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Doreen Lustig, Veiled Power: International Law and the Private Corporation 1886-1981, Oxford University Press, 2020, 256 pp., ISBN 9780198822097, £80.00

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2021

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© The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press

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PhD candidate, Institute for Legal History & Rolin-Jaequemyns International Law Institute (Ghent University, Universiteitstraat 4 – 9000 Gent), CORE (Free University of Brussels) [filip.batsele@ugent.be]. This work is supported by the Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek – Vlaanderen (PhD Fellowship fundamental research, FWO File Number 1126320N).

References

1 J. K Cogan, ‘A History of International Law in the Vernacular’ (forthcoming).

2 D. Lustig. ‘Governance Histories of International Law’, in M. Dubber and C. Tomlins (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Legal History (2018), at 859.

3 A. Phillips and J. C. Sharman, Outsourcing Empire: How Company-States Made the Modern World (2019).

4 H. Ruël, ‘Multinational Corporations as Diplomatic Actors: an Exploration of the Concept of Business Diplomacy’, (2020) 2 Diplomatica 1; C. Casey, Nationals Abroad: Globalization, Individual Rights, and the Making of Modern International Law (2020).

5 D. Lustig, Veiled Power: International Law and the Private Corporation 1886-1981 (2020), 3.

6 M. Koskenniemi, ‘Sovereignty, Property and Empire: Early Modern English Contexts’, (2017) 18 Theor. Inq. Law 355.

7 Lustig, supra note 5, at 26–7.

8 Ibid., at 67.

9 Ibid., at 110–11.

10 Ibid., at 142.

11 Ibid., at 219.

12 Ibid., at 227.

13 Ibid., at 43–5.

14 Ibid., at 195–9.

15 See ibid., at 180.

16 For example, see A. George and A. Bennett, Case Studies and Theory Development in the Social Sciences (2005).