26 February 2021
NEW JOURNAL: "LawArt" - Rivista di Diritto, Arte, Storia / Journal of Law, Art and History - first issue, 2020 (open access)
BOOK: Sandro NOTARI, Nel laboratorio parmense. La redazione del codice civile di Maria Luigia (1814-1820) (Roma: Aracne Editrice, 2021). ISBN: 978-88-255-3897-7, pp. 560, € 28,00
25 February 2021
BOOK: Graeme GOODAY & Steven WILF (Eds.), Patent Cultures - Diversity and Harmonization in Historical Perspective (Cambridge: CUP, 2020). ISBN 9781108475761, 95.00 GBP
Cambridge University Press has
published a book on the history of different patent systems.
ABOUT THE BOOK
This book explores how dissimilar
patent systems remain distinctive despite international efforts towards harmonization.
The dominant historical account describes harmonization as ever-growing, with
familiar milestones such as the Paris Convention (1883), the World Intellectual
Property Organization's founding (1967), and the formation of current global
institutions of patent governance. Yet throughout the modern period, countries
fashioned their own mechanisms for fostering technological invention.
Notwithstanding the harmonization project, diversity in patent cultures remains
stubbornly persistent. No single comprehensive volume describes the comparative
historical development of patent practices. Patent Cultures: Diversity and
Harmonization in Historical Perspective seeks to fill this gap. Tracing
national patenting from imperial expansion in the early nineteenth century to
our time, this work asks fundamental questions about the limits of
globalization, innovation's cultural dimension, and how historical context
shapes patent policy. It is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand
the contested role of patents in the modern world.
ABOUT THE EDITORS
Graeme Gooday, University of
Leeds
Graeme Gooday is Professor of the
History of Science and Technology in the University of Leeds' School of
Philosophy, Religion and History of Science. From 2007–10 he led the AHRC-funded
project Owning and Disowning Invention, which produced the prize-winning
Patently Contestable (2013) with co-author Stathis Arapostathis. He was also
co-leader with Claire L. Jones of the international research network Rethinking
Patent Cultures (2014), the first workshop of which generated this volume.
Steven Wilf, University of
Connecticut
Steven Wilf is the Anthony J.
Smits Professor of Global Commerce at the University of Connecticut Law School
where he founded the Intellectual Property program. He has served as Microsoft
Fellow at Princeton University and Abraham L. Kaminstein Scholar in Residence
at the United States Copyright Office. He is the author of The Law before the
Law (2008), Law's Imagined Republic: Popular Politics and Criminal Justice in
Revolutionary America (Cambridge, 2010), and numerous articles.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Part I. Introductory:
1. Diversity versus harmonization
in patent history: an overview Graeme Gooday and Steven Wilf
2. The 1883 Paris Convention and
the impossible unification of industrial property Gabriel Galvez-Behar
3. One for all? The American
patent system and harmonization of international intellectual property laws Zorina
Khan
Part II. Americas: Technical
Imaginaries:
4. US patent models as specimen
and specification Courtney Fullilove
5. Mexico and the puzzle of
partial harmonization: nineteenth-century patent Law reconsidered Edward Beatty
6. An early patent system in
Latin America: the Chilean case, 1840s–1900s Bernardita Escobar Andrae
Part III. Southern Europe:
7. The Italian patent system
during the long nineteenth century: from privileges to property rights in a
latecomer industrializing country Alessandro Nuvolari and Michelangelo Vasta
8. Industrial 'property', law,
and the politics of invention in Greece, 1900–1940 Stathis Arapostathis
9. Mediation and harmonization:
construction of the Spanish patent system in the twentieth century Ana Romero
de Pablos
Part IV. Central and Eastern
Europe:
10. The struggle over 'the social
function of intellectual work in the economy of nations': engineers, patent
law, and enterprise inventions in Germany and their European significance Karl
Hall
11. Multiple loyalties: hybrid
patent regimes in the Habsburg empire and its successor states Karl Hall
12. Patent debates on invention
from Tsarist Russia to the Soviet Union Karl Hall
Part V. Asia:
13. Patent policy in India under
the British Raj: a bittersweet story of empire and innovation Rajesh Sagar
14. The India twist to patent
culture: investigating its history Tania Sebastian
15. The life and times of patent
no. 2,670: industrial property and public knowledge in early twentieth-century
Japan Kjell Ericson
Part VI. Epilogue:
16. Postscript Graeme Gooday and
Steven Wilf.
More info here
24 February 2021
ONLINE EVENT: Paper Chains or Lilliputian Cords? Towards an Intellectual History of Treaties with David Armitage and Piers Ludlow (LSE, 18 MAR 2021)
Lecture abstract:
There are currently over 55,000 treaties in force around the world, covering almost every aspect of life on earth as well as the ocean floor and outer space. Yet just how we became global Gullivers, enmeshed in worldwide webs of treaties, is a problem surprisingly little studied by historians, political scientists or scholars of International Relations. This lecture tackles this question with the tools of intellectual history and examines how treaties have been thought about and argued over, what cultural traces they have left, and how the corpus of treaties might become a resource for intellectual historians.
On the speaker:
David Armitage is the Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History at Harvard University and an Affiliated Faculty Member at Harvard Law School. A prize-winning writer and teacher, he is the author or editor of eighteen books, among them Civil Wars: A History in Ideas (Knopf, 2017); The History Manifesto (Cambridge UP, 2014), one of the Chronicle of Higher Education’s most influential books of the past twenty years; The Declaration of Independence: A Global History (Harvard UP, 2007), a Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year; and The Ideological Origins of the British Empire (Cambridge UP, 2000), which won the Longman/History Today Book of the Year Award. He has held visiting positions in the US and the UK, Australia, China, France, Germany, and South Korea and is currently an Honorary Fellow of St Catharine’s College, Cambridge University, and an Honorary Professor of History at both Queen’s University Belfast and the University of Sydney.
