New Issue: Journal of the History of International Law / Revue d'histoire du droit international

The latest issue of the Journal of the History of International Law / Revue d'histoire du droit international (Vol. 28, no. 1, 2026) is out. Contents include:

• Rémi Fuhrmann, Localising Civil Wars: International Law, the Spanish Civil War, and the Institutionalisation of ‘Non-Intervention’
• Eleni Ilia, On Creating a Space Power: The United States, International Law, and the Shaping of Outer Space in the 1950s and 1960s
• Julian Lubini, The Beginnings of International Nature Conservation Law with the Svalbard (Spitsbergen) Treaty of 1920: A Transnational Initiative of European Natural and Legal Scientists

New Issue: Journal of the History of International Law / Revue d'histoire du droit international

The latest issue of the Journal of the History of International Law / Revue d'histoire du droit international (Vol. 27, no. 4, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Alain Wijffels, Alberico Gentili’s ‘Silete theologi in munere alieno’: The Full Quote
• Fernando Pérez Godoy, Peace Treaties in the Confines of the Spanish Empire: The Spanish-Mapuche Parliaments during the 17th Century
• Martijn Vermeersch, Resisting the Ordinance of God: The Augustinian Just War Tradition in the Work of Balthazar de Ayala (1548–1584)

New Issue: Journal of the History of International Law / Revue d'histoire du droit international

The latest issue of the Journal of the History of International Law / Revue d'histoire du droit international (Vol. 27, no. 3, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Julia Klaus, ‘The Right of Existence of Peoples as Independent Nations’: Raphael Lemkin, the Tokyo Tribunal, and Aggression
• Rishabh Bajoria, Kashmir’s Erasure from International Law: David Lilienthal and the Forgotten Pre-History of the Indus Waters Treaty (1948–1951)
• Maria Adele Carrai, China Unbounded: Extraterritoriality, Nationality, and the Late Qing’s Engagement with International Law

New Issue: Journal of the History of International Law / Revue d'histoire du droit international

The latest issue of the Journal of the History of International Law / Revue d'histoire du droit international (Vol. 27, no. 2, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Ignacio de la Rasilla, Towards Comparative International Legal History?
• Pádraig McAuliffe, Theories of State Development at the Dawn of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
• Niccolò Lanzoni, The Enduring Influence of the Late Medieval Conception of Universal Monarchy on the Theories of Governance in the International Community

New Issue: Journal of the History of International Law / Revue d'histoire du droit international

The latest issue of the Journal of the History of International Law / Revue d'histoire du droit international (Vol. 27, no. 1, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: The Turn to Historiography in International Law
• Thomas Kleinlein & Jean d’Aspremont, The Turn to Historiography in International Law: Limitations and New Horizons
• Felix Lange, The ‘Narrative Turn’ and Its Limits
• Ryan Martínez Mitchell, The Narrative Fragmentation of International Legal History
• Tor Krever, Recovering the Radical Tradition in the International Legal History of Decolonisation
• Michele Tedeschini, Authorial Labour in the Postcolonial Historiography of International Law
• Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi, Futurism: Neglected Histories of International Law

New Issue: Journal of the History of International Law / Revue d'histoire du droit international

The latest issue of the Journal of the History of International Law / Revue d'histoire du droit international (Vol. 26, no. 4, 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Kent McNeil, The Papal Bulls Dividing the Americas between Spain and Portugal: A Reappraisal
• Page Wilson, Law Wars: Academia and the Manufacture of International Humanitarian Law
• Valentina Vadi, Taming the Leviathan? The Reason of State in International Law

New Issue: Journal of the History of International Law / Revue d'histoire du droit international

The latest issue of the Journal of the History of International Law / Revue d'histoire du droit international (Vol. 26, no. 3, 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Robert Schütze, British Utilitarianism after Bentham: Nineteenth-Century Foundations of International Law Part II
• Shiu Chung Chan, Unequal Treaty in Practice: A Story about Article 23 of the Treaty of Tientsin
• Paola Zichi, Gender, Human Rights Networks, and the State of Emergency During the Arab Revolt (1936–1939)

New Issue: Journal of the History of International Law / Revue d'histoire du droit international

The latest issue of the Journal of the History of International Law / Revue d'histoire du droit international (Vol. 26, no. 2, 2024) is out. Contents include:

• León Castellanos-Jankiewicz, A New History for Human Rights: Conflict of Laws as Adjacent Possibility
• Işıl Aral, International Lawyers as Hope Mongers: How Did We Come to Believe That Democracy Was Here to Stay?
• Benoît Saint-Cast, The Twilight of the Law of the Fairs: Inventing International Cooperation on Bankruptcies in Early Modern Europe (Lyon, 1660–1710)

New Issue: Journal of the History of International Law / Revue d'histoire du droit international

