the World Order
3 People as Property: The Transatlantic Slave Trade, International Law, and the Making of the New World
4 Industrial Capitalism, Concepts of Improvement, and the Civilising Mission Metaphor in Africa
5 The Scramble for Africa: Non-State Actors and Acquisitions by Cession Treaties
6 Public Law Arrangements: The Pursuit for Free Trade, the Berlin Conference 1884–1885 and the Partition of Africa
7 General Concluding Remarks

More details with the publisher.

BOOK: Isabelle DAVION & Stanislas JEANNESSON (eds.), "Les traités de paix, 1918-1923: La paix les uns contre les autres" (Sorbonne Université Presse, 2023)

Source: SUP

Description:
Considérer comme un tout l’ensemble des traités conclus de 1918 à 1923, envisager de façon globale l’espace européo-méditerranéen, affecté dans sa totalité par une « guerre sans fin », interroger les premières années d’application des traités, lesquelles opèrent la bascule entre la sortie de guerre et l’entrée en paix, tels sont les objectifs de cet ouvrage, issu du renouvellement historiographique occasionné par le centenaire de la Grande Guerre.

De Brest-Litovsk à Lausanne, en passant par Versailles ou Trianon, la vingtaine de traités qui se succèdent en cinq années, dans des contextes très différents, ont pour point commun de mettre un terme, parfois de façon très provisoire, à un état de guerre qui, pour nombre de peuples d’Europe centre-orientale et du Moyen-Orient, se prolonge sous diverses formes bien au-delà de 1918. Ils s’efforcent en outre, avec plus ou moins de réussite, de mettre en place un nouveau système international, en mobilisant des acteurs multiples – dirigeants, diplomates, experts, opinions publiques – et des principes nouveaux, dont le droit des peuples à disposer d’eux-mêmes et la sécurité collective, contribuant ainsi à façonner en grande partie l’Europe et le monde contemporains.

Consult SUP for more information.

JOURNAL: American Journal of International Law Unbound, "Special Issue: 150 Years of the Institut de Droit International and the International Law Association" (Volume 117, 2023)


The latest issue of AJIL Unbound comprises a dedicated section on the history of international law, in particular the Institut de droit international and the International Law Association. Consult AJIL's website for more information.

Table of Contents:

Introduction to the Symposium on 150 Years of the Institut de Droit International and the International Law Association: Cause for Celebration or Concern?

Introduction to the Symposium on 150 Years of the Institut de Droit International and the International Law Association: Cause for Celebration or Concern?
Part of 150 Years of the Institut de Droit International and the International Law Association
Jeffrey L. Dunoff


The Institutionalization of International Law at a Crossroads: Pacifists, Jurists, and the Creation of the ILA and the IDI
Part of 150 Years of the Institut de Droit International and the International Law Association
Xiaohang Chen

Legal Knowledge as Social and Political Capital
Part of 150 Years of the Institut de Droit International and the International Law Association
Sara Dezalay


The Institute of International Law and the Colonial Phenomenon
Part of 150 Years of the Institut de Droit International and the International Law Association
Georges Abi-Saab


Unveiling the “Legal Conscience of the Civilized World:” a Critical Look at the Institut de Droit International
Part of 150 Years of the Institut de Droit International and the International Law Association
Julia Emtseva


The IDI, The ILA, and their Impact on the Institutionalization of International Law in the Americas: Resonances and Dissonances
Part of 150 Years of the Institut de Droit International and the International Law Association
Juan Pablo Scarfi

The International Law Commission, the Institut, and States
Part of 150 Years of the Institut de Droit International and the International Law Association
Dire Tladi

vrijdag 1 september 2023

SYMPOSIUM KEYNOTE: Prof. Martti Koskenniemi on "The Law of an International Civil Society: The Road not Taken" (Brussels: VUB/Hybrid, 15 September 2023)


On Friday 15 September, at the invitation of drs. Wouter De Rycke and dr. Raphaël Cahen, Prof. em. dr. dr. h.c. mult. Martti Koskenniemi (University of Helsinki, doctor honoris causa of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in 2023) will hold a public keynote entitled: 

The Law of an International Civil Society: The Road not Taken

This lecture will take place in Room I.0.02 on the VUB's Campus of Humanities, Sciences and Engineering at 09:45. It is also possible to attend the lecture online. 


Prof. Koskenniemi's lecture is the keynote of a symposium  Imagining Peace in the Long Nineteenth Century (1789-1914). In Search of New Actors and Vocabularies assembled by drs. Wouter De Rycke and dr. Raphaël Cahen

The symposium ‘Imagining Peace in the Long Nineteenth Century. In search of New Actors and Vocabularies’ aims to investigate unofficial forms of normative peace-thinking in the long nineteenth century. In the period roughly between 1789 and 1914, political, legal, economic, and cultural developments made a radical and lasting impact on the possible representations of peace. Significant sections of European and American society came to define peace not simply as the mere ‘absence of war’, but as a desirable, long-term condition in which disputes were consistently settled pacifically. Changing patterns of communication and political agency increasingly enabled new actors from within civil society to contest these realities. Outside of the narrow circles olaat f government and high diplomacy, a plethora of new actors campaigned for a new kind of international law. Their ideal was ‘peace through law’. Our symposium investigates the legal imagination of ordinary lawyers, philanthropists, economists, feminists, nationalists, and pacifists. In his public opening lecture, professor Koskenniemi will engage with these questions. What were the roads not taken? 

