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This study of the origins of international law combines techniques of intellectual history and historiography to investigate the earliest developments of the law of nations. The book examines the sources, processes and doctrines of international legal obligation in antiquity to re-evaluate the critical attributes of international law. David J. Bederman focuses on three essential areas in which law influenced ancient state relations - diplomacy, treaty-making and warfare - in a detailed analysis of international relations in the Near East (2800–700 BCE), the Greek city-states (500–338 BCE) and Rome (358–168 BCE). Containing topical literature and archaeological evidence, this 2001 study does not merely catalogue instances of recognition by ancient states of these seminal features of international law: it accounts for recurrent patterns of thinking and practice. This comprehensive analysis of international law and state relations in ancient times provides a fascinating study for lawyers and academics, ancient historians and classicists alike.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ...iroXis kktos, to officiate as a special court of arbitration; as--to give here only one or two instances--in the treaty between Hierapytna and Priansos;3 between Athens and the Boeotian league; between Naxos and Arcesine (in the island of Amorgos).6 In order to supplement and to illustrate further the Examples of foregoing considerations, it will be of advantage to'law-treat, esmention concisely a few of the treaties (in addition to those already set forth) which were entered into between two or more communities, not only for the purpose of regulating the jurisdiction and judicial machinery with regard to their subjects' disputes arising out of com Between Sparta and Argos. Between Athens and Selymbria, mercial contracts in particular, but also with a view to providing such measures and procedure as would facilitate the solution of conflicts of law consequent on their relationships in general. A convention of this nature might perhaps be conveniently designated a 'law treaty, ' by analogy with the German term Rechtsvertrag as used, for example, by a recent German writer. The Rechtsvertrag is defined by him much in the same way as has been suggested in the present exposition, thus: "Ein Vertrag, durch den zwei oder mehr Gemeinwesen das Verfahren in privatrechtlichen Streitigkeiten ihrer AngehOrigen ordnen."1 In the second of the two treaties between Lacedaemon and Argos which were concluded in 418 B.C., Thucydides relates that provision was made for the settlement of international differences by arbitration, in accordance with the ancestral customs of the parties,2 and that for this purpose an appeal should be made to some State considered by them to be impartial; further, that so far as individual subjects of the signatories were...

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The Making of Modern Law: Foreign, Comparative and International Law, 1600-1926, brings together foreign, comparative, and international titles in a single resource. Its International Law component features works of some of the great legal theorists, including Gentili, Grotius, Selden, Zouche, Pufendorf, Bijnkershoek, Wolff, Vattel, Martens, Mackintosh, Wheaton, among others. The materials in this archive are drawn from three world-class American law libraries: the Yale Law Library, the George Washington University Law Library, and the Columbia Law Library.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.+++++++++++++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: +++++++++++++++Yale Law LibraryLP3Y007310219110101The Making of Modern Law: Foreign, Comparative, and International Law, 1600-1926Introductory note by Jonn Macdonnell. Index of writier, texts, etc., cited ...: v. 2, p. [412]-421.London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 19112 v. 23 cmUnited Kingdom