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Contents

    abortion law173
    active personality principle6
    Actor Network Theory164
    Adrian IV, Pope36
    Ahdieh, Robert153
    Alexander III, Pope36
    Algeria/France conflict486
    anthropocentric legal order11, 89, 91
    Anzilotti, Dionisio48, 54
    Armenian genocide151
    Art, Steven E214
    Augustus30
    Bandinelli, Rolando36
    Barbie, Klaus152
    beginnings of state jurisdiction in international law until 164825–39
      groups, jurisdiction over28
      individuals, jurisdiction over28
      ius gentium (law of all nations)26–7
      legal privilege26
      premodern legal doctrine in the formation of state jurisdiction37–9
      property26
      state authority10, 26
      Westphalian legal order10
    Bentham, Jeremy47
    Bosnia-Herzegovina, Office of the High Representative of (OHR)531, 533, 551
    Boutros-Ghali, Boutros488
    British Empire
      Australia67
      China, unequal treaties with71
      common law80
      courts, establishment of75
      Hindu law65
      New Zealand67
      Maori customs and practices67
      pluralism75
      Privy Council80
      rule of law74
      Treaty of Waitangi67
      white lawlessness75
    Brownlie, Ian357
    Bush, George488
    Byzantine emperors and popes35–7
    Cambodia77
    Canada
      state sovereignty166
    Caracalla (Marcus Aurelius Severus Antonius Augustus), Roman Emperor32–4
    Cassius Dio33
    Cavaglieri, Arrigo48, 54
    Charlemagne, Holy Roman Emperor35–6
    China, unequal treaties between British Empire and71
    Ciepley, David171
    civilians in armed conflict, protection of489–92
    codification projects230
    Congress of Berlin62
    constitutional state11
    Convention on the Rights of the Child 1989416
    Crimean War66
    critique of pure reason85
    Culver, Keith138
    Czechoslovakia, coup in485
    Darusman, Marzuki157
    declarations of jurisdiction62, 459
    del Ponte, Carla537
    diaspora communities224
    diplomatic and consular protection6, 419
    Disabilities Convention 2006416
    Duara, Prasenjit79
    Durkheim, Émile174
    encounters between peoples, nations, and legal regimes13, 199–204
    erga omnes obligations93, 240
    etymological origins of jurisdiction13
    EU law
      CJEU and member states, conflicts between11–12
      cloud computing399
      competition law399
      criminal jurisdiction528
      forum non conveniens317
      German Constitutional Court and CJEU, dispute between11
    Ewick, Patricia178
    fair trial, right to a232, 519
    Ferdinand II, King of Spain60
    feudalism44
    files and documents176
    Ford, Lisa66
    forum shopping158
    Franco, Francisco225
    Frederick I Barbarossa, Holy Roman Emperor35–7
    freedom of expression198
    freezing of assets502
    functional jurisdiction41
    Gentili, Alberico61
    geographical space, social meaning of130
    Giddens, Anthony127
    Giudice, Michael138
    global supply chains127
    Grabham, Emily170
    Guatemala, genocide in225
    gunboat diplomacy71
    Hague Conference on Private International Law341
    Hague Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft 1970280–3
      establishment of jurisdiction289
      limited bases of jurisdiction281
      multiple grounds, jurisdiction on287–8
      prescriptive jurisdiction280, 298
      Tokyo Convention on Offences and Certain Acts Committed on Board Aircraft 1963287–9
    Hamilton, Charles65
    Hariri, Rafiq521
    Harvard Law School. Draft Convention on Jurisdiction with Respect to Crime252–3, 297
      marginalization of private law regulation339
      principles of prescriptive jurisdiction252–4
    Henkin, Louis54
    hermeneutical methodology211
    Hirohito, Emperor of Japan151
    Holy Roman Emperor35–7, 189–91
      authority, recognition of papal36
      Byzantine emperors and popes35–7
      choice of law37
      dominus mundi (lord of all the world), emperor as36–7
      Roman emperors, links with35–6
      schism with pope36
      translatio imperii, principle of35
    hospitality, concept of judiciary94–6
    Huber, Ulrik339
    humanitarian intervention86, 179
    identities, production of political and social122–3
    immunities of territorial administrations and staff absolute immunity542–3
      Charter of UN542
      human rights21
      UN Convention of Privileges and Immunities 1946542–3
    imperium, exercise of11
    impunity
      ICC, Rome Statute of the250
      prescriptive jurisdiction357
      state immunity250
    Indochina77
    instantaneity of contracts173
    institutional issues
      ethic of responsibility196
      governance structures, building153–8
      indigenous people203
      universal jurisdiction196
    Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACrimHR)19, 414, 422, 429
    Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR)417
    International Commission of the River Oder460
    International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)415–16, 422, 426