On the commenter:
Piers Ludlow is Professor of International History and Head of Department of International History at LSE.
23 February 2021
BOOK: Benoît GRÉVIN, La Première Loi du royaume L’acte de fixation de la majorité des rois de France (1374) (Paris: Garnier, 2021). ISBN: 978-2-406-09900-0, pp. 615, € 29,00
ABOUT THE BOOK
Collection: Histoire du droit, n° 9
La Première Loi du royaume analyse la loi de fixation de la majorité des rois de France à quatorze ans (1374). Elle en dévoile les sources juridiques, théologiques, historiques et philosophiques inconnues et les mécanismes conceptuels extraordinairement complexes qui présidèrent à sa création.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Benoît Grévin est directeur de recherche CNRS. Ses recherches concernent généralement, dans une approche historique incluant des aspects littéraires, philologiques, comparatifs, l’histoire de l’inscription des langages et des styles dans les sociétés du long Moyen Âge occidental et méditerranéen
TABLE OF CONTENTS
It is available here.
More information with the publisher.
CALL FOR PAPERS: “The State of the Church and the Patrimony of Saint Peter in Tuscia: A territory and a history to be rediscovered” (Tarquinia, 16-17 October 2021) (DEADLINE: 30 April 2021)
We
received a call for papers for the 3rd Scientific Meeting of the Tarquinia
Society of Art and History.
Theme of the Conference
The goal of the 3rd Scientific Meeting of the
Tarquinia Society of Art and History is to build a forum for
interdisciplinary reflection aimed at enriching the knowledge available on the territory of Tuscia, not only with
regard to its extremely rich and glorious
history, but also to its conspicuous and valuable artistic and cultural heritage.
The lands subject
to the pontifical domain, spread over the old Tuscan possessions located north
from Rome,
which correspond, more or less, to the province
of Viterbo and the Civitavecchia territory,
were included, at the end of the 12th century, in one of the administrative
areas instituted by pope Innocent III (1198-1216) as a subdivision
of the Ecclesiastical States. This district was called ‘Patrimony of Saint Peter in Tuscia’, precisely
to specify its specific geographical connotation. In comparison with the other
provinces of the Papal States, however, the one of the ‘Patrimony’ is the least studied and the aim of this conference is
precisely to encourage studies in this field.
Proposals submission
The conference is open to the reflection of qualified
scholars in the following macro-areas:
1. The State of the Church and the
Patrimony of Saint Peter in Tuscia: Medieval and modern history.
2. The State of the Church and the
Patrimony of Saint Peter in Tuscia: Legal, economic and institutional history.
3. The State of the Church and the
Patrimony of Saint Peter in Tuscia: Archaeology and history of art.
Submission
of Proposals: 1) Title of the paper; 2) Academic affiliation; 3) 200 word
abstract; by 30 April 2021 to the following e-mail address: sanpietrointuscia@gmail.com.
Publication
of the Proceedings: December 2022.
Scientific Committee
Bernard Ardura
(Presidente Pontificio Comitato di Scienze storiche); Javier Belda Iniesta
(Universidad Católica de Murcia); Richard Hodges (American University of
Rome); Mario Ascheri (Università di Roma Tre); Laura Moscati
(Università di Roma ‘La Sapienza’); Giovanni Minnucci (Università di
Siena); Paolo Alvazzi del Frate (Università di Roma Tre); Alfio
Cortonesi (Università della Tuscia); Cristina Carbonetti Vendittelli
(Università di Roma ‘Tor Vergata’); Alessandro Dani (Università di Roma ‘Tor
Vergata’); Tommaso di Carpegna Falconieri (Università degli studi di
Urbino Carlo Bo); Anna Modigliani (Università della Tuscia); Marco
Vendittelli (Università di Roma ‘Tor Vergata’ e Presidente del Centro studi
internazionali G. Ermini); Tiziana Ferreri (Università di Siena);
Eleonora Rava (Università St. Andrews - Centro studi S. Rosa); Angela
Lanconelli (Archivio di Stato di Roma); Francesca Ceci (Musei
Capitolini-Ispettore Onorario MiBAC Sopr. Etruria meridionale); Maurizio
Ficari (Sovrintendenza capitolina ai beni culturali); Irene Berlingò
(MIBACT); Daniele Federico Maras (soprintendenza beni archeologici
Etruria meridionale - pontificia Accademia romana di Archeologia); Giuseppe
Romagnoli (Università degli studi della Tuscia).
SEMINAR: Methods of Legal History (Online, 5 March 2021)
Prof. Dr. Thomas Duve at the Max Planck Institute for Legal
History and Legal Theory is organizing a seminar on methods of legal history (in German).
Registration is possible until 25.02
Research in legal history requires continuous reflection on
its methods and goals. This takes place in various forums at the Institute. The
seminar 'Methods of Legal History' aims at discussing methodological issues
that are especially important for the work in the department 'Historical
Normativity'. In principle, the seminar will be held in German.
More info here
BOOK: Claire BILLEN, Bruno BLONDÉ, Marc BOONE & Anne-Laure VAN BRUAENE (Eds.), Faire société au Moyen Âge: Histoire urbaine des anciens Pays-Bas (1100-1600) (Paris: Garnier, 2021). ISBN: 2406107922, pp. 360, € 29,00
(Source: Garnier)
ABOUT THE BOOK
Collection: Bibliothèque d'histoire médiévale, n° 25
Favorisés par leur localisation côtière, les anciens Pays-Bas sont un pays de villes en réseaux. Celles-ci présentent une histoire sociale spécifique, marquée par la puissance d’une classe moyenne à la forte identité corporative, qui s’efforça d’y imposer ses intérêts, son idéologie et ses valeurs.