Contact the organizers for further information.


Source: Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Contextual Research in Law

donderdag 24 augustus 2023

BOOK: David KENNEDY & Martti KOSKENNIEMI, "Of Law and the World: Critical Conversations on Power, History, and Political Economy" (HUP, 2023)

Image: HUP


Description:
A searching dialogue between two leading legal scholars exploring the place of law in global affairs.

The modern world is legalized: legal language, institutions, and professionals are everywhere. But what is law’s power in global life? What does all this legality have to do with hegemony, with hierarchy and inequality, and with the diversity of human experience? What is its history and how does that history matter in world affairs? Above all, what does it mean to think “critically” about law and global affairs? In this poignant and iconoclastic book, two leading scholars take us to the heart of the matter, examining law’s relationship with history, power, and political economy.

David Kennedy and Martti Koskenniemi have often inspired each other and are both considered “critical” voices in international law, but they have never explored their similarities and differences as deeply as they do here. Of Law and the World takes the form of a conversation, as the authors reflect on the study of international law, the motivations underlying their research, and the payoffs and limitations of their investigations into law’s role in global affairs. They revisit and renew debates about the past and future of the many legalities that shape our world.

Erudite, open-minded, and informed by decades of experience and observation, Of Law and the World is an unflinchingly honest confrontation with humanity’s struggle to live together.
Preface
Conversation 1: What Is Critique?
Conversation 2: What Is International Law?
Conversation 3: International Law and Power
Conversation 4: Many International Legalities: Hegemony and Differentiation
Conversation 5: International Legal History as Critique
Conversation 6: Law in the Political Economy of the World
Conversation 7: Concluding Thoughts, Open Questions
Authors’ Works Cited

See HUP website for more information.

dinsdag 15 augustus 2023

BOOK: Lauren BENTON, "They Called It Peace: Worlds of Imperial Violence" (Princeton University Press, 2024)

Image source: PUP

Description:

Imperial conquest and colonization depended on pervasive raiding, slaving, and plunder. European empires amassed global power by asserting a right to use unilateral force at their discretion. They Called It Peace is a panoramic history of how these routines of violence remapped the contours of empire and reordered the world from the fifteenth to twentieth centuries.

In an account spanning from Asia to the Americas, Lauren Benton shows how imperial violence redefined the very nature of war and peace. Instead of preparing lasting peace, fragile truces insured the easy return to war. Serial conflicts and armed interventions projected a de facto state of perpetual war across the globe. Benton describes how seemingly limited war sparked atrocities, from sudden massacres to long campaigns of dispossession and extermination. She brings vividly to life a world in which warmongers portrayed themselves as peacemakers and Europeans imagined “small” violence as essential to imperial rule and global order.

Holding vital lessons for us today, They Called It Peace reveals how imperial violence of the past has made perpetual war and the threat of atrocity endemic features of the international order.

About the author: 

Lauren Benton is the Barton M. Biggs Professor of History at Yale University and recipient of the Toynbee Prize for significant contributions to global history. Her books include A Search for Sovereignty: Law and Geography in European Empires, 1400–1900 and (with Lisa Ford) Rage for Order: The British Empire and the Origins of International Law, 1800–1850.

More information with Princeton University Press.

vrijdag 4 augustus 2023

BOOK: Mlada BUKANOVSKY, Edward KEENE, Christian REUS-SMIT & Maja SPANU, "The Oxford Handbook of History and International Relations" (OUP, 2023)

Image source: OUP

 Description:

Historical approaches to the study of world politics have always been a major part of the academic discipline of International Relations, and there has recently been a resurgence of scholarly interest in this area. This Oxford Handbook examines the past and present of the intersection between history and IR, and looks to the future by laying out new questions and directions for research.

Seeking to transcend well-worn disciplinary debates between historians and IR scholars, the Handbook asks authors from both fields to engage with the central themes of 'modernity' and 'granularity'. Modernity is one of the basic organising categories of speculation about continuity and discontinuity in the history of world politics, but one that is increasingly questioned for privileging one kind of experience and marginalizing others. The theme of granularity highlights the importance of how decisions about the scale and scope of historical research in IR shape what can be seen, and how one sees it. Together, these themes provide points of affinity across the wide range of topics and approaches presented here.

The Handbook is organized into four parts. The first, 'Readings', gives a state-of-the-art analysis of numerous aspects of the disciplinary encounter between historians and IR theorists. Thereafter, sections on 'Practices', 'Locales', and 'Moments' offer a wide variety of perspectives, from the longue durée to the ephemeral individual moment, and challenge many conventional ways of defining the contexts of historical enquiry about international relations. Contributors come from a range of academic backgrounds, and present a diverse array of methodological and philosophical ideas, as well as their various historical interests.

The Oxford Handbooks of International Relations is a twelve-volume set of reference books offering authoritative and innovative engagements with the principal sub-fields of International Relations.

The series as a whole is under the General Editorship of Christian Reus-Smit of the University of Queensland and Duncan Snidal of the University of Oxford, with each volume edited by specialists in the field. The series both surveys the broad terrain of International Relations scholarship and reshapes it, pushing each sub-field in challenging new directions. Following the example of Reus-Smit and Snidal's original Oxford Handbook of International Relations, each volume is organized around a strong central thematic by scholars drawn from different perspectives, reading its sub-field in an entirely new way, and pushing scholarship in challenging new directions.

