LECTURE: Tamar HERZOG, "The history(s) of Empire: Where Do We Go From Here and What Should We See on The Way?" [JHIL Lecture] (Leuven: KULeuven, 25 APR 2025)

 

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Announcement by prof. Inge Van Hulle (KULeuven):

We are pleased to host the upcoming JHIL Lecture, on the occasion of the board meeting of the Journal of the History of International Law/Revue d'histoire du droit international, which will be held in Leuven this year. 

Practicalia:

The lecture will take place on Friday April 25, from 12pm till 1.30pm in the conference room of the International House (Tiensestraat 47, Leuven). RSVP by 23 April with inge dot vanhulle at kuleuven dot be.

(source: KULeuven Roman Law and Legal History newsletter)

BOOK: Sven MEEDER (ed.), Collectio CCCC capitulorum, The Collection in 400 Chapters. Introduction and Text (Washington DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2025), 300 p. ISBN : 978-0-81323-847-0, USD 85,00

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Abstract: 

Surviving in three ninth-century manuscripts, the collection of canon law known as the Collectio 400 capitulorum is a remarkable and understudied witness to the scholarly vitality of the Carolingian period. Its 404 chapters offer ecclesiastical rules and moral guidelines taken from an unusually wide variety of authoritative sources. In addition to the customary canonical texts, such as the acts of the ecumenical councils and papal letters, the compiler of this collection drew his canons from the bible, Roman law, local Gallic synods, the Church Fathers, as well as Frankish and Insular penitential works.

Although the Collectio 400 capitulorum is a so-called systematic collection, eminent scholars of canon law commented on its lack of structure. Even ‘with the best will in the world’, the collection’s system eluded them. Despite its flaws, however, there is evidence that the collection gained some popularity in the ninth century, apparently providing the basis for the Poenitentiale Martenianum, directly or indirectly influencing Hrabanus Maurus and Benedictus Levita. The ninth-century appreciation is understandable for, as one of the many products of the vigorous canonical activity of the eighth and ninth centuries, the Collectio 400 capitulorum impresses in its handling of the canonical material as well as the breadth of sources and the topics covered.

This book constitutes the first in-depth study of this intriguing canonical collection, with a detailed description of the extant manuscript witnesses, its sources, and its influence. The critical edition offers scholars of the early Middle Ages in general and canon law in particular access to an instructive, if unpolished, product of Carolingian legal thought.

On the author

Sven Meeder is Lecturer in Medieval History at Radboud University Nijmegen.

More information can be found here.

BOOK: David SOLDINI, Santi Romano (1875-1947). Tout pour l'État [Les Humanités du droit] (Paris: IRJS, 2024), 238 p. ISBN 9782850020650, € 22

 

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Abstract:

Santi Romano, l'auteur de L'ordre juridique, le livre de théorie du droit italien le plus traduit et commenté à l'étranger, est également le dernier président du Conseil d'Etat de la période fasciste et le seul nommé par Benito Mussolini. Alors que sa théorie a inspiré de nombreux auteurs se réclamant du pluralisme et critiquant l'étatisme, ses choix personnels révèlent au contraire un attachement viscéral à la nation, une pensée profondément conservatrice et un culte évident de l'autorité. Cette apparente contradiction constitue le point de départ de l'ouvrage ; l'approche biographique révèle la cohérence qui caractérise l'oeuvre pléthorique de Santi Romano mais aussi sa trajectoire idéologique et politique. Né en 1875, à Palerme, il est dans un premier temps proche des juristes libéraux de l'ère giolitienne, et en particulier de son maître, Vittorio Emanuele Orlando qui devient Président du Conseil durant la Première Guerre mondiale. Comme de nombreux libéraux, il soutient l'ascension de Benito Mussolini, auquel il restera fidèle jusqu'à la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Obsédé par l'Etat et sa nécessaire continuité, Santi Romano aura mis sa vie au service de cette cause, quitte à se compromettre avec un des régimes les plus sanguinaires du siècle. Sa vie témoigne des errances de nombreux libéraux et de serviteurs de l'Etat face à l'ascension du totalitarisme mais également de la manière dont le fascisme a poursuivi des objectifs compatibles avec l'idéologie étatiste de la fin du XIXe siècle et en particulier le renforcement du pouvoir exécutif contre le Parlement. Santi Romano décède en 1947, isolé, épuré de toutes les institutions prestigieuses dont il a fait partie, le Sénat, l'Université, le Conseil d'État et l'Académie des Lyncéens. Il ne bénéficie pas des lois d'amnistie. Son ancien maître, Vittorio Emanuele Orlando, qui s'était éloigné à temps du fascisme lui survit et devient, à 85 ans passés, président de la première séance de l'Assemblée constituante de 1946.

The book can be ordered with LGDJ. 

CONFERENCE: Learning about the Law: Historical Perspectives on Public Legal Education for Laypersons and Underprivileged Groups (Helsinki: University of Helsinki, 20-21 MAY 2025)

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LEARNING ABOUT THE LAW: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON PUBLIC LEGAL EDUCATION FOR LAYPERSONS AND UNDERPRIVILEGED GROUPS 

20-21 May 2025, University of Helsinki

Venue: Porthania building, room P673 (address: Yliopistonkatu 3, 6th floor)

Tuesday 20 May 2025 

9.15-9.30 Registration 

9.30-9.45 Opening of the conference 

9.45-10.45 Keynote lecture (chair: Marianne Vasara-Aaltonen)

Elsa Trolle Önnerfors (Lund University): Women educating women: the first female lawyers in Sweden and their part in legal education to the public in the early 20th century

10.45-10.55 Break

10.55-12.25 Panel 1 (chair: Mia Korpiola) 

Alessia Maria Di Stefano (University of Catania): ‘What Italy does for its emigrants’: public and private initiatives to promote legal knowledge of emigration laws during the liberal period (1870-1920) among emigrants 

Talia Diskin (University of Haifa): Shaping Legal Consciousness Through Children’s Media: A Historical Analysis of Israeli Children’s Weeklies (1948-1958) 

Charles Ho Wang Mak (Robert Gordon University): Legal Education and Sign Language: Historical Perspectives on Deaf Access to Justice

 

12.25-13.10 Lunch: Porthania 6th floor

13.10-14.40 Panel 2 (chair: Kate Bradley)

