Table of Contents

Bardo Fassbender and Anne Peters: Introduction: Towards a Global History of International Law Part One: Actors 1: Jörg Fisch: Peoples and Nations 2: Antonio Cassese: States 3: Randall Lesaffer: Peace Treaties and the Formation of International Law 4: Janne Elisabeth Nijman: Minorities and Majorities 5: Joaquín Alcáide Fernandez: Hostes humani generis: Pirates, Slavers, and other Criminals 6: Cornelis G. Roelofsen: International Arbitration and Courts 7: Anne Peters and Simone Peter: International Organizations: Between Technocracy and Democracy 8: Cecelia M. Lynch: Peace Movements, Civil Society, and the Development of International Law Part Two: Themes 9: Bardo Fassbender: Sovereignty and Equality of States 10: Daniel-Erasmus Khan: Territory and Boundaries 11: Reinhard Blänkner: Hegemony and Balance of Power 12: Dominique Gaurier: Cosmopolis and Utopia 13: Mary Ellen O'Connell: Peace and War 14: Antje von Ungern-Sternberg: Religion and Religious Intervention 15: Robert Kolb: The Protection of the Individual in Times of War and Peace 16: Koen Stapelbroek: Trade, Chartered Companies, and Mercantile Associations 17: David J. Bederman: The Sea Part Three: Regions I. Africa and Arabia 18: Fatiha Sahli and Abdelmalek El Ouazzani: Africa North of the Sahara and Arab Countries 19: James Thuo Gathii: Africa 20: Umut Özsu: The Ottoman Empire and the Abode of Islam II. Asia 21: Shin Kawashima: China 22: Masaharu Yanagihara: Japan 23: Bimal N. Patel: India III. The Americas and the Caribbean 24: Mark W. Janis: North America: American Exceptionalism in International Law 25: Jorge L. Esquirol: Latin America 26: David Berry: The Caribbean IV. Europe 27: Martin Kintzinger: From the Late Middle Ages to the Peace of Westphalia 28: Heinz Duchhardt: From the Peace of Westphalia to the Congress of Vienna 29: Milos Vec: From the Congress of Vienna to the Paris Peace Treaties of 1919 30: Peter Krüger: From the Paris Peace Treaties to the End of the Second World War V. Encounters 31: Chi-Hua Tang: China - Europe 32: Kinji Akashi: Japan - Europe 33: Upendra Baxi: India - Europe 34: Lauri Mälksoo: Russia - Europe 35: Kenneth Coates: North American Indigenous Peoples' Encounters Part Four: Interaction or Imposition 36: Arthur Eyffinger: Diplomacy 37: Andrew Fitzmaurice: Discovery, Conquest, and Occupation of Territory 38: Matthew Craven: Colonialism and Domination 39: Seymour Drescher: Slavery 40: Liliana Obregón Tarazona: The Civilized and the Uncivilized Part Five: Methodology and Theory 41: Martti Koskenniemi: A History of International Law Histories 42: Anthony Carty: Doctrine versus State Practice 43: Oliver Diggelmann: The Periodization of the History of International Law 44: Kaius Tuori: The Reception of Ancient Legal Th ought in Early Modern International Law 45: Arnulf Becker Lorca: Eurocentrism in the History of International Law 46: Antony Anghie: Identifying Regions and Sub-Regions in the History of International Law Part Six: People in Portrait 47: Mashood A. Baderin: Muhammad al-Shaybani (749/50-805) 48: Annabel Brett: Francisco de Vitoria (1480-1546) and Francisco Suárez (1548-1617) 49: Merio Scattola: Alberico Gentili (1552-1608) 50: Peter Haggenmacher: Hugo Grotius (1583-1645) 51: Knud Haakonssen: Samuel Pufendorf (1632-1694) 52: Knud Haakonssen: Christian Wolff (1679-1754) 53: Kinji Akashi: Cornelius van Bynkershoek (1673-1743) 54: Georg Cavallar: Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) 55: Emmanuelle Jouannet: Emer de Vattel (1714-1767) 56: Pauline Kleingeld: Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) 57: Armin von Bogdandy and Sergio Dellavalle: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) 58: Lydia H. Liu: Henry Wheaton (1785-1848) 59: Silja Vöneky: Francis Lieber (1798-1872) 60: Simone Peter: Bertha von Suttner (1843-1914) 61: Lauri Mälksoo: Friedrich Fromhold von Martens (Fyodor Fyodorovich Martens) (1845-1909) 62: Mathias Schmoeckel: Lassa Oppenheim (1858-1919) 63: Oliver Diggelmann: Max Huber (1874-1960) 64: Oliver Diggelmann: Georges Scelle (1878-1961) 65: Bardo Fassbender: Hans Kelsen (1881-1973) 66: Bardo Fassbender: Carl Schmitt (1888-1985) 67: Iain G.M. Scobbie: Sir Hersch Lauterpacht (1897-1960)

