International Law in the Long Nineteenth Century (1776-1914)

Inge Van Hulle, Ph.D. (2016), KU Leuven, is Assistant Professor of Legal History at Tilburg University. She specializes in the history of international law and empire in the nineteenth century on which she has published several articles. Randall Lesaffer is Professor of Legal History at Tilburg University and at the University of Leuven. He specializes in the history of international law since the fifteenth century on which he has published monographs and many articles. He is editor of Oxford Historical Treaties and president of the Grotiana Foundation.

 Introduction

  Randall Lesaffer and Inge Van Hulle



Part 1: International Law and Revolution

1 Napoleon 1814–1815: A Small Issue of Status

  James Crawford

2 The Law of Nations and the Common Law of Europe: The Case of Edmund Burke

  Camilla Boisen

3 Uneasy Neutrality: Britain and the Greek War of Independence (1821–1832)

  Viktorija Jakjimovska



Part 2: International Law and Empire

4 Equality of Non-European Nations in International Law

  Andrew Fitzmaurice

5 British Humanitarianism, International Law and Human Sacrifice in West Africa

  Inge Van Hulle

6 The Mahmoud Ben Ayad Case and the Transformation of International Law

  Raphael Cahen

7 Public-Private Colonialism: Extraterritoriality in the Shanghai International Settlement

  Stefan Kroll



Part 3: The Rise of Modern International Law

8 Permanent Neutrality or Permanent Insecurity? Obligation and Self-Interest in the Defence of Belgian Neutrality, 1830–1870

  Frederik Dhondt

9 The Role of Comparative Law in the Development of Modern Private International Law (1750–1914)

  Ana Delic

10 The Institute of International Law’s Crisis in the Wake of the Franco-Prussian War (1873–1899)

  Vincent Genin