ESIL Interest Group History of International Law

ESIL Interest Group History of International Law

Wednesday, 4 December 2024

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

Source: CUP

Description:


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 perspectives.
  • 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

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