In the spotlight: Publications on the History of International Law
New publications in the history of international law.
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).