Empire and Legal Thought: Ideas and Institutions from Antiquity to Modernity
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Together, the chapters in Empire and Legal Thought make the case for seeing the history of international legal thought and empires against the background of broad geopolitical, diplomatic, administrative, intellectual, religious, and commercial changes over thousands of years. Empire and Legal Thought: Ideas and Institutions from Antiquity to Modernity Copyright Contents Preface Notes on Contributors 1 Empire and Legal Thought: An Introduction 2 The First 'Lawyers'? Judicial Offices, Administration and Legal Pluralism in Ancient Egypt, ca. 2500-1800 BCE 3 After the Empire: Judicial Review and Athenian Interstate Relations in the Age of Demosthenes, 354-22 BCE 4 Public Law and Republican Empire in Rome, 200-27 BCE 5 Compromise and Coercion: Imperial Motives behind Justinianic Legislation in Sixth-Century Constantinople 6 Muslims and Non-Orthodox Christians in Byzantine Law until ca. 1100 7 Roman Public Law in the Twelfth Century: Politics, Jurisprudence, and Reverence for Antiquity 8 Ius gentium: The Metamorphoses of a Legal Concept (Ancient Rome to Early Modern Europe) 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) 10 Ideas of Empire in the Thought of the Late Medieval Roman Law Jurists 11 Medieval Pisa as a Colonial Laboratory in the Historiographical Imagination of the Early Twentieth Century 12 Open and Closed Seas: The Grotius-Selden Dialogue at the Heart of Liberal Imperialism 13 Littoral Leviathan: Histories of Oceans, Laws, and Empires 14 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 15 Prerogative and Office in Pre-Revolutionary New York: Feudal Legalism, Land Patenting, and Sir William Johnson, Indian Superintendent (1756-1774) 16 The Pure Reason of Lex Scripta: Jurisprudential Philology and the Domain of Instituted Laws during Early British Colonial Rule in India (1770s-1820s) 17 James Bryce's Home Rule Constitutionalism and Victorian Historiography 18 Crown, Conquest, Concession, and Corporation: British Legal Ideas and Institutions in Matabeleland and Southern Rhodesia, 1889-1919 19 British War Office Manuals and International Law, 1899-1907 20 Reich, Imperium, Empire: Carl Schmitt and the 'Overcoming of the Concept of the State' General Index
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