ABOUT THE EDITORS
Directeurs d'ouvrage: Claire Billen, Bruno Blondé, Marc Boone, Anne-Laure Van Bruaene
TABLE OF CONTENTS
It is available here.
More information with the publisher.
22 February 2021
CALL FOR PAPERS: Slavery Past, Present & Future (7-9 July 2021, ONLINE) (DEADLINE: 15 March 2021)
We learned of a Call for Papers
for the 5th global meeting of “Slavery Past, Present & Future”. Here
the Call:
Slavery (the treatment of humans
as chattel) and enslavement through conquest, birth, gender, race, ethnicity,
kinship, and exploitation of indebtedness have been an intrinsic part of human
societies.
Slavery and a variety of other
forms of exploitation existed in ancient societies across the world, and in
many other states and territories. The Transatlantic Slave Trade
furnished at least 10 million Africans for slavery throughout the
Americas.
Controversial and contested
estimates indicate that up to 40 million people worldwide are enslaved
today. This modern re-emergence of slavery into public view, following
legal abolition of the trans-Atlantic slave trade over two hundred years ago,
is said to be linked to the deepening interconnectedness of countries in the
global economy, overpopulation, and the economic and other vulnerabilities of
individual victims and communities.
But should we think of these
people as enslaved? And if so, is slavery an inevitable part of the human
condition? Like ‘consumers’ of past eras, such as early industrialization, are
we dependent on the exploitation of others? What does the persistence and
mutations of different forms of exploitation mean in the context of abolition
and recognition of universal individual and collective human rights?
The varieties of contemporary
forms of exploitation appear to be endless. This interdisciplinary conference
will facilitate a multidisciplinary exploration of slavery in all its
dimensions.
In keeping with previous
meetings, the format of the Slavery Past, Present and Future Conference this
year will be plenary. We intend to hold the meetings for part of the day only
[EST] to avoid Zoom fatigue and expect those who register to attend all the
sessions in order to facilitate a genuine cross-fertilization of ideas across
identities, disciplines, and subject areas.
Submissions are sought from
people from all walks of life and identities, including:
- Academics: from all disciplines, such as art, film,
anthropology, sociology, history, ethnic studies, politics, social work,
economics, and any field that touches the study of exploitation
- Civil society members: human rights activists,
leaders in non-governmental organizations, and others in the NGO or social
advocacy fields
- Professionals: social workers, corporate social
responsibility and business ethics professionals, business leaders, and
health care professionals
- Government actors: representatives, policymakers,
lobbyists, and analysts
- Global citizens with personal connections to
slavery or exploitation: former enslaved persons or indentured laborers,
members of at-risk populations, migrant or guest workers, non-regularized
immigrants, and refugees
We particularly encourage
submissions from the Global South.
Potential themes and sub-themes
include but are not limited to:
- Defining Slavery
- Slaveries of the Past
- Human Trafficking and other Forms of Contemporary
Exploitation
- Systems and Structures of Enslavement and
Subordination (historic and contemporary)
- Voices of the Enslaved
- Legacies of Slavery
- Anti-slavery Initiatives and Movements
- Covid-19 and slavery
More information can be found here
BOOK: Carole DORNIER, La Monarchie éclairée de l'abbé de Saint-Pierre - Une science politique des Modernes (Oxford : OUP, 2020). ISBN 9781789622225, 99.99 USD
Oxford University Press has published
a new book on the writings of the abbé de Saint-Pierre.
ABOUT THE BOOK
L'abbé de Saint-Pierre, connu pour son Projet
de paix perpétuelle, a laissé un ensemble bien plus vaste et cohérent d’écrits
politiques et moraux, jusqu'alors dispersés et partiellement étudiés. Le
présent ouvrage, exploitant systématiquement la totalité de l'oeuvre, en
propose la complète réévaluation. Dès les premières décennies du XVIIIe siècle,
Saint-Pierre promeut une harmonisation artificielle des intérêts, assurée par
l'intervention politique et s'affirme, avant Bentham, comme l'un des premiers
utilitaristes. Il imagine de substituer à la patrimonialisation, aux
recommandations et clientèles qui structuraient la société de son temps et
déterminaient l'exercice du pouvoir, une organisation rationnelle,
méritocratique et dynamique. ll remplace les valeurs charismatiques fondant la
perfection chrétienne ou la grandeur aristocratique par les objectifs de
l'utilité et du bien public. Pour ce déiste conciliant moralité et religion, la
recherche du salut par une piété active doit favoriser la justice et la bienfaisance.
Selon lui, seul le pouvoir indivisible d'un monarque informé par des élites
compétentes peut réaliser des réformes nécessaires au bonheur du plus grand
nombre. Promoteur d'un État de bien-être imposé autoritairement, il représente,
avant le plein essor de l'économie politique, des sciences camérales et de la
doctrine des physiocrates, une dimension méconnue des Lumières politiques que
cette étude entend souligner.
The Abbé de Saint-Pierre, best known for his Project for Perpetual
Peace, in fact left a much larger and more coherent body of political and moral
writing, but it has been only partially studied. This book, the first
systematic exploration of his entire corpus, offers a complete re-evaluation of
this important author's contributions to the Enlightenment. From the first
decades of the 18th century, Saint-Pierre set forth a pioneering vision of
politics as the harmonization of interests, anticipating Bentham as a
utilitarian. He imagines replacing the system of inherited power and clientele
networks which structured Old Regime society and determined the exercise of
power under absolutism, with a rationalized, meritocratic and dynamic
organization. He argued for the political values of social utility and public
good to take the place of the Christian ideals of perfection and the
aristocratic ideals of personal charisma. As a deist seeking to reconcile
morality and religion, Saint-Pierre argued that the search for salvation
through active piety must also promote social justice and beneficence -- and
that only the indivisible power of a rationalized monarch, informed by
competent elites, could carry out the reforms necessary to yield a government
which would produce the greatest happiness for the greatest number.
