87 research outputs found
C. H. Alexandrowicz, A Bibliography of India Law
No full textC. H. Alexandrowicz, A Bibliography of India Law. In: Revue internationale de droit comparé. Vol. 11 N°2, Avril-juin 1959. p. 437
C.-H. Alexandrowicz, The European African Confrontation. A Study in Treaty Making
No full textC.-H. Alexandrowicz, The European African Confrontation. A Study in Treaty Making. In: Revue internationale de droit comparé. Vol. 27 N°4, Octobre-décembre 1975. pp. 951-952
C.-H. Alexandrowicz, The European African Confrontation. A Study in Treaty Making
No full textC.-H. Alexandrowicz, The European African Confrontation. A Study in Treaty Making. In: Revue internationale de droit comparé. Vol. 27 N°4, Octobre-décembre 1975. pp. 951-952
C. H. Alexandrowicz, The Law-making Functions of the Specialised Agencies of the United Nations
No full textC. H. Alexandrowicz, The Law-making Functions of the Specialised Agencies of the United Nations. In: Revue internationale de droit comparé. Vol. 28 N°4, Octobre-décembre 1976. pp. 839-840
‘This Modern Grotius’
No full textThis introductory chapter discusses the life and work of Polish–British scholar and lawyer, Charles Henry Alexandrowicz (1902–75). Alexandrowicz pioneered the historical study of international law in its extra-European contexts, a vein of research that is fundamental to the history of international law and to global history more generally. Unlike contemporary scholars who assume that international law was an exclusively European phenomenon, or those who find only Eurocentrism in various forms in the history of European thought on international and global affairs, Alexandrowicz recognized international law’s complicity with European imperial expansion and sought to find in history resources for a more egalitarian and less Eurocentric international order.</p
The Law of Nations in Global History
No full textIn recent years there has been a growing awareness of the need to write a global history of law of nations that disengages from parochial national and regional histories. It is hoped that these developments will bring centre-stage the work of Charles Henry Alexandrowicz (1902–75), a scholar who was among the first to conceptualize the history of international law as that of intersecting histories of different regions of the world. Alexandrowicz was aware that, while the idea of writing a global history of law of nations is liberating, there is no guarantee that it will not become the handmaiden of contemporary and future imperial projects. What were needed were critical global histories that provincialize established Eurocentric historiographies and read them alongside other regional histories. This book aims to make Alexandrowicz’s writings more widely available and read. The Introduction to this book sums up the context, issues, problems, and questions that engaged Alexandrowicz, as well as some of his central theses. His writings are a gold mine waiting to be explored. Alexandrowicz contributed to the effort of promoting the idea of international rule of law by rejecting a Eurocentric history and theory of international law.</p
C. H. Alexandrowicz, An Introduction to the History of the Law of Nations in the East Indies (16th, 17th and 18th Centuries).
No full textMauro Frédéric. C. H. Alexandrowicz, An Introduction to the History of the Law of Nations in the East Indies (16th, 17th and 18th Centuries).. In: Annales. Economies, sociétés, civilisations. 23ᵉ année, N. 1, 1968. pp. 225-226
A Treatise by J. H. G. Justi on Asian Government (1960–61)
No full textThis chapter examines Johann Heinrich Gottlieb von Justi’s treatise entitled ‘Vergleichungen der Europäischenmit den Asiatischen und anderen vermeintlich Barbarischen Regierungen’. Justi was one of the greatest German political writers of the eighteenth century. His treatise compared the system of government as known in Europe with that prevailing in Asia, and the expression ‘Vermeintlich Barbarische Regierungen’ reflects Justi’s critical attitude towards a climate of opinion in certain European circles which looked upon Asian civilization as an inferior one. While Justi failed to employ a systematic method in the comparative exposition of European and Asian government, his views on the development of European–Asian relations are of considerable interest to the historian of the law of nations.</p
The Theory of Recognition in Fieri (1958)
No full textThe historian of international law attempting an inquiry into the law of recognition of States and governments during its formative stage, particularly into eighteenth-century sources, is bound to consult the first historical survey of the literature of the law of nations by D. H. L. Ompteda, published in 1785. Ompteda referred to problems of recognition under the general heading of the fundamental right of nations to freedom and independence. All the essays he mentioned as being directly or indirectly relevant to problems of recognition of new States or rulers were written by comparatively unknown authors. Among them, Justi and Steck were perhaps the most active participants in the first attempts to formulate a theory of recognition. This chapter considers these early attempts, in particular the direct influence of Justi and Steck on Martens and Klueber, and through them on Henry Wheaton and some of the early nineteenth-century writers.</p
The Partition of Africa by Treaty (1974)
No full textThis chapter analyses the partition of the African continent via treaties. It begins with an introductory examination of pre-nineteenth-century European–African treaty-making and references some classic writers to Africa. It then discusses relevant documents on the ‘scramble’ for titles to African territory. These demonstrate the extent to which normal institutions of the law of nations as originally applied to European–African relations degenerated into instruments of colonial penetration in the second half of the nineteenth century, particularly after the Berlin Conference of 1884–85, which led to a multilaterally conceived plan of partition of the whole continent. Partition took place in two phases, i.e. the transfer of legal titles to territory from the African transferor to the European transferee wherein the ruler still played an active part, and then the absorption of territory by annexation. Effective occupation by the Europeans usually came much later than the acquisition of legal title.</p
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