Miloš Vec - How to Write a History of Western International Law?

The private papers of Léon Arendt (1848-1924), director of Political Affairs in the Belgian Foreign Office from 1896 to 1912, offer a unique insider’s view on an often little-studied aspect: the in

My work presents a description and explanation of the historical significance of the unpublished intelligence report "South America", written in 1822 by Woodbine Parish, clerk at the Foreign Office

The process of women formulating international law started with congresses held by the transnational women's movement. Here female specialists met, exchanged legal knowledge, collected and compared

On the other side of the Mediterranean, at the end of the 19th century and at the beginning of the 20th century, international relations, and particularly French ones, played an important role in

The reception of European international law in the Meiji era (1868-1912) in Japan is characterised as full of ‘pragmatism’, based on the primary foreign policy adopted by the government. For

Alphonse Rivier (1835-1898) is a forgotten member of the generation of internationalists who participated in the institutionalization of international law. Author of treatises, translator of Tobias

From his foundation in 1832 until Word War I, the French Académie des sciences morales et politiques has been a place of Knowledges where the discipline of international law has been constructed.

"The honor and rights of the family ... must be respected", states Article 46 of the Hague Convention of 1899/1907, a phrase used by earlier studies on sexual violence in war to reject a

On 15 March 1856, as the Congress of Paris is opening, Alphonse Royer – a man of letters, an Orientalist and a traveller who had become director of the Imperial Opera – hands Napoleon III a note on

This presentation takes a look at my new book project focusing on the history of the Geneva Conventions. The first Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded in Armies in the

L’Europe n’a guère connu de longs moments de paix dans son histoire. Dans cette conférence grand public, basée sur son dernier livre Conquering Peace : From the Enlightenment to the European Union 

The historical study of private international law is an often-neglected topic within the broader turn to the history in international law. Only a few works explore the dogmatic, intellectual and