OUP is publishing a new edited
collection on how lawyers have shaped international politics over the last 300
years.
ABOUT THE BOOK
This volume sheds light on how
lawyers have made sense of, engaged in, and shaped international politics over
the past three hundred years. Chapters show how politicians and administrators,
diplomats and military men, have considered their tasks in legal terms, and how
the field of international relations has been filled with the distinctly legal
vocabulary of laws, regulations, treaties, agreements, and conventions.
Leading experts in the field provide insights into what it means when concrete
decisions are taken, negotiations led, or controversies articulated and
resolved by legal professionals. They also inquire into how the
often-criticised gaps between juristic standards and everyday realities can be
explained by looking at the very medium of law. Rather than sorting people and
problems into binary categories such as 'law' and 'politics' or 'theory' and
'practice', the case studies in this volume reflect on these dichotomies and
dissolve them into the messy realities of conflicts and interactions which take
place in historically contingent situations, and in which international lawyers
assume varying personas.
ABOUT THE EDITORS
Marcus M. Payk is professor of
modern history at Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg, Germany. He has a
special interest in international history, legal history, German and European
history, and has published widely in these fields. His research has been
supported by various grants and scholarships both in Europe and the United
States.
Kim Christian Priemel is professor of contemporary European history at the
University of Oslo. He specializes in legal history, social and economic
history, and media history. He has authored and edited several books and has
published in the Journal of Modern History, the Journal of Contemporary
History, and Central European History.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Introduction: Thinking Law, Talking
Law, Doing Law: How Lawyers Craft(ed) the International Order, Marcus M. Payk
and Kim Christian Priemel
2. Shaping a New Profession:
Japanese Encounters with International Law, c. 1600-1900, Andrew Cobbing
3. Legal Practitioners:
Nineteenth Century International Jurisdiction and the Ambiguous Role of the
Members of the Mixed Commissions, Fabian Klose
4. Legal Advice, the Foreign
Office, and Britain's Neutrality Policy, 1870-1914, Gabriela A. Frei
5. The First R2P: US Legal
Advisers and the Right to Protect Citizens in the Early Twentieth Century
Americas, Benjamin A. Coates
6. Hammarskjöld at The Hague:
Sweden and the Peace Conference of 1907, Michael Jonas
7. The Draughtsmen: International
Lawyers and the Crafting of the Paris Peace Treaties, 1919-20, Marcus M. Payk
8. Legal Legwork: How Exiled
Jurists Negotiated Recognition and Legitimacy in Wartime London 1939-45, Julia
Eichenberg
9. Changing Hats. Nuremberg's
Visible College and the Politics of Internationalism, 1941-49, Kim Christian
Priemel
10. Fluid Boundaries in the
Divisible College: The International Law Association and the Indus Waters
Dispute in the 1950s, Katharina Rietzler
11. Agents of Constitutionalism:
The Quest for a Constitutional Breakthrough in European Law, 1945-1964, Morten
Rasmussen
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