Revolutions in International Law

This volume of essays explores the legacies of the Mexican and Russian Revolutions and the politics of turning to international law as a response to revolution. It contributes to the understanding of law as a means of addressing contemporary social, political and economic challenges.

1. International law and revolution: 1917 and beyond Kathryn Greenman, Anne Orford, Ntina Tzouvala and Anna Saunders; Part I. Imperialism: 2. Looking eastwards: the Bolshevik theory of imperialism and international law Ntina Tzouvala and Robert Knox; 3. Lenin at Nuremberg: anti-imperialism and the juridification of crimes against humanity Amanda Alexander; Part II. Institutions and Orders: 4. Excluding revolutionary states: Mexico, Russia and the League of Nations Alison Duxbury; 5. Law, class struggle and nervous breakdowns Mai Taha; 6. Microcosm: Soviet constitutional internationality Scott Newton; 7. Law and socialist revolution: early Soviet legal theory and practice Owen Taylor; Part III. Intervention: 8. Intervention: sketches from the scenes of the Mexican and Russian Revolutions Dino Kritsiotis; 9. Mexican revolutionary constituencies and the Latin American critique of US intervention Juan Pablo Scarfi; 10. Mexican post-revolutionary foreign policy and the Spanish Civil War: legal struggles over intervention at the League of Nations Fabia Fernandes Carvalho Veçoso; Part IV. Investment: 11. 1917: property, revolution and rejection in international law Kate Miles; 12. 1917 and its implications for the law of expropriation Daria Davitti; 13. Contestations over legal authority: the Lena Goldfields Arbitration 1930 Andrea Leiter; 14. The Mexican Revolution: alien protection and international economic order Kathryn Greenman; Part V. Rights: 15. 'Animated by the European spirit': European human rights as counterrevolutionary legality Anna Saunders; 16. Human Rights, revolution and the 'good society': the Soviet Union and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Jessica Whyte.