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, Pennsylvania State University
EDITORIAL BOARD
Jean Allain, Monash University, Australia
Arnulf Becker Lorca, Brown University
Olga V. Butkevych, Kyiv Shevchenko National University
Volodymyr Butkevych, Sometime Judge, European Court of Human Rights
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
Peter Macalister-Smith, Ph.D., Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg, Germany
Oleksandr Merezhko, Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Krakow University
Stephen Neff, University of Edinburgh
Alexander Orakhelashvili, University of Birmingham, England
Michael Palmer, University of London SOAS & IALS
Grigorii S. Starodubtsev, RussianAcademy of National Economy and Public Administration
Alexander Vylegzhanin, Moscow State Institute of International Relations
ASSOCIATE EDITORS (Vol. 5 No. 1)
Alana Goycochea
Philip J Hall
Samantha Jacques
Michael Kwon
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CONTENTS
Vol. 5, No. 1
January 2020
ARTICLES
Bu-Fu-Zhou: A Lesson from Ancient China: Degeneration of the Institution of Zhou from Constitution to International Law and on to Anarchy
David K. C. Huang
Nigel N. T. Li
The Private Foundations of International Law: Intellectual Property Rights and Pashukanis
Sean Morris
Ukrainian Statehood in the Mid-Seventeenth to Early Eighteenth Centuries in Treaties with Foreign States: Principal Legal Models (Part One)
O. V. Kresin
Aleksandr Pilenko: International Law and Invention Law in Russia
V. S. Ivanenko
NOTES AND COMMENTS
On the Origins of the Earliest Lecture on International Law In Persia
Mohsen Nikbin
DOCUMENTS AND OTHER EVIDENCE OF STATE PRACTICE
Thomas Baty: Legal Adviser to the Government of Japan
William E. Butler
Enemy Allegiance, Domicile, and “House of Trade”
Thomas Baty
A Brief Calendar of State Practice for Shandong: 1897-1924: Part One (1897-1904): Open Door to China
Peter Macalister-Smith
Joachim Schwietzke
REVIEWS
The Last Waltz of the Law of Nations
W. E. Butler
Encyclopedia of International Law
W. E. Butler
FROM THE LITERATURE
Vol. 4, No. 2
July 2019
ARTICLES
British and French Archives Relating to Ownership of the Paracel Islands: 1900-1975
Anthony Carty
The Just War in Florentine Political Discourse: c. 1200-1400
Ryan Greenwood
The History of Comity
Thomas Schultz
Jason Mitchenson
French as a Diplomatic and Official Language in Imperial Russia
Vladimir Rjéoutski
Derek Offord
Gesine Argent
Baron M. A. von Taube: Historian of International Law
W. E. Butler
V. S. Ivanenko
The Making of China’s Foremost Diplomat and International Judge
Li Chen
International Law as a Living Legal System: Eugene Ehrlich’s Conception in Modern Times
Olga Butkevych
NOTES AND COMMENTS
On the Fate of the Grabar Doctoral Dissertation and Degree
W. E. Butler
Classical and Modern Traditions in Kharkiv University: International and European Law
O. A. Gavrylenko
T. L. Syroed
Manning’s Commentaries on the Law of Nations
William E. Butler
Michael Kwon
DOCUMENTS AND OTHER EVIDENCE OF STATE PRACTICE
The Martens Treatise: Missing Passages
William E. Butler
Contemporary International Law of Civilized Nations (1882)[Excerpt]
F. F. Martens
History and Law of the Case of the Caldera
V. K. Wellington Koo
Treaty Collections Relating to China during the Colonial Era: Annotations, Bibliography, Chronology
Peter Macalister-Smith
Joachim Schwietzke
FROM THE LITERATURE
Vol. 4, No. 1
January 2019
ARTICLES
Archives on Historical Titles to South China Sea Islands: The Spratlys
A. Carty
Ignatii Ivanovskii: First Head of the Chair of International Law at St. Petersburg University
V. I. Ivanenko
Island of Hope in the Vortex of Revolution: The Georgian Consul General in Odessa, 1918-1919
T. Korotkyi
A. Khevtsurian
Petrażycki’s Psychological Theory of Private International Law
O. O. Merezhko
NOTES AND COMMENTS
F. F. Martens: Russian Scholar, Diplomat, and Arbitrator
W. E. Butler
V. I. Ivanenko
DOCUMENTS AND OTHER EVIDENCE OF STATE PRACTICE
Imperial Russian Marine Legislation: 1803/1817
W. E. Butler
Vsevolod Pievich Danevskii: A Life Well-Lived
G. S. Starodubtsev
