Research Handbook on the Theory and History of International Law

2nd edition

Research Handbooks in International Law series

由亚历山大Orakhel编辑ashvili, Reader, School of Law, University of Birmingham, UK

This updated and revised second edition, with contributions from renowned experts, provides a comprehensive scholarly framework for analyzing the theory and history of international law. Featuring an array of legal and interdisciplinary analyses, it focuses on those theories and developments that illuminate the central and timeless basic concepts and categories of the international legal system, highlighting the interdependency of various aspects of theory and history and demonstrating the connections between theory and practice.

Acclaim for the First Edition:

‘The editor has done a masterful job of gathering leaders in this field, facilitating the flow of this book through the ages of the thinking it describes, and presenting an incredibly well-documented and authoritative treatment of a somewhat neglected subject.’
– American Society of International Law Newsletter

‘It is a good time in which to be a thinker about the remarkable present and the daunting future of the human world. The present volume will encourage more thinkers and more thought. It could not be more timely or more necessary.’
– From the Foreword to the First Edition by Philip Allott