TAILIEUCHUNG - PEACE TREATIES AND INTERNATIONAL LAW IN EUROPEAN HISTORY

In the formation of the modern law of nations, peace treaties played a pivotal 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. | Edited by Randall Lesaffer M Peace Treaties and M international Law in European History 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 international relations of the early modern era and the twentieth century as well as more specifically on treaty law and the laws of .

• Luật học
• Westphalia
• Peace treaties
• structure
• medieval Roman
• Roman law
• Garatus Laudensis