
Morality and Responsibility of Rulers
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- Introduction: The Moral Responsibility of Rulers: Going Back Beyond the Liberal 'Rule of Law' for World Order
- Part I: Law and Justice in Early Modern European Thought on World Order
- 1: Joseph Canning: The Universal Rule of Law in the Thought of the Late Medieval Jurists of Roman and Canon Law
- 2: Susan Longfield Karr: 'The Law of Nations is Common to all Mankind': Jus gentium in Humanist Jurisprudence
- 3: Andrew RC Simpson: 'Cleare as is the Summers Sunne'? Scottish Perspectives on Legal Learning, Parliamentary Power and the English Royal Succession
- 4: Xavier Tubau: Humanism, the Bible, and Erasmus' Moral World Order
- 5: Anthony Pagden: Legislating for the 'Whole World that is, in a Sense, a Commonwealth': Conquest, Occupation, and the Obligation to 'Defend the Innocent'
- 6: Anthony Carty: Cardinal Richelieu between Vattel and Machiavelli
- 7: John Witte Jr.: The Universal Rule of Natural Law and Written Constitutions in the Thought of Johannes Althusius
- 8: Christoph Stumpf: Hugo Grotius and the Universal Rule of Law
- 9: Peter Goodrich: Aquatopia: Lines of Amity and Laws of the Sea
- 10: Janne Nijman: A Universal Rule of Law for a Pluralist World Order: Leibniz's Universal Jurisprudence and his Praise of the Chinese Ruler
- Part II: Law and Justice in Chinese Thought on World Order
- 11: Aihe Wang: Moral Rulership and World Order in Ancient Chinese Cosmology
- 12: Chun-chieh Huang: 'Humane Governance' as the Moral Responsibility of Rulers in East Asian Confucian Political Philosophy
- 13: Hu Henan: Bridging the Western and Eastern Traditions: A Comparative Study of the Legal Thoughts of Hugo Grotius and Lao Zi
- 14: Emily Cheung and Maranatha Fung: The Hazards of Translating Wheaton's 'Elements of International Law' into Chinese: Cultures of World Order Lost in Translation
- 15: Tian Tao: Chinese Intellectuals' Discourse of International Law in the Late 19th Century and Early 20th Century
- 16: Patrick Sze-lok Leung and Anthony Carty: The Crisis of the Ryukyus 1877-1882: Confucian World Order Challenged and Defeated by Western/Japanese Imperial International Law
- 17: Anna Baka and Lucy QI: Lost in Translation in the Sino-French War in Vietnam: From Western International Law to Confucian Legal Semantics: A Comparative-Critical Analysis of Chinese, French, and American Archives
- 18: Patrick Sze-Lok Keung and Bijun Xu: The Sino-Japanese War and the Collapse of the Qing and Confucian World Order in the Face of Japanese Imperialism and European Acquiescence
- 19: Jing Tan and Anthony Carty: Confucianism and Western International Law in 1900: Li Hongzhang and Sir Ernest Satow Compared: The Case Study of the Crisis of Russia in Manchuria 1900-1
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