The Origins of an International Legal Order of Peace and Justice - (Legal History Library) by Matthias Philipp Packeiser (Hardcover)

About the Book

This work traces the path towards the juridification of international relations, which manifested itself at the beginning of the twentieth century in the first substantial attempt to create an international order based on law and justice.

Book Synopsis

Globalisation and the fundamental transformations of the 19th and early 20th centuries also brought about a change in international law. In the face of the omnipresent struggle for influence between the great powers, a movement gained ground on the international scene that sought to base international order on rules and to protect peace through international dispute settlement bodies. The Hague Peace Conferences (1899, 1907), the Pan-American Conferences (1889, 1901, 1906), and the Washington Conference (1907) were the first major steps in this direction. This work analyses these developments, taking into account perspectives from Europe, the United States, and Latin America, and traces the path to the creation of the first international court of law.

About the Author

Matthias Philipp Packeiser, Ph.D. (2019), Universities of Hamburg and Tilburg, is a postdoctoral fellow at Leuphana University Lüneburg. He has previously studied law at the University of Potsdam, the University of Granada, and the Radboud University Nijmegen, and his research interests include public international law, legal history, and legal theory.