Monday, July 20, 2015

Special Issue: Sovereignty as Trusteeship for Humanity

The latest issue of Theoretical Inquiries in Law (Vol. 16, no. 2, 2015) focuses on "Sovereignty as Trusteeship for Humanity — Historical Antecedents and Their Impact on International Law." Contents include:
  • Special Issue: Sovereignty as Trusteeship for Humanity — Historical Antecedents and Their Impact on International Law
    • Yael Braudo, Introduction
    • Michel Troper, Sovereignty and Natural Law in the Legal Discourse of the Ancien Régime
    • David Dyzenhaus, Kelsen, Heller and Schmitt: Paradigms of Sovereignty Thought
    • Sergio Dellavalle, On Sovereignty, Legitimacy, and Solidarity Or: How Can a Solidaristic Idea of Legitimate Sovereignty Be Justified?
    • Lorenzo Zucca, A Genealogy of State Sovereignty
    • Benjamin Straumann, Early Modern Sovereignty and Its Limits
    • Andrew Fitzmaurice, Sovereign Trusteeship and Empire
    • Evan J. Criddle, Three Grotian Theories of Humanitarian Intervention
    • Evan Fox-Decent & Ian Dahlman, Sovereignty as Trusteeship and Indigenous Peoples
    • Eyal Benvenisti, The Paradoxes of Sovereigns as Trustees of Humanity: Concluding Remarks