The Oxford handbook of the theory of international law / edited by Anne Orford and Florian Hoffmann with Martin Clark.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Theorizing international law / Anne Orford and Florian Hoffmann --Theorizing the turn to history in international law / Matthew Craven --Roman law and the intellectual history of international law / Randall Lesaffer --Transformations of natural law : Germany 1648-1815 / Martti Koskenniemi --Hugo Grotius : the making of a founding father of international law / Martine Julia van Ittersum --The critique of classical thought during the interwar period : Vattel and Van Vollenhoven / Emmanuelle Tourme-Jouannet --The Ottoman Empire, the origins of extraterritoriality, and international legal theory / Umut Özsu --China in the age of the world picture / Teemu Ruskola --Imperialism and international legal theory / Antony Anghie --Early twentieth-century positivism revisited / Mónica García-Salmones Rovira --Hans Kelsen and the return of universalism / Jochen von Bernstorff --Schmitt, Schmitteanism, and contemporary international legal theory / Robert Howse --
Hannah Arendt and international law / Deborah Whitehall --International legal theory in Russia : a civilizational perspective, or, Can individuals be subjects of international law? / Lauri Mälksoo --Natural law in international legal theory : linear and dialectical presentations / Geoff Gordon --Marxist approaches to international law / Robert Knox --Realist approaches to international law / Oliver Jütersonke --Constructivism and the politics of international law / Filipe Dos Reis and Oliver Kessler --
The international signs law / Peter Goodrich --Moral philosophy and international law / Samantha Besson --
International legal positivism / Jörg Kammerhofer --Yale's policy science and international law : between legal formalism and policy conceptualism / Hengameh Saberi --International law and economics : letting go of the 'normal' in pursuit of an ever-elusive real / Dan Danielsen --Liberal internationalism / Daniel Joyce --Feminist approaches to international law / Dianne Otto --
Kant, cosmopolitanism, and international law / Wouter Werner and Geoff Gordon --Global administrative law and deliberative democracy / Benedict Kingsbury, Megan Dondaldson, and Rodrigo Vallejo --Towards a new theory of sources in international law / Jean D'Aspremont --Something to do with states / Gerry Simpson --Theorizing recognition and international personality / Rose Parfitt --Theorizing jurisdiction / Gregor Noll --Theorizing international organizations / Jan Klabbers --Theorizing the corporation in international law / Fleur Johns --Theorizing international law on force and intervention / Dino Kritsiotis -Theorizing human rights / Ben Golder --Theorizing free trade / Anne Orford --International criminal law : theory all over the place / Sarah Nouwen --Theorizing the laws of war / Frédéric Mégret --Theories of transitional justice : cashing in the blue chips / Vasuki Nesiah --Theorizing international environmental law / Stephen Humphreys and Yoriko Otomo --Theorizing international law and development / Kerry Rittich --Theorizing responsibility / Outi Korhonen and Toni Selkälä --Theorizing private international law / Horatia Muir Watt --Transnational migration, globalization, and governance : theorizing a crisis / Chantal Thomas --Religion, secularism, and international law / Ruet Yael Paz --The idea of progress / Thomas Skouteris --International legalism and international politics / Florian Hoffmann --Creating poverty / Jason Beckett --Fragmentation and constitutionalization / Anne Peters.

his Oxford handbook explores key questions and debates in international legal theory, offering new intellectual histories for the discipline, and providing fresh interpretations of significant historical figures, texts, and theoretical approaches. --Résumé de l'éditeur.