Joaquim Verges (University of Bordeaux): Labour law magazines: a literary genre easily understood for workers (1890s-1914) 

Virginia Amorosi (University of Naples Federico II): ‘A uso degli operai’. Legal education and social legislation in Italy between the 19th and 20th centuries 

Marianne Vasara-Aaltonen (University of Helsinki): Educating the Working Class: Newspapers, Calendars, and Books as Sources of Legal Knowledge in Early-20th-Century Finland

14.40-15.00 Coffee 

15.00-16.00 Panel 3 (chair: Frederik Dhondt)

Mia Korpiola (University of Turku): Legal Knowledge for Finnish Housewives: Articles on Law in the Women's Magazine 'Kotiliesi' 1922-1939 

Piotr Owsiak (City Office of Cracow): Liechtenstein’s Afterwar Women’s Associations – Activity & Struggle for Voting Rights 

16.30-17.30 (optional): guided tour of the National Library of Finland 

18.30→ Conference dinner: Restaurant Salutorget

Wednesday 21 May 2025 

9.15-10.45 Panel 4 (chair Bruno Debaenst)

Airton Ribeiro (Scuola Superiore Meridionale): Lay Advocates in Portuguese America: Unraveling the Acquisition of Legal Literacy in the Colonial Context 

Emmanuel Berger (ISCTE - University Institute of Lisbon): How can laypersons be turned into judges? A study of strategies and methods of public legal education for criminal jurors; France, 1789-1848 

Rafael I. Pardo (Washington University in St. Louis): Publicizing Bankruptcy Rights Through the Antebellum Party Press 

10.45-11.00 Break 

11.00-12.30 Panel 5 (chair: Mia Korpiola)

Frederik Dhondt (Vrije Universiteit Brussel): Educating the Good Citizen: the Belgian Electoral Exam (1883-1893) 

Marco Castelli (University of Milan): Popularizing Constitutional Principles: The Educational and State-Building Functions of the ‘Festa dello Statuto’ in Liberal Italy 

Kati Katajisto (University of Helsinki): Universal and equal municipal suffrage reform in Finland – Municipal councils as forums for practical learning of legal knowledge 

12.30-14.00 Lunch: Restaurant Sunn 

14.00-15.30 Panel 6 (chair: Elsa Trolle Önnerfors) 

Michael H. Hoeflich (University of Kansas) & John Lewis Moreland (Stanford University): Pocket-Sized Education: How Small Legal Handbooks Impacted the Legal Knowledge of Everyday Americans in the Early Republic 

Bruno Debaenst (Uppsala University): Follow the guide! The case of the 1843 “Belgium as she is” guidebook by Henry Robert Addison (1805-1876) 

Filippo Rossi (University of Milan): State Building and Popular Media in Liberal Italy (1850-1919). Exploring the Role of Popular Magazines and Encyclopedias in Spreading Legal Knowledge 

15.30-15.50 Coffee 

15.50-16.50 Keynote lecture (chair: Marianne Vasara-Aaltonen) 

Kate Bradley (University of Kent): Faring well in modern times: the dynamics of social change, citizenship and the law in the late 19th and early 20th century 

16.50-17.00 Closing remarks 

19.00→ Dinner: Restaurant Rodolfo 

SYMPOSIUM: Constitutional Meaning in the Shadow of the Articles of Confederation (Philadephia: Brennan Center for Justice/National Constitution Center, 12 MAY 2025) [HYBRID]

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Abstract:

The Roberts Court has increasingly relied on history to resolve some of the most important constitutional questions of our time. Embracing a form of interpretation called “originalism,” the Court’s conservative majority argues that the original public understanding of the Constitution is what really counts. But discerning the goals and assumptions of those who ratified the Constitution requires an understanding of the document they were replacing: the Articles of Confederation. Today, the Articles are ignored as a false start. That’s a mistake. The Constitution was an explicit attempt to form a union “more perfect” than that of the Articles of Confederation, and they provide vital context to the framers’ choices. Join us in Philadelphia on Monday, May 12, at 11 a.m. ET as historians, journalists, law professors, and political scientists explore how the nation’s first experiment in self-governance paved the way for the Constitution we have today. Participants will examine the legacy of the Articles of Confederation, the founding debates over federal power, and the lasting influence of these debates on modern-day constitutional interpretation.

Program:

11-11:15 a.m. | Introductory Remarks

Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO, National Constitution Center
Michael Waldman, president and CEO, Brennan Center for Justice

11:15 a.m.–12:30 p.m. | Panel 1: The Articles of Confederation

Explore the origins of the Articles of Confederation—examining the political, practical, and ideological reasons behind the states' sovereignty—and how the “firm league of friendship” among the 13 states ultimately became unworkable.

Aditya Bamzai, Martha Lubin Karsh and Bruce A. Karsh Bicentennial Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law
Johann Neem, professor of history, Western Washington University
Farah Peterson, professor of law, University of Chicago Law School
Jack Rakove, Coe Professor of History and American Studies, professor of political science emeritus, Stanford University
Moderator: Alicia Bannon, director of the Brennan Center Judiciary Program

12:30–1:15 p.m. | Lunchtime Keynote

1:15–2:30 p.m. | Panel 2: Debating the Constitution 

Examine the reasons for the Constitution’s plan of government, how it was understood at the time, and how concerns over its failings were addressed through ideological debates at the Constitutional Convention.

Jay Cost, Gerald R. Ford Nonresident Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute
Jonathan Gienapp, associate professor of history, associate professor of law, Stanford University
Kermit Roosevelt, David Berger Professor for the Administration of Justice, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

2:45–4 p.m. | Panel 3: The War Over the Constitution’s Meaning

Explore governance under the new Constitution and the Articles’ long shadow, from the early republic to the post–New Deal modern era, and how competing narratives of the Constitution’s origin story evolved.

Ilya Somin, professor of law, Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University
Alan Trammell, associate professor of law, Washington and Lee University School of Law
Moderator: Wilfred U. Codrington III, Walter Floersheimer Professor of Constitutional Law, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law; fellow, Brennan Center

4–4:15 p.m. | Closing Reflections

Registration information: online - in-person.