Table of Contents:

Part I. Introduction
1:Modernity and Granularity in History and International Relations, Mlada Bukovansky and Edward Keene
Part II. Readings
2:Origins, Histories, and the Modern International, R. B. J. Walker
3:Historical Realism, Michael C. Williams
4:Liberal Progressivism and International History, Lucian M. Ashworth
5:Historical Sociology in International Relations, Maïa Pal
6:Global History and International Relations, George Lawson and Jeppe Mulich
7:International Relations and Intellectual History, Duncan Bell
8:Gender, History, and International Relations, Laura Sjoberg
9:Postcolonial Histories of International Relations, Zeynep Gulsah Capan
10:International Relations Theory and the Practice of International History, Peter Jackson and Talbot Imlay
11:Global Sources of International Thought, Chen Yudan
Part III. Practices
12:State, Territoriality, and Sovereignty, Jordan Branch and Jan Stockbruegger
13:Diplomacy, Linda S. Frey and Marsha L. Frey
14:Empire, Martin J. Bayly
15:Barbarism and Civilization, Yongjin Zhang
16:Race and Racism, Nivi Manchanda
17:Religion, History, and International Relations, Cecelia Lynch
18:Rights, Andrea Paras
19:The Diplomacy of Genocide, A. Dirk Moses
20:War and History in World Politics, Tarak Barkawi
21:Nationalism, James Mayall
22:Interpolity Law, Lauren Benton
23:Regulating Commerce, Eric Helleiner
24:Development, Corinna R. Unger
25:Governing Finance, Kevin L. Young and Signe Predmore
26:Revolution, Eric Selbin
Part IV. Locales (Spatial, Temporal, Cultural)
27:The 'Premodern' World, Julia Costa Lopez
28:Modernity and Modernities in International Relations, Ayse Zarakol
29:The 'West' in International Relations, Jacinta O'Hagan
30:The Eighteenth Century, Daniel Gordon
31:The Long Nineteenth Century, Quentin Bruneau
32:The Pre-Colonial African State System, John Anthony Pella, Jr.
33:The 'Americas' in the History of International Relations, Michael Gobat
34:'Asia' in the History of International Relations, David C. Kang
35:The 'International' and the 'Global' in International History, Or Rosenboim
Part V. Moment
36:The Fall of Constantinople, Jonathan Harris
37:The Peace of Westphalia, Andrew Phillips
38:The Seven Years War, Karl W. Schweizer
39:The Haitian Revolution, Musab Younis
40:The Congress of Vienna, Jennifer Mitzen and Jeff Rogg
41:The Revolutions of 1848, Daniel M. Green
42:The Indian 'Mutiny', Alexander E. Davis
43:The Berlin and Hague Conferences, Claire Vergerio
44:World War One and Versailles, Duncan Kelly
45:Sykes-Picot, Megan Donaldson
46:World War Two and San Francisco, Daniel Gorman
47:The Bandung Conference, Christopher J. Lee
48:Facing Nuclear War: Luck, Learning, and the Cuban Missile Crisis, Richard Ned Lebow and Benoît Pelopidas
Part V. Conclusion
49:History and the International: Time, Space, Agency, and Language, Maja Spanu and Christian Reus-Smit

donderdag 20 juli 2023

BOOK: Olivier DESCAMPS, Teodolinda FABRIZI & Catherine KESSEDJIAN (eds.), "Au service du droit international/To the benefit of international law - Les 150 ans de l'association de droit international/150 years of the international law association" (Paris, 2023)

 Abstract:

Faire le bilan de 150 ans au service du droit international relève d’une gageure probablement insurmontable. Pourtant, il paraissait important de porter un regard rétrospectif, notamment sur ces femmes et ces hommes qui ont écrit les grandes heures de l’Association de droit international (ADI), apportant une contribution intellectuelle, à maints égards décisive, au droit international. Dans un monde en crise, à nouveau polarisé, il est urgent de retracer l’histoire et les apports de l’ADI au droit international. Le livre a été conçu en trois parties. La première partie présente l’état du monde en 1873 pour tenter de comprendre le contexte dans lequel les fondateurs de l’ADI ont conçu cette société savante. La deuxième partie présente l’organisation et les personnalités qui l’ont fait vivre. La troisième partie analyse l’influence des travaux de l’organisation sur le développement du droit international. — Taking stock of 150 years of service to international law is probably an insurmountable challenge. Nevertheless, it seemed important to look backwards, notably on the women and men who made the highlights of the International Law Association (ILA), thus providing for an intellectual contribution, in many respects decisive, to international law. In a world in crisis, once more polarised, it is urgent to recount the history of the ILA and its valuable inputs to international law. The book was conceived in three parts. The first part presents the state of the world in 1873 in order to understand the context in which the Founders of the ILA conceived this learned society. The second part presents the organisation and the personalities that have brought it to life. The third part analyses the influence of the organisation’s work on the development of international law.

On the editors:

Catherine Kessedjian est professeur émérite de l’Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas. Elle centre ses activités sur l’arbitrage, la médiation et la conciliation ainsi que sur le conseil dans le cadre de contentieux économiques transnationaux ou de la vigilance (due diligence). Elle est la présidente honoraire de la Branche française de l’ILA. Olivier Descamps est professeur à l’Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas et directeur du Centre d’Étude d’Histoire Juridique. Il est intéressé par les questions d’histoire du droit du commerce international, mais aussi par histoire le droit international public et le droit international privé. Teodolinda Fabrizi est doctorante en droit international public à l’Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas. Elle s’intéresse à la théorie du droit international, au droit de l’environnement, au droit de l’eau et aux droits de l’homme.