    International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR)414, 426, 430, 452
    International Law Commission (ILC)
      crimes against humanity, draft convention on297
      diplomatic protection, draft articles on6
    international relations8
    international right, doctrine of86
    interrelationship and interdependence between states230
    ‘island’ communities132
    Israel, Nazi and Nazi Collaborators (Punishment) Law 1950 in267–70
    Jackson, Robert H515
    Jessup, Philip C439
    Jewish law, enforcement of agreements based on107
    Joyce, Patrick176
    judiciary
      activism72
      colonies72
      hospitality, concept of judicial94–6
      Security Council (UN)482
      territorial administrations533
    jurisconsults191
    jurisdiction, definition of
      legal power or competence4
      Lotus case (PCIJ)41
      procedural law4
      speaking the law122
      state sovereignty5
      substantive law4
    jurispathic approach154
    just law39
    Justinian’s Institutes61
    Kant, Immanuel81–96
      anthropocentric legal order11
      armed intervention, prohibition of86
      aut dedere aut judicare, concept of89
      coexistence between states11, 82
      common interest rationale92–3
      contextual interpretation82
      critique of pure reason85
      democratic legitimacy of exercise of jurisdiction86–9
      Doctrine of Right85
      enforcement jurisdiction85, 92
      erga omnes obligations93
      external and rightful freedom87
      federations90
      German idealism and metaphysics187
      global interconnectedness88
      globalization94
      hospitality, concept of judicial94–6
      humanitarian intervention86
      imperium, exercise of11
      independence86
      international right, doctrine of86
      intertemporal interpretation82
      legitimation, rules and basis of85–6
      Metaphysics of Morals88
      permissive jurisdiction94
      personality principle11
      positive principle96
      prescriptive jurisdiction87
      protective principle93
      regulatory state activities11
      republicanism, spirit of87
      separation of powers83, 85, 87
      sovereign equality of states86–7
      Westphalian legal order83
      world citizenship83
    Kennedy, David186
    Kissinger, Henry151
    knowledge practices197
    Koestler, Arthur149
    Kolsky, Elizabeth67, 75
    Kontorovich, Eugene214
    Kuner, Christopher21
    Langton, Marcia203
    Latin American human rights violators225
    Lawson, Rick425
    legal privilege26
    legal space, construction of130
    Leiboff, Marett195
    lex mercatoria198
    lex superior rule244
    liberal democratic states172, 218
    liminal spaces146
      limits of jurisdiction6–7
    Lowe, Vaughan21
    Luhmann, Niklas179
    McArthur, Douglas517
    McKinley, Michelle67
    Maitland, Frederick171
    Mann, Francis460
    Mann, Frederick42
    Mann, Itamar223
    Maori customs and practices67
    Marghinani, Burhan Al-Din65
    materiality13, 164, 174–5
      anthropology176
      colonial state176
      criminal case files178
      epistemology178
      files and documents176
      knowledge relations174
      land-based prejudices of state and state-centric law177–8
      legal visualizations176
      migration law and materiality of means of transport175
      power relations175
      pre-printed forms with blanks to fill in177
      spacetime, legal construction of174–5
      university mission statements, format of177
    Mawani, Renisa177
    Meyrowitz, Joshua136
    migration law and materiality of means of transport175
    Milanovic, Marko21
    Miller, Anthony J534
    Mills, Alex7
    Milošević, Slobodan538
    Mitterand, François488
    Miyazawa, Kiichi489
    monopolies on commerce61, 63
    Müller, Andreas Th185
    narrative effect13
    national identity125
    necessity, forum of342
    New Zealand67
    Non-Aligned Movement (NAM)201
    non-essentialism103
    Norodom, King of Cambodia77
    Novak, William172
    Office of the High Representative of Bosnia-Herzegovina (OHR)531, 533, 551
    Office of the Ombudsperson502
    Oorschot, Irene178
    opinio juris239
    Orakhelashvili, Alexander21, 249
    Otto of Freising36
    Ottoman Empire70, 80
    pacta tertiis principle509
    Pahuja, Sundhya201
    papal donation61
    peace, crimes against516
    peace processes496
    Pellet, Alain48
    permissive jurisdiction7, 94
    perpetual succession in incorporation statutes170–3
    Portugal38
    premodern legal doctrine in the formation of state jurisdiction37–9
    presence in the jurisdiction
      crimes against humanity478
      customary international law478
      universal jurisdiction478
    privatization452
    Privy Council, Judicial Committee of the (JCPC)80
    production orders408
    prohibited, state’s ability to do what is not10, 53
    public spaces, restrictions on use of130
    Rainaldo de Dassel36
    ratione loci jurisdiction512
    ratione materiae jurisdiction512
    ratione temporis jurisdiction512
