Volume I of The Cambridge History of International Law introduces the historiography of international law as a field of scholarship. After a general introduction to the purposes and design of the series, Part 1 of this volume highlights the diversity of the field in terms of methodologies, disciplinary approaches, and perspectives that have informed both older and newer historiographies in the recent three decades of its rapid expansion. Part 2 surveys the history of international legal history writing from different regions of the world, spanning roughly the past two centuries. The book therefore offers the most complete treatment of the historical development and current state of international law history writing, using both a global and an interdisciplinary perspective.

Autorentext
Randall Lesaffer is Professor of Legal History at KU Leuven in Belgium and Tilburg University in the Netherlands. He is the author of European Legal History: A Cultural and Political Perspective and co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Hugo Grotius. He is the editor-in-chief of the book series Studies in the History of International Law, an editor of the Global Law series and an editor of the Journal of the History of International Law. Anne Peters is Director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg, and a Professor at the universities of Basel (Switzerland) Heidelberg, and and the Freie Universität Berlin, as well as L. Bates Lea Global Law Professor at the University of Michigan. She currently serves as the editor-in-chief of the Journal of the History of International Law.

Zusammenfassung
Volume I introduces The Cambridge History of International Law series, offering a critical discussion of the development and current state of international law history writing across the world. Steering away from traditional Western historiography, this volume will interest scholars of international law across various disciplines.

Inhalt

1. Scope, scale and humility in the history of international law Randall Lesaffer; Part I. The Historiography of International Law: Methods and Approaches Randall Lesaffer and Anne Peters; 2. A thousand flowers blooming, or the desert of the real? International Law and its many problems of history Nehal Bhuta; 3. Political thought and the historiography of international law Mark Somos; 4. The turn to the history of international law in the discipline of international relations Giovanni Mantilla and Carsten-Andreas Schulz; 5. Economic history and international law: a peculiar absence Christopher Casey; Part II. The Historiography of International Law: Regional Traditions Randall Lesaffer and Anne Peters; 6. The historiography of international law in East Asia Keun-Gwan Lee; 7. The historiography of international law in sub-Saharan Africa Inge Van Hulle; 8. The historiography of international law on the European continent Frederik Dhondt; 9. The historiography of international law in Russia and its successor states Lauri Mälksoo; 10. 'The most neglected province': British historiography of international law David Armitage and Ignacio de la Rasilla; 11. The view from the Leviathan: history of international law in the hegemon John Fabian Witt; 12. Using history in Latin America Arnulf Becker Lorca; Index.