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LegalHistory Libraryisa peer-reviewedbook serieson thehistory

of law. The seriesincludesthe subseries StudiesintheHistoryof International Law and Studiesin theHistory of PrivateLaw. Both

subserieshave independenteditorial teams.

Studiesin theHistory of International Law publishesbooks on

the historyof international law in the broadestpossible

sense, withoutany restrictionsin termsof geographyor

chronology. The seriesincludes studieson the law governing

relationsbetween independentbodypolitics, fromwhatever

denomination or civilization. Itdoes notreduce the eld to

the studyof the antecedents, the emergence and evolution of

international law asit wasformed fromthe Late Middle Ages

onwardsin Western Europe. Studiesin theHistory of International

Law isedited byRandallLesaer.More informationcanbe found

at brill.nl/shil.

StudiesintheHistoryof PrivateLaw isa book series on the history

of private law in the broadestsense. Itfocuses on the historyofthe two major familiesof private law in the world, European and

Anglo-American private law. The history of civil procedure is

expresslyincluded in the series. There is no restriction in terms

of chronologyor geographyaslong as the particular object

studied ndsits origin in these two families. Studiesinthe

Historyof PrivateLaw isedited by Remco van Rhee, Dirk Heirbaut

and Matthew C. Mirow. More information can be found at

brill.nl/shpl.

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Theologians and

Contract Law

The Moral Transformation of the

Ius Commune (ca. 1500-1650)

Wim Decock, Max-Planck-InstituteforLegal History,Frankfurt

August2012

ISBN 9789004232846

Hardback(approx. 784pp.)

Listprice EUR 179.00/ US$249.00

Legal HistoryLibrary, 9/ Studiesin the

Historyof Private Law, 4

The Roman legal tradition isthe ancestor

of modern contractlaw but there isno

agreementas to how and when a general

law of contractemerged. WimDecocks

thesisis thatan importantstep in this

evolution wastaken bytheologiansin the

sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. They

transformed the Roman legal tradition

(iuscommune) by insisting on the moral

foundationsof contractlaw. Theologians

emphasized thatthe enforceabilityof

contractsis based on voluntaryconsent

and thata contractshould notenrich

one partyatanothers expense. While

their main concern wasthe salvation of

souls, theologiansplayed a keyrole in the

developmentof a systematic contractlaw

in which the founding principleswere

freedomand fairness.

Tracing the Earliest

Recorded Concepts of

International Law

The Ancient Near East (2500-330

BCE)

Amnon Altman, Bar-IlanUniversity

June 2012

ISBN 9789004 222526

Hardback(approx. 304pp.)



Historyof International Law, 4

Thisbook oersa unique surveyof

legal practicesand ideasrelating to

international relationsin the AncientNear

Eastbetween 2500and 330BC. Rather

than entering into the debate on the

continuousdevelopmentof international

law in Antiquity, the book disclosesa

vastamount of textual material fromthe

AncientNear Eastwhich shedsa lighton

the legal regulation and organization of

international relationsin dierentepochs

of pre-classical Antiquity. The book is

a treasure grove of information for the

historian of international law who wantsto

acquainthimself with the remotesthistory

of international law, while itwill also serve

the general historian of the AncientNear

Eastwho wantsto acquainthimself with

the international law of the period.

From Industrial to

Legal Standardization,

1871-1914

Transnational Insurance Law

and the Great San FranciscoEarthquake

Tilmann J. Rder, Max Planck Institutefor ComparativePublicLaw andInternational

Law,Heidelberg

November 2011

ISBN 97890 04212374

Hardback(xviii, 350pp.)

List price EUR 99.00/US$ 136.00



Atthe end of the 19th century,

internationalisation and standardisation

fundamentallychanged businesslaw. More

and more industriessuch asinsurance,

transport, wholesale and nance used

standard contractsand clausesfor

international transactions. An impressive

example of thisdevelopmentwas the

reaction of the insurance industryto

the earthquake and inagration of San

Francisco in 1906. Atonce, a global

discourse on the economic, technical and

legal consequencesarose; in the meantime,

a small group of powerful reinsurance

managersdeveloped a strictexclusionary

clause intended for worldwide application.

Fire insurersin manycountries adopted

thisearthquake clause, while others

refused it. Germany, California and Italy

- where the earthquake of Messina in

1908led to a legal turn - are paradigmatic

examplesof these reactions. Beyond this

case study, the author discussesthe novel

phenomenon of international standard

contractsand clausesfrom a theoretical

perspective.

Passion and Ambivalence

Colonialism, Nationalism, andInternational Law

Nathaniel Berman, BrownUniversity

December 2011

ISBN 9789004210240

Hardback (xiv, 460pp.) Listprice EUR 129.00/ US$177.00



Ethnic, nationalist, and religious

conictsand debatesaboutinternational

intervention have been central global

preoccupationsof the pasthundred years.

Such debates, thisvolume argues, were rst

framed in their modern formduring the

interwar period, when a Modernistbreak

(akin to that in literature, philosophy,

and the arts) transformed the waysuch

conictswere viewed. Internationalists

began to castidentity-based claims

whether those of anti-colonialistsor

European separatists notonlyas mortal

dangersto international order butas

indispensable to itsrevitalization. Drawing

on cultural studies, postcolonial theory,

and psychoanalysis with case studies

ranging from1930s Ethiopia to 1990s

Jerusalem this volume looksatboth

the originsand legacyof these debates,

oering a radical reinterpretation of

modern internationalism.

Theory and Politics of the

Law of Nations

Political Bias in International

Law Discourse of SevenGerman Court Councilors in the

Seventeenth and Eighteenth

Centuries

Tetsuya Toyoda, AkitaInternationalUniversity

September 2011

ISBN 97890 04206632

Hardback(xiv, 220pp.)

Listprice EUR 99.00/US$ 136.00



Emergence of the modern science of

international law in the seventeenth

and eighteenth centuriesis usually

attributed to Hugo Grotius(1583-1645)

and other founders of international law.

Based on the belief that all seventeenth

and eighteenth-centurywriters of

international law had their own particular

political contextin mind when writing

aboutthe law of nations, thisbook

shedslight on some worldlyaspectof the

earlywriters of the law of nations(i.e.,

the former name for international law).

Studied here are the writingsof seven

German courtcouncilors, namely, Samuel

Rachel (Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp),

Gottfried WilhelmLeibniz (Hannover),

AdamFriedrich Glafey(Saxony), Johann

AdamIckstatt(Wrzburg-Bamberg),

Samuel von Cocceji (Prussia), Johann Jacob

Moser (Wrtemberg and Hessen-Homburg)

and Emer de Vattel (Saxony).

Specic Performance

in German, French

and Dutch Law in the

Nineteenth Century

Remedies in an Age of

Fundamental Rights andIndustrialisation

Janwillem Oosterhuis, MaastrichtUniversity

April 2011

ISBN 97890 04196056

Hardback(xxi, 635pp.)




The currentFrench, German and Dutch

Law of Contracteach oer a remedyof

specic performance to creditorssuering

frombreach of contract. Thisbook

analysesthe alterationsto thisremedy

during the nineteenth centuryon the

substantive, procedural and enforcement

levels. Fascinatingly, there is a link

between changesto the remedy and the

developmentof earlyhuman rightsand the

massindustrialisation of society. The latter

had the eectof actually converging the

national remediesof specic performance

in the examined systems: damagesand rescission became more accessible

asremedies atthe costof specic

performance. The book demonstrates

the interdependencybetween law and

societyand providesvital background

information to the harmonisation of a

controversial conceptin the European Law

of Obligations.

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