The Hidden History of International Law in the Americas: Empire and Legal Networks
Juan Pablo Scarfi
Abstract
The Hidden History of International Law in the Americas explores the intellectual history of a distinctive idea and approach to American international law in the Western Hemisphere, focusing principally on the rise and evolution of the American Institute of International Law (AIIL). This organization was funded by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and created by US and Chilean jurists James Brown Scott and Alejandro Alvarez in Washington, D.C., for the construction, development, and codification of international law across the Western Hemisphere. Juan Pablo Scarfi examines the deb ... More
The Hidden History of International Law in the Americas explores the intellectual history of a distinctive idea and approach to American international law in the Western Hemisphere, focusing principally on the rise and evolution of the American Institute of International Law (AIIL). This organization was funded by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and created by US and Chilean jurists James Brown Scott and Alejandro Alvarez in Washington, D.C., for the construction, development, and codification of international law across the Western Hemisphere. Juan Pablo Scarfi examines the debates sparked by the AIIL over American international law, intervention and nonintervention, Pan-Americanism, the codification of public and private international law, and the nature and scope of the Monroe Doctrine, as well as the international legal thought of Scott, Alvarez, and other jurists, diplomats, politicians, and intellectuals from the Western Hemisphere. In addition to focusing on recent scholarship on the history of international law in the United States and Latin America, this book uniquely offers the first hemispheric approach to the intellectual history of international law in the Americas while concentrating on an organization that is little known to international lawyers and intellectual historians. By examining the legal and historical foundations of the Inter-American System, this book argues that American international law, as advanced primarily by the AIIL, was driven by a US-led imperial aspiration of civilizing Latin America through the promotion of the international rule of law.
Keywords:
American international law,
Western Hemisphere,
American Institute of International Law,
AIIL,
Inter-American System,
United States,
Latin America,
US–Latin America relations
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2017 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780190622343 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: April 2017 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190622343.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Juan Pablo Scarfi, author
Research Associate, Argentine National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Department of Political Science and International Studies, Torcuato Di Tella University, Argentina
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