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The essays populating these two volumes provide a comprehensive account of existing scholarly debates on the history and theory of international law. This authoritative collection, with contributions by leading academics, covers a wide range of important topics such as primitive legal scholarship, medieval law and the Grotian Tradition. With subtopics including the markers, heroes and making of international law, and an original introduction by the editor, this extensive collection will appeal to a wide variety of researchers in the field of legal history and theory, as well as students and scholars alike.

Contributors include: P. Allott, N. Berman, H. Charlesworth, B. Chimni, C. Chinkin, D. Kennedy, M. Koskenniemi, L. Obregón Tarazona, A. Orford, S. Pahuja.

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Volume I

Introduction Jean d’Aspremont 

PART I THE HISTORICIZATION OF INTERNATIONAL LEGAL THEORIES 

1. David W. Kennedy (1986), ’Primitive Legal Scholarship’, Harvard International Law Journal, 27 (1), Winter, 1–98

2. Anne Orford (2014), ’Scientific Reason and the Discipline of International Law’, European Journal of International Law, 25 (2), May, 369–85

3. Jean d’Aspremont (2019), ’Bindingness’, in Jean d’Aspremont and Sahib Singh (eds) Concepts for International Law Contributions to Disciplinary Thought, Chapter 5, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 67–82

PART II THE MARKERS OF INTERNATIONAL LEGAL THEORIES

4. L. Oppenheim (1908), ’The Science of International Law: Its Task and Method’, American Journal of International Law, 2 (2), April, 313–56

5. Hersch Lauterpacht (1946),’The Grotian Tradition in International Law’, in (ed) British Year Book of International Law, New York, NY, USA and London, UK: Oxford University Press, 1–53

6. Myres S. McDougal (1956), ‘Law as a Process of Decision: A Policy-Oriented Approach to Legal Study’, American Journal of Jurisprudence, 1 (1), June, 53–72

7. Thomas M. Franck (1992), ‘The Emerging Right to Democratic Governance’, American Journal of International Law, 86 (1), January, 46–91

8. Martti Koskenniemi (1990), ’The Politics of International Law’, European Journal of International Law, 1 (1), February, 4–32

9. Philip Allott (1998), ‘The True Function of Law in the International Community’, Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, 5 (2), Spring, 391–413

10. B.S. Chimni (2007), ‘The Past, Present, and Future of International Law: A Critical Third World Approach’, Melbourne Journal of International Law, 8 (2), 499–515 

11. Sundhya Pahuja (2005), ‘The Postcoloniality of International Law’, Harvard International Law Journal, 46 (2), Summer, 459–69

12. Hilary Charlesworth, Christine Chinkin and Shelley Wright (1991), ‘Feminist Approaches to International Law’, American Journal of International Law, 85 (4), October, 613–45

13. Benedict Kingsbury (2009), ’The Concept of “Law” in Global Administrative Law’, European Journal of International Law, 20 (1), February, 23–57

14. Gregory Shaffer and Tom Ginsburg (2012), ’The Empirical Turn in International Legal Scholarship’, American Journal of International Law, 106 (1), January, 1–47

PART III THE HEROES OF INTERNATIONAL LEGAL THEORIES

15. Patrick Capps and Julian Rivers (2010), ‘Kant’s Concept of International Law’, Legal Theory, 16 (4), December, 229–57

16. Jörg Kammerhofer (2009), ’Kelsen – Which Kelsen? A Reapplication of the Pure Theory to International Law’, Leiden Journal of International Law, 22 (2), June, 225–49

17. Mehrdad Payandeh (2010), ’The Concept of International Law in the Jurisprudence of H.L.A. Hart’, European Journal of International Law, 21 (4), November, 967–95

18. Matt Craven (2012), ’On Foucault and Wolff or from Law to Political Economy’, Leiden Journal of International Law, 25 (3), September, 627–45

19. Martti Koskenniemi (2004), ’What Should International Lawyers Learn from Karl Marx’, Leiden Journal of International Law, 17 (2), June, 229–46

20. Robert Howse (2016), ‘Schmitt, Schmitteanism and Contemporary International Legal Theory’, in Anne Orford, Florian Hoffmann and Martin Clark (eds), The Oxford Handbook of the Theory of International Law, Chapter 11, Great Clarendon Street, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 212–30 

21. Jean d’Aspremont (2016), ’Martti Koskenniemi, the Mainstream and Self-Reflectivity’, Leiden Journal of International Law, 29 (3), July, 625–39

PART IV THE MAKING OF INTERNATIONAL LEGAL THEORIES 

22. David W. Kennedy (1999–2000), ‘When Renewal Repeats: Thinking Against the Box’, N.Y.U Journal of International Law and Politics, 32, Winter, 335–500

23. Jean d’Aspremont (2012), ’Wording in International Law’, Leiden Journal of International Law, 25 (3), September, 575–602

24. Martti Koskenniemi (2007), ’The Fate of Public International Law: Between Technique and Politics’, Modern Law Review, 70 (1), January 1–30 

25. Ingo Venzke (2018), ’What if? Counterfactual (Hi)Stories of International Law’, Asian Journal of International Law, 8 (2), July, 403–31