Format:
1 online resource (585 pages)
ISBN:
9780511155536
Series Statement:
Hersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lectures 14
Content:
Legal analysis, historical and political critique of the rise and fall of modern international law.
Content:
Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- I -- II -- III -- 1 "The legal conscience of the civilized world " -- A manifesto -- An old-fashioned tradition -- A transitional critic: Kaltenborn von Stachau -- An amateur science -- A time of danger -- A meeting in Ghent, 1873 -- A romantic profession: Bluntschli -- A social conception of law -- Method: enlightened inwardness -- Towards a culture of human rights: Fiore -- Advancing the liberal project -- Limits of liberalism -- Cultural consciousness -- Culture as character -- The elusive sensibility -- 2 Sovereignty: a gift of civilization - international lawyers and imperialism, 1870-1914 -- Ambivalent attitudes -- Informal empire 1815-1870: hic sunt leones -- The lawyers 1815-1870 -- The demise of informal empire in Africa -- The Berlin Conference 1884-1885 -- The myth of civilization: a logic of exclusion-inclusion -- Looking for a standard -- Between universality and relativism: colonial treaties -- The myth of sovereignty: a beneficent empire -- The limits of sovereignty: civilization betrayed -- Occupation is nothing - Fashoda -- Sovereignty as terror - the Congo -- From sovereignty to internationalization -- 3 International law as philosophy: Germany 1871-1933 -- 1871: law as the science of the legal form -- From form to substance: the doctrine of the rational will -- Between the dangerous and the illusory State -- Rechtsstaat - domestic and international: Georg Jellinek -- Rationalism and politics: a dificulty -- Drawing lines in the profession -- Public law and the Hague Treaties -- A pacifist profession? Kohler, Schücking, and the First World War -- The internationalists: between sociology and formalism -- 1914 -- Getting organized -- Beyond Versailles: the end of German internationalism.
Note:
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521623117
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780521623117
Additional Edition:
Print version The Gentle Civilizer of Nations : The Rise and Fall of International Law 1870-1960
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=201874
Author information:
Koskenniemi, Martti 1953-
