Full Description
Volume X of The Cambridge History of International Law offers a comprehensive and critical discussion of the history of international law in the interwar period to date. Bringing together scholars across various disciplines, the volume aims to go beyond the well-established cliché of the failure of the League of Nations and discusses the huge impact this period had on the post-WWII international legal order. It focuses on the League of Nations as an important milestone to be studied, analysed, and understood in its own right. Using a global perspective, the volume sheds light on the different branches of international law in this dynamic period, during which the discipline underwent a qualitative leap.
Contents
Introduction; 1. International Law at the time of the League of Nations Carlo Focarelli; 2. The League of Nations and the Global Legal Order Leonard V. Smith; 3. The scholarship of international law at the time of the League of Nations Asier Garrido-Muñoz; 4. The League of Nations as an international organisation Philip Burton and Christian J. Tams; 5. The League of Nations and the relationship between international law and municipal law Philip Burton and Jean d'Aspremont; 6. Sovereignty, territory and jurisdiction Malgosia Fitzmaurice and Paul Gragl; 7. The law of the sea at the time of the League of Nations Yoshifumi Tanaka; 8. Colonies and mandates at the time of the League of Nations Giovanni Distefano and Aymeric Hêche; 9. The use of force in the Interbellum: a look at the debate on the meaning of 'war' in the Covenant of the League of Nations and Briand-Kellogg Pact Agatha Verdebout; 10. Law of armed conflict and neutrality Etienne Henry; 11. Preventive diplomacy, peacekeeping and peace-making at the time of the League of Nations Ivan Ingravallo and Pavle Kilibarda; 12. The law of State responsibility in the interwar years: a period of 'great advances' Paolo Palchetti; 13. 'The beginning of something great'? International criminal law in the interwar period Sévane Garibian; 14. Investment Tarcisio Gazzini; 15. Trade integration and the League of Nations Petros C. Mavroidis; 16. Minorities, refugees and human rights at the time of the League of Nations Momchil Milanov and León Castellanos-Jankiewicz; 17. A period of reckoning: private international law during the time of the League of Nations Roxana Banu; 18. Diplomatic law at the time of the League of Nations Giuseppe Puma; 19. Dispute settlement, particularly adjudication and arbitration Gleider Hernández and Momchil Milanov; 20. The League for nature: environmental law in the League of Nations Omer Aloni and Anna-Katharina Wöbse; 21. Soviet approaches to international law during the interwar period Lauri Mälksoo; 22. The Americas at the Time of the League of Nations Juan Pablo Scarfi.
