Throughout her research career, Elisabetta Fiocchi Malaspina has demonstrated her ability to transition from the Italian to the European sphere and even to a global perspective. Her research on Émer de Vattel, the Swiss international lawyer and author of Droit des gens (1758) and the dissemination of his thought – whether in the original or translated into various languages across Europe and the Western world – has clearly revealed the extent to which Vattel's ideas were utilised and circulated between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
In the volume under review, a comparative approach is the focus of the author's attention, which is why she has given her work the subtitle Intrecci transnazionali nei sistemi di pubblicità immobiliare tra Otto e Novecento (Transnational Intertwining in Immovable Publicity Systems between the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries). The scope broadens to encompass the African continent and the outcomes of European colonialism: from the Colony of Eritrea to the Independent State of Congo and the Belgian Congo, and from the German Protectorate of Togo to the international mandate of the League of Nations awarded to France and England. These three case studies serve as exemplary instances in the specific field of investigation, capable of revealing the influences that inevitably arise from one legal system to another and highlighting the weight of traditions developed in land publicity between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries during the transition from one territorial reality to another, which, while more distant, was, in a more or less forced manner, closer to the colonising state.
DOI: 10.1080/2049677X.2025.2580109
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