Research Handbook on the Theory and History of International Law

Edited by Alexander Orakhelashvili, Professor, School of Law, University of Birmingham, UK

Contents:

Foreword
Philip Allott

Preface

PART I: THE ESSENCE AND DEVELOPMENT OF INTERNATIONAL LEGAL THEORY
1. The Relevance of Theory and History – The Essence and Origins of International Law
Alexander Orakhelashvili

2. Early-Modern Scholarship on International Law
Alain Wijffels

3. Natural Law and the Law of Nations
Patrick Capps

4. The Origins of Consensual Positivism – Pufendorf, Wolff and Vattel
Alexander Orakhelashvili

5. The Transformation of International Law in the 19th Century
Amnon Lev

6. Hans Kelsen’s Place in International Legal Theory
Jörg Kammerhofer

7. ‘The Holiness of the Heart’s Affection’: Philip Allott’s Theory of Social Idealism
Iain Scobbie

PART II: THEMATIC ASPECTS OF INTERNATIONAL LEGAL THEORY
8. International Human Rights Law Theory
Frédéric Mégret

9. The Philosophy of International Criminal Law
Robert Cryer

10. International Law and EU Law: Between Asymmetric Constitutionalisation and Fragmentation
Katja S. Ziegler

11. International Law, International Politics and Ideology
Alexander Orakhelashvili

PART III: HISTORY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW
12. Periodization and International Law
William E. Butler

13. Acculturation through the Middle Ages: The Islamic Law of Nations and its Place in the History of International Law
Jean Allain

14. The Classical Law of Nations (1500–1800)
Randall Lesaffer

15. The 19th-Century Life of International Law
Alexander Orakhelashvili

16. International Law between Universality and Regional Fragmentation. The Historical Case of Russia
Lauri Mälksoo

17. International Law in the 20th Century
Carlo Focarelli

Index