General surveys

Anghie, Anthony

• Imperialism, Sovereignty and the Making of International Law (Cambridge UP 2005).

Bederman, David, J. 

• ‘The Sea’, in Bardo Fassbender and Anne Peters (eds.), Oxford Handbook of the History of International Law (Oxford UP 2012) 359-79

Benton, Lauren

• A Search for Sovereignty. Law and Geography in European Empires, 1400-1900 (Cambridge UP 2010).

Best, Geoffrey

• Humanity in Warfare. The Modern History of the International Law of Armed Conflict (London: Methuen 1980).

Bittner, Ludwig

• Die Lehre von den völkenrechtlichen Vertragsurkunden (Stuttgart, Berlin and Leipzig: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt 1924).

Brock, Lothar and Hendrik Simon (eds.)

• The Justification of War and International Order. From Past to Present (Oxford UP 2021).

De la Rasilla, Ignacio and Shahid Ayesha (eds.)

• International Law and Islam: Historical Explorations (Leiden and Boston: Brill/Nijhoff 2019).

Eyffinger, Arthur

• ‘Self-Defence or the Meanderings of a Protean Principle’ in Arthur Eyffinger, Alan Stephens and Sam Muller (eds.), Self-Defence as a Fundamental Principle (The Hague: Hague Academic Press 2009) 109-38.

Fisch, Jörg Fisch

• Krieg und Frieden im Friedensvertrag. Eine universalgeschichtliche Studie über Grundlagen und Formelementen des Friedensschlusses (Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta 1979).
• Die europäische Expansion und das Völkerrecht. Die Auseinandersetzungen um den Status der überseeischen Gebiete vom 15. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart (Stuttgart: Steiner 1984).

Fitzmaurice, Andrew

Sovereignty, Property and Empire, 1500-2000 (Cambridge UP 2014).

Focarelli, Carlo

• Introduzione storica al diritto internazionale (Milan: Giuffrè 2012).

Frey, Linda S. and Marsha 

• The History of Diplomatic Immunity (Columbus: Ohio State University Press 1999).

Gaurier, Dominique

• Histoire du droit international. De l’Antiquité à la création de l’ONU (Presses Universitaires de Rennes 2014).

Gozzi, Gustavo

• Rights and Civilizations. A History and Philosophy of International Law (Cambridge UP 2019).

Grabar, V.E.

• The History of International Law in Russia 1647-1917. A Bio-Bibliographical Study (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1990).

Grewe, Wilhelm G.

• The Epochs of International Law (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter 2000).

Hathaway, Oona  A. and Scott Shapiro

• The Internationalists and their Plan to Outlaw War (London: Allen Lane 2017).

Jouannet, Emmannelle

• The Liberal-Welfarist Law of Nations. A History of International Law (Cambridge UP 2012).

Juenger, Friedrich

• Choice of Law and Multistate Justice (Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1993).

Kadelbach, Stephan, Thomas Kleinlein and David Roth-Isigkeit (eds.),

• System, Order and International Law. The Early History of International Legal Thought from Machiavelli to Hegel (Oxford UP 2017).

Kalmanowitz, Pablo

• The Laws of War in International Thought (Oxford UP 2020).

Kawashima, Shin

• ‘China’, in Bardo Fassbender and Anne Peters (eds.), Oxford Handbook of the History of International Law (Oxford UP 2012) 451-74.

Kennedy, David

• ‘Primitive Legal Scholarship’, Harvard International Law Journal, 27 (1986) 1-98.

Kolb, Robert

• Esquisse d’un droit international public des anciennes cultures extra européennes (Paris: Pédone 2010).

Korman, Sharon

• The Rights of Conquest. The Acquisition of Territory by Force in International Law and Practice (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1996).

Laghmani, Slim

• Histoire du droit des gens du jus gentium imperial au jus publicum europaeum (Paris: Pédone 2003).

Lesaffer, Randall

• ‘Peace Treaties and the Formation of International Law’, in Bardo Fassbender and Anne Peters (eds.), Oxford Handbook of the History of International Law (Oxford UP 2012) 71-94.
• ‘Too Much History: From War as Sanction to the Sanctioning of War’ in Marc Weller (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the Use of Force in International Law (Oxford UP 2015) 35-55.
• ‘Roman Law and the Intellectual Theory of International Law’, in Anne Orford and Florian Hoffmann (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Theory of International Law (Oxford UP 2016) 38-58.

Lipstein, Kurt

• Principles of the Conflict of Laws, National and International (Hingham, Dordrecht: Kluwer 1981).

Neff, Stephen C.

• The Rights and Duties of Neutrals. A General History (Manchester University Press 2000).
• War and the Law of Nations. A General History (Cambridge UP 2005).
• Justice among Nations. A History of International Law (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press 2014).

Onuma, Yasuaki

• ‘When was the Law of International Society Born? An Inquiry of the History of International Law from an Intercivilizational Perspective’, Journal of the History of International Law, 2 (2000) 1-66.

Özsu, Umut

•  ‘Ottoman Empire’, in Bardo Fassbender and Anne Peters (eds.), Oxford Handbook of the History of International Law (Oxford UP 2012) 429-48.

Paradisi, Bruno

• L’amitié internationale. Les phases critiques de son ancienne histoire’, Recueil des Cours de l’Académie de Droit International, 78 (1951) 325-78.

Roelofsen, Cornelis G. 

• International Arbitration and Courts’ in Bardo Fassbender and Anne Peters (eds.), Oxford Handbook of the History of International Law (Oxford UP 2012) 145-69.

Schmitt, Carl

• Der Nomos der Erde im Völkerrecht des Jus Publicum Europaeum (4th edn., Berlin: Duncker & Humblot 1997).

Stapelbroek, Koen

• ‘Trade, Chartered Companies, and Mercantile Associations’ in Bardo Fassbender and Anne Peters (eds.), Oxford Handbook of the History of International Law (Oxford UP 2012) 338-58.

Tierney, Brian

• The Idea of Natural Rights (Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press 1997).

Yanagihara, Masaharu

• ‘Japan’, in Bardo Fassbender and Anne Peters (eds.), Oxford Handbook of the History of International Law (Oxford UP 2012) 475-99.

Yntema, Hessel E.

• ‘The Historical Bases for Private International Law’ The American Journal for Comparative Law, 3 (1953) 297-317.

Ziegler, Karl-Heinz

• Karl-Heinz Ziegler, Völkerrechtsgeschichte. Ein Studienbuch (2nd edn., Munster: C.H. Beck 2007).