Full Description
Questions of legal extraterritoriality figure prominently in scholarship on legal pluralism, transnational legal studies, international investment law, international human rights law, state responsibility under international law, and a large number of other areas. Yet many accounts of extraterritoriality make little effort to grapple with its thorny conceptual history, shifting theoretical valence, and complex political roots and ramifications.
This book brings together thirteen scholars of law, history, and politics in order to reconsider the history, theory, and contemporary relevance of legal extraterritoriality. Situating questions of extraterritoriality in a set of broader investigations into state-building, imperialist rivalry, capitalist expansion, and human rights protection, it tracks the multiple meanings and functions of a distinct and far-reaching mode of legal authority. The fundamental aim of the volume is to examine the different geographical contexts in which extraterritorial regimes have developed, the political and economic pressures in response to which such regimes have grown, the highly uneven distributions of extraterritorial privilege that have resulted from these processes, and the complex theoretical quandaries to which this type of privilege has given rise.
The book will be of considerable interest to scholars in law, history, political science, socio-legal studies, international relations, and legal geography.
Contents
Introduction
Daniel S. Margolies, Umut Özsu, Maïa Pal, Ntina Tzouvala
Part I
What Is Extraterritoriality?
1. Ways of Doing Extraterritoriality in Scholarship
John D. Haskell
2. In the Middle of Nowhere: The Futile Quest to Distinguish Territoriality from Extraterritoriality
Péter D. Szigeti
3. Moving Beyond the E-word in the Anthropocene
Sara L. Seck
Part II
Constituting and Contesting Extraterritoriality
4. Early Modern Extraterritoriality, Diplomacy, and the Transition to Capitalism
Maïa Pal
5. 'Uneven Empires': Extraterritoriality and the Early Trading Companies
Kate Miles
6. Protégé Problems: Qing Officials, Extraterritoriality, and Global Integration in Nineteenth-Century China
Richard S. Horowitz
7. Drinking Water by the Sea: Real and Unreal Property in the Mixed Courts of Egypt
Mai Taha
8. "And the laws are rude, ... crude and uncertain": Extraterritoriality and the Emergence of Territorialised Statehood in Siam
Ntina Tzouvala
9. Imperial Reorderings in US Zones and Regulatory Regimes, 1934-50
Daniel S. Margolies
Part III
Extraterritoriality in the Contemporary World-System
10. The Interplay between Extraterritoriality, Sovereignty, and the Foundations of International Law
Austen L. Parrish
11. Extraterritoriality as an Analytic Lens: Examining the Global Governance of Transnational Bribery and Corruption
Ellen Gutterman
12. From Extraterritorial Jurisdiction to Sovereignty: The Annexation of Palestine
Alice M. Panepinto
13. Extraterritoriality Reconsidered: Functional Boundaries as Repositories of Jurisdiction
Ezgi Yildiz
