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Beneath Sovereignty: Extraterritoriality and Imperial Internationalism in Nineteenth-Century Egypt

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David Todd
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Abstract

The rise of extraterritoriality in the nineteenth-century has been described as a transitional phase that laid the ground for the construction of territorial sovereignty. Yet in Egypt, where a particularly extensive extraterritorial regime emerged in the mid-century, the expansion of European jurisdiction underneath national sovereignty became entrenched with the creation of international mixed courts in the 1870s. This outcome, the article argues, was the product of a complex compromise between European empires, which upheld different conceptions of extraterritoriality, and the government of Egypt. While Britain refashioned its own extraterritorial judicial system as a means of promoting legal reforms in the Ottoman world, France aggressively pursued the expansion of extraterritorial rights as an instrument of informal domination and economic exploitation. The creation of an international type of jurisdiction, less susceptible to French political pressures but applying a French system of law, proved acceptable to all parties, although it severely constrained Egyptian sovereignty from within, even after Britain took over the reins of government in 1882. Extraterritoriality was not merely a transition, but an original feature of the global legal order, arising out of modern imperialism and imperial rivalry and yet conducive to the forging of new instruments of international law and governance.

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Law and History Review , Volume 36 , Issue 1 , February 2018 , pp. 105 - 137
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Footnotes

He is grateful to the much-missed Christopher Bayly, Andrew Arsan, Emma Rothschild, and the anonymous reviewers for Law and History Review for their comments and suggestions on earlier versions of this article, and to Omar Cheta for making available the text of his important doctoral dissertation on Egyptian commercial tribunals in the nineteenth century.

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