Saint-Pierre, thus, provided among the first arguments for an imposed welfare
state, well before the sources more frequently associated with that idea --
political economists, cameralists and the physiocrats.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Professeur émérite de littérature et culture
françaises du XVIIIe siècle à l'Université de Caen, Carole Dornier a publié des
travaux et des éditions scientifiques de textes concernant les idées morales et
politiques des Lumières (Crébillon, Duclos, Montesquieu, Le Maître de Claville,
Vauvenargues, Rousseau, Castel de Saint-Pierre). Elle dirige actuellement une
édition électronique des écrits de l'abbé de Saint-Pierre.
More info here
18 February 2021
BOOK: Consuelo MARTÍNEZ-SICLUNA Y SEPÚLVEDA (dir.), Autoridad, poder y jurisdicción en la monarquía hispánica (Madrid: Dykinson, 2020), 266 p. ISBN 9788413247427, € 19
El libro Autoridad, poder y jurisdicción en la Monarquía Hispánica aborda esos diferentes aspectos en el ámbito de la Monarquía que rigió los destinos de España y de sus dominios a lo largo de dos siglos. El imponente legado que aglutinó en su herencia el nieto de Maximiliano de Austria y de los Reyes Católicos, tuvo que enfrentarse en tanto que “monarquía compuesta”, en la expresión de Koenigsberger, o monarquía polisinodial, a los diversos retos que vino a plantear la modernidad. Entre otras cosas, el de optar como las restantes monarquías, por la acción de gobierno, en un sentido, netamente político, o bien por admitir un sentido misional. Ante tal dilema, la Casa de Austria tuvo que jugar sus bazas en el gran escenario de la política, en que se convirtió Europa. Para ello, contó además con el armazón jurídico y político de la doble herencia que recibe Carlos y con un pensamiento y una administración que serán piezas eficaces al servicio de la Monarquía, y al tiempo, de la nación. Tanto la finalidad como los instrumentos de los que se sirvió la Monarquía Hispánica son objeto de estudio en este libro: desde el elemento netamente intelectual, donde se analiza el concepto de Imperio y su transformación; también el problema de configurar un poder limitado, a la hora de afrontar la expansión de los dominios sobre los que rige y en el interior de los mismos, y por otro lado la diferente forma de contribuir, por parte de los pensadores más representativos y de la propia maquinaria administrativa y jurisdiccional de la Monarquía, al mantenimiento de la misma. El elenco de autores que forman parte de este libro constituye un nutrido grupo de especialistas e investigadores en cada uno de los temas que afrontan. Los trabajos se desarrollan además en el seno de la Cátedra de Estudios “Casa de Austria”, que hace ya más de dos años un equipo de profesores de diferentes universidades pusimos en pie, con la finalidad de profundizar, desde una óptica multidisciplinar, en la Monarquía Hispánica y su legado.
Table of contents:
Presentación. Consuelo Martínez-Sicluna y Sepúlveda
PONENCIAS
La idea de Imperio en España. Dalmacio Negro Pavón
Las elites ciudadanas y su proyección en el servicio de la monarquía hispánica. Rafael Sánchez Saus
La idea de monarquía universal y los primeros Habsburgo. Manuel Alejandro Rodríguez de la Peña
La Escuela de Salamanca ante la transformación del concepto de naturaleza: recepción aristotélica y naturalismo político. Javier López de Goicoechea Zabala
Las virtudes del Príncipe: de Erasmo a Pedro de Ribadeneyra. Consuelo Martínez-Sicluna y Sepúlveda
¿Con qué autoridad? El poder y la ley en la teología política de Francisco Suárez. Costantino Esposito
Una panorámica de la construcción del estatus jurídico del indio durante el reinado de Carlos V. Agustín Bermúdez Aznar
La prefiguración de la ciudadanía política en Francisco de Vitoria. Juan Carlos Utrera García
El Rey, el Señor y el Obispo. La idea de decadencia de España en la historiografía republicana del siglo XIX. Jorge Vilches García
COMUNICACIONES
Tradición jurídica y política castellana: monarquía y «res publica» hispana. Rafael Martín Rivera
La revuelta de las comunidades, efecto indeseado de la sucesión de Isabel La Católica. Jacobo Camacho Rivas
La renovación de la escolástica. Francisco Javier Ayora Fernández
El origen de la comunidad política en Diego de Saavedra Fajardo: la confluencia entre pactismo medieval y la universalidad del poder. Ramón de Meer Cañón
Aristocracia y diplomacia en la monarquía hispánica. La embajada de obediencia del III Duque de Alcalá. Álvaro Bueno Blanco
La apoteosis de la voluntad: el cerramiento inmanente de lo político. Francisco de Borja Gallego Pérez de Sevilla
Después de la derrota: la pervivencia del modelo Habsburgo en el exilio austracista (1713-1740). Jorge Álvarez Palomino
(source: Dykinson)
BOOK: Lothar BROCK and Hendrik SIMON (Eds.), The Justification of War and International Order - From Past to Present (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021). ISBN 9780198865308, 125.00 USD
OUP is publishing a new edited
collection on the history of justifications for war.
ABOUT THE BOOK
The history of war is also a
history of its justification. The contributions to this book argue that the
justification of war rarely happens as empty propaganda. While it is directed
at mobilizing support and reducing resistance, it is not purely instrumental.