More information here

maandag 3 juli 2023

JOURNAL: Journal of the History of International Law / Revue d'histoire du droit international, Volume 25 (2023), Issue 2 (Jun 2023)

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Articles

Petro-States’ Shaping of International Law

Author: Lys Kulamadayil

Pages: 161–188


Planning for the Aftermath. Longue Durée Histories for a New International Legal Order in Kelsen, Lauterpacht and De Visscher

Author: Jacob Giltaij

Pages: 189–217


A History of Double Criminality in Extradition

Author: Neil Boister

Pages: 218–257


The Alaskan Fur-Seal Crisis: Science, Capital, and Multilateralism in the Settlement of International Biodiversity Disputes

Author: James Hickling

Pages: 258–295


Book reviews

The Invention of Custom. Natural Law and the Law of Nations, ca. 1550–1750 , written by Francesca Iurlaro

Author: Alain Wijffels

Pages: 297–303


More info with Brill.

BOOK: Peter JACKSON, William MULLIGAN & Glenda SLUGA, "Peacemaking and International Order after the First World War" (CUP, 2023)

 

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Description:

The Paris peace settlements following the First World War remain amongst the most controversial treaties in history. Bringing together leading international historians, this volume assesses the extent to which a new international order, combining old and new political forms, emerged from the peace negotiations and settlements after 1918. Taking account of new historiographical perspectives and methodological approaches to the study of peacemaking after the First World War, it views the peace negotiations and settlements after 1918 as a site of remarkable innovations in the practice of international politics. The contributors address how a wide range of actors set out new ways of thinking about international order, established innovative institutions, and revolutionised the conduct of international relations. They illustrate the ways in which these innovations were merged with existing practices, institutions, and concepts to shape the international order that emerged out of the Paris Peace Conference of 1919.

Table of Content:

1 - Introduction pp 1-34

By Peter Jackson, William Mulligan, Glenda Sluga

Part I - Ordering Concepts pp 35-176

2 - Vocabularies of Self-Determination in 1919 pp 37-64

The Co-Constitution of Race and Gender in International Law

By Sarah C. Dunstan

3 - Recasting the ‘Fabric of Civilisation’ pp 65-90

The Paris Peace Settlement and International Law

By Marcus M. Payk

4 - State Sovereignty pp 91-113

By Leonard V. Smith

5 - The Crisis of Power Politics pp 114-150

By Peter Jackson, William Mulligan

6 - The Challenge of an Absent Peace in the French and British Empires after 1919 pp 151-176

By Martin Thomas

Part II - Institutions pp 177-286

7 - A ‘New Diplomacy’? pp 179-201

The Big Four and Peacemaking, 1919

By Alan Sharp

8 - The League of Nations pp 202-226

The Creation and Legitimisation of International Civil Service

By Karen Gram-Skjoldager

9 - The Treaty of Versailles, German Disarmament and the International Order of the 1920s pp 227-245

By Andrew Webster

10 - Planning for International Financial Order pp 246-265

The Call for Collective Responsibility at the Paris Peace Conference

By Jennifer Siegel

11 - Raw Materials and International Order from the Great War to the Crisis of 1920–21 pp 266-286

By Jamie Martin

Part III - Actors and Networks pp 287-378

12 - The Great Conversation pp 289-312

A Discussion on Peace after the First World War

By Carl Bouchard

13 - An Alternative International Relations pp 313-336

Socialists, Socialist Internationalism and the Post-War Order

By Talbot Imlay

14 - The Paris Peace Conference and the Origins of Global Feminism pp 337-360

By Mona L. Siegel

15 - Colonial Nationalists and the Making of a New International Order pp 361-378

By Erez Manela

Part IV - Counterpoint pp 379-414

16 - The Persistence of Old Diplomacy pp 381-406

The Paris Peace Settlement in Perspective

By T. G. Otte

Afterword

Afterword pp 407-414

New Histories of International Order

By Glenda Sluga

See CUP for more information.

maandag 19 juni 2023

BOOK: Priyasha SAKSENA, "Sovereignty, International Law, and the Princely States of Colonial South Asia", Series: The History and Theory of International Law (CUP, 2023)


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Description:
What constitutes a sovereign state in the international legal sphere? This question has been central to international law for centuries. Sovereignty, International Law, and the Princely States of Colonial South Asia provides a compelling exploration of the history of sovereignty through an analysis of the jurisdictional politics involving a specific set of historical legal entities.

Governed by local rulers, the princely states of colonial South Asia were subject to British paramountcy whilst remaining legally distinct from directly ruled British India. Their legal status and the extent of their rights remained the subject of feverish debates through the entirety of British colonial rule. This book traces the ways in which the language of sovereignty shaped the discourse surrounding the legal status of the princely states to illustrate how the doctrine of sovereignty came to structure political imagination in colonial South Asia and the framework of the modern Indian state.

