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Scope, scale and humility in the history of international law
Lesaffer,Randall
Lesaffer,Randall
Abstract
By purpose and design The Cambridge History of International Law is situated at the forefront of the drive towards more global perspectives on the history of international law. This chapter accounts for the foundational choices and general architecture of the series. It does so by, first, surveying the broad outline of the evolution of the historiography of international law as an academic discipline since its first emergence in the latter half of the nineteenth century in terms of gradually overcoming the many self-imposed epistemological and mental constraints of the traditional state-centric and Eurocentric historiography. Second, the chapter assesses current methodological debates among historians of international law hailing from different disciplines – primarily law and history – within the broader contexts of general legal-history debates. The third section of the chapter indicates how the architecture of the series is purported to advance the agenda of the globalisation of the field, through a focus on the diverse histories of international law in various regions of the world.
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2024-11-21
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Cambridge University Press
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history of international law, historiography, international law, globalisation, methodology, legal history, global history
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Lesaffer, R 2024, Scope, scale and humility in the history of international law. in R Lesaffer & A Peters (eds), The Cambridge history of international law : The historiography of international aw. vol. 1, The Cambridge history of international law, vol. 1, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 1-46. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108767651.002