A Global History Of Ideas In The Language Of Law

Cover
Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction
Part One Global History as a Global History of Ideas
Chapter One What Sort of Ideas
Chapter Two
Global Intellectual Fields and Global Legal Spaces –
What Constitutes an Intellectual Field and a Legal Space?
Chapter Three
The History of Ideas and Knowledge as Entangled History
Part Two
Three Key Functions of Law and its Language
in a Global History of Ideas
Chapter One
First and Foremost: The Abstraction and Transformation
Functions of Law and its Language
Chapter Two
The Institutionalization Functions of Law: The Language of Law
as the Language of Order and Conflict Resolution
Chapter Three
Law as a Sphere of Resonance
Part Three
Legal Concepts and Legal Regimes in a Global
History of Ideas
Chapter One
Worldwide Enlightenment and Universal Natural Law
Chapter Two
The Language of International Law as a Language of Politics
Chapter Three
The Language of Human Rights as a Language of Politics
Chapter Four
The Language of the Rule of Law as an Integral Part
of the Language of the Political History of Ideas
Part Four
The Role of Key Legal Concepts
in a Global History of Ideas
Chapter One
State authority
Chapter Two
Sovereignty
Chapter Three
Constitution
Chapter Four
Contract
Concluding Observations and Remarks
Bibliography
About the Author
Backmatter
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