System, Order, and International Law The Early History of International Legal Thought from Machiavelli to Hegel

by Kadelbach, Stefan; Kleinlein, Thomas; Roth-Isigkeit, David

• ISBN13: 9780191821974
• ISBN10: 0191821977
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2017-06-13
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Professor Stefan Kadelbach: Professor of International Law and European Constitutional Law and a Member of 'Normative Orders', Cluster of Excellence at Goethe University Frankfurt/Main

Dr. Thomas Kleinlein: Principal Investigator of the 'Federalism of Rights' research project (DFG, German Research Foundation) and Associate Member of 'Normative Orders', Cluster of Excellence at Goethe University Frankfurt/Main

Mr. David Roth-Isigkeit: Research Fellow at 'Normative Orders', Cluster of Excellence at Goethe University Frankfurt/Main

Stefan Kadelbach is Professor of Public International Law and European Constitutional Law at Goethe University Frankfurt/Main and a Member of ' Normative Orders', Cluster of Excellence, a group of researchers from various disciplines funded by the German Research Foundation. His teaching and research covers general international law, the theory of international law, human rights, and European and German constitutional law.

Thomas Kleinlein is Grotius Research Scholar at the University of Michigan Law School and a member of the Cluster of Excellence. Currently, he is the principal investigator of a research project funded by a European Union grant from the German Research Foundation.

David Roth-Isigkeit is an affiliate of Goethe University, Frankfurt, and a research fellow at the Cluster of Excellence.

Table of Contents

Introduction, Stefan Kadelbach, Thomas Kleinlein and David Roth-Isigkeit
Part I Authors
1. Niccolo Machiavelli's International Legal Thought - Culture, Contingency, and Construction, David Roth-Isigkeit
2. Francisco de Vitoria: A Redesign of Global Order on the Threshold of the Middle Ages to Modern Times, Kirstin Bunge
3. Francisco Suarez S.J. on the End of Peaceful Order among States and Systematic Doctrinal Scholarship, Tobias Schaffner
4. Jean Bodin on International Law, Merio Scattola
5. Alberico Gentili: Sovereignty, natural law, and the system of Roman civil law, Andreas Wagner
6. Althusius: Back to the Future, Thomas Huglin
7. Hugo Grotius on the conquest of Utopia by Systematic Reasoning, Stefan Kadelbach
8. Orders in disorder: The Question of a Sovereign State of Nature in Hobbes and Rousseau, Jonas Heller
9. The International Legal Argument in Spinoza, Tilman Altwicker
10. States as ethico-political subjects of International Law: The relationship between theory and practice in the international politics of Samuel Pufendorf, Vanda Fiorillo
11. Christian Wolff: System as an Episode?, Thomas Kleinlein
12. The Law of the Nations as the Civil Law of the World: On Montesquieu's political cosmopolitanism, Christian Volk
13. Emer de Vattel on the Society of Nations and the Political System of Europe, Simone Zurbuchen
14. Towards a system of sympathetic law: Envisioning Adam Smith's theory of jurisprudence, Bastian Ronge
15. Systematicity to Excess Kant's Conception of the International Legal Order, Benedict Vischer
16. Fichte and the Echo of his Internationalist Thinking in Romanticism, Carla De Pascale
17. The Plurality of States and the World Order of Reason: On Hegel's Understanding of International Law and Relations, Sergio Dellavalle
Part II Perspectives on the Philosophy of International Law
18. What should the History of the Law of Nations Become?, Martti Koskenniemi
19. State Theory, State Order, State System: Ius Gentium and the constitution of Public Power, Nehal Bhuta
20. Spatial Perceptions, Juridical Practices, and Early International Legal Thought around 1500: From Tordesillas to Saragossa, Thomas Duve
21. The Disorder of Economy? The first Relectio de Indis in a Theological Perspective, Monica Garcia-Salmones
22. Power and Law as Ordering Devices in the System of International Relations, Gunther Hellmann
23. Universalism and Particularism: A Dichotomy to Read Theories on International Order, Armin von Bogdandy and Sergio Dellavalle
Some Brief Conclusions Pierre-Marie Dupuy