International law has played a crucial role in the construction of imperial projects. Yet within the growing field of studies about the history of international

This book offers the first exploration of the deployment of international law for the legitimization of U.S. ascendancy as an informal empire in Latin America.

“Hartmann delivers a full-throated indictment of the U.S. Supreme Court in this punchy polemic." —Publishers Weekly Thom Hartmann, the most popular progress

This book brings together 18 contributions by authors from different legal systems and backgrounds. They address the political implications of the writing of th

In the interwar years, international lawyer James Brown Scott wrote a series of works on the history of his discipline. He made the case that the foundation of