Empire and Legal Thought

Ideas and Institutions from Antiquity to Modernity
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-43098-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 41/16, 618 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 1061 g

Reihe: Legal History Library / Studies in the History of International Law

Emphatic of the importance of legal thought to the rise and fall of empires, this book highlights the centrality of empires to the development of legal thought.

Comprehension of the development of legal thought over time is necessary for any historical, philosophical, practical, or theoretical enquiry into the subject today, it is argued here. When seen against the background of broad geopolitical, diplomatic, administrative, intellectual, religious, and commercial changes, law begins to appear very resilient. It withstands the rise and fall of empires. It provides the framework for the establishment of new orders in the place of the old.

Today what analogies, principles, and authorities of law have survived these changes continue to inform much of the international legal tradition.

Contributors are: Clifford Ando, Lia Brazil, Joseph Canning, Edward Cavanagh, Zachary Chitwood, Emanuele Conte, Matthew Crow, Alberto Esu, Tiziana Faitini, Dante Fedele, Naveen Kanalu, Alexandre A. Loktionov, P. G. McHugh, Jordan Rudinsky, Mark Somos, Joshua Smeltzer, Lorenzo Veracini, Halcyon Weber, and Sarah Winter.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cavanagh, Edward

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Notes on Contributors

1Empire and Legal Thought: An Introduction

Edward Cavanagh

2The First ‘Lawyers’? Judicial Offices, Administration and Legal Pluralism in Ancient Egypt, ca. 2500–1800BCE

Alexandre A. Loktionov

3After the Empire: Judicial Review and Athenian Interstate Relations in the Age of Demosthenes, 354–22BCE

Alberto Esu

4Public Law and Republican Empire in Rome, 200–27BCE

Clifford Ando

5Compromise and Coercion: Imperial Motives Behind Justinianic Legislation in Sixth-century Constantinople

Halcyon Weber

6Muslims and Non-orthodox Christians in Byzantine Law until ca. 1100

Zachary Chitwood

7Roman Public Law in the Twelfth Century: Politics, Jurisprudence, and Reverence for Antiquity

Emanuele Conte

8Ius gentium: The Metamorphoses of a Legal Concept (Ancient Rome to Early Modern Europe)

Dante Fedele

9‘Exiit edictum a Caesare Augusto ut describeretur universus orbis’ (Luke 2:1–2): Debating Imperial Authority in Late Medieval Legal and Political Thought (12th–14th Centuries)

Tiziana Faitini

10Ideas of Empire in the Thought of the Late Medieval Roman Law Jurists

Joseph Canning

11Medieval Pisa as a Colonial Laboratory in the Historiographical Imagination of the Early Twentieth Century

Lorenzo Veracini

12Open and Closed Seas: The Grotius-Selden Dialogue at the Heart of Liberal Imperialism

Mark Somos

13Littoral Leviathan: Histories of Oceans, Laws, and Empires

Matthew Crow

14From Procedural Law to the ‘Rights of Humanity’: Habeas corpus,Ex parte Somerset (1771–72), and the Movement toward Collective Representation in Early British Antislavery Cases

Sarah Winter

15Prerogative and Office in Pre-revolutionary New York: Feudal Legalism, Land Patenting, and Sir William Johnson, Indian Superintendent (1756-1774)

P.G. McHugh

16The Pure Reason of Lex Scripta: Jurisprudential Philology and the Domain of Instituted Laws during Early British Colonial Rule in India (1770s–1820s)

Naveen Kanalu

17James Bryce’s Home Rule Constitutionalism and Victorian Historiography

Jordan Rudinsky

18Crown, Conquest, Concession, and Corporation: British Legal Ideas and Institutions in Matabeleland and Southern Rhodesia, 1889–1919

Edward Cavanagh

19British War Office Manuals and International Law, 1899–1907

Lia Brazil

20Reich, Imperium, Empire: Carl Schmitt and the ‘Overcoming of the Concept of the State’

Joshua Smeltzer

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Edward Cavanagh was a Fellow (2016-2019) of Downing College, after attaining his PhD from the University of Ottawa (2012-2015). His scholarly interests lie at the crossroads of law and history.