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9780199670055

Morality and Responsibility of Rulers European and Chinese Origins of a Rule of Law as Justice for World Order

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    9780199670055

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    0199670056

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2018-04-15
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Author Biography


Anthony Carty, Sir Y K Pao Chair in Public Law and Professor of Law, University of Hong Kong and University of Aberdeen,Janne Nijman, Associate Professor of Public International Law and Senior Research Fellow of the Amsterdam Center for International Law, University of Amsterdam

Professor Anthony Carty holds the Sir Y K Pao Chair in Public Law at the University of Hong Kong and is professor of Law at the University of Aberdeen. Professor Carty has published widely in the field of critical theory and international law.

Dr Janne Nijman is Associate Professor of Public International Law at the University of Amsterdam and a Senior Research Fellow of the Amsterdam Center for International Law. She is the co-editor of New Perspectives on the Divide Between National and International Law.

Table of Contents


Introduction: The Moral Responsibility of Rulers: Going Back Beyond the Liberal 'Rule of Law' for World Order, Anthony Carty and Janne Nijman
Part I: Law and Justice in Early Modern European Thought on World Order
Section 1: Conceptions of a Universal Rule of Law in 16th Century European Thought
1. The Universal Rule of Law in the Thought of the Late Medieval Jurists of Roman and Canon Law, Joseph Canning
2. 'The Law of Nations is Common to all Mankind': Jus gentium in Humanist Jurisprudence, Susan Karr
3. Cleare as is the Summers Sunne'? Scottish Perspectives on Legal Learning, Parliamentary Power and the English Royal Succession,, Andrew Simpson
4. Humanism, the Bible and Erasmus' Moral World Order, Xavier Tubau
5. Legislating for the 'Whole World that is, in a sense, a Commonwealth': Conquest, Occupation, and the Obligation to 'Defend the Innocent', Anthony Pagden
6. Cardinal Richelieu between Vattel and Machiavelli, Anthony Carty
7. The Universal Rule of Natural Law and Written Constitutions in the Thought of Johannes Althusius, John Witte Jr.
8. Hugo Grotius and the Universal Rule of Law, Christoph Stumpf
9. Aquatopia. Lines of Amity and Laws of the Sea, Peter Goodrich
10. A Universal Rule of Law for a Pluralist World Order: Leibniz's Universal Jurisprudence and his Praise of the Chinese Ruler, Janne Nijman
Part II: Law and Justice in Chinese Thought on World Order
11. Moral Rulership and World Order in Ancient Chinese de Cosmology, Aihe Wang
12. 'Humane Governance' as the Moral Responsibility of Rulers in East Asian Confucian Political Philosophy, Chun-chieh Huang
13. Bridging the Western and Eastern Traditions: A Comparative Study of the Legal Thoughts of Hugo Grotius and Lao Zi, Hu Henan
14. The Hazards of Translating Wheaton's 'Elements of International Law' into Chinese: Cultures of World Order Lost in Translation, Emily Cheung and Maranatha Fung
15. Chinese Intellectuals' Discourse of International Law in the Late 19th Century and Early 20th Century, Tian Tao
16. The Crisis of the Ryukyus 1877-1882: Confucian World Order Challenged and Defeated by Western/Japanese Imperial International Law, Patrick Sze-lok Leung and Anthony Carty
17. Lost in Translation in the Sino-French War in Vietnam: From Western International Law to Confucian Legal Semantics: A Comparative-Critical Analysis of Chinese, French and American Archives, Anna Baka and Lucy QI
18. The Sino-Japanese War and the Collapse of the Qing and Confucian World Order in the Face of Japanese Imperialism and European Acquiescence, Patrick Sze-Lok Keung and Bijun Xu
19. Confucianism and Western International Law in 1900: Li Hongzhang and Sir Ernest Satow Compared: The Case Study of the Crisis of Russian in Manchuria 1900-1, Jing Tan and Anthony Carty

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