Centers & Programs

International Law in Times of Empire Discussion
Spring 2004

Session 1 (January 27): Early European Empires: Grotius
Hugo Grotius, Mare Liberum (R Hakluyt trans, D. Armitage ed, 2004)
Hugo Grotius, De Jure Praedae (Carnegie translation)
Richard Tuck, The Rights of War and Peace, 1999, ch. 1 to 4

Session 2 (February 3): Early European Empires: The Americas
Anthony Pagden, Lords of All the World, 1995

Session 3 (February 10): Early European Empires: The East
C.H. Alexandrowicz, An Introduction to the History of the Law of Nations in the East Indies, 1967

Session 4 (February 17): International Order and Colonialism
Edward Keene, Beyond the Anarchical Society, 2002

Session 5 (February 24): International Law Doctrine and Colonialism
Antony Anghie, "Finding the Peripheries: Sovereignty and Colonialism in Nineteenth-Century International Law," 40(1) Harvard International Law Journal, 1-81 (1999)

Session 6 (March 2): Territorial and Maritime Legal Encounters
Lauren Benton, Law and Colonial Cultures, 2002

Session 7 (March 9): International Law and the Making of the US Constitution
David C. Hendrickson, Peace Pact: The Lost World of the American Founding, 2003

Session 8 (March 23): Maine (with Prof Karuna Mantena, Cornell)
Henry Sumner Maine, Ancient Law, 1861
Carl Landauer, From Status to Treaty: Henry Sumner Maine's 'International Law', (2002) 15 Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 219-54

Session 9 (March 30): Schmitt (with Prof Lauri Malksoo, Tartu)
Carl Schmitt, The Nomos of the Earth in the International Law of the Jus Publicum Europaeum, transl. 2003

Session 10 (April 6): International Lawyers and Colonialism
Martti Koskenniemi, The Gentle Civilizer of Nations, 2001

Session 11 (April 13): Universality Narratives
Hedley Bull and Adam Watson, The Expansion of International Society (1984)

Session 12 (April 20): Law in the Russian Empire
1- Eric Myles, '"Humanity", "Civilization" and the "International Community" in the Late Imperial Russian Mirror: Three Ideas "Topical for Our Days,' (2002) 4 Journal of the History of International Law, 310-334
2- Peter Holquist ,The Russian Empire as a "Civilized Nation": International Law as Principle and Practice in Imperial Russia, 1874-1878, Cornell University, Annenberg Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania, 2004
3- Jane Burbank, The Rights of Difference: Law and Citizenship in the Russian Empire, Paper presented at Seminar on "Empires: Thinking Colonial Studies Beyond Europe," School of American Research, Sante Fe, 2003
4- Dominic Lieven, Dilemmas of Empire: 1850-1918, Power Territory, Identity, (1999) 34:2 Journal of Contemporary History, 163-200

Session 13 (April 27): Indigenous Peoples in New Zealand Law and History
1. Jeremy Waldron, Indigeneity?: First Peoples and Last Occupancy, (2003) 1 New Zealand Journal of Public and International Law 56
2. Andrew Sharp, Blood, Custom, and Consent, (2002) 52 University of Toronto Law Journal 9
3. Benedict Kingsbury, Competing Conceptual Approaches to Indigenous Group Issues in New Zealand Law, (2002) 52 University of Toronto Law Journal 9
4. Te Maire Tau, Matauranga Maori as an Epistemology, in Andrew Sharp and Paul McHugh (eds), Histories, Power and Loss (2001), 61.

Session 14 (May 4): Future Directions

From left to right, going around the table: Lisa Ford (Columbia, History), Kirsty Gover (NYU Law), Jane Burbank (NYU, History), Nico Krisch (NYU Law), Charles Beitz (Princeton, Politics), Christina Burnett (Princeton, History), David Armitage (Harvard, History), Simon Chesterman (NYU Law), Mattias Kumm (NYU Law), Benedict Kingsbury (NYU Law).