Rather, the justification of force is part of an incessant struggle over what
is to count as justifiable behaviour in a given historical constellation of
power, interests, and norms. This way, the justification of specific wars
interacts with international order as a normative frame of reference for
dealing with conflict. The justification of war shapes this order, and is being
shaped by it.
As the justification of specific
wars entails a critique of war in general, the use of force in international
relations has always been accompanied by political and scholarly discourses on
its appropriateness. In much of the pertinent literature the dominating focus
is on theoretical or conceptual debates as a mirror of how international
normative orders evolve. In contrast, the focus of the present volume is on
theory and political practice as sources for the re- and de-construction of the
way in which the justification of war and international order interact.
With contributions from
international law, history, and international relations, and from Western and
non-Western perspectives, this book offers a unique collection of papers
exploring the continuities and changes in war discourses as they respond to and
shape normative orders from early modern times to the present.
ABOUT THE EDITORS
Lothar Brock is Senior Professor
of Political Science at Goethe University Frankfurt and at the Peace Research
Institute Frankfurt. He is co-author of Fragile States: Violence and the
Failure of Intervention (Polity, 2012) and co-editor of Democratic Wars:
Looking at the Dark Side of Democratic Peace (Palgrave, 2006).
Hendrik Simon is Lecturer at
Goethe University Frankfurt and Research Associate at the Peace Research
Institute Frankfurt. He was Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Advanced
International Theory/University of Sussex (2017), at the University of Vienna
(2018, 2016), at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History Frankfurt
(2015-16) and at the Cluster of Excellence 'Normative Orders' (2011-12).
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
1. The Justification of War and
International Order. From Past to Present, Hendrik Simon and Lothar Brock
Part I Basic Theoretical
Considerations: On War and Order(s)
2. Politics, Ethics and History
in Just War, Anthony Lang, Jr.
3. Imperialism, International Law
and War: Enduring Legacies and Curious Entanglements, Siddharth Mallavarapu
Part II The Early Modern War
Discourse: A Process of Transformation?
4. Princes' Justifications of War
in Early Modern Europe: the Constitution of an International Community by
Communication, Anuschka Tischer
5. The Legal Mechanics of Spanish
Conquest: War and Peace in Early Colonial Peru, Arnulf Becker Lorca
6. Capitalism, British Grand
Strategy and the Peace Treaty of Utrecht: Towards A Historical Sociology of
War- and Peacemaking in the Construction of International Order, Benno Teschke
7. Kant's Rejection of Just War:
International Order between Democratic Constitutionalism and Revolutionary
Violence, Oliver Eberl
Part III The 19th Century as the Birth
Era of the Modern War Discourse
8. Anarchy over Law? Towards a
Genealogy of Modern War Justifications (1789-1918), Hendrik Simon
9. Protection Emergencies:
Justifying Measures Short of War in the British Empire, Lauren Benton
10. The Great War and International
Law: German Justifications of Prevention and Pre-emptive Self-Defence, Isabel
V. Hull
11. Salvation through War? The
Ottoman Search for Sovereignty in 1914, Aimee Genell and Mustafa Aksakal
12. Juridification,
Politicisation, and Circumvention of Law: (De-)Legitimising Chemical Warfare
before and after Ypres, 1899-1925, Miloš Vec
Part IV From the League to the
UN: The Universe of Western International Legal Order Revealing its
Self-Contradictions
13. Peace through Law: Lessons
from 1914, B.S. Chimni
14. Re-Ordering the World from
the Skies? The Emergence and Justification of Aerial Warfare, Thomas Hippler
15. The Justificatory Potential
of International Law. National Socialists' Dreams of African Colonies, Felix
Lange
Part V 'Democratic Wars' and the
Post-Cold War International Order: Rise and Decline of the 'Liberal Peace'
16. 'What We Are Fighting For':
Democracies' Justifications of Using Armed Force since the End of the Cold War,
Anna Geis and Wolfgang Wagner
17. The War on Terror and the Law
of War: Shaping International Order in the Context of Irregular Violence,
Michael Stohl
18. 'We Are Going to War.'
Narratives of Self-Defence & Responsibility in Afghanistan War
Documentaries, Axel Heck and Gabi Schlag
19. Justifying Interventions -
The Case of ECOWAS in Liberia, Nina Wilén
20. Humanitarian Intervention:
Justifying War for a New International Order, Beate Jahn
Part VI Alternative Paths:
Non-Western Perspectives on the Justification of War and International Order
from Past to Present
21. The Islamic Law of War and
Peace and the International Legal Order: Convergence or Dissonance?, Sohail H.
Hashmi
22. In the Name of State
Sovereignty? The Justification of War in Russian History and the Present, Paul
Robinson and Mikhail Antonov
23. China's Approach to the Use
of Force: A Short Review of China's Changing Attitudes towards the Justification
of Humanitarian Intervention, Manjiao Chi
Paty VII International Rule of
Law: Justifying, Contesting and Perpetuating the Use of Force
24. Justified: Just War and the
Ethics of Violence and World Order, Chris Brown
25. How Many Deaths Can Art 2 (4)
UN Charter Die?, Thilo Marauhn
26. Justification and Critique:
Humanitarianism and Imperialism over Time, B.S. Chimni
27. The Justification and
Critique of Coercion as World Order Politics, Christopher Daase and Nicole
Deitelhoff
An Attempt at a Synthesis
28. Justifications of the Use of
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ZOOM SEMINAR: Legal Histories of Empire with Lisa Ford and Jessica Hinchy (Sydney, 5 MAR 2021)
The following announcement circulated on the Legal History Blog and the ANZLHS blog:
Join us for the second of several symposia planned for 2020 and 2021 for Legal Histories of Empire.
