Specialists from every European country analyze peace treaty practice from the late fifteenth century to the 1919 Peace of Versailles in this collection. Emphasizing the doctrinal debate about peace treaties and the influence of older, Roman and medieval, concepts on modern practices, the book recalls the reader to before the epochal Peace Treaties of Westphalia of 1648. Its broader perspective allows for a reassessment of the role of the sovereign state in the modern international legal order.
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In this edited collection, specialists from all over Europe analyse peace treaty practice from the late fifteenth century to the Peace of Versailles of 1919. An important place is given to the doctrinal debate about peace treaties and the influence of older, Roman and medieval, concepts on modern practices. This book goes back further in time beyond the epo chal Peace Treaties of Westphalia of 1648, and this broader perspective allows for a reassessment of the role of the sovereign state in the modern international legal order.
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Randall Lesaffer is Professor of Legal History, Tilburg University.
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Since the 1960s and more particularly since the end of the Cold War, interest in the history of international law has greatly increased among international lawyers and legal historians alike. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ius foederis, conventionibus principum, peace treaty practice, learned ius commune, ancient international law, written ratification, public legal order, appetitus societatis, contracting monarchs, social studies authors, mixtum imperium, digna vox, amnesty clauses, inter principes, respublica christiana, ius gentium, supreme offence, natural law thinking, ins gentium, preliminary peace treaty, treaty partners, uti possidetis, past phenomena, public international law, bonne foy Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Ottoman Empire, Karl-Heinz Ziegler, Great Britain, League of Nations, Versailles Treaty, Sublime Porte, New York, Regelhafte Vertragsauslegung, Randall Lesaffer, Holy Roman Empire, Heinhard Steiger, Heinz Duchhardt, Thirty Years War, Francisco de Vitoria, Hugo Grotius, German Empire, Lassa Oppenheim, Vienna Congress, Classical Review, Christian Baldus, Peace of Prague, Thomas Becket, United States, King Charles, Latin West New!
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Since the 1960s and more particularly since the end of the Cold War, interest in the history of international law has greatly increased among international lawyers and legal historians alike. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ius foederis, conventionibus principum, peace treaty practice, learned ius commune, ancient international law, written ratification, public legal order, appetitus societatis, contracting monarchs, social studies authors, mixtum imperium, digna vox, amnesty clauses, inter principes, respublica christiana, ius gentium, supreme offence, natural law thinking, ins gentium, preliminary peace treaty, treaty partners, uti possidetis, past phenomena, public international law, bonne foy Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Ottoman Empire, Karl-Heinz Ziegler, Great Britain, League of Nations, Versailles Treaty, Sublime Porte, New York, Regelhafte Vertragsauslegung, Randall Lesaffer, Holy Roman Empire, Heinhard Steiger, Heinz Duchhardt, Thirty Years War, Francisco de Vitoria, Hugo Grotius, German Empire, Lassa Oppenheim, Vienna Congress, Classical Review, Christian Baldus, Peace of Prague, Thomas Becket, United States, King Charles, Latin West New!
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- International Law (International Library of Essays in Law and Legal Theory) by Martii Koskenniemi on 4 pages
- Thomas Becket (Reputations) by Anne Duggan on 4 pages
- Thirty Years War Pb (European History in Perspective S.) by Ronald G Asch on page 320, page 322, and page 323
- History and Memory in Ancient Greece (Mcgill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas) by Gordon S. Shrimpton on page 142, page 143, and page 144
- International Law in Historical Perspective:Vol. XII:Index (International Law in Historical Perspective, 12) by Wybo Heere on page 1, page 28, and page 35
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