(source: Legal History Blog)

BOOK: Anna Clara LEHMANN MARTINS, The Fabric of the Ordinary. The Council of Trent and the Governance of the Catholic Church in the Empire of Brazil (1840–1889) [Global Perspectives on Legal History; 23] (Frankfurt am Main: Max-Planck-Institut für Rechtsgeschichte und Rechtstheorie, 2024), XXIV + 511 p. ISBN 978-3-944773-44-5, € 33,06 [OPEN ACCESS]

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Presentation: 

Muito se escreveu sobre a tensão política entre ultramontanos e jurisdicionalistas liberais no Império do Brasil durante o reinado de D. Pedro II (1840-1889), tendo em vista o regime de padroado sui generis do país e, em particular, o escândalo da Questão Religiosa na década de 1870. Entre os lugares-comuns desta historiografia está a ideia de que o Concílio de Trento foi um conjunto normativo exclusivamente interpretado e implementado pelo clero e pelos ultramontanos, quando não uma imposição de Roma de cima para baixo e uma bandeira de luta contra as políticas liberais. Mas será que poderíamos manter esta interpretação se, em vez dos discursos eloquentes da correspondência diplomática e da imprensa, colocássemos em primeiro plano as práticas administrativas ordinárias?

Este livro debruça-se sobre estas práticas – nas palavras da autora, sobre este “tecido do ordinário” – tal como aparecem em dois conjuntos de fontes: por um lado, as consultas sobre assuntos eclesiásticos que autoridades locais e centrais submeteram ao Conselho de Estado brasileiro; por outro, os casos enviados por atores brasileiros à Santa Sé e examinados pela Congregação do Concílio, o órgão da Cúria Romana encarregado de interpretar o Concílio de Trento para o mundo católico.

Ao procurar intersecções entre essas fontes, a autora convida o leitor a contemplar a Igreja como uma estrutura de governança multinível, que envolvia múltiplas jurisdições e uma série de atores eclesiásticos e leigos, todos interagindo num cenário de intensa multinormatividade. Isso significa que, para resolver dúvidas e problemas quotidianos, esses entes recorriam a um repertório normativo que continha certamente o direito canônico, mas que, ao mesmo tempo, compreendia diferentes formas de o interpretar, bem como de o combinar com outras normas e normatividades.

A análise permite-nos ver o Concílio de Trento como um recurso bastante plástico nas mãos de clérigos, burocratas e juristas. Ele assumiu não apenas o papel de arma, mas também de modelo para outras leis, de suporte retórico, de parte da tradição, de recurso negociável e até dispensável. Além disso, a observação dessas práticas traz a surpreendente conclusão de que a polarização entre ultramontanos e jurisdicionalistas foi um elemento precário na governança da Igreja no Brasil, cedendo lugar, muitas vezes, a mecanismos de controle da novidade normativa e à evocação de objetivos comuns e necessidades concretas.

About the author:

Anna Clara Lehmann Martins is a legal historian and jurist currently holding a researcher position at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory (mpilhlt). Her recent work focuses on the global governance of the Catholic Church in contemporary times, encompassing central and local perspectives (especially Latin America), besides the relationship between canon law and secular legal systems. As part of the Department Historical Regimes of Normativity, she is active in the Research Group “Normative knowledge in the praxis of the Congregation of the Council” led by Benedetta Albani, where she develops a personal project on how the Holy See governed the migration of secular priests between Europe and the Americas (19th–20th centuries). She holds a cotutelle doctoral degree in law from the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG) and in modern and contemporary history from the Universität Münster, having elaborated her doctoral dissertation as part of the Max Planck Research Group “Governance of the Universal Church after the Council of Trent” led by Benedetta Albani at the mpilhlt until 2021. She is a member of Studium Iuris – Grupo de Pesquisa em História da Cultura Jurídica, led by Ricardo Sontag at the UFMG. She is fond of writing letters and fiction, singing, and drawing.

Table of contents:

Introduction

Chapter 1: Exploring the Repertoire of the Culture of Ecclesiastical Law in Brazil During the 19th Century

1.1: The rise of Brazilian handbooks on ecclesiastical law

1.2: Ecclesiastical law as a mystery. Fluctuations of a concept between canon law and civil law on Church affairs

1.3: Independent and in harmony: on what terms? Disputes on the fair relationship between Church and state. The thorny issue of the placet

1.4: The Brazilian padroado: a pontifical concession or a constitutional right?

1.5: Between past and present: the Council of Trent as a persistent and multifaced normative reference

Chapter 2: Mixed Matters from the Perspective of Governance. Analysis of Petition and Decision Flows

2.1: The global level of governance of the Church: the Congregation of the Council

2.2: The national level of governance of the Church: the Council of State

2.3: Strong mixed matters in the governance system. A comparison between the petitioning to the Congregation of the Council and to the Council of State

Chapter 3: Governance and Multinormativity. Tracking the Roles of the Council of Trent in Practice

3.1: Before, during, and after a clash between the Congregation of the Council and the Council of State. Uses of the Council of Trent in examinations for ecclesiastical benefices

3.1.1: The case of Francisco Vieira das Chagas (1879–1881) as a turning point

3.1.2: Before Vieira’s case. The transition from a normative convention of amalgam to a normative convention of separation

3.1.3: After Vieira’s case. Trent to the Church, Faculdades to the state          

3.1.4: Exploratory remarks. The uses of the Council of Trent alongside the transformations of ecclesiastical law as a legal field  

3.2: A dance of opposites. The Council of Trent at the centre stage of the elections of vicar capitular

3.2.1: How many days does it take to make a vicar capitular? Olinda

3.2.2: The most suitable vicar capitular, though titleless. Salvador da Bahia, 1874

3.2.3: Could the civil government suggest a vicar capitular? Normative and practical limits of the changes of convention in the Council of State

3.3: The obligation of residence and its inconvenient civil double. The Council of Trent at the height of its plasticity

3.3.1. Consolidation of the obligation of residence also as a civil duty. The Council of Trent as a resistance weapon for the episcopate and a rhetorical support for the state

3.3.2. Not everything is resistance. The Council of Trent as a flexible resource in the convergence of councillors, bishops, and cardinals for the governance of cathedral chapters

3.4. Precarious belonging, strong duties. The Council of Trent and the forging of openings and restrictions for foreign priests in 19th-century Brazil

