Ilternational Law in Times of Empire Discussion Group
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
