Author: Emer de Vattel
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Category : International law
Languages : en
Pages : 618

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Author: Stefan Kadelbach
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019108106X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 588

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For many centuries, thinkers have tried to understand and to conceptualize political and legal order beyond the boundaries of sovereign territories. Their concepts, deeply entangled with ideas of theology, state formation, and human nature, form the bedrock of todays theoretical discourses on international law. This volume engages with models of early international legal thought from Machiavelli to Hegel before international law in the modern sense became an academic discipline of its own. The interplay of system and order serves as a leitmotiv throughout the book, helping to link historical models to contemporary discourse. Part I of the book covers a diverse collection of thinkers in order to scrutinize and contextualize their respective models of the international realm in light of general legal and political philosophy. Part II maps the historical development of international legal thought more generally by distilling common themes and ideas, such as the relationship between universality and particularity, the role of the state, the influence of power and economic interests on the law, and the contingencies of time, space and technical opportunities. In the current political climate, where it appears that the reinvigorated concept of the nation state as an ordering force competes with internationalist thinking, the problems at issue in the classic theories point to contemporary questions: is an international system without central power possible? How can a normative order come about if there is no central force to order relations between states? These essays show that uncovering the history of international law can offer ways in which to envisage its future.

Author: Emmanuelle Jouannet
Publisher: Hart Publishing Limited
ISBN: 9781841136912
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 344

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In this authoritative work, Emmanuelle Jouannet, a leading French scholar of public international law and legal theory, takes a fresh look at the emergence of classical international law and provides an original and decisive reinterpretation. According to the modern and conventional account, Grotius and his predecessors, the Spanish jurists, are credited as the 'fathers' of the modern ius gentium. However, this picture of history is now both inaccurate and incomplete. With rare erudition based on an exhaustive analysis of the foundational concepts and principal texts of the great jurists of the period, Jouannet shows that it was only during the 18th-century period of Enlightenment that a genuine doctrine of international law emerged. In particular, Jouannet focuses on the work of Swiss jurist Emerich de Vattel (1714-1767), a long forgotten figure, showing how his ideas engendered a fresh understanding of what international law meant and how they stimulated the fundamental debates which international lawyers are still engaged in today. The book was originally published in French in 1996 and received three major awards: the University Paris I Prize, the Dupin-Aine Prize, and the Maurice Picard Prize. This English translation will appeal to international lawyers/legal historians. (Series: French Studies in International Law)

Author: James Brown Scott
Publisher:
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Category : International law
Languages : en
Pages : 316

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Author: Frank S. Ruddy
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392

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Author: George Breckenridge Davis
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Category : International law
Languages : en
Pages : 714

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Author: Emer de Vattel
Publisher:
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Category : International law
Languages : en
Pages : 668

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Author: John Norton Pomeroy
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Category : International law
Languages : en
Pages : 512

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Author: Henry Wheaton
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Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 872

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Author: James Leslie Brierly
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Category : International law
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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