This edited volume uncovers the extent of the contribution of lawyers to international politics over the past three hundred years. It also examines how practitioners of international relations, including politicians, diplomats, and military advisers, have considered their tasks in distinctly legal terms.

Marcus M. Payk is professor of modern history at Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg, Germany. He has a special interest in international history, legal history, German and European history, and has published widely in these fields. His research has been supported by various grants and scholarships both in Europe and the United States.
Kim Christian Priemel is professor of contemporary European history at the University of Oslo. He specializes in legal history, social and economic history, and media history. He has authored and edited several books and has published in the Journal of Modern History, the Journal of Contemporary History, and Central European History.

• 1: Marcus M. Payk and Kim Christian Priemel: Introduction: Thinking Law, Talking Law, Doing Law: How Lawyers Craft(ed) the International Order


• 2: Andrew Cobbing: Shaping a New Profession: Japanese Encounters with International Law, c. 1600-1900


• 3: Fabian Klose: Legal Practitioners: Nineteenth Century International Jurisdiction and the Ambiguous Role of the Members of the Mixed Commissions


• 4: Gabriela A. Frei: Legal Advice, the Foreign Office, and Britain's Neutrality Policy, 1870-1914


• 5: Benjamin A. Coates: The First R2P: US Legal Advisers and the Right to Protect Citizens in the Early Twentieth Century Americas


• 6: Michael Jonas: Hammarskjöld at The Hague: Sweden and the Peace Conference of 1907


• 7: Marcus M. Payk: The Draughtsmen: International Lawyers and the Crafting of the Paris Peace Treaties, 1919-20


• 8: Julia Eichenberg: Legal Legwork: How Exiled Jurists Negotiated Recognition and Legitimacy in Wartime London 1939-45


• 9: Kim Christian Priemel: Changing Hats. Nuremberg's Visible College and the Politics of Internationalism, 1941-49


• 10: Katharina Rietzler: Fluid Boundaries in the Divisible College: The International Law Association and the Indus Waters Dispute in the 1950s


• 11: Morten Rasmussen: Agents of Constitutionalism: The Quest for a Constitutional Breakthrough in European Law, 1945-1964