3.4.1. The perspective of the state. The migrant priest as a foreigner with the obligations of the citizen priest. The Council of Trent as a bridge between ecclesiastical and civil duties

3.4.2. The perspective of the Holy See. The migrant priest divided between two dioceses, navigating according to the needs of the Church. Metamorphoses of the Council of Trent to control migration

3.5. Reform of seminaries: a puzzle of tensions on a converging horizon. The Council of Trent as a normative set evoking episcopal liberty and responsibility

3.5.1. The Council of Trent versus the Decree n. 3.073 of 22 April 1863. Ultramontane bishops resist, and the Council of State unexpectedly decides contra legem

3.5.2. Convergence between levels of governance is no guarantee of local success

3.6. Bishops discipline priests, and the state protects the Council of Trent. Suspension ex informata conscientia and appeal to the Crown

3.6.1. The Council of State shields the suspension ex informata conscientia. The Decree of 1857, on the appeal to the Crown, as a victory for the Council of Trent and the bishops

3.6.2. Countering and adjusting the discourse of the state on the suspension ex informata conscientia. Deference to the Council of Trent becomes detached from shielding the acts of bishops

3.7. Retrieving the fil rouge

Conclusion

Sources and Bibliography

Archival Sources

Printed and Online Sources

Bibliography

More information can be found here.

SEMINAR: 'L'umanesimo giuridico di Jacques Cujas (1522-1590)', con Xavier Prévost (Milano: Università degli Studi di Milano, 28 APR 2025)

 (Source: Storia del diritto)

BOOK: Ke LI, Geschichte, Raum, Weltordnung. Eine Untersuchung von Carl Schmitts Völkerrechtslehre [Schriften zum Völkerrecht; 263] (Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2025), 273 p., ISBN:978-3-428-18832-1

About the book:

Diese Studie konzentriert […] sich auf ein Thema, das umfangreiche Debatten ausgelöst hat – was wenig überrascht, da das Bestehen von Kontroversen gerade die Bedeutung und Notwendigkeit weiterer Forschung bestätigt. Bemerkenswert ist jedoch, dass die Diskussionen um Carl Schmitts Völkerrechtslehre weit über den Rahmen üblicher wissenschaftlicher Meinungsverschiedenheiten hinausgehen. Für einige ist Schmitts Theorie ein veraltetes, negatives Erbe, während sie für andere eine treffende Diagnose der aktuellen globalen Krise oder sogar eine mutige Prophezeiung der zukünftigen Weltordnung darstellt.

Diese diametral entgegengesetzten Bewertungen treffen in einem Punkt zusammen, was selbst Ausdruck der dialektischen Bewegung der Geschichte ist: Das Weltsystem und seine Wissensgrundlagen, die wir einst kannten, unterliegen einer intensiven, tiefgreifenden Neuordnung.

(Aus dem Vorwort)

Table of contents:

A. Das Völkerrecht als Angelpunkt der Weltgeschichte: Erläuterung der These von Carl Schmitt
Weltgeschichte und Völkerrecht – Raum, Weltordnung und Völkerrecht – Gliederung der Arbeit

B. Prolog: Zuordnung Schmitts Völkerrechtslehre
Das Jus Publicum Europaeum in der Rechtsgeschichte – Schmitts jus publicum Europaeum als globale Raumordnung – Das Völkerrecht: eine rationalistische (Un-)Ordnung? – Abschied vom 19. Jahrhundert: die Aufhebung der These Webers durch Schmitt

C. Geistiges Postulat: Metaphysik, Metahistorie, Metaphorik im Konzept des Nomos
Etymologische und begriffliche Auslegung – Pluralität als metaphysische Kritik des Subjektivismus – Metahistorie statt Metaphysik – Schritt zurück zur Metapher

D. Ideengeschichtliche Voraussetzung: Philosophie und Historie
Der Zusammenbruch des Dualismus in den Geisteswissenschaften des 19. Jahrhunderts – Das Verschwinden der Metaphysik in der Geschichte

E. Institutioneller Präzedenzfall: Organische Weltordnung
Zur Körperfrage des Politischen – Intermezzo der Gouvernementalität: Biopolitik als Geopolitik – Das Vorbild »Mitteleuropa«

F. Schmitts jus publicum Europaeum: Völkerrecht als Raumordnung
Landnahme und das globale Liniendenken – Innen und außen, Europa und Nicht-Europa – Seenahme und maritime Existenz – Lex fundamentalis: Gegensatz und Gleichgewicht der Räume

G. Die neue Auffassung der Völkerrechtslehre und die Auflösung des jus publicum Europaeum
Die Geburt des universellen Völkerrechts – Universelles Völkerrecht und Staat – Von Koexistenz zur Civitas Maxima – Der Bedeutungswandel des gerechten Krieges im Völkerrecht – Genealogie und Universalität des Völkerrechts – Weg zum Großraummodus

H. Der Großraum als Paradigma des Ordnungsprinzips
Schmitts Großraum: Begriff, Eigenschaft und Elemente – Großraum, Reich, Imperialismus – Großraum, Völkerrecht, konkrete Ordnung – Großraum, Raumrevolution und Universalismus

I. Epilog: Sprung aus dem Dschungel der »-ismen«

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CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: 2024 ESIL IG History of International Law Article Prize [DEADLINE: 25 APR 2025]

 

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First paragraph:

The ESIL IG History of International Law invites its members to nominate an article that they believe has had or will have a major impact on the field of international legal history (sensu stricto). Members may nominate any article on the history of international law published in any academic journal in 2022, 2023, or 2024 (the range is deliberately broad to avoid restricted access due to publisher embargoes). The official date of publication of the journal issue in which the nominated article must be published is 2022, 2023, or 2024. The prize winner will be invited to present the paper at an online ESIL event and participate in an interview with the IG Coordinating Committee, with the intention of publishing the interview in a peer-reviewed scientific venue. It is our intention to award this prize on a yearly basis, with the following year’s award covering the years 2023, 2024, and 2025.

Read more here.

