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The Intellectual History of International Law as a Research Field—“Lauterpacht and Beyond: Jewish/German Authorship and the History of International Law”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

Felix Lange

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Publications on the history of international law written during the Cold War can almost be counted on one hand. A pragmatically-oriented generation studied practical areas like UN Charter law, international trade law, or international environmental law, while the theory and history of international law played only a secondary role. An intellectual history of international law, asking which ideas and concepts inspired and formed international law writing, hardly received any attention.

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German Law Journal , Volume 13 , Issue 6 , June 2012 , pp. 793 - 805
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Copyright © 2012 by German Law Journal GbR 

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