In the spotlight: Publications on the History of International Law

Publications 2023

• Monica Garcia-Salmones Rovira, The Necessity of Nature. God, Science and Money in 17th-Century English Law of Nature (CUP 2023).
• Luke Glanville, David Lupher and Maya Feile Tomes (eds.), Sepulveda and the Spanish Invasion of the Americas. Defending Empire, Debating Las Casas (OUP 2023).
• Knud Haakonssen and Ian Hunter (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Pufendorf  (CUP 2023).
• John D. Ford, The Emergence of Privateering (Brill 2023).
• Philip J. Stern, Empire, Incorporated. The Corporations that Built British Colonialism (Belknap Press 2023).
• Arnout Van Cruyningen, De Vrede van Münster. Het einde van de Tachtigjarige Oorlog, 1648 (Omniboek 2023).
• Christopher Roberts, Alternative Approaches to Human Rights. The Disparate Historical Paths of the European, Inter-American and African Regional Human Rightss Systems (Cambridge UP 2023).

Publications 2022

• David Rodogno, Night on Earth. A History of International Humanitarianism in the Middle East, 1918-1930 (CUP 2022).
• Joachim Dolezik, Narrative zum Gerechten Krieg im Völkerrecht (Duncker & Humblot 2022).
• Boyd Van Dijk, Preparing for War. The Making of the Geneva Conventions (OUP 2022).
• P. Sean Morris (ed.), Intellectual Property and the Law of Nations, 1860-1920 (Brill/Nijhoff 2022).
• Claire Vergerio, War, States, and International Order. Alberico Gentili and the Foundational Myth of the Laws of War (Cambridge UP 2022).
• Jenny Benham, International Law in Europe, 700-1200 (Manchester UP 2022).
• Helen Dewar,  Disputing New France: Companies, Law, and Sovereignty in the French Atlantic, 1598-1663 (McGill-Queens University Press 2022).
• J.A. Fernandez-Santamaria, Three Moments in the History of the Ius Gentium (1500-1700). An Essay on the Evolution of the Right of Peoples (Brill/Nijhoff 2022).
• Tirza Meyer, Elisabeth Mann Borgese and the Law of the Sea (Brill/Nijhoff 2022).
• Francesca Iurlaro, The Invention of Custom. Natural Law and the Law of Nations, ca. 1550-1750 (Oxford UP 2021).
• Fabian Klose, In the Cause of Humanity. A History of Humanitarian Intervention in the Long Nineteenth Century (Cambridge UP 2022).

Publications 2021

• Samuel Moyn, Humane. How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021).
• Deepak Mawar, States Undermining International Law. The League of Nations, United Nations, and Failed Utopianism (Palgrave Macmillan 2021).
• Martti Koskenniemi, To the Uttermost Parts of the Earth. Legal Imagination and International Power, 1300-1870 (Cambridge UP 2021).
• Anne Orford, International Law and the Politics of History (Cambridge UP 2021).
• Peter Schröder, Concepts and Contexts of Vattel's Political and Legal Thought (Cambridge UP 2021).
• Daniel Schwartz, The Political Morality of the Late Scholastics. Civic Life, War and Conscience (Cambridge UP 2021).
• Chenxi Tang, Imagining World Order. Literature and International Law in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800  (Cornell UP 2018).
• Raphaël Schäfer and Anne Peters (eds.), Politics and the Histories of International Law. The Quest for Knowledge and Justice (Brill/Nijhoff 2021).
• Christoph Wampach, Armed Reprisals from Medieval Times to 1945 (Nomos Verlag 2020).
• Sebastian M. Spitra, Die Verwaltung von Kultur im Völkerrecht. Eine postkoloniale Geschichte (Nomos Verlag 2021).
• Stella Ghervas, Conquering Peace from the Enlightenment to the European Union  (Harvard UP 2021).
  • although not a book on international law, it offers a highly relevant grand narrative that frames some of the most salient evolutions in the legal organization of Europe over the past three centuries.
• Michael Bryant, A World History of War Crimes. From Antiquity to the Present (2nd edn., Bloomsbury Academic 2021).
• Peter Becker and Natasha Wheatley (eds.), Remaking Central Europe. The League of Nations and the Former Habsburg Lands (OUP 2020).
• Dante Fedele, The Medieval Foundations of International Law. Baldus de Ubaldis (1327-1400), Doctrine and Practice of the  Ius Gentium (Brill/Nijhoff 2021).
• Lothar Brock and Hendrik Simon (eds.), The Justification of War and International Order. From Past to Present (Oxford UP 2021).
• Ignacio de la Rasilla, International Law and History. Modern Interfaces (Cambridge UP 2021).