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| Genre/Form: | History |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Wilhelm G Grewe; Michael Byers |
| ISBN: | 3110153394 9783110153392 |
| OCLC Number: | 43851398 |
| Description: | xxii, 780 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm |
| Contents: | IUS GENTIUM : THE STRUCTURE OF THE LAW OF THE NATIONS DURING THE MIDDLE AGES: Unity and subdivision of the Occident under the dyarchy of emperor and pope -- The foundation of the international legal community : the Occidental Christian community -- The subjects of the international legal community : the polities of the Feudal Age -- Admission to the family of nations : approbation and recognition -- Law-making : natural law and treaty practice -- The judiciary : the development and structure of medieval arbitration -- Law Enforcement : the idea and reality of the "just war" -- The legal forms of territorial settlement : adjudication and occupation -- Law and dominion of the sea : claims by the coastal states -- IUS INTER GENTES : THE LAW OF NATIONS IN THE SPANISH AGE 1494-1648: The predominance of Spain in the state system -- The foundation of the international legal community : the laws of the European family of Christian nations -- The subjects of the international legal community : the early modern states -- Admission to the international law community : the recognition of the independence of the Netherlands -- Law-making : ius naturae and ius voluntarium -- The judicial settlement of international disputes : the decline of arbitration -- Law enforcement : the genesis of the classical law of war -- The institutions of the law of nations for the formation of a territorial order in the Age of Discoveries -- Law and dominion of the sea : mare clausum vs. mare liberum. DROIT PUBLIC DE L'EUROPE : THE INTERNATIONAL LEGAL ORDER DURING THE FRENCH AGE 1648-1815: The age of French predominance in the state system -- The foundations of the international legal community : European balance of power, dynastic solidarity, colonial expansion -- The subjects of the international legal community : closed territorial states -- Admission to the family of nations : the recognition of the independence of the United States -- The formation of legal rules : law of nature and raison d'état -- Judicature : the nadir of international arbitration -- Law enforcement : cabinat [sic] wars and contractual neutrality -- The laws of territorial settlement : symbolic and effective occupation -- Law and dominion of the sea : neutral rights in wartime as "liberté des mers" -- The French Revolution : postulates and ideological programmes relating to the law of nations -- "INTERNATIONAL LAW" : THE INTERNATIONAL LEGAL ORDER OF THE BRITISH AGE 1815-1919: British predominance in the state system -- The foundations of the international legal community : the idea of civilisation and a universal international law in a global state system -- The subjects of international law : the breakthrough of the concept of the nation-state -- Admission to the family of nations : the independence of the Latin American republics and the classical doctrine of recognition -- Law-making : the consent of states as a source of international law -- Adjucation : the rebirth of arbitration -- Law enforcement : the completion of the classical law of war and neutrality -- The law of territorial settlement : acquistion of territory by effective occupation -- Law and dominion of the sea : freedom of the seas under British maritime dominion. INTERNATIONAL LAW AND THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS : THE INTERNATIONAL LEGAL ORDER OF THE INTER-WAR PERIOD 1919-1944: The transition period of the Anglo-American condominium -- The foundations of the international legal community : a global community dominated by the West -- The subjects of international law : the modern state in the age of mass democracy -- Admission to the international legal community : the Stimson Doctrine of non-recognition -- The formation of legal rules : the turn away from positivism : a frenzy of law-making -- The administration of justice : compulsory arbitration and the Permanent Court of International Justice -- Law enforcement : the outlawry of war, and sanctions -- The laws of territorial settlement : contiguity and sectoral demarcation -- Law and dominion of the sea : the decline of neutral rights -- UNITED NATIONS : INTERNATIONAL LAW IN THE AGE OF AMERICAN-SOVIET RIVALRY AND THE RISE OF THE THIRD WORLD 1945-1989: The bipolar world system dominated by two super-powers -- The foundations of the international legal community : a universal community without common values -- The subjects of international law : a heterogeneous world of states -- Admission to the international legal community : "peaceloving" as a criterion for membership of the United Nations -- The formation of legal rules : the role of the United Nations in the creation of law -- Adjudication : preeminence of political rather than judicial settlement of disputes -- Law enforcement : ius contra bellum and the use of force in practice -- Legal forms of territorial settlement : the distribution of the last unoccupied regions of the Earth : air and space law -- Law and dominion of the sea : the "common heritage of mankind" -- Conclusion -- EPILOGUE: An international community with a single superpower. |
| Other Titles: | Epochen der Völkerrechtsgeschichte. |
| Responsibility: | Wilhelm G. Grewe ; translated and revised by Michael Byers. |
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