CONFERENCE: Lectures de… n° 18 : Jean-Rémi Lanavère, Loi naturelle et politique chez saint Thomas d’Aquin (Vrin, 2024) (Paris: Sorbonne, 30 APR 2025)

 Lectures de… n° 18 :

Jean-Rémi Lanavère, Loi naturelle et politique chez saint Thomas d’Aquin

(Vrin, 2024)

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En Sorbonne, salle à la fresque (ancienne ENC, D 306, 17 rue de la Sorbonne, 75005 Paris)

Mercredi 30 avril 2025 à 14 h
Sous la présidence de Michel Troper, professeur émérite de droit public, Université Paris Nanterre
Pierre Manent, directeur de recherche émérite de l’Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, La loi naturelle est-elle une loi de perfection ?
Thierry Sol, professeur extraordinaire d’histoire du droit canonique, doyen de la faculté de droit canonique, Pontificia Università della Santa Croce (Rome), La loi naturelle – loi civile et loi ecclésiastique : Gratien et saint Thomas
Francesco Biuso, doctorant en philosophie, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, La loi à la lumière du paradigme d’ordre théocentrique chez saint Thomas d’Aquin
Nicolas Warembourg, professeur d’histoire du droit, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, La loi comme concept analogique
Bernard Bourdin, o.p., professeur de philosophie politique, Institut catholique de Paris, Le bien commun au défi du positivisme juridique
Marta Peguera Poch, professeur d’histoire du droit, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Loi et politique, dialogue entre saint Thomas et d’Aguesseau
Et en présence de don Jean-Rémi Lanavère, directeur adjoint de l’Ecole supérieure de philosophie et de théologie de la Communauté Saint-Martin

More on the book here.

(source: Prof. P. Bonin/SHFD)

POSTPONED: Iustoria 2025 (21-23 OCT 2025) [DEADLINE 1 SEP 2025]

We received word that the Iustoria Conference 2025 has been postponed to 21-23 Oct 2025, with a new deadline for abstracts on 1 September 2025 (full paper submission 31 Dec 2025).

See initial call here on our blog.

CALL FOR PAPERS: Military Justice in the First Half of the 20th Century: Insights, Archives and Interdisciplinary Methods for Historical Research (Padova: University of Padova, 25-26 SEP 2025); DEADLINE 31 MAY 2025

Military Justice in the First Half of the 20 th Century: Insights, Archives and Interdisciplinary Methods for Historical Research

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We are pleased to announce the call for papers for the final conference of the PRIN (Progetto di Rilevante Interesse Nazionale, Project of major national interest) “Boundless Mobilities. People, Geographies and the Courts of Italian Military Justice in the 20th Century”, led by prof. Giovanni Focardi (University of Padua), which will take place in Padua on 25-26 September 2025.

The conference’s working languages will be Italian and English.

This PRIN project employed the archival records of Italian military justice, using both quantitative and qualitative methods, as an innovative source for different fields of historical research. This dual approach has fostered new data regarding the patterns of mobility and career trajectories of personnel within the Italian military justice system; using these sources through the lenses of social history and imperial studies it has also enabled us to uncover some related aspects of the societies under Italian occupation during the fascist era. The records of Italian military courts, which have rarely been the subject of systematic historical research, represent a precious yet still difficult-to-access resource.

This conference aims to promote interdisciplinary exchange and collaboration among scholars from various fields who have utilized military justice sources in their respective researchers. These interesting archival collections provide valuable insights into broader socio-political dynamics and the lived experiences of individuals across different contexts.

The conference aims to explore the diverse and complex ways in which the documentation produced by the military justice systems during the first half of the 20th century can be used as a source for historical research. We particularly encourage contributions addressing the following themes:

• Career trajectories of military judges and court personnel

• Histories of military law in a comparative perspective in the first half of the 20th century

• Research utilizing records produced by military courts

• Interactions and connections between military and civil justice in occupied societies

• Relationships between extraordinary forms of justice or colonial justice and military justice

• International connections with the Italian military justice system

• Histories of civilians subjected to military justice systems, especially women

• Histories of “deviancy” and criminal behaviour through military courts

• Quantitative comparisons regarding military court proceedings

While these topics are of special interest, we will evaluate all proposals on their individual merit. We invite contributions from scholars of all disciplines in history and law, in Italy and abroad, who have conducted studies utilizing this body of records to examine themes related to mobility, legal geography, individual and collective experiences regarding Italian legal and extraordinary military justice practices.

 

Submission Guidelines:

• Proposals should be submitted in English or Italian.

• The proposal should not exceed 1,000 words and must include:

o A working title

o A clear outline of the presentation topic, objectives, and methodology.

o A discussion of the significance and originality of the research.

• Please include a short bio (maximum 300 words) with your submission.

Presentations should last for 25 minutes and will be organized on Panels. The conference organizers will provide accommodation (including overnight stay and meals) for all participants and will evaluate requests for travel reimbursement on a case-by-case basis, favoring international participants. A selection of the papers will be included in the final proceedings of the project, after a peer-review process.

Submission Deadline: Proposals must be submitted by 31 May 2025.

A reply will be sent to the authors of those selected by 15 June 2025.

Contact Information: Please send your proposal and bio to giovanni.focardi@unipd.it.

For any inquiries, feel free to reach us at the same address. We look forward to receiving your submissions and to an engaging discussion of the vital role of military justice records in understanding the history of the 20th century.

 

For the Scientific and Organizing Committee

BOOK: Raphael SCHÄFER, Humanität als Vehikel. Der Diskurs um die Kodifikation des Kriegsrechts im Gleichgewichtssystem des europäischen Völkerrechts in den formgebenden Jahren von 1856 bis 1874 [Beiträge zum ausländischen öffentlichen Recht und Völkerrecht, eds. Anne PETERS & Armin VON BOGDANDY; 364] (Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlag, 2025), 974 p. ISBN 9783748936251 [OPEN ACCESS]

 

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Abstract:

Die Arbeit nimmt eine Neubewertung der Geschichte des Kriegsrechts vor. Sie verlässt die ausgetretenen Pfade linear-progressiver Fortschrittsnarrative und rekonstruiert die Kodifizierung kriegsrechtlicher Normen durch einen interdisziplinären Ansatz, der juristische Dogmatik mit archivgestützten ideengeschichtlichen Elementen verbindet. Auf diese Weise identifiziert die Arbeit sicherheitspolitische Reaktionen auf Systemverschiebungen im europäischen Völkerrecht als Ausgangspunkt des Kodifikationsprojekts. 

