Empire and Legal Thought: Ideas and Institutions from Antiquity to Modernity

Empire and Legal Thought: Ideas and Institutions from Antiquity to Modernity
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Contents
Preface
Notes on Contributors
1 Empire and Legal Thought: An Introduction
2 The First 'Lawyers'? Judicial Offices, Administration and Legal Pluralism in Ancient Egypt, ca. 2500-1800 BCE
3 After the Empire: Judicial Review and Athenian Interstate Relations in the Age of Demosthenes, 354-22 BCE
4 Public Law and Republican Empire in Rome, 200-27 BCE
5 Compromise and Coercion: Imperial Motives behind Justinianic Legislation in Sixth-Century Constantinople
6 Muslims and Non-Orthodox Christians in Byzantine Law until ca. 1100
7 Roman Public Law in the Twelfth Century: Politics, Jurisprudence, and Reverence for Antiquity
8 Ius gentium: The Metamorphoses of a Legal Concept (Ancient Rome to Early Modern Europe)
9 'Exiit edictum a Caesare Augusto ut describeretur universus orbis' (Luke 2:1-2): Debating Imperial Authority in Late Medieval Legal and Political Thought (12th-14th Centuries)
10 Ideas of Empire in the Thought of the Late Medieval Roman Law Jurists
11 Medieval Pisa as a Colonial Laboratory in the Historiographical Imagination of the Early Twentieth Century
12 Open and Closed Seas: The Grotius-Selden Dialogue at the Heart of Liberal Imperialism
13 Littoral Leviathan: Histories of Oceans, Laws, and Empires
14 From Procedural Law to the 'Rights of Humanity': Habeas Corpus, Ex parte Somerset (1771-72), and the Movement toward Collective Representation in Early British Antislavery Cases
15 Prerogative and Office in Pre-Revolutionary New York: Feudal Legalism, Land Patenting, and Sir William Johnson, Indian Superintendent (1756-1774)
16 The Pure Reason of Lex Scripta: Jurisprudential Philology and the Domain of Instituted Laws during Early British Colonial Rule in India (1770s-1820s)
17 James Bryce's Home Rule Constitutionalism and Victorian Historiography
18 Crown, Conquest, Concession, and Corporation: British Legal Ideas and Institutions in Matabeleland and Southern Rhodesia, 1889-1919
19 British War Office Manuals and International Law, 1899-1907
20 Reich, Imperium, Empire: Carl Schmitt and the 'Overcoming of the Concept of the State'
General Index