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5 - Economic History and International Law

A Peculiar Absence

from Part I - The Historiography of International Law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 December 2024

By
Christopher Casey
Edited by
Randall Lesaffer  and
Anne Peters
Randall Lesaffer
Affiliation:
KU Leuven & Tilburg University
Anne Peters
Affiliation:
Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg
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Summary

Until about twenty-five years ago, economic historians (both those in economics departments and in history departments) had little to say about international law. There possible causes of this (beyond the possible insignificance of international law to the project of economic history) are likely the similar intellectual bases for economics and international law prior to the twentieth century, the lack of an accessible archival and intellectual base upon which to conduct the research, and the professional bias of academic historians against writing about events to close to the present. But as time as marched onward, the development of international economic law in the twentieth century has become of increasing interest to historians broadly interested in the history of international institutions and capitalism.

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Historiographyinternational lawinternational economic lawLeague of NationsGeneral Agreement on Tariffs and TradeWorld Trade Organisationeconomic historylegal historydisciplinary biases
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The Cambridge History of International Law , pp. 162 - 184
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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