Our speakers:
Lisa Ford: ‘The King’s Colonial Peace: Variable subjecthood and the transformation of empire’
This paper is drawn from my forthcoming book, The King’s Peace: Empire and Order in the British Empire. The book uses colonial peacekeeping as a lens through which to examine the shifting parameters of crown prerogative in Empire in the Age of Revolutions. This paper will argue that the legal vulnerability of (and often threats to order posed by) a diverse array of subjects – formerly French Catholics in Quebec, Caribbean slaves and NSW convicts – both prompted and justified the unravelling of the very idea of the freeborn Englishman that had been mobilised by protestant Britons in pre-revolutionary America.
Lisa Ford is Professor of History at the University of New South Wales, Australia. Her major publications include Settler Sovereignty: Jurisdiction and Indigenous People in America and Australia, 1788-1836 (2010) which won the Littleton-Griswold Prize (American Historical Association); the Thomas J. Wilson Prize (Harvard University Press); and the Premiers History Award (NSW). She is also co-author of Rage for Order: The British Empire and the Origins of International Law, 1800-1850 (co-authored with Lauren Benton, 2016) and author of The King’s Peace, which will be published by Harvard later this year. Ford is currently leading a collaborative project funded by the Australian Research Council exploring the role of commissions of inquiry sent throughout the British Empire in the 1820s on which subject she hopes to lead author a book manuscript this year. She also holds a four-year ARC Future Fellowship, during which she will explore the changing use of martial law in the British Empire from the late eighteenth century until 1865.
Jessica Hinchy: ‘Child Removal and the Colonial Governance of the Family: Hijra and “Criminal Tribe” Households in North India, c. 1865-1900’
Historians have primarily examined colonial child removal projects in settler colonial contexts. Yet from 1865, the colonial government in north India forcibly removed children from criminalised communities. Child separation began in the households of gender non-conforming people labelled ‘eunuchs,’ particularly Hijras, and eventually extended to socially marginalised people designated as ‘criminal tribes,’ especially Sansiyas. First, what does a comparison of these child removal schemes tell us about the colonial governance of the family? Patrilineal, conjugal and reproductive household models marginalised Hijras and Sansiyas in differing ways, while the category of ‘child’ was contingently defined. Child separation was attempted to varying ends, including both elimination and assimilation. Yet often, the colonial state could not sustain such intensified forms of intimate governance in the face of resistance from households. Nor could officials simply determine removed children’s futures. Second, what does child removal suggest about the making of colonial law? When children were initially removed from Hijra and Sansiya households, officials admitted that ‘the law may have been somewhat strained,’ since existing laws did not provide police or magistrates with legal powers to separate these children. The Sansiya child removal project, for instance, prompted debates about colonial legal exceptions and the ‘legality’ of the colonial state’s practices among colonial officials and Indian and European non-officials.
Jessica Hinchy is an Assistant Professor of History at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. She researches the history of gender, sexuality, households and family in colonial north India. In 2019, Cambridge University Press published her first monograph, Governing Gender and Sexuality in Colonial India: The Hijra, c. 1850-1900. Her research has also appeared in Modern Asian Studies, Gender & History and Asian Studies Review, among other journals.
The event will take place by zoom on Friday 5 March (or Thursday 4 March, depending on your timezone – see below). Please register here (via Eventbrite) to attend.
Timezones:
Sydney @ 12.30 pm on 5 March
Singapore @ 9.30 am on 5 March
Auckland @ 2.30 pm on 5 March
New Delhi @ 7.00 am on 5 March
London/Dublin @ 1.30 am on 5 March
Nairobi @ 4.30 am on 5 March
Vancouver @ 5.30 pm on 4 March
New Haven/Toronto @ 8.30 pm on 4 March
(source: Legal History Blog - ANZLHS - ESILHIL)
17 February 2021
CALL FOR PAPERS: Law(s) and international relations (1815-1914). Actors, institutions, comparative legislations (Orléans/Paris, 15-17 SEP 2021); DEADLINE 31 MA 2021
In the last twenty years, the study of the history of international law and of international relations has witnessed something of a renaissance. Historians have adopted novel approaches to investigate diplomatic relations, the international system, and the discipline of international law. Fruitful perspectives from cultural, social, global and transnational histories as well as from gender studies, Third World approaches to international law, and postcolonial and imperial histories have all shed new light on the evolution of international law in the nineteenth century. The bicentenary of the Congress of Vienna (1814-1815) also led to several new publications on the Congress System and on the “security culture” that was established in the aftermath of Napoleon. Nevertheless, many lacunae remain, especially regarding the relationship between law(s) and international relations during the long nineteenth century and in the sociocultural history of international law as a discipline with its own actors, networks, venues, institutions and power circles. The years 1815-1869 have been relatively neglected in the historiography, doubtless because they have generally been seen as a time when world governance rested more on political relationships than on juridical rules. Historian David Kennedy has thus written provocatively: “For international law, as for much of the rest of twentieth-century legal thought, it is really only the last five minutes of the nineteenth century that count.” And indeed, it is true that many recent and inspiring research works pay scant attention to the first half of the nineteenth century, such as the volumes of Juristes et relations internationales (Relations Internationales 2012/1) and Profession, juristes internationalistes ? (Monde(s) 2015/1).
International law was first institutionalized in 1873 with the foundation in Belgium of the Institut de Droit International and the Association pour la réforme et la codification du droit des gens (known from 1895 onwards as the International Law Association). But the basic premises of this development occurred much earlier with the publication of several textbooks on both private and public international law in the 1830s and 1840s. Moreover, legal advisers were already employed in the foreign offices of many European nation-states and empires (as well as their colonies) in the United States, South America and Asia. International law was also spread through various scientific academies across the world, some of which organized contests on international law, such as the competitions organized by the Académie des sciences morales et politiques in France for 1839-1840, 1856-1857, 1892, and 1908. Many scientific journals also contained articles on international law in this earlier period, including the Thémis ou bibliothèque des jurisconsultes (1820-1830), the Kritische Zeitschrift für Rechtswissenschaft und Gesetzgebung des Auslands (1829-1856), the Revue de législation et de jurisprudence (1834-1853), the various journals edited by Jean-Jacques Gaspard Foelix (1834-1850), the Archives de droit et de législation (1837-1841), the Belgique judiciaire (1843-1914) and the Revue historique de droit français et étranger (1855-2021).
