Empire and legal thought : ideas and institutions from antiquity to modernity / edited by Edward Cavanagh.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cavanagh, Edward, 1986- editor.

E.J. Brill (Firm)

Series:

Legal history library ; v. 41.

Legal history library. Studies in the history of international law ; v. 16.

Legal history library ; volume 41

Studies in the history of International law ; volume 16

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law--History.

Law.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill Nijhoff, 2020.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Empire and Legal Thought : An Introduction / Edward Cavanagh

The First 'Lawyers'? : Judicial Offices, Administration and Legal Pluralism

in Ancient Egypt, ca. 2500-1800 BCE 36 / Alexandre A. Loktionov

After the Empire : Judicial Review and Athenian Interstate Relations in the Age of Demosthenes, 354-22 BCE 69 / Alberto Esu

Public Law and Republican Empire in Rome, 200-27 BCE 105 / Clifford Ando

Compromise and Coercion : Imperial Motives Behind Justinianic

Legislation in Sixth-century Constantinople / Halcyon Weber

Muslims and Non-Orthodox Christians in Byzantine Law until ca. 1100 /

Zachary Chitwood

Roman Public Law in the Twelfth Century : Politics, Jurisprudence, and

Reverence for Antiquity / Emanuele Conte

Ius gentium : The Metamorphoses of a Legal Concept (Ancient Rome to

Early Modern Europe) / Dante Fedele

'Exiit edictum a Caesare Augusto ut describeretur universus orbis' (Luke

:1-2): Debating Imperial Authority in Late Medieval Legal and Political

Thought (12th-14th Centuries) / Tiziana Faitini

Ideas of Empire in the Thought of the Late Medieval Roman Law Jurists /

Joseph Canning

Medieval Pisa as a Colonial Laboratory in the Historiographical Imagination of the Early Twentieth Century / Lorenzo Veracini

Open and Closed Seas : The Grotius-Selden Dialogue at the Heart of

Liberal Imperialism / Mark Somos

Littoral Leviathan : Histories of Oceans, Laws, and Empires / Matthew Crow

From 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

Prerogative and Office in Pre-revolutionary New York : Land, Patents, and

Legislation during the Life of Sir William Johnson (1715-1774) / P.G. McHugh

The Pure Reason of Lex Scripta : Jurisprudential Philology and the

Domain of Instituted Laws during Early British Colonial Rule in India

(1770s-1820s) / Naveen Kanalu

James Bryce's Home Rule Constitutionalism and Victorian Historiography /

Jordan Rudinsky

Crown, Conquest, Concession, and Corporation : British Legal Ideas and

Institutions in Matabeleland and Southern Rhodesia, 1889-1919 / Edward Cavanagh

British War Office Manuals and International Law, 1899-1907 / Lia Brazil

Reich, Imperium, Empire : Carl Schmitt and the 'Overcoming of the

Concept of the State' / Joshua Smeltzer.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Print version: Empire and legal thought : ideas and institutions from antiquity to modernity.

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9004431241

9789004431249

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99989493381

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