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1 online resource |
| Contents |
The moral responsibility of rulers : going back beyond the liberal rule of law for world order / Anthony Carty and Janne Nijman -- The universal rule of law in the thought of the late medieval jurists of Roman and canon law / Joseph Canning -- "The law of nations is common to all mankind" : jus gentium in humanist jurisprudence / Susan Longfield Karr -- "Cleare as is the summers sunne"? : Scottish perspectives on legal learning, parliamentary power, and the English royal succession / Andrew R.C. Simpson -- Humanism, the Bible, and Erasmus's moral world order / Xavier Tubau -- Legislating for the "whole world that is, in a sense, a commonwealth" : conquest, occupation, and "the defence of the innocent" / Anthony Pagden -- Cardinal Richlieu between Vattel and Machiavelli / Anthony Carty -- The universal rule of natrual law and written constitutions in the thought of Johannes Althusius / John Witte, Jr. -- Hugo Grotius and the universal rule of law / Christoph Stumpf -- Aquatopia : lines of amity and laws of the sea / Peter Goodrich -- A universal rule of law for a pluralist world order : Leibniz's universal jurisprudence and his praise of the Chinese ruler / Janne Nijman -- Moral rulership and world order in ancient Chinese cosmology / Aihe Wang -- "Humane governance" as the moral responsibility of rulers in East Asian Confucian political philosophy / Chun-chieh Huang -- Bridging the Western and Eastern traditions : a comparative study of the legal thoughts of Hugo Grotius and Lao Zi / Henan Hu -- The hazards of translating Wheaton's Elements of international law into Chinese : cultures of world order lost in translation / Emily Cheung and Maranatha Fung -- Chinese intellectuals' discourse of international law in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Tian Tao -- The crisis of the Ryukus (1877-82) : Confucian world order challenged and defeated by Western/Japanese imperial international law / Patrick Sze-lok Leung and Anthony Carty -- Lost in translation in the Sino-French war in Vietnam : from Western international law to Confucian semantics : a comparative-critical analysis of the Chinese, French, and American archives / Anna Irene Baka and Qi Fei -- The Sino-Japanese War and the collapse of the Qing and Confucian world order in the face of Japanese imperialism and European acquiesence / Patrick Sze-lok Leung and Bijun Xu -- Confucianism and Western international law in 1900 : Li Hongzhang and Sir Ernest Satow compared : a case study of the crisis of Russia in Manchuria (1900-01) / Anthony Carty and Jing Tan |
| Summary |
Arguing that the concept of an 'international rule of law' has a history independent from that of the national rule of law, this book discusses early modern European thought on natural law and justice and Chinese thought on world order and international law. It provides a unique examination of comparative international legal history and philosophy |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 2, 2018) |
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Rule of law -- China -- History
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Rule of law -- Europe -- History
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International law -- China -- History
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International law -- Europe -- History
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Kings and rulers -- History
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Heads of state -- China -- History
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Heads of state -- Europe -- History
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International law -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Natural law -- History
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International law -- Philosophy.
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LAW -- Essays.
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LAW -- General Practice.
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LAW -- Jurisprudence.
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LAW -- Paralegals & Paralegalism.
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LAW -- Practical Guides.
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LAW -- Reference.
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Natural law
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Kings and rulers
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International law -- Philosophy
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Heads of state
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International law
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International law -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Rule of law
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China.
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Europe.
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Rule of law.
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International law.
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History of international law.
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Ethics.
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Natural law.
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Philosophy of law.
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China
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Europe
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Carty, Anthony, editor.
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Nijman, Janne E. (Janne Elisabeth), 1972- editor
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| ISBN |
9780191649004 |
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0191649007 |
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0191749435 |
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9780191749438 |
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