On the author:

Raphael Schäfer ist Referent am Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht sowie Schriftleiter des Journal of the History of Interntional Law. Er forscht und lehrt zum Völkerrecht und dessen Grundlagen.

Read more here: DOI 10.5771/9783748936251.

BOOK: Robert KOLB and Momchil MILANOV (eds.), The Cambridge History of International Law. Volume 10. International Law at the Time of the League of Nations (1920–1945) [The Cambridge History of International Law, ed. Randall LESAFFER] (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025), 630 p., ISBN 9781108487696, £120.00

 

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Abstract:

Volume X of The Cambridge History of International Law offers a comprehensive and critical discussion of the history of international law in the interwar period to date. Bringing together scholars across various disciplines, the volume aims to go beyond the well-established cliché of the failure of the League of Nations and discusses the huge impact this period had on the post-WWII international legal order. It focuses on the League of Nations as an important milestone to be studied, analysed, and understood in its own right. Using a global perspective, the volume sheds light on the different branches of international law in this dynamic period, during which the discipline underwent a qualitative leap.

Table of contents:

Introduction

1. International Law at the time of the League of Nations Carlo Focarelli

2. The League of Nations and the Global Legal Order Leonard V. Smith

3. The scholarship of international law at the time of the League of Nations Asier Garrido-Muñoz

4. The League of Nations as an international organisation Philip Burton and Christian J. Tams

5. The League of Nations and the relationship between international law and municipal law Philip Burton and Jean d'Aspremont

6. Sovereignty, territory and jurisdiction Malgosia Fitzmaurice and Paul Gragl

7. The law of the sea at the time of the League of Nations Yoshifumi Tanaka

8. Colonies and mandates at the time of the League of Nations Giovanni Distefano and Aymeric Hêche

9. The use of force in the Interbellum: a look at the debate on the meaning of 'war' in the Covenant of the League of Nations and Briand-Kellogg Pact Agatha Verdebout

10. Law of armed conflict and neutrality Etienne Henry

11. Preventive diplomacy, peacekeeping and peace-making at the time of the League of Nations Ivan Ingravallo and Pavle Kilibarda

12. The law of State responsibility in the interwar years: a period of 'great advances' Paolo Palchetti

13. 'The beginning of something great'? International criminal law in the interwar period Sévane Garibian

14. Investment Tarcisio Gazzini

15. Trade integration and the League of Nations Petros C. Mavroidis

16. Minorities, refugees and human rights at the time of the League of Nations Momchil Milanov and León Castellanos-Jankiewicz

17. A period of reckoning: private international law during the time of the League of Nations Roxana Banu

18. Diplomatic law at the time of the League of Nations Giuseppe Puma

19. Dispute settlement, particularly adjudication and arbitration Gleider Hernández and Momchil Milanov

20. The League for nature: environmental law in the League of Nations Omer Aloni and Anna-Katharina Wöbse

21. Soviet approaches to international law during the interwar period Lauri Mälksoo

22. The Americas at the Time of the League of Nations Juan Pablo Scarfi.

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JOB: Postdoc position in history of canon law (Poznan: Adam Mickiewicz University, DEADLINE: 25 April 2025)

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The Faculty of Law and Administration in the Department of Roman Law, Legal Traditions and Cultural Hertiage Law is looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher in the project: EXTRA: The Decretals, early modern science of canon law and legal commentaries today.

The project aims at the examination of the methods and development of the early modern science of canon law through the study of the most relevant legal commentaries of the time. For ages thick volumes of commentaries to statutes have been the most typical output of scientific endeavours of legal scholars in Europe. The universality of this practice allows us to study its nature in the past and relate the conclusions also to contemporary issues which in many ways resemble the past challenges. EXTRA will contribute to the overall understanding of the legal developments in the early modern Europe and the functions of commentary for legal discourse. Moreover, the conceptualizations developed to approach the early modern science of canon law will serve as the framework for addressing the current challenges of legal writing such as legal data overload or the impact of technological revolutions on law. The other broadly discussed issue today is the very nature of legal commentary and its ‘scientific’ character and EXTRA will contribute to this topic as well.

The textual basis for the research is commentaries to the Decretals (so called Liber extra, hence the project acronym) written by canonists c.1450-1650 which were usually several-hundred-pages-long multi-volume works in Latin. In the early modern period the Decretals were still the pivotal legal text handled within canon law science and canon law still formed a relevant part of the universal legal system of European ius commune. Therefore commentaria were a vehicle for addressing all currently relevant legal issues in Europe and were a tool for updating old laws to the new times. During the preliminary research there were listed sixteen works fulfilling selection criteria, the most relevant of which were those written by such authors as Felino Sandeo, Filippo Decio, Hendrik Zoesius, Emanuel González Téllez, and Prospero Fagnani.

This is a full-time position for 6 months, with the possibility of extension for an additional 10 months, starting June 2025 (or later).

For more information do not hesitate to contact the project PI, Piotr Alexandrowicz (piotr.alexandrowicz[at]amu.edu.pl).

More information can be found here.

BOOK: Frieder GÜNTHER, Verwaltungsstaat. Die Verwaltungskultur der deutschen Innenministerien 1919-1975 [Veröffentlichungen zur Geschichte der deutschen Innenministerien nach 1945; 8] (Göttingen: Wallstein, 2025), 329 p., ISBN: 978-3-8353-5832-4

 

About the book:

Das Reichsinnenministerium, das Bundesinnenministerium und das Innenministerium der DDR zwischen Kontinuitäten und politischer Systemabhängigkeit.