The latest issue of the Journal of the History of International Law / Revue d'histoire du droit international (Vol. 26, no. 1, 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Sze Hong Lam, The Gentle Civilizer of the Far East – A Re-Examination of the Encounter between ‘China’ and ‘International Law’
• Anna Hood, The Construction of Global Hierarchies through Disarmament Law
• Charlotte Kiechel, ‘A Jurisprudence for the Future’: Anticolonial Lawyering during the Vietnam War Years

New Issue: Journal of the History of International Law / Revue d'histoire du droit international

The latest issue of the Journal of the History of International Law / Revue d'histoire du droit international (Vol. 25, no. 4, 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Inge Van Hulle, The Blood Brotherhood and Colonial Treaties and Alliances: Between Myth and Reality
• Bogotá at 75
• Justina Uriburu & Francisco-José Quintana, Bogotá at 75: Palaces, Streets, and Classrooms
• Lucas Lixinski, Indigeneity at the 1948 Bogotá Conference
• Nicolás M. Perrone, Locating the 1948 Economic Agreement of Bogotá: The Rise and Fall of Latin America’s International Economic Law Project
• Francisco-José Quintana, The (Latin) American Dream? Human Rights and the Construction of Inter-American Regional Organisation (1945–1948)
• Justina Uriburu, Organizing Peace in the Americas: Collective Security versus International Adjudication
• Fabia Fernandes Carvalho, Regional Imaginations of Peace: The Work of the Rio Committee and the Antecedents of the Pact of Bogota (1942–1947)
• George Rodrigo Bandeira Galindo, Epilogue: Bogotá, Law, Time, and Politics

New Issue: Journal of the History of International Law / Revue d'histoire du droit international

The latest issue of the Journal of the History of International Law / Revue d'histoire du droit international (Vol. 25, no. 3, 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Raphael Schäfer & Maren Körsmeier, Spotlight Interview 2022: Annabel Brett, Use, War, and Commercial Society. Changing Paradigms of Human Relations with Animals in the Early Modern Law of Nature and of Nations (JHIL 1/2022)
• Jochen von Bernstorff & Max Mayer, The Historical School and German International Legal Thought in the 19th Century
• Despina-Georgia Konstantinakou, Past and Present? Greece in International Arbitration in the Twentieth Century
• Ralph Wilde, Tears of the Olive Trees: Mandatory Palestine, the UK, and Reparations for Colonialism in International Law
• Pablo del Hierro & Lucas Lixinski, Writing a Transnational (Global?) History of Extradition Law in the Short Twentieth Century: Beyond Western-Centric Approaches

New Issue: Journal of the History of International Law / Revue d'histoire du droit international

The latest issue of the Journal of the History of International Law / Revue d'histoire du droit international (Vol. 25, no. 2, 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Lys Kulamadayil, Petro-States’ Shaping of International Law
• Jacob Giltaij, Planning for the Aftermath. Longue Durée Histories for a New International Legal Order in Kelsen, Lauterpacht and De Visscher
• Neil Boister, A History of Double Criminality in Extradition
• James Hickling, The Alaskan Fur-Seal Crisis: Science, Capital, and Multilateralism in the Settlement of International Biodiversity Disputes

New Issue: Journal of the History of International Law / Revue d'histoire du droit international

The latest issue of the Journal of the History of International Law / Revue d'histoire du droit international (Vol. 25, no. 1, 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Marc de Wilde, Allying with Unbelievers: Hugo Grotius’s Letters to East-Indian Rulers
• Adam Strobeyko, The Person of the State: The Anthropomorphic Subject of the Law of Nations
• Christopher Szabla, Civilising Violence: International Law and Colonial War in the British Empire, 1850–1900
• Robert Schütze, German Idealism after Kant: Nineteenth-Century Foundations of International Law
• Book Reviews – Symposium on Symposium on Martti Koskenniemi, To the Uttermost Parts of the Earth (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021)
• Koen Stapelbroek, Theme: ‘Commerce, Capitalism and the Law of Nations’
• Jennifer Pitts, Theme: ‘The Struggle between Statehood and Civil Society’
• Wim Decock, Theme: ‘Theology and the Justification of Sovereignty and Property’

New Issue: Journal of the History of International Law / Revue d'histoire du droit international

The latest issue of the Journal of the History of International Law / Revue d'histoire du droit international (Vol. 24, no. 4, 2022) is out. Contents include:

• Raphael Schäfer & Maren Körsmeier, Spotlight Interview 2021: Gilad Ben-Nun, How Jewish Is International Law? (JHIL 2/2021)
• Alexander Batson, Acquisitive Prescription in Early Modern International Law
• Nicole Jenne, The Origins of Regional Ideas: International Law, External Legitimization and Latin America’s ‘legalismo’
• Mika Hayashi, Disarmament Debates around the 1899 Hague Peace Conference and the 1921–1922 Washington Conference: Community-Oriented Aspirations and Individual Security Concerns
• Damian Cueni & Matthieu Queloz, Theorizing the Normative Significance of Critical Histories for International Law

New Issue: Journal of the History of International Law / Revue d'histoire du droit international

