Crafting the International Order
Practitioners and Practices of International Law since c.1800
Published on 25. March 2021
Book
Hardback
304 pages
978-0-19-886383-0 (ISBN)
Description
This volume sheds light on how lawyers have made sense of, engaged in, and shaped international politics over the past three hundred years. Chapters show how politicians and administrators, diplomats and military men, have considered their tasks in legal terms, and how the field of international relations has been filled with the distinctly legal vocabulary of laws, regulations, treaties, agreements, and conventions.
Leading experts in the field provide insights into what it means when concrete decisions are taken, negotiations led, or controversies articulated and resolved by legal professionals. They also inquire into how the often-criticised gaps between juristic standards and everyday realities can be explained by looking at the very medium of law. Rather than sorting people and problems into binary categories such as 'law' and 'politics' or 'theory' and 'practice', the case studies in this volume reflect on these dichotomies and dissolve them into the messy realities of conflicts and interactions which take place in historically contingent situations, and in which international lawyers assume varying personas.
Leading experts in the field provide insights into what it means when concrete decisions are taken, negotiations led, or controversies articulated and resolved by legal professionals. They also inquire into how the often-criticised gaps between juristic standards and everyday realities can be explained by looking at the very medium of law. Rather than sorting people and problems into binary categories such as 'law' and 'politics' or 'theory' and 'practice', the case studies in this volume reflect on these dichotomies and dissolve them into the messy realities of conflicts and interactions which take place in historically contingent situations, and in which international lawyers assume varying personas.
Reviews / Votes
...a collection of meticulously investigated case studies which jointly advance a compelling claim: that, between the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries, a most relevant contribution to international law came from those legal actors who got their hands dirty with the realities of power and politics. * Matilde Cazzola, Neue Politische Literatur * This volume makes an interesting foil to the McGuinness and Meerssche volumes (above), for here a team of historians undertakes case studies of the role of legal practitioners in addressing or resolving international crises or conflicts, producing thereby a template for exploring how law and politics have interacted and perhaps legal language and legal arguments have, over time, acquired a role and vitality of their own. * William E. Butler, Jus Gentium * This book demonstrates how the international order was and is a veritable "historical artefact", literally "crafted" by individuals through the law. * Matilde Cazzola, Neue Politische Literatur *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 238 mm
Width: 158 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
608 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-886383-0 (9780198863830)
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Marcus M. Payk | Kim Christian Priemel
Crafting the International Order
Practitioners and Practices of International Law since c.1800
E-Book
03/2021
1st Edition
OUP eBook
€68.99
Available for download
Marcus M. Payk | Kim Christian Priemel
Crafting the International Order
Practitioners and Practices of International Law since c.1800
E-Book
03/2021
1st Edition
OUP eBook
€69.49
Available for download
Persons
Marcus M. Payk is professor of modern history at Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg, Germany. He has a special interest in international history, legal history, German and European history, and has published widely in these fields. His research has been supported by various grants and scholarships both in Europe and the United States.
Kim Christian Priemel is professor of contemporary European history at the University of Oslo. He specializes in legal history, social and economic history, and media history. He has authored and edited several books and has published in the Journal of Modern History, the Journal of Contemporary History, and Central European History.
Kim Christian Priemel is professor of contemporary European history at the University of Oslo. He specializes in legal history, social and economic history, and media history. He has authored and edited several books and has published in the Journal of Modern History, the Journal of Contemporary History, and Central European History.
Content
1: Marcus M. Payk and Kim Christian Priemel: Introduction: Thinking Law, Talking Law, Doing Law: How Lawyers Craft(ed) the International Order
2: Andrew Cobbing: Shaping a New Profession: Japanese Encounters with International Law, c. 1600-1900
3: Fabian Klose: Legal Practitioners: Nineteenth Century International Jurisdiction and the Ambiguous Role of the Members of the Mixed Commissions
4: Gabriela A. Frei: Legal Advice, the Foreign Office, and Britain's Neutrality Policy, 1870-1914
5: Benjamin A. Coates: The First R2P: US Legal Advisers and the Right to Protect Citizens in the Early Twentieth Century Americas
6: Michael Jonas: Hammarskjoeld at The Hague: Sweden and the Peace Conference of 1907
7: Marcus M. Payk: The Draughtsmen: International Lawyers and the Crafting of the Paris Peace Treaties, 1919-20
8: Julia Eichenberg: Legal Legwork: How Exiled Jurists Negotiated Recognition and Legitimacy in Wartime London 1939-45
9: Kim Christian Priemel: Changing Hats. Nuremberg's Visible College and the Politics of Internationalism, 1941-49
10: Katharina Rietzler: Fluid Boundaries in the Divisible College: The International Law Association and the Indus Waters Dispute in the 1950s
11: Morten Rasmussen: Agents of Constitutionalism: The Quest for a Constitutional Breakthrough in European Law, 1945-1964
2: Andrew Cobbing: Shaping a New Profession: Japanese Encounters with International Law, c. 1600-1900
3: Fabian Klose: Legal Practitioners: Nineteenth Century International Jurisdiction and the Ambiguous Role of the Members of the Mixed Commissions
4: Gabriela A. Frei: Legal Advice, the Foreign Office, and Britain's Neutrality Policy, 1870-1914
5: Benjamin A. Coates: The First R2P: US Legal Advisers and the Right to Protect Citizens in the Early Twentieth Century Americas
6: Michael Jonas: Hammarskjoeld at The Hague: Sweden and the Peace Conference of 1907
7: Marcus M. Payk: The Draughtsmen: International Lawyers and the Crafting of the Paris Peace Treaties, 1919-20
8: Julia Eichenberg: Legal Legwork: How Exiled Jurists Negotiated Recognition and Legitimacy in Wartime London 1939-45
9: Kim Christian Priemel: Changing Hats. Nuremberg's Visible College and the Politics of Internationalism, 1941-49
10: Katharina Rietzler: Fluid Boundaries in the Divisible College: The International Law Association and the Indus Waters Dispute in the 1950s
11: Morten Rasmussen: Agents of Constitutionalism: The Quest for a Constitutional Breakthrough in European Law, 1945-1964