The aim of the present conference is to deepen our study of the interconnections between law(s) and international relations through the eyes of a plurality of actors (e.g., legal advisers, lawyers, judges, activists, publicists, journalists, editors), institutions (e.g., foreign offices, courts, universities, academies of science, associations, libraries) and works on comparative law.
Three focuses will be especially addressed by this conference. The first is the plurality of actors. We welcome proposals on legal advisers within governments, foreign offices and national or colonial administrations; on civil and administrative judges, admiralty courts and prize laws; and on lawyers, academics, peace activists, international thinkers, journalists and editors, including women as well as men. A prosopography of a group of actors is invited as well as individual biographies. The theme of the birth and professionalization of “international lawyers” will be studied as well as the various editors and the book market for international law.
Our second focus will be on institutions. We especially invite papers studying the treatment of law(s) in foreign offices in a comparative perspective. For example, in Great Britain, legal issues were dealt by the Queens Lawyers until 1872 and afterwards by the Legal Adviser of the Foreign Office. In France after 1835, it was the Comité consultatif du contentieux that dealt with legal issues. But what about the foreign offices of other countries? Other institutions (similar to the Conseil d’état in France) may have also had their own “Foreign Office Committee.” How were these organized? Did they cooperate with the foreign office? What role was played by scientific academies in the diffusion of international law? By the universities? By popular libraries?
Our third and final focus is on the study of comparative law and its link to the development of international law. The Société de législation comparée, founded in 1869, was full of members of the first generation of the Institut de Droit International, while many comparativists were, vice versa, members of the Institut de Droit International. Scientific journals such as the Revue historique de droit français et étranger and the Revue de droit international et de législation comparée dealt with both comparative and international law. Papers on the progressive autonomy of the discipline and on the networks of the founding members are especially welcome.
Proposals in French, English or Spanish may be sent by email to raphael.cahen@vub.be, to pierre.allorant@univ-orleans.fr or to walter.badier@univ-orleans.fr. All applications must be sent by 31 March 2021 with a proposal of at least 3,000 characters. The proceedings will appear in a peer-reviewed publication. Transportation and accommodation costs will be covered by organizing institutions.
Short List of Literature
-Allorant Pierre and Walter Badier, « La Société de législation comparée : boîte à idées du parlementarisme libéral de l’Empire libéral à la République opportuniste », Clio@Themis, vol. 13, 2017.
-Alexandrowicz Charles Henry, David Armitage, Jennifer Pitts (ed.), The Law of Nations in Global History, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2017.
-Arcidiacono Bruno, Cinq types de paix : une histoire des plans de pacification perpétuelle, XVIIe-XXe siècles, Paris, PUF, 2011.
-Armitage David, Foundations of modern international thought, New York, Cambridge University Press, 2013.
-Audren Frédéric, Jean-Louis Halpérin, La culture juridique française. Entre mythes et réalités. XIXe-XXe siècles, Paris, CNRS éditions, 2013.
-Badel Laurence (ed.), Histoire et relations internationales, Paris, Presses de la Sorbonne, 2020.
-Baillou Jean (ed.), Les affaires étrangères et le corps diplomatique français, Paris, CNRS éditions, 1984.
-Becker Lorca Arnulf, Mestizo International Law: A Global Intellectual History, 1842-1933, Cambridge, CUP, 2015.
-Benton Laura and Lisa Ford, Rage for Order. The British Empire and the Origins of International Law, Cambridge, HUP, 2016.
-Bois Jean-Pierre, La paix : histoire politique et militaire, 1435-1878, Paris, Perrin, 2012.
-Bruley Yves, Le quai d’Orsay impérial. Histoire du ministère des Affaires étrangères sous le Second Empire, Paris, A. Pedone, 2012.
-« Le Concert européen à l’époque du Second Empire », Relations internationales, 90, 1997, p. 145-163.
-Cahen Raphaël, « The Mahmoud ben Ayad case and the Transformation of International Law », International Law in the Long Nineteenth Century (1776-1914). From the Public Law of Europe to Global International Law?, Inge Van Hulle, Randall Lesaffer (ed.), Leiden, Brill, 2019, p. 126-139.
-« Hauterive et l’école des diplomates (1800-1830) », Clio@Themis, vol. 18, 2020.
-Cahen Raphaël, Frederik Dhondt, Elisabetta Fiocchi-Malaspina, « l’essor récent de l’histoire du droit international », Clio@themis, 18, 2020.
-Dhondt Frederik, « Recent research in the history of international law », Revue d’histoire du droit, 84, 2016, p. 313-334.
-« Portalis le jeune et le droit des gens », Joseph-Marie Portalis (1778-1858) : diplomate, magistrat et législateur, R. Cahen, N. Laurent-Bonne (ed.), Aix-en-Provence, PUAM, 2020, p. 153-182.
-Drocourt Nicolas, Eric Schnakenbourg (ed.), Thémis en diplomatie. Droits et arguments juridiques dans les relations internationales, Rennes, PUR, 2016.
-Fassbender Bardo and Anne Peters (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the History of International Law, Oxford, OUP, 2012.
-Fiocchi Malaspina Elisabetta, L'eterno ritorno del Droit des gens di Emer de Vattel (secc. XVIII-XIX): L'impatto sulla cultura giuridica in prospettiva globale, Frankfurt, MPI for European Legal History, 2017.