About the Author

Bardo Fassbender is Professor of International Law at the University of St. Gallen. He studied law, history and political science at the University of Bonn (Germany) and holds an LL.M from Yale Law School (1992) and a Doctor iuris from the Humboldt University in Berlin (1997), where he also completed his Habilitation in 2004 and became Privatdozent for the disciplines of public law, international law, European law and constitutional history. He was a Ford Foundation Senior Fellow in Public International Law at Yale University and a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. Before joining the University of St. Gallen in 2013, he held the chair in international law and human rights law at the Bundeswehr University in Munich. His principal fields of research are public international law, United Nations law, comparative constitutional law and theory, and the history of international and constitutional law. Anne Peters is Professor of Public International and Constitutional Law at the University of Basel, a position she has held since 2001. She is Dean of Research of the Law Faculty. She is a member of the Council of Europe's Commission for Democracy through Law (Venice Commission) in respect of Germany. She currently serves as the president of the European Society of International Law. In 2009, Anne was a visiting professor at Sciences Po, Paris. In the academic year 2004/05 she was Dean of the Basel law faculty. She obtained the Habilitation-qualification at the Walther-Schücking-Institute of Public International Law at the Christian Albrechts University Kiel on the basis of her Habilitation-Thesis "Elemente einer Theorie der Verfassung Europas " (Elements of a Theory of the Constitution of Europe) in 2000. Simone Peter holds a doctoral degree in law (Dr. iur.) and a degree in general history and German language (lic. phil., MA). She worked as a research assistant to the chair of International Law at the University of Basel from 2006 to 2012. Her research covered the field of general public international law and the history of international law. She currently works as a lawyer in the public administration of Basel-Stadt. Daniel Högger is PhD candidate and works as Research and Teaching Assistant to the Chair of International Law at the University of Basel. He holds a degree (lic phil/MA) in political science, international law, and history from the University of Zurich, and a degree (MA with distinction) in international studies from the University of Birmingham, UK.

Reviews

The Handbook on the History of International Law is an excellent and up-to-date contribution to a broad topic that has increasingly attracted the interest of academia in the last years. The editors certainly succeeded in bringing together a broad range of renowned experts on the various fi elds covered. It certainly deserves its place in the bookshelves of any international lawyers library.
*Ralph Janik, Austrian Review of International and European Law Online*

Shelley's interlocutor in Ozymandias paints a bleak picture of the fate which has befallen the Pharaoh's statue: 'Nothing beside remains. Round the decay / Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare / The lone and level sands stretch far away ' ... Thanks to interventions such as those organised by Fassbender and Peters in this excellent volume, the historians of international law need not fear such a fate befalling their discipline-indeed, its future has never seemed brighter or more vibrant.
*Cameron A. Miles, The British Yearbook of International Law*

It is a good and informative comprehensive historical introduction to international law.
*Carlo Focarelli, Italian Yearbook of International Law*

By any measure, the book is a substantial achievement, and it will be widely and rewardingly consulted for many years to come.
*Jacob Katz Cogan, University of Cincinnati, American Journal of International Law*

Impressive and timely volume
*Rose Parfitt, Global Law Books*

The volume does a marvelous job of hemming the topic in, but pays a price for its breadth and the erudition of its contributors by leaving the reader ungratefully greedy for further contextualization and (historical) policy detail - sparking this hunger in the reader though is a true vindication of a handbook of this sort.
*Wouter P. F. Schmit Jongbloed, ASIL Cables*

The Oxford Handbook of the History of International Law innovatively and comprehensively provides a timely and ambitious global history of international law from the sixteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. Under the skilled editorship of Bardo Fassbender and Anne Peters, the contributors, experts who themselves come from all parts of the world, present a history that imagines international law as the product of different regions, cultures, actors, and eras. Setting a new agenda for the field, the Handbook will be the indispensable starting point for students and researchers exploring the history of international law.
*ASIL Award Citation*

There is no doubt that The Oxford Handbook of the History of International Law will become what editors and authors intended," the new standard reference work for the global history of international law," provides the reader with a broad spectrum of useful information on a high level which is not easily assembled.
*Karl Heinz Ziegler, German Yearbook of International Law*

In sum, the Handbook on the History of International Law is an excellent and up-to-date contribution to a broad topic that has increasingly attracted the interest of academia in the last years. The editors certainly succeeded in bringing together a broad range of renowned experts on the various fields covered. It certainly deserves its place in the bookshelves of any international lawyerâs library.
*Ralph Janik, Austrian Review of International and European Law*