...a collection of meticulously investigated case studies which jointly advance a compelling claim: that, between the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries, a most relevant contribution to international law came from those legal actors who got their hands dirty with the realities of power and politics.
Matilde Cazzola, Neue Politische Literatur
This volume makes an interesting foil to the McGuinness and Meerssche volumes (above), for here a team of historians undertakes case studies of the role of legal practitioners in addressing or resolving international crises or conflicts, producing thereby a template for exploring how law and politics have interacted and perhaps legal language and legal arguments have, over time, acquired a role and vitality of their own.
William E. Butler, Jus Gentium
This book demonstrates how the international order was and is a veritable "historical artefact", literally "crafted" by individuals through the law.
Matilde Cazzola, Neue Politische Literatur