Opening with a survey of the place of the princely states in the colonial structures of South Asia, Sovereignty, International Law, and the Princely States of Colonial South Asia goes on to illustrate how international lawyers, British politicians, colonial officials, rulers and bureaucrats of princely states, and anti-colonial nationalists in British India used definitions of sovereignty to construct political orders in line with their interests and aspirations. By invoking the vernacular of sovereignty in contrasting ways to support their differing visions of imperial and world order, these actors also attempted to reconfigure the boundaries among the spheres of the national, the imperial, and the international. Throughout the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries, debates and disputes over the princely states continually defined and redefined the concept of sovereignty and international legitimacy in South Asia.


Using rich material from the colonial archives, Sovereignty, International Law, and the Princely States of Colonial South Asia conveys an understanding of the history of sovereignty and the construction of the modern Indian nation-state that is still relevant today. A riveting read, this book will be of considerable interest and importance to scholars of international law and South Asia, legal historians, and political scientists.

  • Places the princely states of colonial South Asia at the heart of debates over the boundaries of international law
  • Examines debates over the legal status of the princely states to analyse the relationship between colonialism and international law in South Asia
  • Draws on extensive archival research to present legal arguments made by international lawyers, British politicians, colonial officials, rulers and bureaucrats of princely states, and anticolonial nationalists in British India
  • Explores the changing meaning of sovereignty in colonial South Asia

Table of Contents:

1:Introduction
2:Setting the Stage: The Legal Construction of British Paramountcy
3:Jousting Over Jurisdiction: Sovereignty Debates in the Aftermath of the 1857 Rebellion
4:The Controversy Over Divisible Sovereignty: The Princes and the Indian States Committee
5:Political Negotiations: The Princes in the Federation Debates
6:Building the Nation: The Princely States in the Age of Decolonization
7:Epilogue

Author Information:

Priyasha Saksena, Lecturer in Law, University of Leeds

Priyasha Saksena is a lecturer at the School of Law, University of Leeds, UK. Her research focuses on the historical development of legal concepts and institutions within the British empire and their contemporary effects. She is particularly interested in exploring how legal doctrines such as sovereignty have shaped the relationship between international law and colonialism.

dinsdag 13 juni 2023

BOOK: Simon HINRICHSEN, "When Nations Can't Default: A History of War Reparations and Sovereign Debt" (CUP, 2023)

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Description:

War reparations have been large and small, repaid and defaulted on, but the consequences have almost always been significant. Ever since Keynes made his case against German reparations in The Economic Consequences of the Peace, the effects of transfer payments have been hotly debated. When Nations Can't Default tells the history of war reparations and their consequences by combining history, political economy, and open economy macroeconomics. It visits often forgotten episodes and tells the story of how reparations were mostly repaid - and when they were not. Analysing fifteen episodes of war reparations, this book argues that reparations are unlike other sovereign debt because repayment is enforced by military and political force, making it a senior liability of the state.
  • Provides a thorough review of recent war reparations, which has not been compiled before
  • Makes sovereign debt theory accessible to readers without specialized training in economics
  • Gives readers an understanding of why countries pay reparations, even if it makes no economic sense and has disastrous consequences

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction
2. A framework for war reparations
3. Sovereign debt
4. Napoleonic Wars reparations
5. Haiti indemnity and sovereign debt
6. Franco-Prussian War indemnities
7. Smaller 19th century war reparations
8. German World War I reparations
9. Russian and Bulgarian World War I reparations
10. World War II reparations to the Soviet Bloc.

Visit CUP's website for more information.

donderdag 8 juni 2023

WORKSHOP: "New international histories of decolonisation and the United Nations", (EUI/Zoom, 14 June 2023)

Description:

This workshop will explore new research into international histories of decolonisation, with a focus on the United Nations. Bringing together academics and experts on both topics, the workshop will examine the various ways in which the UN facilitated and hindered decolonisation in the mid-twentieth century and demonstrate how colonial and neo-colonial behaviours persist in present times.

The workshop will consist of two panel discussions, both providing an opportunity for the invited academics to share their research through presentations, followed by a Q&A.

The first discussion will focus on three specific UN structures to better understand how different, often peripheral parts of the UN, dealt with decolonisation campaigns in the past. The second panel invites scholars who examine cases of ongoing colonisation, including the Rwenzururu Kingdom in western Uganda, West Papua and Palestine. This discussion will explore the international dimensions of decolonisation in the present, captivating not only historians but researchers and experts across the EUI who are interested in the UN from a variety of perspectives.

Please register in order to get a seat or the ZOOM link.


Scientific Organiser(s):

Siobhan Amelia Smith (European University Institute)


Contact(s):

Siobhan Amelia Smith (European University Institute)


Speaker(s):

Emma Kluge (EUI)

Alessia Tortolini (University of Pisa/the Institute of Security and Global Affairs of Leiden University in The Hague)

Yusra Abdullahi (University of Leiden)

Alanna O Malley (University of Leiden)

Margot Tudor (University of Exeter)

Anne Irfan (University College London)

Consult the EUI event page for more information.

woensdag 7 juni 2023

CALL FOR PAPERS: XXVIIth Annual Forum of Young Legal Historians, "Meetings of Legal Culture" (University of Sarajevo, 21-23 September 2023, DEADLINE: 1 July 2023)



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Description:

MEETINGS OF LEGAL CULTURES

XXVIIth Annual Forum of Young Legal Historians Sarajevo, (21 - 23 September 2023)

CALL FOR PAPERS 2023

We are pleased to announce a call for papers for our upcoming gathering, which aims to explore the convergence of legal cultures. This event seeks to provide a platform for young legal historians to share their latest research on the meeting of legal cultures. We welcome papers that examine the challenges and opportunities presented by cross-cultural encounters, and that shed light on the ways in which legal systems have evolved and adapted to new contexts. 

