Empire and Legal Thought: Ideas and Institutions from Antiquity to ModernityTogether, the chapters in Empire and Legal Thought make the case for seeing the history of international legal thought and empires against the background of broad geopolitical, diplomatic, administrative, intellectual, religious, and commercial changes over thousands of years. |
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Contents
An Introduction | 1 |
2 The First Lawyers? Judicial Offices Administration and Legal Pluralism in Ancient Egypt ca 25001800 BCE | 36 |
Judicial Review and Athenian Interstate Relations in the Age of Demosthenes 35422 BCE | 69 |
4 Public Law and Republican Empire in Rome 20027 BCE | 105 |
Imperial Motives behind Justinianic Legislation in SixthCentury Constantinople | 125 |
6 Muslims and NonOrthodox Christians in Byzantine Law until ca 1100 | 167 |
Politics Jurisprudence and Reverence for Antiquity | 189 |
The Metamorphoses of a Legal Concept Ancient Rome to Early Modern Europe | 213 |
The GrotiusSelden Dialogue at the Heart of Liberal Imperialism | 322 |
Histories of Oceans Laws and Empires | 362 |
Habeas Corpus Ex parte Somerset 177172 and the Movement toward Collective Representation in Early British Antislavery Cases | 388 |
Feudal Legalism Land Patenting and Sir William Johnson Indian Superintendent 17561774 | 425 |
Jurisprudential Philology and the Domain of Instituted Laws during Early British Colonial Rule in India 1770s1820s | 462 |
17 James Bryces Home Rule Constitutionalism and Victorian Historiography | 492 |
British Legal Ideas and Institutions in Matabeleland and Southern Rhodesia 18891919 | 520 |
19 British War Office Manuals and International Law 18991907 | 548 |
12 Debating Imperial Authority in Late Medieval Legal and Political Thought 12th14th Centuries | 252 |
10 Ideas of Empire in the Thought of the Late Medieval Roman Law Jurists | 280 |
11 Medieval Pisa as a Colonial Laboratory in the Historiographical Imagination of the Early Twentieth Century | 300 |
Carl Schmitt and the Overcoming of the Concept of the State | 578 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Empire and Legal Thought: Ideas and Institutions from Antiquity to Modernity Volume 41 of Legal History Library |
| Editor | Edward Cavanagh |
| Publisher | BRILL, 2020 |
| ISBN | 9004431241, 9789004431249 |
| Length | 634 pages |
| Subjects | › Law / International Law / Legal History |
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