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The Cambridge History of International Law

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The Cambridge History of International Law

The Cambridge History of International Law

Volume 10: International Law at the Time of the League of Nations (1920–1945)
Randall Lesaffer, KU Leuven and Tilburg University
Robert Kolb, Université de Genève
Momchil Milanov, International Court of Justice
July 2025
10. International Law at the Time of the League of Nations (1920–1945)
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    Volume X of The Cambridge History of International Law offers a comprehensive and critical discussion of the history of international law in the interwar period to date. Bringing together scholars across various disciplines, the volume aims to go beyond the well-established cliché of the failure of the League of Nations and discusses the huge impact this period had on the post-WWII international legal order. It focuses on the League of Nations as an important milestone to be studied, analysed, and understood in its own right. Using a global perspective, the volume sheds light on the different branches of international law in this dynamic period, during which the discipline underwent a qualitative leap.

    • Offers a broad survey of the history of international law during the short but extremely intense interwar period
    • Brings together various methodological approaches from different branches in the history of international law
    • Focuses on the League of Nations as an important experiment that should be studied, analysed, and understood in its own right

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    July 2025
    Hardback
    9781108499231
    830 pages
    235 × 163 × 44 mm
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    10 maps
    Not yet published - available from July 2025

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    Contents

    Table of Contents

    • Introduction
    • 1. International Law at the time of the League of Nations Carlo Focarelli
    • 2. The League of Nations and the Global Legal Order Leonard V. Smith
    • 3. The scholarship of international law at the time of the League of Nations Asier Garrido-Muñoz
    • 4. The League of Nations as an international organisation Philip Burton and Christian J. Tams
    • 5. The League of Nations and the relationship between international law and municipal law Philip Burton and Jean d'Aspremont
    • 6. Sovereignty, territory and jurisdiction Malgosia Fitzmaurice and Paul Gragl
    • 7. The law of the sea at the time of the League of Nations Yoshifumi Tanaka
    • 8. Colonies and mandates at the time of the League of Nations Giovanni Distefano and Aymeric Hêche
    • 9. The use of force in the Interbellum: a look at the debate on the meaning of 'war' in the Covenant of the League of Nations and Briand-Kellogg Pact Agatha Verdebout
    • 10. Law of armed conflict and neutrality Etienne Henry
    • 11. Preventive diplomacy, peacekeeping and peace-making at the time of the League of Nations Ivan Ingravallo and Pavle Kilibarda
    • 12. The law of State responsibility in the interwar years: a period of 'great advances' Paolo Palchetti
    • 13. 'The beginning of something great'? International criminal law in the interwar period Sévane Garibian
    • 14. Investment Tarcisio Gazzini
    • 15. Trade integration and the League of Nations Petros C. Mavroidis
    • 16. Minorities, refugees and human rights at the time of the League of Nations Momchil Milanov and León Castellanos-Jankiewicz
    • 17. A period of reckoning: private international law during the time of the League of Nations Roxana Banu
    • 18. Diplomatic law at the time of the League of Nations Giuseppe Puma
    • 19. Dispute settlement, particularly adjudication and arbitration Gleider Hernández and Momchil Milanov
    • 20. The League for nature: environmental law in the League of Nations Omer Aloni and Anna-Katharina Wöbse
    • 21. Soviet approaches to international law during the interwar period Lauri Mälksoo
    • 22. The Americas at the Time of the League of Nations Juan Pablo Scarfi.
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    • Carlo Focarelli, Leonard V. Smith, Asier Garrido-Muñoz, Philip Burton, Christian J. Tams, Jean d'Aspremont, Malgosia Fitzmaurice, Paul Gragl, Yoshifumi Tanaka, Giovanni Distefano, Aymeric Hêche, Agatha Verdebout, Etienne Henry, Ivan Ingravallo, Pavle Kilibarda, Paolo Palchetti, Sévane Garibian, Tarcisio Gazzini, Petros C. Mavroidis, Momchil Milanov, León Castellanos-Jankiewicz, Roxana Banu, Gleider Hernández, Giuseppe Puma, Omer Aloni, Anna-Katharina Wöbse, Lauri Mälksoo and Juan Pablo Scarfi

      • General Editor
    • Randall Lesaffer , KU Leuven and Tilburg University

      Randall Lesaffer is Professor of Legal History at KU Leuven in Belgium and Tilburg University in the Netherlands. He is the author of European Legal History: A Cultural and Political Perspective (2009) and co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Hugo Grotius (2021). He is the editor-in-chief of the book series Studies in the History of International Law, an editor of the Global Law series and an editor of the Journal of the History of International Law.

      • Editors
    • Robert Kolb , Université de Genève

      Robert Kolb is Professor of Public International Law at the University of Geneva. He is a former legal staff member of the ICRC, and a member of the International Humanitarian Law section at the High Command of the Swiss Army. He has written extensively on international law.

    • Momchil Milanov , International Court of Justice

      Momchil Milanov is an Associate Legal Officer at the International Court of Justice and studies public international law at the University of Geneva. His research interests include the history and theory of international law, international procedural law, dispute settlement, nationality, and citizenship.

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