A critical catalogue of how lawyers use history - as authority, as evocation of lost golden ages, as a nightmare to escape and as progress towards enlightenment

Since the nineteenth century, the development of international humanitarian law has been marked by complex entanglements of legal theory, historical trauma, cri

This interdisciplinary exploration of the modern historiography of international law invites a diverse assessment of the indissoluble unity of the old and the n

Explores the ideological, political, and economic stakes of struggles over international law's history and its relation to empire and capitalism.

This introductory text explores the historical origins of the main legal institutions that came to characterize the Anglo-American legal tradition, and to disti