Historiography and methodology

Historiography and Methodology

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Amorosa, Paolo

  • Rewriting the History of the Law of Nations. How James Brown Scott Made Francisco de Vitoria the Founder of International Law (Oxford UP 2019).

Anand, R.P.

  • ‘The Influence of History on the Literature of International Law’,  in Ronald St. J. Macdonald and Douglas M. Johnston (eds.), The Structure and Process of International Law: Essays in Legal Philosophy, Doctrine, and Theory (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1983) 341-80.

Becker Lorca, Arnulf

  • ‘Eurocentrism in the History of International Law’, in Bardo Fassbender and Anne Peters (eds.), Oxford Handbook of the History of International Law (Oxford UP 2012) 1034-57.

Benton, Lauren

  • 'Beyond Anarchonism: Histories of International Law and Global Legal Politics', Journal of the History of International Law, 21 (2019) 7-40.

Carty, Anthony

  • ‘Doctrine versus State Practice’, in Bardo Fassbender and Anne Peters (eds.), Oxford Handbook of the History of International Law (Oxford UP 2012) 972-96.

De la Rasilla Ignacio

  • 'The problem of periodization in the history of international law', Law and History Review, 37 (2019) 275-308.
  •  International Law and History.  Modern Interfaces (Cambridge UP 2021).

Fitzmaurice, Andres

  • ‘Context in the History of International Law’, Journal of the History of International Law, 20 (2018) 5-30.

Graven, matthew

  • ‘Introduction: International Law and its Histories’ in Matthew Craven, Malgosia Fitzmaurice and Maria Vogiatzi (eds)., Time, History and International Law (Leiden and Boston: Martinus Nijhoff 2007) 1-26.
  •  ‘Theorizing the Turn to History in International Law’, in Anne Orford and Florian Hoffmann (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Theory of International Law (Oxford UP 2016) 21-37.

Grewe, Wilhelm G.

  • ‘Vom europäischen zum universellen Völkerrecht. Zur Frage der Revision des "europazentrischen" Bildes der Völkerrechtsgeschichte’, Zeitschrift für ausländische öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht, 42 (1982) 449-79.

Hatzimihail, Nikitas

  • ‘Pages of History. Friedrich Juenger and the Historical Consciousness of Modern Private International Law’ in Leonel Pereziento Castro, Tullio Preves and Francesco Seatzu (eds.), Tradition and Innovation of Private International Law at the Beginning of the Third Millennium. Liber in Memoriam of Professor Friedrich K. Juenger (Huntington: Juris Publishing 2006) 81-124.

Koskenniemi, Martti

  • ‘Histories of International Law: Dealing with Eurocentrism’, Rechtsgeschichte. Zeitschrift des Max-Planck-Instituts für europäische Rechtsgeschichte, 19 (2011) 152-76.
  •  ‘A History of International Law Histories’, in Bardo Fassbender and Anne Peters (eds.), Oxford Handbook of the History of International Law (Oxford UP 2012) 943-71.

Lesaffer, Randall

  •  ‘Law and History: Law between Past and Present’ in Sanne Taekema and Bart van Klink (eds.), Law and Method. Interdisciplinary Research into Law ((Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2011) 133-152.

Orford, Anne

  • ‘In Praise of Description’, Leiden Journal of International Law, 25 (2012) 609-25Anne Orford, ‘On International Legal Method’, London Review of International Law, 1 (2013) 166-97.
  •  ‘International Law and the Limits of History’, in Wouter Werner, Marieke de Hoon and Alexis Galan (eds.), The Law of International Lawyers. Reading Martti Koskenniemi (Cambridge UP 2017) 297-320.
  • International Law and the Politics of History (Cambridge UP 2021).

Onuma, Yasuaki

  • ‘Eurocentrism in the History of International Law’ in Yasuaki Onuma (ed.), A Normative Approach to War. Peace, War, and Justice in Hugo Grotius (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1993) 371-86.

Preiser, Wolfgang

  • Die Völkerrechtsgeschichte. Ihre Aufgaben und Methoden (Wiesbaden: Steiner Verlag 1964).

Steiger, Heinhard

  • ‘Probleme der Völkerrechtsgeschichte’, Der Staat, 26 (1987) 103-26.
  • ‘From the International Law of Christianity to the International Law of the World Citizen: Reflections on the Formation of the Epochs of the History of International Law’, Journal of the History of International Law, 3 (2001) 180-93.

Vadi, Valentina

  • 'International law and its histories: methodoligical risks and opportunities', Harvard International Law Journal, 58 (2017) 311-52.
  • 'Perspective and scale in the architecture of international legal history', European Journal of International Law, 30 (2019) 53-72.

Van Ittersum, Martine

  • ‘Hugo Grotius: The Making of a Founding Father of International Law’, in Anne Orford and Florian Hoffmann (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Theory of International Law (Oxford UP 2016) 82-100.

Von Arnauld, Andreas (ed.)

  • Völkerrechtsgeschichte. Historische Narrative und Konzepte in Wandel (Duncker & Humblot 2017).

Vinogradoff, Paul

  •  Historical Types of International Law: Lectures Delivered in the University of Leiden (Leiden: Brill 1923)

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