JUS GENTIUM
Journal of International Legal History
JUS GENTIUM Journal of International Legal History is the first dedicated journal in the United States addressing the history of international law. Much current scholarship on the history of international law is preoccupied not with international law, but with international legal doctrine; the doctrinal writings of remarkably few individuals dominate the discourse while the rest remain unseen or overlooked. This journal will encourage further exploration in the archives, for new materials and confirmation of the accuracy of past uses, and welcomes the continued reassessment of international legal history in all of its dimensions.
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EDITOR
William E. Butler, John Edward Fowler Distinguished Professor of Law, Penn State Dickinson Law
EDITORIAL BOARD
Jean Allain, Monash University, Australia
Arnulf Becker Lorca, Brown University
Chen Yifeng, Peking University Law School
Vincent Chetail, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva
Mark Janis, University of Connecticut School of Law; Visiting Fellow, University of Oxford
Carl Landauer, Institute of South Asian Studies, University of California (Berkeley)
Peter Macalister-Smith, Ph.D., Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg, Germany
Stephen Neff, University of Edinburgh
Alexander Orakhelashvili, University of Birmingham, England
Michael Palmer, University of London SOAS & IALS
Grigorii S. Starodubtsev, Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
Alexander Vylegzhanin, Moscow State Institute of International Relations
ASSOCIATE EDITORS (Vol. 11, No. 1)
Alice Lu
Leonard N. Sandler
Sarah Yu
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Issued twice a year, in January and July.
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Past print issues available $200 per volume, $100 per issue.
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CONTENTS
Vol. 11, No. 1 | January 2026
ARTICLES
Principal Stages in the Formation and Development of the Historiography of International Law and the Science Thereof
O. Havrylenko
A. Stashchak
A Union of Sovereigns: The German Bund as a Proto-International Organization
James Garrett
NOTE
From Colonizers to Guardians: International Law and the African Mandates under the League of Nations (1919–1945)
George Forji Amin
DOCUMENTS AND OTHER EVIDENCE OF STATE PRACTICE
A Brief Calendar of State Practice for Shandong: 1897–1924: Part Ten (1920): League of Nations
Peter Macalister-Smith
Joachim Schwietzke
REVIEW ARTICLES
Comparative International Law in Disciplinary Perspective
William E. Butler
A Critique of the Right to War
Jakob Zollmann
FROM THE LITERATURE
Click Here for an INDEX OF AUTHORS: Volumes 1/1 (2016) – 10/2 (2025)
Click Here for an INDEX OF LITERATURE: Volumes 1/1 (2016) – 10/2 (2025)
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