By examining the relationship between international law and empire from early modernity to the present, this volume improves current understandings of the way international legal institutions, practices, and narratives have shaped imperial ideas about and structures of world governance.

• Introduction


• Part I: Epistemologies of Empire and International Law


• 1: Arthur Weststeijn: Provincializing Grotius: International Law and Empire in a Seventeenth-Century Malay Mirror


• 2: Stefan Kroll: Indirect Hegemonies in International Legal Relations: The Debate of Religious Tolerance in Early Republican China


• 3: Walter Rech: International Law, Empire, and the Relative Indeterminacy of Narrative


• Part II: Legal Discourses of Empire


• 4: Peter Schröder: The Concepts of Universal Monarchy and Balance of Power in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century-a Case Study


• 5: Randall Lesaffer: Between Faith and Empire: The Justification of the Spanish Intervention in the French Wars of Religion in the 1590s


• 6: Manuel Jiménez Fonseca: Jus gentium and the Transformation of Latin American Nature: One More Reading of Vitoria?


• 7: José-Manuel Barreto: Cerberus: The State, the Empire, and the Company as Subjects of International Law in Grotius and the Peace of Westphalia


• 8: Julie Saada: Revolution, Empire, and Utopia: Tocqueville and the Intellectual Background of International Law


• Part III: Managing Empire: Imperial Administration and Diplomacy


• 9: Christian Windler: Towards the Empire of a 'Civilizing Nation': The French Revolution and its Impact on Relations with the Ottoman Regencies in the Maghreb


• 10: PG McHugh: A Comporting Sovereign, Tribes, and the Ordering of Imperial Authority in Colonial Upper Canada of the 1830s


• 11: Luigi Nuzzo: Territory, Sovereignty, and the Construction of the Colonial Space


• Part IV: A Legal Critique of Empire?


• 12: Umut Özsu: An Anti-Imperialist Universalism? Jus Cogens and the Politics of International Law


• 13: Hatsue Shinohara: Drift towards an Empire? The Trajectory of American Reformers in the Cold War


• 14: Benjamin Straumann: Imperium sine fine: Carneades, the Splendid Vice of Glory, and the Justice of Empire


• 15: Andrew Fitzmaurice: Scepticism of the Civilizing Mission in International Law

Martti Koskenniemi is Academy Professor and Director of the Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights at the University of Helsinki, a Professorial Fellow at Melbourne Law School, and Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He has held visiting professorships at New York University, the University of Cambridge, the University of Utrecht, Columbia University, the University of São Paulo, the University of Toronto, and the Universities of Paris I, II, X and XVI. He was a member of the Finnish diplomatic service from 1978 to 1994 and of the International Law Commission (UN) from 2002 to 2006. His publications include From Apology to Utopia: The Structure of International Legal Argument (1989), The Gentle Civilizer of Nations: The Rise and Fall of International Law 1870-1960 (2001), The Politics of International Law (2011), and The Cambridge Companion to International Law (2012, co-edited with Professor James Crawford).
Manuel Jiménez Fonseca is a doctoral researcher at the Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights, University of Helsinki. His research interests include the historical relationship between international law and nature, development, and social movements. His publications include 'The Colonization of American Nature and the Early Developments of International Law' Journal of the History of International Law (2010) 12:189
Walter Rech is a postdoctoral researcher at the Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights, University of Helsinki. His research interests are located in the history and theory of international law and international politics. His publications include Enemies of Mankind: Vattel's Theory of Collective Security (2013)