文档介绍：PEACE TREATIES AND INTERNATIONAL
LAW IN EUROPEAN HISTORY
In the formation of the modern law of nations, peace treaties played a
pivotal role. Many basic principles and rules that governed and still govern
the relations between states were introduced and elaborated in the great
peace treaties from the Renaissance onwards. Nevertheless, until recently
few scholars have studied these primary sources of the law of nations from
a juridical perspective. In this edited collection, specialists from all over
Europe, including legal and diplomatic historians, international lawyers
and an International Relations theorist, analyse peace treaty practice from
the late fifteenth century to the Peace of Versailles of 1919. Important
emphasis is given to the doctrinal debate about peace treaties and the
influence of older, Roman and medieval concepts on modern practices.
This book goes back further in time beyond the epochal Peace Treaties of
Westphalia of 1648, and this broader perspective allows for a reassessment
of the role of the sovereign state in the modern international legal order.
randall lesaffer is Professor of Legal History at Tilburg University.
He also teaches Cultural History at the University of Leuven Law Faculty,
and International Law at the Royal Higher Defence Academy of the Belgian
Army. He has published on the history of international law and interna-
tional relations of the early modern era and the twentieth century, as well
as more specifically on treaty law and the laws of war.
PEACE TREATIES AND
INTERNATIONAL LAW IN
EUROPEAN HISTORY
From the Late Middle Ages to World War One
Edited by
RANDALL LESAFFER
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