The latest issue of the Journal of the History of International Law / Revue d'histoire du droit international (Vol. 24, no. 3, 2022) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: The United Nations War Crimes Commission (UNWCC), 1943-1948, and the Codification of International Criminal Law
• Sabina Ferhadbegović, Kerstin von Lingen, & Julia Eichenberg, The United Nations War Crimes Commission (UNWCC), 1943–1948, and the Codification of International Criminal Law: An Introduction to the Special Issue
• Kerstin von Lingen, Epistemic Communities of Exile Lawyers at the UNWCC
• Julia Eichenberg, Crossroads in London on the Road to Nuremberg: The London International Assembly, Exile Governments and War Crimes
• Valentyna Polunina, The Absent Player: The Soviet Union and the Genesis of the Allied War Crimes Trials Program, 1941–1943
• Sabina Ferhadbegović, The United Nations War Crimes Commission and the Prosecution of War Criminals in Yugoslavia
• Sara Weydner, A Lawyer in Exile: Johannes M. de Moor and the Circulation of Legal Knowledge in Wartime London
• Ann-Sophie Schoepfel, The Imperial Precipice: Jurists and Diplomats of the French Empire at the United Nations War Crimes Commission
• Narrelle Morris, Australian Representatives to the UNWCC, 1943–1948

New Issue: Journal of the History of International Law / Revue d'histoire du droit international

The latest issue of the Journal of the History of International Law / Revue d'histoire du droit international (Vol. 24, no. 2, 2022) is out. Contents include:

• Irini Papanicolopulu, The Historical Origins of the Duty to Save Life at Sea in International Law
• Fekade Abebe, Exclusion vs Cooperation in the Utilisation of Transboundary Watercourses: The Case for Decolonising the Nile Water Agreements
• So Yeon Kim, Making International Law Truly ‘International’? Reflecting on Colonial Approaches to the China-Vietnam Dispute in the South China Sea and the Tribute System
• Klaas Dykmann, Pan-Americanism as a Hemispheric Model for a Global Order? The Pan-American Peace Pact of 1914

New Issue: Journal of the History of International Law / Revue d'histoire du droit international

The latest issue of the Journal of the History of International Law / Revue d'histoire du droit international (Vol. 24, no. 1, 2022) is out. Contents include:

• Annabel Brett, Use, War, and Commercial Society. Changing Paradigms of Human Relations with Animals in the Early Modern Law of Nature and of Nations
• Tomasz Kamiński, The Legal Status of Historic Bays in the Light of the Works of the League of Nations Committee of Experts for the Progressive Codification of International Law
• Sarah Heathcote, Legal Models and Methods of Western Colonisation of the South Pacific
• Olivier Barsalou, The United States and Human Rights Marginalization at the International Court of Justice, 1945–1950

New Issue: Journal of the History of International Law / Revue d'histoire du droit international

The latest issue of the Journal of the History of International Law / Revue d'histoire du droit international (Vol. 23, no. 4, 2021) is out. Contents include:

• Raphael Schäfer & Maren Körsmeier, Spotlight Interview 2020: Maria Adele Carrai, The Politics of History in the Late Qing Era: William A. P. Martin and a History of International Law for China (JHIL 2–3/2020)
• Bart Wauters, Isidore of Seville on ius gentium: The View of a Theologian
• Misha Ariana Plagis & Lena Riemer, From Context to Content of Human Rights: The Drafting History of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights and the Enigma of Article 7
• Wouter De Rycke, Legislating Utopia: Louis Bara (1821–1857) and the Liberal-Scientific Restatement of International Law in the Nineteenth Century Peace Movement

New Issue: Journal of the History of International Law / Revue d'histoire du droit international

The latest issue of the Journal of the History of International Law / Revue d'histoire du droit international (Vol. 23, no. 3, 2021) is out. Contents include:

• Miloš Vec, A Luminous Trace. Commemorating the Frankfurt Lawyer and Historian of International Law Michael Stolleis (20 July 1941–18 March 2021)
• Giulio Bartolini, World War I and the Italian International Law Scholars
• Steven M. Harris, Manufacturing International Law: Pre-printed Treaties in the ‘Scramble for Africa’
• Daniel Ricardo Quiroga-Villamarín, Beyond Texts? Towards a Material Turn in the Theory and History of International Law

New Issue: Journal of the History of International Law / Revue d'histoire du droit international

The latest issue of the Journal of the History of International Law / Revue d'histoire du droit international (Vol. 23, no. 2, 2021) is out. Contents include:

• Spotlight-Interview with Mark Somos
• Raphael Schäfer & Maren Körsmeier, Spotlight-Interview with Mark Somos
• Articles
• Gilad Ben-Nun, How Jewish is International Law?
• Paulo Emílio Vauthier de Macedo & Brenda Maria Ramos Araújo, A Man against a War: Rui Barbosa and the Struggle against a Thought
• Guido Acquaviva, Russia as the State Continuing the Legal Personality of the USSR – An Inquiry into State Identity or Succession