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History and Theory of International Law

The World Bank’s Lawyers: The Life of International Law as Institutional Practice

To Reform the World: International Organizations and the Making of Modern States

Hobbes and the Plague Doctors

Kelsen Lives

Political Theory and Jurisprudence in Gentili’s De Iure Belli

The Context of International Legal Arguments: “Positivist” International Law Scholar August von Bulmerincq (1822 – 1890) and His Concept of Politics

Two-Dimensional Democracy, National and International

Hugo Grotius’ Theory of Trans-Oceanic Trade Regulation: Revisiting Mare Liberum (1609)

Defensive Warfare, Prevention and Hegemony: The Justifications for the Franco-Spanish War of 1635

Georg Friedrich Von Martens (1756-1821) and the Origins of Modern International Law

The Rhetoric of Eunomia

The Idea of Non-Discriminating War and Japan

The International Legal Order

The Peace of Westphalia (1648) as a Secular Constitution

The Geography of Quasi-Sovereignty: Westlake, Maine, and the Legal Politics of Colonial Enclaves

Grotius, the Social Contract and Political Resistance A Study of the Unpublished Theses LVI

Postnational Constitutionalism and the Problem of Translation

Who is the “Sovereign” in Sovereign Debt? Reinterpreting an Open Moment in the Early 20th Century

Federalism as Westphalian Liberalism

The Johor-VOC Alliance and the Twelve Years’ Truce: Factionalism, Intrigue and International Diplomacy

Puzzles and Solutions: Appreciating Carl Schmitt’s Work on International Law as Answers to the Dilemmas of his Weimar Political Theory

Is Modern Liberty Ancient? Roman Remedies and Natural Rights in Hugo Grotius’ Early Works on Natural Law

Leibniz’s Theory of Relative Sovereignty and International Legal Personality: Justice and Stability or the Last Great Defence of the Holy Roman Empire

The Emergence of Global Administrative Law and Transnational Regulation

Universalism and Particularism as Paradigms of International Law

The Past as Law or History? The Relevance of Imperialism for Modern International Law

The Nature of the Nazi State and the Question of International Criminal Responsibility of Corporate Officials at Nuremberg: Franz Neumann’s Behemoth at the Industrial Trials