The convergence of legal cultures between the Orient and Occident has played a pivotal role in the development of law throughout history. As the East and West have interacted and exchanged ideas, legal systems have adapted and evolved to new contexts. However, these encounters have also presented significant challenges, particularly when reconciling conflicting norms and protecting fundamental values. The ongoing encounter of legal cultures between the Orient and Occident remains a critical aspect of legal history, shaping the evolution of law and promoting a more interconnected and just legal system that embraces both Eastern and Western perspectives.

The study of the convergence of legal cultures is crucial for legal history because it sheds light on the ways in which legal systems have developed and interacted with each other over time. By examining how legal systems have evolved through cross-cultural encounters, legal historians can gain insight into the complex dynamics of legal change and devel
opment. Moreover, the study of the convergence of legal cultures can help legal historians to uncover the diverse range of legal traditions that have existed throughout history, and to appreciate the unique contributions that different legal systems have made to the evolution of law. Ultimately, by studying the convergence of legal cultures, legal historians can better understand the complex and dynamic nature of law, and can contribute to the development of a more inclusive and diverse legal history.

The following are not an exhaustive list of topics we would like to see submissions fall under:

1. Meeting of legal cultures

2. Religious law

3. Roman law 

4. Modern legal systems

We believe that the conference gives young legal historians a unique opportunity to present their research in the field and to get acquainted with the interdisciplinary approaches presented by their colleagues from around the world. If you would like to present a paper during the conference, please send an application including an abstract of not more than 250 words and your CV to centerforlegalcultures@gmail.com before 1st of July. Presentations have to be in English and should not exceed 20 minutes each. 

The conference fee will be € 150 (for online participants €100) - and does not include travel and accommodation. After 1st of July accepted papers will be informed and will be contacted further to complete the registration by paying the conference fee.

Best Regards,

Organizing Committee

For more details, visit the AYLH website.


woensdag 31 mei 2023

CALL FOR PAPERS: "De-centering the history of international organisations" (KULeuven, 29 November - 1 December 2023, DEADLINE: 4 July 2023)

 

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Description:

International and transnational organisations have been prominent actors in histories of the long 20th century, histories often marked by methodological innovations, which have generated new insights and reframed our understanding of, for instance, the Cold War, global civil society, and decolonisation. However, there has been little reflection on how historians can apply those same methodological perspectives to the use of these organisation’s archives. This workshop seeks to explore how different methodological approaches to international and transnational organisations can bring new histories into view. Rather than approaching international and transnational organisations from a strictly institutional point of view, we, instead, wonder how these organisations and their archives can become the basis for telling other, local, regional or international, stories that shift the focus to the broader context in which these organisations operated. By going beyond the institutional histories the workshop probes to re-evaluate the historiographical position of these organisations, while maintaining a clear view of the historian’s placement, challenges and limits.
In order to discuss such “de-centering” of the history of international and transnational organisations, this workshop focusses on methodological and epistemological reflections, and aims to bring together scholars working on all different strands of internationalism – from intergovernmental to non-governmental and civil society organisations, from religious internationals to trade union confederations and financial institutions. We welcome contributions that are based on a critical evaluation of experiences in the field, particularly in archives, that highlight how researchers have considered the methodological implications of de-centring their examination of these international organisations.

Some of the questions that might prompt contributions include:
  • How can the de-centering of international and transnational organisations and their archives engender new insights on a broad range of historical topics?
  • How has the recent emphasis in transnational history on disconnections informed methods and project design? What has the concept of disconnections brought to the previous emphasis on connections and flows? How have we managed the relationship between connections and disconnections?
  • The spatialization of transnational history: how can we write an international history from the local level? Conversely, how can we narrate local history by making use of international sources?
  • What new international organisations or networks are brought into view when our starting point is local contexts? How are understandings of what is an international organisation challenged by recent developments in the field?
  • Archiving and archival practices reflect certain internal visions and understandings of the international organisation, shaping the sources with which we can tell stories. How can we challenge and supplement these understandings through alternative source collections or archival projects, and what are the methodological implications of doing so?
  • What are the promises and perils of newer materials such as born-digital materials and what insights do they offer for understanding current forms of international organisations?
Please submit a max. 350-word proposal by 4 July 2023.

Participants will be asked to submit a max. 4 page paper by 14 November, 2023. This paper should be a substantial outline of what a future full paper arising from your presentation will (or is envisaged to) look like. These will complement the 12-15 min oral presentations given during the workshop. They will also serve the basis for future collaborations, be it an edited collection/journal special editions or a collective research network grant. A particular aim of the workshop is to generate one or more ongoing collaborative projects, and time will be devoted to exploring these options.