Wir leben in einem modernen Verwaltungsstaat. Die Verwaltung ordnet und gestaltet Gesellschaft sowie Politik, bereitet Regierungsentscheidungen vor, setzt sie um und greift damit tief in unser Leben ein. Während des gesamten 20. Jahrhunderts war sie ein Fundament deutscher Staatlichkeit. Denn auch wenn sie nicht unabhängig agieren konnte, besaß sie eine zentrale und häufig unterschätzte Funktion für das gesamte Gemeinwesen. Doch wie genau funktionierte sie? Und worin unterschied sie sich angesichts der tiefgreifenden politischen Systembrüche in Deutschland im 20. Jahrhundert? Was waren also die Besonderheiten der Verwaltung in der Weimarer Republik, der NS-Diktatur, der Bundesrepublik und der DDR? Frieder Günther untersucht die deutschen Innenministerien und stellt dabei ihre Verwaltungskultur in den Mittelpunkt. Während auf den ersten Blick Kontinuitäten etwa im Hinblick auf den Aufbau, die Bezeichnungen und die Kompetenzen überwiegen, treten bei genauerer Betrachtung deutliche Unterschiede beim Personal, beim Selbstverständnis, bei den internen Abläufen und bei der Funktion hervor. Besonders drastisch unterschied sich die DDR von der rechtsstaatlichen Verwaltung der Weimarer Republik und der Bundesrepublik, während die nationalsozialistische Verwaltung eine Zwischenstellung einnahm.

About the author:

Frieder Günther, geb. 1971, ist wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter und Forschungsprojektleiter am Institut für Zeitgeschichte München-Berlin sowie Privatdozent an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Veröffentlichungen u. a.: Heuss auf Reisen. Die auswärtige Repräsentation der Bundesrepublik durch den ersten Bundespräsidenten (2006); Denken vom Staat her. Die bundesdeutsche Staatsrechtslehre zwischen Dezision und Integration 1949–1970 (2004).

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BOOK: Stephan SANDER-FAES, Crime, Enlightenment, and Punishment. Bureaucratic and Scientific Change in Habsburg Austria, 1750s–1820s (London: Routledge, 2025), 286 p. ISBN 9781032722603, 36,99 GBP

 

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Abstract:

This book studies the social consequences of bureaucratic and scientific change during the transition to modern states and societies in the Age of Enlightenment, as it explores how the Habsburg Empire deployed new ways and means to integrate existing structures into supra-regional systems of order. Exemplarily focused on Lower Austria, the book ties together the bustling imperial capital of Vienna and its hinterlands, where there was little economic, political, and social change before 1850. Previously unused archival materials such as administrative paperwork and printed wanted notes, in combination with published educational and legal texts, allow for the analysis of how bureaucratic procedures, social norms, and scientific change contributed to increasing exchange between Vienna, regional hubs such as Krems and Zwettl, and individual seigneurial holdings. Conceiving of these dynamics as a patchwork-in-progress, this study investigates state-making dynamics by transposing centralising norms and practices into everyday administration. It looks carefully at the intersections of local/central authority, offering a way beyond binary centre-periphery assumptions. This volume will be of interest to scholars of the history of state-making in and beyond Europe. Its up-to-date discussion of the pertinent historiography will also be useful for undergraduate and graduate students and teachers of comparative politics.

 Table of contents:

Introduction

1. Lower Austria, Centre and Periphery

2. Everyday Administrators

3. The Vast Domain of Bureaucracy

4. The Material Culture of the Rural Poor

5. The Ides of Vormärz

Conclusion

On the author:

Stephan Sander-Faes is Associate Professor of History at the University of Bergen’s Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion and Privatdozent of the University of Zurich, Switzerland. 

SEMINAR: L’humanisme juridique est-il encore une affaire de juristes ? Retour sur une historiographie récente (Bruxelles: Palais des Académies (Salle Marie-Thérèse), 11 APR 2025)

 

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Résumé

À partir d’une sélection de publications, Anne Rousselet-Pimont et Xavier Prévost dialogueront sur la place des juristes dans l’historiographie de l’humanisme juridique. Ils se demanderont quelles peuvent être les contributions spécifiques des spécialistes du droit à la compréhension de ce mouvement intellectuel fondé sur une approche encyclopédique du savoir. Pour cela, ils reviendront notamment sur la dimension politique de l’humanisme juridique, en particulier le rôle joué par ses membres dans la construction de l’État moderne.

 

Professeur à l’université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Anne Rousselet-Pimont enseigne l’histoire du droit et dirige le M2 Histoire de la pensée juridique moderne. Elle est membre de l’Institut de recherche juridique de la Sorbonne (IRJS). Ses travaux portent sur l’histoire des sources du droit, l’histoire de la justice et l’histoire de la comparaison des droits et interrogent plus particulièrement la méthode et le discours des anciens juristes. Spécialisée dans l’histoire de la première modernité, elle appartient au Réseau Humanisme juridique, à la Société d’histoire du droit (SHD) et à l’Association des historiens des facultés de droit (AHFD). 

- Le Chancelier et la loi au XVI^e siècle, d’après l’œuvre d’Antoine Duprat, Guillaume Poyet et Michel de L’Hospital, Paris, De Boccard, 2005.

- « L’unité du droit vue par un arrêtiste toulousain, Géraud de Maynard (1537-1607) », La règle de l’unité ? Le juge et le droit du roi dans la France moderne (XV^e-XVIII^e siècle) sous la direction de P. Arabeyre et d’O. Poncet, Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2019, p. 19-44.

- « Cujas et les arrêtistes. L’écho de l’École au Palais », communication au colloque Jacques Cujas 1522-1590. La Fabrique d’un “grand juriste”, Paris, Editions du Collège de France, Collection « Conférences », p. 177-196.

 

Xavier Prévost est agrégé des facultés de droit, agrégé d'économie et gestion, archiviste paléographe (diplômé de l'École des chartes) et ancien élève de l'ENS Cachan. Membre junior de l'Institut universitaire de France (promotion 2020), il est professeur d'histoire du droit à l'université de Bordeaux et porteur du projet ISTHisFrench (ERC-2024-COG 101170233). Il coordonne avec Luigi-Alberto Sanchi le Réseau Humanisme juridique. Ses recherches concernent le droit et les savoirs juridiques à la Renaissance et interrogent, en particulier, l'émergence de la modernité juridique.

