Research Handbook on the Theory and History of International Law

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

Contents:

Foreword to the First Edition viii
Editor’s Preface to the Second Edition x

PART I THE ESSENCE AND DEVELOPMENT OF
INTERNATIONAL LEGAL THEORY
1 The relevance of theory and history: the essence and origins of
international law 2
Alexander Orakhelashvili
2 Early-modern scholarship on international law 19
Alain Wijffels
3 Natural law and the law of nations 58
Patrick Capps
4 The origins of consensual positivism: Pufendorf, Wolff and Vattel 90
Alexander Orakhelashvili
5 The transformation of international law in the nineteenth century 108
Amnon Lev
6 Hans Kelsen’s place in international legal theory 139
Jörg Kammerhofer

PART II THEMATIC ASPECTS OF INTERNATIONAL LEGAL THEORY
7 International human rights law theory 164
Frédéric Mégret
8 The philosophy of international criminal law 200
Robert Cryer and Albert Nell
9 International law, international politics and ideology 240
Alexander Orakhelashvili

PART III HISTORY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW
10 Periodization and international law 281
William E. Butler
11 Origins, record and narratives: uses and abuses of international legal history 296
Alexander Orakhelashvili
12 Acculturation through the Middle Ages: the Islamic law of nations and
its place in the history of international law 312
Jean Allain
13 The classical law of nations 326
Randall Lesaffer
14 The nineteenth-century life of international law 359
Alexander Orakhelashvili
15 International law between universality and regional fragmentation: the
historical case of Russia 373
Lauri Mälksoo
16 International law in the twentieth century 394
Carlo Focarelli
17 International law in the early twenty-first century 444
Tom Ruys and Anemoon Soete

Index 474