Organising committee
Michelle Carmody, KADOC, KU Leuven
Manuel Herrera Crespo, KADOC, KU Leuven
Sam Kuijken, KADOC, KU Leuven

Scientific committee
Kim Christiaens, KADOC, KU Leuven
Karin Hoffmeester, International Institute for Social History, Amsterdam
Michelle Carmody, KADOC
Manuel Herrera Crespo, KADOC
Sam Kuijken, KADOC

maandag 29 mei 2023

CONFERENCE: ESIL IG History of International Law preconference workshop, "Historical Perspectives on Fairness in International Law" (Aix-Marseille University, 2023 ESIL Annual Conference Aix-en-Provence, 31 August 2023)

 

IG History of International Law preconference workshop program - August 31st, 9:30 am -12:30 pm

Historical Perspectives on Fairness in International Law

Word of welcome - Prof. Markus Beham (University of Passau)

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Panel 1: Chinese perspectives on fairness in the history of international law

1. Lam Sze Hong (Leiden University): Unequal Treaties: China’s approach toward colonial injustice revisit

2. Prof. Ryan Mitchell (The Chinese University of Hong Kong): International Law as a "Discourse Among Equals": Changing Chinese Perceptions of the Fairness of Global Order Between Colonialism and Great Power Competition

Moderator: Florenz Volkaert (Ghent University)

Panel 2: Fairness and decolonization

1. Dr. Wim Zimmerman (University of Salzburg): On virtue and vanity in international law: the making of self-determination in the General Assembly 1945-1960

2. Jacqueline Espenilla (Utrecht University): The promise of fairness: The development of the “common heritage of mankind” principle in international law

                                            Moderator: Prof. Markus Beham (University of Passau)

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                                         Concluding remarks: Jaanika Erne (University of Tartu)

In light of the upcoming elections for coordinators of the IG History of International Law, the workshop will be followed by an interest group meeting. All IG members are kindly invited to attend to discuss the work of the IG, provide feedback and contribute to developing a new mission statement for the IG. The present mission statement can be found here.

For the call for papers, consult our initial blog post or click here.

dinsdag 23 mei 2023

EVENT: Erik Castrén Institute 25th Anniversary (University of Helsinki, 25 May 2023)

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Description:

ECI’s 25th Anniversary

The Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights has the pleasure to invite you at its 25th Anniversary taking place on 25 May 2023, 10-13 at JuhlasaliUnioninkatu 33, Helsinki. 

In the Spring of 2023, it has been 25 years since the Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights (widely known as ECI) was established. Over these 25 years, ECI has hosted many research projects, organized a multitude of events, and housed dozens of researchers, including academic visitors. Some might even say ECI has helped set the global research agenda in the discipline of international law. In order to mark the occasion, ECI organizes a public event, looking at the academic and professional landscape and the way it has evolved during these 25 years.

Those attending in person are kindly asked to register here by May 18.

For more details, visit the blog of the University of Helsinki

maandag 15 mei 2023

BOOK: Immi TALLGREN, "Portraits of Women in International Law: New Names and Forgotten Faces?" (OUP, 2023)

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  • Offers a diverse set of biographies of women and gender non-conforming persons who made a difference in international law
  • Includes remarkable professors of law, diplomats, judges, civil society activists, feminists, pacifists, secretaries, spouses, novelists, and philosophers from all continents
  • Disrupts the dominant gendered, racialized, and classed images of history in international law
  • Includes a creative array of drawings, paintings, and photographs of the book's subjects
Description:

Current histories seem to suggest that men alone have been capable of the development of ideas, analysis, and practice of international law until the 1990s. Is this the case? Or have others been erased from the collective images of this history, including the portrait gallery of notables in international law?

Portraits of Women in International Law: New Names and Forgotten Faces? investigates the slow and late inclusion of women in the spheres of knowledge and power in international law. The forty-two textual and visual representations by a diverse team of passionate portraitists represent women and gender non-conforming people in international law from the fourteenth century onwards around the world: individuals and groups who imagined, developed, or contested international law; who earned their living in its institutions; or who, even indirectly, may have changed its course.

This rich volume calls for a critical identification of the formal and informal institutional practices, norms, and rituals of (white) masculinities, both in the past and in the research of international law today. By abandoning reductive histories, their biased frames, and tacit assumptions, this work brings previously unseen glimpses of international law and its agents, ideas, causes, behaviour, norms, and social practices into the spotlight.

Table of Contents:

