"Contents" [2011] ELECD 566; in Orakhelashvili, Alexander (ed), "Research Handbook on the Theory and History of International Law" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011)

Book Title: Research Handbook on the Theory and History of International Law

Editor(s): Orakhelashvili, Alexander

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781848443549

Section Title: Contents

Number of pages: 2

Extract:

Contents


List of contributors vii
Foreword viii
Preface x

PART I THE ESSENCE AND DEVELOPMENT OF INTERNATIONAL
LEGAL THEORY

1 The relevance of theory and history ­ the essence and origins of
international law, 3
Alexander Orakhelashvili
2 Early-modern scholarship on international law 23
Alain Wijffels
3 Natural law and the law of nations 61
Patrick Capps
4 The origins of consensual positivism ­ Pufendorf, Wolff and Vattel 93
Alexander Orakhelashvili
5 The transformation of international law in the 19th century 111
Amnon Lev
6 Hans Kelsen's place in international legal theory 143
Jörg Kammerhofer
7 `The holiness of the heart's affection': Philip Allott's theory of Social
Idealism 168
Iain Scobbie

PART II THEMATIC ASPECTS OF INTERNATIONAL LEGAL
THEORY

8 International human rights law theory 199
Frédéric Mégret
9 The philosophy of international criminal law 232
Robert Cryer
10 International law and EU law: between asymmetric constitutionalisation
and fragmentation 268
Katja S. Ziegler
11 International law, international politics and ideology 328
Alexander Orakhelashvili

PART III HISTORY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW

12 Periodization and international law 379
William E. Butler

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13 Acculturation through the Middle Ages: the Islamic law of nations and its
place in the history of international law 394
Jean Allain
14 The classical law of nations (1500­1800) 408
Randall Lesaffer
15 The 19th-century life of international law 441
Alexander Orakhelashvili
16 International law between universality and regional fragmentation. The
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