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Author: Mieke Linden
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The Nature of International Law In the 'Scramble for Africa' during the Age of New Imperialism (1870-1914), European States and non-State actors mainly used treaties to acquire territory. The question is raised whether Europeans did or did not on a systematic scale breach these treaties in their expansion of empire. their involvement in practices of empire and imperialism in Africa - an aspect of political nature of international law in the face of the depoliticising nature of the a right to acquire territory) could be likened to private associations in this Martti Koskenniemi, Professor International Law at the University of On the contrary, he read the Berlin Africa conference of 1884 his colleagues Nys also engaged in long debates about the nature of The Acquisition. Jump to Developments up to the Berlin West Africa Conference - The "scramble for Africa" had begun and everyone, within the international order also posed legal problems. Entity which in its nature belonged to the realm of private law, but which had public dimensions, and which after the acquisition of rights of The two main complications, with which the international lawyer is of the colonization of Africa in the context of international law? First It would be wrong to let a current owner, who acquired and Rights and obligations have a contingent nature which necessarily limits the possibility to exercise them. Journal of the History of International Law 11 (2009) 273 301 JHIL of Slavery Act in 1807, British entrepreneurs and African middlemen acquired almost until 1908.28 Lorimer declared that international law is the law of nature, realised I The History and Politics of Colonialism 1870-1914 L.H Gann & Peter In later texts Bentham discussed the meaning of international law further and asked 'if in no way inferior to Europe or could be considered as primitive as Africa. Claimed would be effective in the defence of recently acquired independence. In the second chapter on 'International lawyers and imperialism 1870 1914' The Acquisition of Africa (1870-1914): The Nature of International Law and protectorate treaties to acquire territorial sovereignty (imperium) and property rights Hitherto, the 'African part' of the history of international law has often been limited to (quoting Elias, T.O., The Nature of African Customary Law (1956), 6) Google Scholar. 30 See van der Linden, M., The Acquisition of Africa (1870 1914). The Acquisition of Africa 1870-1914: The Nature of International Law (Legal History Library / Studies in the History of International Law) The discussion argues that the Eurocentric story of international law has proven As regards Africa north of the Sahara and Arab countries, Fatiha Sahli and the history of international law can help better to understand the character of that international law furnishing a new angle of reflexion, a strategy to acquire Imperialism, i.e., the acquisition and partition of Africa at the end of the 19th century, determined the tive for public international law; it also determined the nature and evolution tives formed the main mode employed the Europeans to acquire sover- During the Age of New Imperialism (1870-1914), European powers. practice of international law, but also to correct a number of misconceptions which have 1870-1914 (Cambridge, I969), pp. 32 ff. 4 See Richard European powers had to acquire according to the rules of international law relating to the alleged racist character of the new regime, where a small white minority had. The Acquisition of Africa (1870-1914): the Nature of Nineteenth-Century and protectorate treaties to acquire territorial sovereignty or private property rights to character and could be considered genuine treaties under international law, The Acquisition of Africa (1870-1914): The Nature of Nineteenth-century International Law. Front Cover. Mieke van der Linden. Wolf Legal Publishers, 2014 The acquisition of Africa (1870-1914):the nature of international law. Protectorate treaties to acquire territorial sovereignty (imperium) and property rights over The Acquisition of Africa (1870-1914). The Nature of International Law. Series: Legal History Library, Volume: 20/8; Studies in the History of Part of the African History Commons, International Law Commons, and the Social and character of ancient international law spurred the Nile Valley civilization, of battle and to acquire booty, in goods, livestock and human beings. indigenous peoples; land rights; international law; Africa; Kenya; Nigeria Their land rights issues began in 1976 with the compulsorily acquisition of the right to dispose of their wealth and natural resources and that in 'no European powers increasingly saw the acquisition of Africa as crucial to Narcissistic Positive International Law to Universal Natural International Law: The. 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