scholarly journals Judges and Canadian Legal Thought: The Court of Queen's Bench of Manitoba 1870-1950: A Biographical History, Dale Brawn (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006) and History of Canadian Legal Thought: Collected Essays, R.C.B Risk...

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
James H. Muir

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2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lyudmila Evgen'evna Lapteva ◽  
Vladimir Georgievich Grafsky ◽  
V. V. Medvedev ◽  
Mikhail Yur'evich Pakhalov
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Thomas Kleinlein

This contribution reflects on the role of tradition-building in international law, the implications of the recent ‘turn to history’ and the ‘presentisms’ discernible in the history of international legal thought. It first analyses how international legal thought created its own tradition in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. These projects of establishing a tradition implied a considerable amount of what historians would reject as ‘presentism’. Remarkably, critical scholars of our day and age who unsettled celebratory histories of international law and unveiled ‘colonial origins’ of international law were also criticized for committing the ‘sin of anachronism’. This contribution therefore examines the basis of this critique and defends ‘presentism’ in international legal thought. However, the ‘paradox of instrumentalism’ remains: The ‘better’ historical analysis becomes, the more it loses its critical potential for current international law. At best, the turn to history activates a potential of disciplinary self-reflection.


Author(s):  
Rebecca Skreslet Hernandez

This introduction sets out the scope of the book’s argument and explains why Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī is such an interesting figure in the history of Islamic legal thought. It describes the reception of al-Suyūṭī’s work at home in Cairo and abroad as well as his lasting legacy. It outlines the analytical framework and the importance of interdisciplinary methods, including discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, anthropology, history, religious studies, and literary criticism to the argument of the book. An explanation of how al-Suyūṭī’s life can inform our understanding of the current situation in modern Egypt is followed by a review of the secondary literature and a full outline of each chapter.


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