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Law, Time, and Sovereignty in Central Europe

其他書名	Imperial Constitutions, Historical Rights, and the Afterlives of Empire
出版	Columbia University, 2016
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ICFPswEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋At the Paris Peace Conference and beyond, claim-makers redeployed the rhetorical arsenal of imperial constitutional debate on the world stage, arguing for the survival of these historic polities and their rights over the rupture of imperial collapse. The interwar settlement in Central Europe, I contend, cannot be understood outside a broader sweep of legal ideas forged in the cradle of imperial law. In this way, my dissertation offers a new pre-history of the interwar international order (often narrated as a Central European "year zero"), as well as a history and post-history of the empire's legal worlds. Sensitive throughout to the co-implication of political and epistemological questions, this dissertation is not only a history of sovereignty but also a history of knowledge about sovereignty. At its heart lies a preoccupation with the relationship between law and time. By tracking law's "persons" and their survival through time -- especially their talent for both reinvention and continuity, and their capacity to carry rights through history -- it sketches a more anthropological portrait of the particular tools and logics by which legal thought sets itself in history and resists the effects of time's passing.