Justifying Utopia by Wouter De Rycke
When and why did international law begin to oppose war? For centuries, sovereignty implied the right to wage war. Yet over the past hundred years, a remarkable succession of treaties, courts, and organisations sprang to life that sought to prohibit war. From a fringe ambition, the ideal of 'peace through law' became the foundation of international law. This book traces part of this evolution back to the small peace movement of the early nineteenth century, recounting how the earliest organised pacifists built their legal case against war. The stories of this diverse social movement are told from numerous perspectives, and each sheds further light on how ordinary men and women helped lay the groundwork for one of the greatest shifts in legal thinking about peace and war.-
The Origins of an International Legal Order of Peace and Justice
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Politics and the Histories of International Law
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Elisabeth Mann Borgese and the Law of the Sea
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Intellectual Property and the Law of Nations, 1860-1920
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Japan’s Territory under International Law
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The Silent Peacemaker: Intellectual Property Rights and the Interwar International Legal Order, 1919-1939
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Accountability for War Crimes in the Policy of the Polish Government-in-Exile
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Empire and Legal Thought
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International Law in the Long Nineteenth Century (1776-1914)
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History, Casuistry and Custom in the Legal Thought of Francisco Suárez (1548-1617)
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The Emergence of Privateering
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Whiggish International Law
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The Medieval Foundations of International Law
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In the Shadow of Vitoria: A History of International Law in Spain (1770-1953)
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The Role of Theoretical Debate in the Evolution of National and International Patent Protection
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Mare Clausum: The Formation of the Law of the Sea in Pre-modern State Practice and Legal Doctrine (c. 1350–1650)
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The Twelve Years Truce (1609)
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Tracing the Earliest Recorded Concepts of International Law
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Regeneration and Hegemony
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Theory and Politics of the Law of Nations
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Conflict Management in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, 1000-1800
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The Roots of International Law / Les fondements du droit international
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Taming Ares: War, Interstate Law, and Humanitarian Discourse in Classical Greece
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War and Peace
Wouter De Rycke, Ph.D. (2023), Vrije Universiteit Brussel, is a legal historian and a practising lawyer. His scholarly interests focus on the history of debates on war and peace at the intersection of law and wider society.
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| ISBN 13 | 9789004733640 |
| ISBN 10 | 9004733647 |
| Title | Justifying Utopia |
| Author | Wouter De Rycke |
| Series | Studies In The History Of International Law |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Brill |
| Year published | 2025-05-22 |
| Number of pages | 596 |
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