Foreword: Looking at Portraits, Karen Knop
I. OPENING THE EXHIBITION
1:Re-curating the Portrait Gallery of International Law: The Objectives, Process, and Floorplan of the Exhibition, Immi Tallgren
II. THE VESTIBULE OF THE LEGENDARY ANCIENTS
2:Christine de Pizan: The Law of Warfare as Seen by a Medieval Woman, Franck Latty
3:Olympe de Gouges: Beyond the Symbol, Anne Lagerwall and Agatha Verdebout
4:The Reign of Order and the Rights of Siege According to Rosa Luxemburg, Deborah Whitehall
5:Maria van Reigersberch: Wife of Hugo Grotius, Henk Nellen
III. FIGUREHEADS OF FIGHTING FOR PEACE
6:Bertha von Suttner: Locating International Law in Novel and Salon, Janne E. Nijman
7:Jane Addams: Positive Peace from the Everyday to the International, Kate Grady and Gina Heathcote
IV. THE WINTER GARDEN OF ABOLITION AND RESISTANCE: WOMEN AGAINST SLAVERY, RACISM AND IMPERIALISM
8:Anna Julia Cooper: A Voice from the (Global) South, Christopher Gevers
9:Homelands of Mary Ann Shadd, Sarah Riley Case
10:Avabai Wadia: A Gentle Rebel of (Other) Nations?, Vasuki Nesiah
V. THE HALL OF DIVERSITY OF FEMINIST ACTIVISM IN INTERNATIONAL LAW
11:Ghénia Avril de Sainte-Croix: Abolitionism and the League of Nations, Frédéric Mégret
12:Yayori Matsui: Challenging the Silences of International Law through Pan Asian Feminist Solidarity, Keina Yoshida
13:Canonizing the Memory of Annie Ruth Jiagge in the Global Efforts Toward Gender Equality, Michael Addaney
VI. THE HALL OF WOMEN FOR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT BY INTERNATIONAL LAW: A NORDIC DREAM?
14:Alva Myrdal: The Rise and Fall of Social Democratic Internationalism, Anne Orford
15:Ester Boserup: Women and Development on the Margins, Miriam Bak Mackenna
16:Helvi Sipilä: Advocating Women's Rights at the UN, Raimo Lintonen
VII. THE BREAKERS OF THE GLASS CEILING: THE 'FIRST AND ONLY' IN INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS
17:Suzanne Bastid: The First of the 'Firsts', Immi Tallgren and Antoine Buchet
18:Marguerite Frick-Cramer: A Life Spent Shaping the Geneva Conventions, Boyd van Dijk
19:Vijayalakshmi Pandit: Gendering and Racing against the Postcolonial Predicament, Parvathi Menon
20:The Timing of Felice Morgenstern, Jan Klabbers
21:Paula Escarameia: Envisioning the Humane Face of International Law in the Twenty-first Century, Ana Caldeira Fouto, António Pedro Barbas Homem, and Pedro Caridade de Freitas
VIII. THE OTHER GROUP PICTURES IN INTERNATIONAL LAW
22:Forgotten Female Actors in Private International Law: The International Social Service, Roxana Banu
23:Female Staff in the Legal Section of the League of Nations, Benjamin Auberer
24:The 'Indigenous Women' Behind the 'Other' Beijing Declaration, Bérénice K. Schramm
25:The Women's Caucus for Gender Justice: Writing Gender into International Criminal Law, Anna van der Velde
IX. THE MISSING FACES OF THE FACULTY CORRIDORS
26:Sarah Wambaugh: Life at the Frontiers of International Law, Imogen Saunders
27:Exile and Access: Lilly Melchior Roberts and the Infrastructures of International Law, Alexandra Kemmerer
28:Lea Meriggi: A Fighter For the Wrong Cause, Serena Forlati
29:Isabella Diederiks-Verschoor: (A Life) Creating Spaces, Christiaan Verwer and Anna van der Velde
30:Gezina van der Molen: A Journey from Universalism to Pluralism, Sarah MH Nouwen and Wouter Werner
31:Elisabeth Mann Borgese: Ecology, Relationality, and Law of the Sea, Sara Seck
32:Marie Theres Fögen: The Universalization of a Rotten Deal, Reut Paz
33:Kalliopi Koufa: First Greek Female Academic of Public International Law, Marilena Papadaki
X. THE ROOF-TOP GALLERY OF DIPLOMACY AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
34:Thomas Baty in Japan: Seeing through the Twilight, Shinya Murase
35:Zheng Yuxiu and the Diplomacy of Nationalism and Feminism, Margaret Kuo
36:Marjorie M. Whiteman: Not Flowers but a Medal, Hatsue Shinohara
37:Aleksandra Kollontai: 'New Woman', Sergey Vasiliev
38:The Role of International Law in Paulina Luisi's Activism, Andrei Mamolea
39:Working from 'Rooms of Their Own': For a Realistic Portrait of Joyce Gutteridge CBE and Other Trailblazing Women, Luiza Leāo Soares Pereira
XI. PORTRAITS OF ARTISTS, JOURNALISTS AND VISIONARIES OF INTERNATIONAL LAW
40:"If Only They Listened to Simone Weil": From Rights to Roots, Outi Korhonen
41:Helene Halperin-Ginsburg: The Social Function of International Law, Ksenia Shestakova
42:Human Rights and Communist Internationalism: On Inji Aflatoun and the Surrealists, Mai Taha
43:Fearless Speech: A Portrait of UN Typist Shirley Hazzard , Dianne Otto
Epilogue: Exit through the Gift Shop, Hilary Charlesworth

Editor:
Immi Tallgren, Professor of International Law, University of Helsinki

Immi Tallgren is Adjunct Professor of International Law at the University of Helsinki and Senior KONE Research Fellow at the Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights. She has previously worked at the Finnish MFA, the Legal Affairs Unit of EUROPOL, the European Space Agency, and the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg. Her research interests are primarily in international criminal law, history of international law, law and cinema, and feminist approaches to international law. Her recent publications include The Dawn of a Discipline: International Criminal Justice and its Early Exponents (with Frédéric Mégret, CUP, 2020) and Retrials: The New Histories of International Criminal Law (with Thomas Skouteris, OUP, 2019).

Reviews:

"What an imaginatively assembled collection of essays. Overflowing with engrossing vignettes and unexpected characters, this is international law but not as we know it. No less than a re-writing and upending of international legal history. And seriously pleasurable!" - Gerry Simpson, Professor of International Law, London School of Economics

"Immi Tallgren has produced one of the most creative edited volumes in the history of international law and international relations that I have seen. This is a remarkable achievement, a field-defining piece of work." - Patricia Owens, Professor of International Relations, University of Oxford