BOOK: Daniel S. MARGOLIES et al., eds., The Extraterritoriality of Law : History, Theory, Politics (London: Routledge, 2019). ISBN 9780815378587, £92.00

(Source: Routledge)

Routledge is publishing a new book dealing i.a. with the history of legal extraterritoriality.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Questions of legal extraterritoriality figure prominently in scholarship on legal pluralism, transnational legal studies, international investment law, international human rights law, state responsibility under international law, and a large number of other areas. Yet many accounts of extraterritoriality make little effort to grapple with its thorny conceptual history, shifting theoretical valence, and complex political roots and ramifications.　

This book brings together thirteen scholars of law, history, and politics in order to reconsider the history, theory, and contemporary relevance of legal extraterritoriality. Situating questions of extraterritoriality in a set of broader investigations into state-building, imperialist rivalry, capitalist expansion, and human rights protection, it tracks the multiple meanings and functions of a distinct and far-reaching mode of legal authority. The fundamental aim of the volume is to examine the different geographical contexts in which extraterritorial regimes have developed, the political and economic pressures in response to which such regimes have grown, the highly uneven distributions of extraterritorial privilege that have resulted from these processes, and the complex theoretical quandaries to which this type of privilege has given rise.

The book will be of considerable interest to scholars in law, history, political science, socio-legal studies, international relations, and legal geography.

ABOUT THE EDITORS

Daniel S. Margolies is Professor and Chair of the History Department at Virginia Wesleyan University, US

Umut Özsu is Assistant Professor of Law and Legal Studies at Carleton University, Canada

Maïa Pal is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Oxford Brookes University, UK

Ntina Tzouvala is Laureate Postdoctoral Fellow in International Law at Melbourne Law School, Australia

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Table of Contents

Introduction

Daniel S. Margolies, Umut Özsu, Maïa Pal, Ntina Tzouvala

Part I

What Is Extraterritoriality?

1. Ways of Doing Extraterritoriality in Scholarship

John Haskell

2. In the Middle of Nowhere: The Futile Quest to Distinguish Territoriality from Extraterritoriality

Péter D. Szigeti

3. Moving Beyond the E-word in the Anthropocene

Sara L. Seck

Part II

Constituting and Contesting Extraterritoriality

4. Early Modern Extraterritoriality, Diplomacy, and the Transition to Capitalism

Maïa Pal

5. "Uneven Empires": Extraterritoriality and the Early Trading Companies

Kate Miles

6. Protégé Problems: Qing Officials, Extraterritoriality, and Global Integration in Nineteenth-Century China

Richard S. Horowitz

7. Drinking Water by the Sea: Real and Unreal Property in the Mixed Courts of Egypt

Mai Taha

8. "And the laws are rude, … crude and uncertain": Extraterritoriality and the Emergence of Territorialised Statehood in Siam

Ntina Tzouvala

9. Imperial Reorderings in US Zones and Regulatory Regimes, 1934–50

Daniel S. Margolies

Part III

Extraterritoriality in the Contemporary World-System

10. The Interplay between Extraterritoriality, Sovereignty, and the Foundations of International Law

Austen L. Parrish

11. Extraterritoriality as an Analytic Lens: Examining the Global Governance of Transnational Bribery and Corruption

Ellen Gutterman

12. From Extraterritorial Jurisdiction to Sovereignty: The Annexation of Palestine

Alice Panepinto

13. Extraterritoriality Reconsidered: Functional Boundaries as Repositories of Jurisdiction

Ezgi Yildiz

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