    reason, emotion and theatre196
    republicanism, spirit of87
    reputation of states6
    res judicata353
    Resnik, Judith154
    Roberts, Anthea450
    rural areas to urban mega-centres, migration from129
    Russell, Bertrand151
    Salomon, Margot E416
    Sarooshi, Danesh509
    Sartre, Jean-Paul151
    Sassen, Saskia306
    Saunders, Anna201
    Scheppele, Kim Lane158
    sea, the
      functional jurisdiction41
      rights over the sea61
    seizure of property and land60, 66
    self-incrimination391
    separation of powers83, 85, 87
    September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on United States157
    Shanghai International Settlement70
    Silbey, Susan178
    Simma, Bruno185
    social contract181
      social theory and law, relationship between13, 162–4
    sociology of law8, 162
      sources of international law49
    South Africa Constitutional Court221
    spacetime, legal construction of174–5
    Spain
      Argentine military, assertion of jurisdiction over155–7
      corregidores74
      Guatemala, genocide in225
      Historical Memory Law in 2007225
      Latin American human rights violators225
      premodern legal doctrine in the formation of state jurisdiction38
      universal jurisdiction225
    ‘speak the law’, power or authority to13, 122, 183, 229
    spiritual and temporal jurisdiction190–1
    Staker, Christopher21
    stateless persons126
    Stern, Philip76
    Story, Joseph339
    Strathern, Marilyn177
    subsidiary jurisdiction217, 218
    Talmon, Stefan240
    Taylor, Charles523
    technical forms and means of jurisdictional conduct197–9
    temporal scales170–5
      arbitrariness170
      corporations, temporalization of171–2
      crime to a singular spacetime, affixation of174
      foetus become a person, when a173
      instantaneity of contracts173
      perpetual succession in incorporation statutes170–3
      spacetime, legal construction of174–5
      state and corporation, separation of171
    non-self-governing territories531
    overlapping jurisdictions531
    Tokyo Convention on Offences and Certain Acts Committed on Board Aircraft 1963287–9
    Tokyo Military Tribunal (IMTFE)20, 517
    Tomuschat, Christian238
    topological space129
    torture
      aut dedere aut judicare principle291–2
      civil remedies, obligation to provide342–3
    transnational legal pluralism8
    treaties and territorial principle15, 255, 256–70
      discretion, notion of sovereign260
      International Penal law Treaty 1889257
      objective territoriality259
      passive personality principle260
      prerogative jurisdiction (enforcement)257
      prescriptive jurisdiction257, 260
      protective principle260
      scope of territoriality260, 267
      sovereign discretion260
      state sovereignty256
      subjective territoriality259
      universal jurisdiction260
    Triepel, Heinrich48, 54
    truth commissions152
    United States
      Afghanistan agreement on status of military and civilian personnel with US525
      concessions70
      conflict of laws165
      corporate charter, as founded through a171
      corporate presence, creation of134
      Indian Bhopal disaster litigation316
      ‘island’ communities132
      localization of causes of action131–2
      nuclear families in North America, myth of180
      presidential election 2016137
      psychic significance of defending oneself in another state132–3
      Restatement (Fourth) of Foreign Relations Law334
      safe harbour for torturers or common enemies of mankind221
      social contract, as founded through a171
      state and corporation, separation of171
      state immunity246
      Supreme Court, intervention of338
      Uniform Commercial Code (UCC)149
    university mission statements, format of177
    UNTAC (UN Transitional Authority in Cambodia)531, 532
    UNTAET (UN Transitional Administration in East Timor)21, 531–67
      Armando dos Santos decisions536–7
      domestic laws of Indonesia, maintenance of535–7
      Dutch colonial period535
      East Timor Police Service551
      extraterritoriality535
      human rights535
      ICC as not a party to540
      international crimes540
      judicial functions533
      local self-governing institutions533–4
      national security as basis for jurisdiction536
      Ombudsperson Office551
      Penal Code (Indonesia)535
      piracy, extraterritorial jurisdiction for536
      Security Council540
      universal jurisdiction over international crimes536
    urban studies scholars167
    van Schendel, Willem68
    vigilante jurisdiction195
    Vitoria, Francesco de60
    Waldron, Jeremy130
    Walters, William175
    Washington Consensus442
    Wiebe, Robert132
    Winichakul, Thongchai62
    Wolfrum, Rüdiger512
    women and peace and security492–3
    Women’s International War Crimes Tribunal, Tokyo150–1
    world citizenship83
    World Trade Organization (WTO)149, 302
    Yeltsin, Boris488
    Yerodia, Abdoulaye223
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