Latin American Treaty Collections and International Law Textbooks: From Independence to World War One
P. Macalister-Smith
J. Schwietzke
FROM THE LITERATURE
Vol. 3, No. 2
July 2018
ARTICLES
Arbitration at Vienna: Recasting the History of International Dispute Resolution
S. Harris
The Rising Generation of International Lawyers at St. Petersburg University: Zaremba and Spasovich
V. I. Ivanenko
The Baltimore Incident and American Naval Expansion
Mark W. Podvia
The 1917 Russian Revolution and International Law
O. O. Merezhko
The Development of the Science of International Law at the Koretsky Institute of State and Law
K. O. Savchuk
I. M. Protsenko
Currency Control, Exchange Contracts, and War: Boissevain v. Weil
J. Anderson
Brown v. United States and Confiscation of Enemy Property
Isaac Schaphorst
NOTES AND COMMENTS
Kronid Malyshev and the Renaissance of Private International Law
V. I. Ivanenko
On Teaching the History of International Law
W. E. Butler
The People as a Subject of International Law
I. O. Kresina
O. V. Kresin
DOCUMENTS AND OTHER EVIDENCE OF STATE PRACTICE
Brief Calendar of International Practice for Spain and Portugal 1641 to 1818
P. Macalister-Smith
J. Schwietzke
Book Review
Philippe Sands, Східно-західна вулция. Повернення до Львова 671 [East West Street:
Return to Lviv] (2017)
T. R. Korotkyĭ
N. Pashkovskyĭ
FROM THE LITERATURE
Vol. 3, No. 1
January 2018
ARTICLES
The International-Legal Ideology of Pre-Slavic Chiefdoms
of the Ukrainian Ethnos (Part Four)
V. G. Butkevych
Boston in the State of Nature, 1761-1765: The Birth of an American Constitutional Trope
Mark Somos
The Gulf of Fonseca and International Law: Condominium or Anti-Colonial Imperialism?
Christopher Rossi
Suzerainty and the 1914 Simla Agreement
Amy Kellam
Raphael Lemkin: Inventing and Codifying Genocide
V. Popovski
NOTES AND COMMENTS
The Status of Egypt After the 1840 Convention of London
M. Mulligan
Private International Law in Russia: The Earliest Work
V. S. Ivanenko
Myths and Facts of the Russian Science of Private International Law: The Legacy of M. I. Brun
L. Anufrieva
Looking for Professor B. E. Nolde
V. V. Veeder
INTERNATIONAL LEGAL DOCTRINE
The Abbé Ferdinando Galiani and Neutrality
W. E. Butler
On the Reciprocal Rights of Belligerents and Neutrals
Abbé Galiani
DOCUMENTS AND OTHER EVIDENCE OF STATE PRACTICE
Treaty Collections Relating to Russia: A Baseline Historical
Survey in Comparative Perspective
P. Macalister-Smith
J. Schwietzke
FROM THE LITERATURE
Vol. 2, No. 2
ON THE CENTENARY OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONS
July 2017
ARTICLES
The 1917 October Russian Revolution and International Law
G. S. Starodubtsev
The International-Legal Ideology of Pre-Slavic Chiefdoms of the Ukrainian Ethnos (Part Three)
V. G. Butkevych
On the Origins of the Ukrainian Science of International Law
O. O. Merezhko
The Nezabytovskyĭ Concept of the Law of International Community
Olga Butkevych
Legal Status of the Bering Strait: Historical and Legal Context
A. N. Vylegzhanin
On the History of Teaching International Law at St. Petersburg University
W. E. Butler
V. S. Ivanenko
Interwar Lithuania as a Laboratory of International Law
Eglė Bendikaitė
NOTES AND COMMENTS
Vladimir Grabar, Peter Lombard, John Mair, and the History of International Law
W. E. Butler
The Charles Cramer Archive: A Russian Consul in America and Europe
W. E. Butler
INTERNATIONAL LEGAL DOCTRINE
Biographical Note: On the Life and Work of Tikhon Fedorovich Stepanov
W. E. Butler
All-People’s Law in Aggregate with Diplomacy
T. F. Stepanov
REVIEWS
James Haley, The Shores of Tripoli (2016)
T. Bouman
Timothy Barney, Mapping the Cold War (2015)
J. Anderson
Steven Press, Rogue Empires (2017)
S. Harris
A. A. Sachedina, Islam and the Challenge of Human Rights (2009)
A. Tomlinson
DOCUMENTS AND OTHER EVIDENCE OF STATE PRACTICE
A Brief Calendar of State Practice for Russia During the First World War: 1914 to 1924 (Part Two 1919–1924)
P. Macalister-Smith
J. Schwietzke
IN MEMORIAM
Oleksandr V. Zadorozhnyĭ (1960–2017)
W. E. Butler
O. V. Kresin
FROM THE LITERATURE
Vol. 2, No. 1
January 2017
ARTICLES
The International-Legal Ideology Pre-Slavic Chiefdoms of the Ukrainian Ethnos (Part Two)
