International Law and History
Modern Interfaces

The first contemporary historiography of international law and an essential methodological guide for researching international legal history.

Ignacio de la Rasilla (Author)

9781108461481, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 6 April 2023

463 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm, 0.666 kg

'Ignacio de la Rasilla has done a great scholarly service by digesting and organising the vast and various literatures on history and international law. His lucid, learned and comprehensive book is now an indispensable guide to this burgeoning field.' David Armitage, Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History, Harvard University and Affiliated Faculty, Harvard Law School

This interdisciplinary exploration of the modern historiography of international law invites a diverse assessment of the indissoluble unity of the old and the new in the most global of all legal disciplines. The study of the history of international law does not only serve a better understanding of how international law has evolved to become what it is and what it is not. Its histories, which rethink the past in the present, also influence our perception of contemporary matters in international law and our understandings of how they may potentially unfold. This multi-perspectival enquiry into the dominant modes of international legal history and its fundamental debates may also help students of both international law and history to identify the historical approaches that best suit their international legal-historical perspectives and best address their historical and legal research questions.

1. The Turn to the History of International Law
2. Contextual Approaches to the History of International Law
3. Critical/Post-Modern Approaches to the History of International Law
4. TWAIL/Post-Colonial Approaches to the History of International Law
5. Global Approaches to the History of International Law
6. Feminist Approaches to the History of International Law
7. Normative Approaches to the History of International Law
8. Sociological Approaches to the History of International Law
9. Institutional Approaches to the History of International Law
10. Biographical Approaches to the History of International Law
11. Multiperspectivity and Periodization in the History of International Law.

Subject Areas: Public international law [LBB], International law [LB], Legal history [LAZ], Law [L], International relations [JPS], Political science & theory [JPA]