-Gaurier Dominique, Histoire du droit international. De l’Antiquité à la création de l’ONU, Rennes, PUR, 2014.
-Genin Vincent, Le laboratoire belge du droit international : une communauté épistémique et internationale de juristes (1869-1914), Bruxelles, Académie royale de Belgique, 2018.
-Ghervas Stella, Conquering Peace : From the Enlightenment to the European Union, Cambridge, HUP, 2021.
-Graaf Beatrice De, Ido de Haan, Brian Vick (ed.), Securing Europe after Napoleon: 1815 and the New European Security Culture, Cambridge, CUP, 2019.
-Graaf Beatrice de, Fighting Terror after Napoleon. How Europe Became Secure after 1815, Cambridge, CUP, 2020.
-Halpérin Jean-Louis, L’histoire de l’état des juristes. Allemagne. XIXe-XXe siècles, Paris, Classique Garnier, 2015.
-Haynes Christine, Our friends the enemies : the occupation of France after Napoleon, Cambridge, HUP, 2018.
-Hellmann Gunther, Andreas Fahrmeir, Milos Vec (ed.), The transformation of Foreign Policy, Drawing and Managing Boundaries from Antiquity to the Present, Oxford, OUP, 2016.
-Indravati Félicité (ed.), L’Identité du diplomate (Moyen Âge-XIXe siècle). Métier ou noble loisir?, Paris, Classique Garnier, 2020.
-Jarrett Mark, The Congress of Vienna and its Legacy War and Great Power Diplomacy after Napoleon, London, Tauris, 2014.
-Jones Kate, « Marking Foreign Policy by Justice: the Legal Advisers to the Foreign Office, 1876-1953 », in Robert McCorquodale, Jean-Pierre Gauci (ed.) British Influences on International Law, 1915-2015, Leiden, Brill, 2016, p. 28-55.
-Keller-Kemmerer Nina, Die Mimikry des Völkerrechts Andrés Bellos 'Principios de Derecho Internacional', Baden-Baden, Nomos Verlag, 2018.
- Kennedy David, « International Law and the Nineteenth Century: History of an Illusion », Nordic Journal of International Law, vol. 65/3-4, 1996, p.385-420.
-Kévonian Dzovinar, Jean-Michel Guieu (ed.), « Juristes et relations internationales », Relations internationales, 149/1, 2012.
-Kévonian, Dzovinar and Philippe Rygiel (ed.), « Profession, juristes internationalistes? », Monde(s), vol. 7/1, 2015.
-Kévonian, Dzovinar and Philippe Rygiel (ed.), « Histories of International Lawyers between Trajectories, Practices, and Discourses », Jus Gentium, vol. 5/2, 2020.
-Koskenniemi Martti, The Gentle Civilizer of Nation : the Rise and Fall of International Law 1870-1960, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002.
-« Why history of international law today? », Rechtsgeschichte, 4, 2004, p. 61-66.
-« What should international legal history become? », in System, Order and International Law. The Early History of International Legal Thought from Machiavelli to Hegel, Stefan Kadelbach et al. (ed.), Oxford, OUP, 2017, p. 381-397.
-Koskenniemi Martti, Walter Rech, Manuel Jimenez Fonseca (ed), International Law and Empire. Historical Explorations, Oxford, OUP, 2017.
-Nuzzo Luiggi and Miloš Vec (ed.), Constructing International Law. The Birth of a Discipline, Francfort/M. 2012.
-Nuzzo Luiggi, Origini di una scienza : diritto internazionale e colonialismo nel XIX secolo, Francfort, MPI, 2012.
-Obregon Liliana, « Peripheral Histories of International Law », Annual Review of Law and Social Science, 15, 2019, p. 437-451.
-Owens Patricia and Katharina Rietzler (ed.), Women’s International Thought: A New History, Cambridge, CUB, 2021
-Rasilla Ignacio de la, “A Very Short History of International Law Journals (1869–2018)”, EJIL, 29/1, 2018, 137–168.
-Rygiel Philippe, « De savants juristes au service de la France. Les experts du droit international auprès du Quai d’Orsay, 1874-1918 », Experts et expertise en diplomatie. La mobilisation des compétences dans les relations internationales du congrès de Westphalie à la naissance de l’ONU, Stanislas Jeannesson, Éric Schnakenbourg, Fabrice Jesné (ed.), Rennes, PUR, 2018, p. 205-222.
-Sédouy Jacques-Alain de, Le Concert européen. Aux origines de l’Europe, Paris, Fayard, 2009.
-Schroeder Paul, The Transformation of European Politics, 1763-1848, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1994.
-Sluga Glenda and Carolyn James (ed.), Women, diplomacy and international politics since 1500, London, Routledge, 2016.
-Soutou Georges-Henri, L’Europe de 1815 à nos jours, Paris, PUF, coll. « Nouvelle Clio », 2007.
-Vick Brian, The Congress of Vienna - Power and Politics after Napoleon, Cambridge, HUP, 2014.
Organising Committee
Pierre Allorant (Université d’Orléans)
Walter Badier (Université d’Orléans)
Raphaël Cahen (Le Studium Orléans/Vrije Universiteit Brussel).
Scientific Committee
Pierre Allorant (Université d’Orléans)
Éric Anceau (Sorbonne Université)
Yves Bruley (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes)
Noëlline Castagnez (Université d’Orléans)
Nicolas Cornu Thénard (Paris II)
Frederik Dhondt (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Jean Garrigues (Université d’Orléans)
Stella Ghervas (Newcastle University)
Martti Koskenniemi (University of Helsinki)
Milos Vec (University of Vienna)
(source: univ-droit - ESILHIL)