V. G. Butkevych
The Limits of International Agreement: Belligerent Rights vs. Submarine Cable Security in the Nineteenth Century
Douglas Howland
The Means to the End and the End of the Means: Self-Determination, Decolonization, and International Law
Miriam McKenna
NOTES AND COMMENTS
Piracy in the United States Supreme Court: United States v. Palmer
V. Vasquez
United States v. Smith: The Influence of Commodore John Daniel Danels
J. G. Gorman, III
The Malek Adhel and Shipowner Liability for Piracy
B. J. Forgue
Worcester v. Georgia and Native American Tribal Sovereignty
R. L. Armezzani
On the Russian Society of International Law (1880)
W. E. Butler
V. S. Ivanenko
Samuel Crandall and Treaty-Making in the United States
Taylor J. Wolf
REVIEWS
Arnulf Becker Lorca, Mestizo International Law: A Global Intellectual History (2014)
A. P. Useche
DOCUMENTS AND OTHER EVIDENCE OF STATE PRACTICE
Federal Law on the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation in a Foreign State and Permanent Representative (or Permanent Observer) of the Russian Federation or Attached to an International Organization (or in a Foreign State)
W. E. Butler
United States v. Smith (1820): Transcript Record
J. G. Gorman, III
A Brief Calendar of International Practice for Spain and Portugal: 1297 to 1641
P. Macalister-Smith
J. Schwietzke
A Brief Calendar of State Practice for Russia During the First World War: 1914 to 1924 (Part One 1914—1918)
P. Macalister-Smith
J. Schwietzke
FROM THE LITERATURE
Vol. 1, No. 2
July 2016
ARTICLES
The International-Legal Ideology of Pre-Slavic Chiefdoms of the Ukrainian Ethnos (Part One)
V. G. Butkevych
The Standard of Civilization on Trial at the United States/Mexico Claims Commission: 1923–1937
A. P. Useche
The Right to Cure under the Unidroit Principle Article 7.1.4: A Historical Analysis
G. Himeno
NOTES AND COMMENTS
Treaties of Kievan Rus (X–XIII Centuries): Cognition of the “Common” and the “Different” in the Law of States
S. V. Kudin
The Idea of the International Community in the History of International Law
E. A. Karakulian
Regional Traditions in Medieval International Law
E. V. Romins’kyi
On the Whittington United Nations Archive
W. E. Butler
G.A. Partin
The Charter of the United Nations: A Note on Publication of the Treaty
W.V. Whittington
Inventory of the William Vallie Whittington Manuscript Collection
Margot B. West
REVIEWS
Christopher N. Warren, Literature and the Law of Nations, 1580–1680
M.W. Janis
DOCUMENTS AND OTHER EVIDENCE OF STATE PRACTICE
On the Career of F.F. Martens: An Unknown Letter
W. E. Butler
Kievan Rus-Byzantium: Treaties of 907, 911, 944, and 971
D. H. Kaiser
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Publication of Treaty Collections Relating to Spain and Portugal in Historical Perspective: A Baseline Compilation
P. Macalister-Smith
J. Schwietzke
FROM THE LITERATURE
Vol. 1, No. 1
January 2016
By Way of Introduction...
W. E. Butler
ARTICLES
P. E. Kazanskii: “On his Character, Biography, Life, and Works, or What Has Been Left to His Descendants …”
L. P. Anufrieva
Origins of the Idea of Social International Law (XVI-XIX Centuries)
O. V. Kresin
NOTES AND COMMENTS
The History of International Law in the Mirror of Ancient Greek Literature
O. O. Merezhko
International Treaties, Heraldic Seals, and Bookplates: John Adams and John Quincy Adams
W. E. Butler
INTERNATIONAL LEGAL DOCTRINE
Biographical Note: Joseph-Mathias Gérard de Rayneval
Jean Allain
Institutions du Droit de la Nature, et Des Gens (1803) [Book Two]
Joseph-Mathias Gérard de Rayneval
PERSONALIA
The Legal Scholarship of P. E. Kazanskii: A Bio-Bibliographical Essay
W. E. Butler
N. V. Hendel
T.R. Korotkvi
REVIEWS
M. A. Gazi (ed.), The Shorter Book of Muslim International Law
Jean Allain
A. I. Dmitriev and W. E. Butler (eds.), История международного права
O. O. Merezhko
DOCUMENTS AND OTHER EVIDENCE OF STATE PRACTICE
The Bentham Letters of Anti-Machiavel
W. E. Butler
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Jus Gentium and Globally-Conceived General Treaty Collections
P. Macalister-Smith
J. Schwietzke
IN MEMORIAM
Alfred P. Rubin (1931–2014)
FROM THE LITERATURE