- Jacques Cujas (1522-1590), Jurisconsulte humaniste, Genève, Droz (Travaux d’Humanisme et Renaissance), 2015 ; rééd. Genève, Droz (Titre courant), 2025

- Jacques Cujas, la fabrique d’un « grand juriste », dir. Alexandra Gottely, Dario Mantovani et Xavier Prévost, Paris, Éditions du Collège de France, 2024

- L’Humanisme juridique. Aspects d’un phénomène intellectuel européen, dir. Xavier Prévost et Luigi-Alberto Sanchi, Paris, Classiques Garnier (Esprit des lois, Esprit des lettres), 2022 [https://doi.org/10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-11801-5]

 

Organisation :

Cet événement est organisé par le groupe de contact F.R.S.-FNRS Histoire et anthropologie de l'État (présidence : Manuel Cervera-Marzal (FNRS/ULiège), secrétariat : Jérémie Ferrer-Bartomeu (FNRS/UCLouvain)

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CALL FOR ASSISTANT REVIEWS EDITOR: Comparative Legal History [Deadline: 15 APR 2025]

 

 
 
The European Society for Comparative Legal History (ESCLH) is seeking applications for the position of an Assistant Reviews Editor of its flagship journal, Comparative Legal History. The position is appropriate for a student (undergraduate or postgraduate) or early career academic with an interest in legal history.
 
The Assistant Reviews Editor will contribute to the advancement of comparative legal history as part of a supportive and dedicated team. His or her primary responsibility will be to liaison between the journal's reviewers and book publishers. In addition, the Assistant Reviews Editor will contribute (to the extent of her or his interest) to identifying potential books for review and reviewers, and to publishing notices of CLH's book reviews in the ESCLH Blog and in other forums.
 
Comparative Legal History is an official academic forum of the ESCLH. Published since 2013, it aims to offer a space for the development of comparative legal history. Based in Europe, it welcomes contributions that explore law in different times and jurisdictions from across the globe.
 
Applications, with a brief cover letter and short CV (no more than 2 pages), should be sent to Matthew Dyson (President of the ESCLH), matthew dot dyson at law dot ox dot ac dot uk, by 15 April 2025.
 
The ESCLH particularly welcomes applications from people belonging to groups underrepresented in academia in general, and in the ESCLH and the journal in particular.
 
This position is not paid (as is the case for all the editorial positions in the journal).

BOOK: Lutz KRELLER, Juristen im Unrecht. Die Biografien von Otto Palandt (1877-1951) und Heinrich Schönfelder (1902-1944) [Schriftenreihe der Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte; 129] (Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2024), 160 p., ISBN: 9783111382296

 

About the book:

Der „Palandt", ein erstmals 1939 erschienener Kurzkommentar zum Bürgerlichen Gesetzbuch, und der „Schönfelder", eine ab 1932 publizierte Gesetzessammlung, begleiteten Generationen deutscher Juristen und Juristinnen. Doch wer waren die Namensgeber dieser beiden Standardwerke? Für welches Rechtsdenken und juristisches Selbstverständnis standen Otto Palandt (1877–1951) und Heinrich Schönfelder (1902–1944)? Wie verhielten sie sich zum NS-Staat, der Recht und Justiz pervertierte? Auf breiter Quellenbasis zeigt Lutz Kreller in seiner Studie, dass sich Palandt und Schönfelder aus Überzeugung in den Nationalsozialismus integrierten. An diesen beiden Biografien wird exemplarisch deutlich, wie leicht die Prinzipien der Unabhängigkeit von Recht und Justiz sowie die Gewaltenteilung 1933 zerstört und durch ein nationalsozialistisches Weltanschauungsrecht ersetzt werden konnten.

Table of contents:

 
Der „Palandt“ und der „Schönfelder“: Eine Einleitung

I. Der Jurist Otto Palandt (1877–1951)

1. 1877–1899: Sozialisation eines nichtelitären Bildungsbürgers

2. 1900–1918: Karriere(um)wege und Erster Weltkrieg als Zäsur

3. 1918/19–1932: Demokratie als Interim

4. 1933–1945: Chancen und Engagement

5. 1945–1951: Nach dem „Zusammenbruch“

II. Der Jurist Heinrich Schönfelder (1902–1944)

1. 1902–1922: Ursprünge einer völkischen Ideologisierung

2. 1922/23–1944: Ein weltanschauliches Kontinuum

Palandt, Schönfelder und der Nationalsozialismus: Eine Bilanz

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BOOK: Maike KRÜGER, Security Discourses. Juridification of international relations in the 19th and early 20th century [Schriften zum Völkerrecht; 264] (Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2025), 277 p., ISBN: 978-3-428-19268-7

 

About the book:

Die Arbeit analysiert die zwischenstaatlichen Verrechtlichungsprozesse des 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhunderts. Nach einem historischen Überblick werden drei zentrale Themenkomplexe untersucht: Verrechtlichung als Reaktion auf kollektive Sicherheitswahrnehmungen, Verrechtlichung als Voraussetzung für Institutionalisierung und Verrechtlichung als diskursiver Prozess. Die Analyse stützt sich auf die politikwissenschaftliche Theorie der »Securitization«, welche die diskursive Darstellung sicherheitsrelevanter Sachverhalte beschreibt. Die Untersuchung zeigt, dass das Völkerrecht einem dynamischen Wandel unterliegt, der die Komplexität internationaler Beziehungen und Diversität nationaler Interessen widerspiegelt. Dennoch bieten rechtliche Strukturen Stabilität: Sie schaffen einen Rahmen, der es Staaten ermöglicht, Konflikte friedlich zu lösen und Herausforderungen gemeinsam zu bewältigen.

Table of contents:

Introduction
Securitization – Juridification – Infrastructures – Conclusion

A. Justifying Interstate Violence – A Brief History
Bellum Justum: War as Divine Justice – Bellum Legale: Sovereignty and Procedural Law – Conclusion: From Just to Legal Wars

B. Juridification as a Reaction to Collective Perceptions of Security
The Rise of Collective Security – Arbitration: Response to Forceful Self-help – Conclusion: Co-ordination and Co-operation – A Growing Need

C. Juridification as a Necessary Requirement for Institutionalization
The Sovereignty of States and International Law – The Century of Conferences and Congresses – The League of Nations: Institutionalization of the Maintenance of Peace? – Conclusion: Consensus – The Need to Understand Each Other

D. Successful Juridification as a Discursive Process
War and Measures Short of War – Arbitration: Questions of Law or Questions of Politics – Administrative Unions: Unpolitical Multilateralism? – The League of Nations: The Political Relations Between States – Conclusion: The Power of Narratives

E. Legal Infrastructures – Co-Ordination of International Relations
Multitude of Inter-state Relations – Legal Infrastructures – Conclusion: Normative Networks

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