Empire and Legal Thought

Edward Cavanagh was a Fellow (2016-2019) of Downing College, after attaining his PhD from the University of Ottawa (2012-2015). His scholarly interests lie at the crossroads of law and history.

 Preface

 Notes on Contributors

 1Empire and Legal Thought: An Introduction

 Edward Cavanagh

 2The First ‘Lawyers’? Judicial Offices, Administration and Legal Pluralism in Ancient Egypt, ca. 2500–1800BCE

 Alexandre A. Loktionov

 3After the Empire: Judicial Review and Athenian Interstate Relations in the Age of Demosthenes, 354–22BCE

 Alberto Esu

 4Public Law and Republican Empire in Rome, 200–27BCE

 Clifford Ando

 5Compromise and Coercion: Imperial Motives Behind Justinianic Legislation in Sixth-century Constantinople

 Halcyon Weber

 6Muslims and Non-orthodox Christians in Byzantine Law until ca. 1100

 Zachary Chitwood

 7Roman Public Law in the Twelfth Century: Politics, Jurisprudence, and Reverence for Antiquity

 Emanuele Conte

 8Ius gentium: The Metamorphoses of a Legal Concept (Ancient Rome to Early Modern Europe)

 Dante Fedele

 9‘Exiit edictum a Caesare Augusto ut describeretur universus orbis’ (Luke 2:1–2): Debating Imperial Authority in Late Medieval Legal and Political Thought (12th–14th Centuries)

 Tiziana Faitini

 10Ideas of Empire in the Thought of the Late Medieval Roman Law Jurists

 Joseph Canning

 11Medieval Pisa as a Colonial Laboratory in the Historiographical Imagination of the Early Twentieth Century

 Lorenzo Veracini

 12Open and Closed Seas: The Grotius-Selden Dialogue at the Heart of Liberal Imperialism

 Mark Somos

 13Littoral Leviathan: Histories of Oceans, Laws, and Empires

 Matthew Crow

 14From Procedural Law to the ‘Rights of Humanity’: Habeas corpus,Ex parte Somerset (1771–72), and the Movement toward Collective Representation in Early British Antislavery Cases

 Sarah Winter

 15Prerogative and Office in Pre-revolutionary New York: Feudal Legalism, Land Patenting, and Sir William Johnson, Indian Superintendent (1756-1774)

 P.G. McHugh

 16The Pure Reason of Lex Scripta: Jurisprudential Philology and the Domain of Instituted Laws during Early British Colonial Rule in India (1770s–1820s)

 Naveen Kanalu

 17James Bryce’s Home Rule Constitutionalism and Victorian Historiography

 Jordan Rudinsky

 18Crown, Conquest, Concession, and Corporation: British Legal Ideas and Institutions in Matabeleland and Southern Rhodesia, 1889–1919

 Edward Cavanagh

 19British War Office Manuals and International Law, 1899–1907

 Lia Brazil

 20Reich, Imperium, Empire: Carl Schmitt and the ‘Overcoming of the Concept of the State’

 Joshua Smeltzer

 Index