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Andrew Fitzmaurice, King Leopold’s Ghostwriter: The Creation of Persons and States in the Nineteenth Century, Princeton University Press, 2021, 592pp, ISBN: 9780691148694, $39.95

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Andrew Fitzmaurice, King Leopold’s Ghostwriter: The Creation of Persons and States in the Nineteenth Century, Princeton University Press, 2021, 592pp, ISBN: 9780691148694, $39.95

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 November 2023

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Leiden Journal of International Law , Volume 37 , Issue 1 , March 2024 , pp. 300 - 303
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© The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Foundation of the Leiden Journal of International Law in association with the Grotius Centre for International Law, Leiden University

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References

1 L. Kalman, ‘The Power of Biography’, (1998) 23(2) Law and Social Inquiry 479; D. Sugarman, ‘From Legal Biography to Legal Life Writing: Broadening Conceptions of Legal History and Socio-Legal Scholarship’, (2015) 42(1) Journal of Law and Society 7; V. Barnes, C. MacMillan and S. Vogenauer, ‘On Legal Biography’, (2020) 41 Journal of Legal History 115.

2 A. Fitzmaurice, King Leopold’s Ghostwriter: The Creation of Persons and States in the Nineteenth Century (2021), at 9, 26–33.

3 Ibid., at 1–28.

4 See, among others: T. Duve, ‘What Is Global Legal History?’, (2020) 8 Comparative Legal History 73; M. Berg, ‘Introduction: Global Microhistory of the Local and the Global’, (2023) 27 Journal of Early Modern History 1.

5 See Fitzmaurice, supra note 2, at 25.

6 Ibid., at 9.

7 Ibid., at 10.

8 I. Blom, K. Hagemann and C. Hall (eds.), Gendered Nations: Nationalisms and Gender Order in the Long Nineteenth Century (2000); P. Levine (ed.), Gender and Empire (2004).

9 See Fitzmaurice, supra note 2, at 173.

10 Ibid., at 179.

11 Ibid., at 89–94, 175.

12 J. Marriott, The Other Empire: Metropolis, India and Progress in the Colonial Imagination (2003); P. Levine, Prostitution, Race, and Politics: Policing Venereal Disease in the British Empire (2003).

13 See Fitzmaurice, supra note 2, at 246, 520.

14 Ibid., at 395.

15 Ibid., at 352.

16 Ibid., at 384.

17 Ibid., at 467.

18 Ibid., at 514–15.

19 P. Rudan, ‘Society as a Code: Bentham and the Fabric of Order’, (2016) 42 History of European Ideas 39; T. Duve, ‘Legal History as an Observation of Historical Regimes of Normativity’, (2022) 17 Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory Research Paper Series 1.

20 See Fitzmaurice, supra note 2, at 531.

21 M. Arvidsson and M. Bak McKenna, ‘The Turn to History in International Law and the Sources Doctrine: Critical Approaches and Methodological Imaginaries’, (2020) 33 Leiden Journal of International Law 37; A. Peters, R. Schäfer and R. Lesaffer, ‘Politics and the Histories of International Law’, (2020) 22 Journal of the History of International Law 199.

22 M. M. Payk and K. C. Priemel (eds.), Crafting the International Order: Practitioners and Practices of International Law since c. 1800 (2021), at 9–12.