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Book SynopsisEmphatic of the importance of legal thought to the rise and fall of empires, this book highlights the centrality of empires to the development of legal thought. Comprehension of the development of legal thought over time is necessary for any historical, philosophical, practical, or theoretical enquiry into the subject today, it is argued here. When seen against the background of broad geopolitical, diplomatic, administrative, intellectual, religious, and commercial changes, law begins to appear very resilient. It withstands the rise and fall of empires. It provides the framework for the establishment of new orders in the place of the old. Today what analogies, principles, and authorities of law have survived these changes continue to inform much of the international legal tradition. Contributors are: Clifford Ando, Lia Brazil, Joseph Canning, Edward Cavanagh, Zachary Chitwood, Emanuele Conte, Matthew Crow, Alberto Esu, Tiziana Faitini, Dante Fedele, Naveen Kanalu, Alexandre A. Loktionov, P. G. McHugh, Jordan Rudinsky, Mark Somos, Joshua Smeltzer, Lorenzo Veracini, Halcyon Weber, and Sarah Winter.
Table of Contents Preface Notes on Contributors 1Empire and Legal Thought: An Introduction Edward Cavanagh 2The First ‘Lawyers’? Judicial Offices, Administration and Legal Pluralism in Ancient Egypt, ca. 2500–1800BCE Alexandre A. Loktionov 3After the Empire: Judicial Review and Athenian Interstate Relations in the Age of Demosthenes, 354–22BCE Alberto Esu 4Public Law and Republican Empire in Rome, 200–27BCE Clifford Ando 5Compromise and Coercion: Imperial Motives Behind Justinianic Legislation in Sixth-century Constantinople Halcyon Weber 6Muslims and Non-orthodox Christians in Byzantine Law until ca. 1100 Zachary Chitwood 7Roman Public Law in the Twelfth Century: Politics, Jurisprudence, and Reverence for Antiquity Emanuele Conte 8Ius gentium: The Metamorphoses of a Legal Concept (Ancient Rome to Early Modern Europe) Dante Fedele 9‘Exiit edictum a Caesare Augusto ut describeretur universus orbis’ (Luke 2:1–2): Debating Imperial Authority in Late Medieval Legal and Political Thought (12th–14th Centuries) Tiziana Faitini 10Ideas of Empire in the Thought of the Late Medieval Roman Law Jurists Joseph Canning 11Medieval Pisa as a Colonial Laboratory in the Historiographical Imagination of the Early Twentieth Century Lorenzo Veracini 12Open and Closed Seas: The Grotius-Selden Dialogue at the Heart of Liberal Imperialism Mark Somos 13Littoral Leviathan: Histories of Oceans, Laws, and Empires Matthew Crow 14From Procedural Law to the ‘Rights of Humanity’: Habeas corpus,Ex parte Somerset (1771–72), and the Movement toward Collective Representation in Early British Antislavery Cases Sarah Winter 15Prerogative and Office in Pre-revolutionary New York: Feudal Legalism, Land Patenting, and Sir William Johnson, Indian Superintendent (1756-1774) P.G. McHugh 16The Pure Reason of Lex Scripta: Jurisprudential Philology and the Domain of Instituted Laws during Early British Colonial Rule in India (1770s–1820s) Naveen Kanalu 17James Bryce’s Home Rule Constitutionalism and Victorian Historiography Jordan Rudinsky 18Crown, Conquest, Concession, and Corporation: British Legal Ideas and Institutions in Matabeleland and Southern Rhodesia, 1889–1919 Edward Cavanagh 19British War Office Manuals and International Law, 1899–1907 Lia Brazil 20Reich, Imperium, Empire: Carl Schmitt and the ‘Overcoming of the Concept of the State’ Joshua Smeltzer Index
