Elements of International Law

Elements of International Law
Author Henry Wheaton
Country  United States
Language English
Subject International Law
Publisher Carey, Lea and Blanchard
Publication date
 1836
OCLC 853812
Elements of International Law
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese 萬國公法
Simplified Chinese 万国公法
Vietnamese name
Vietnamese Vạn-quốc công-pháp
Korean name
Hangul 만국공법
Hanja 萬國公法
Japanese name
Kanji 万国公法
Kana ばんこくこうほう
Kyūjitai 萬國公法

Elements of International Law, first published in 1836, is a book on international law by Henry Wheaton which has long been influential.[1]

Textual history

Many translations, editions and reprints of Wheaton's Elements have appeared since its first publication. The third edition was published in Philadelphia in 1845. At the request of Wheaton's family, the sixth edition, with the last corrections of the author and a biographical notice, was published by William Beach Lawrence (Boston, 1855).[2] Lawrence also published the seventh edition (1863). The eight edition was published, with new notes and a new biography, by Richard Henry Dana, Jr. (Boston, 1866).[3] Dana's alleged use of Lawrence's notes from the previous editions resulted in a protracted legal controversy.[4][5]

A French translation was published in Leipzig and Paris in 1848. At the instance of Anson Burlingame, U.S. minister to China, Wheaton's book was translated into Chinese and published at the expense of the imperial government (4 vols., Pekin, 1865).[4] The translator was American Protestant missionary William Alexander Parsons Martin who was working in China at that time.[6] The book was also translated into Japanese[4] and the language of each country of Asia.[7]

The original edition bore the title Elements of International Law with a Sketch of the History of the Subject. Some subsequent editions omitted the "Sketch," which in 1845 became (in expanded form) part of Wheaton's History of the Law of Nations in Europe and America.[8]

Influence

The translations had a large influence on the approval of modern international law in Asia.[7] Wheaton's was the first book to introduce international law to East Asia in full scale.[9] In listing Henry Wheaton among "prominent jurists of the nineteenth century," Antony Anghie comments on the "several editions" of Elements of International Law and on the work as "widely respected and used at this time."[10]

References

  1. ↑ Wheaton, Henry (1836). Elements of International Law; with a Sketch of the History of the Science. Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard. Retrieved November 27, 2017 – via Gallica. , - via Google Books; Wheaton, Henry (1836). Elements of International Law; with a Sketch of the History of the Science. 1. London: B. Fellowes. Retrieved July 4, 2018 – via Internet Archive. ; Wheaton, Henry (1836). Elements of International Law; with a Sketch of the History of the Science. 2. London: B. Fellowes. Retrieved July 4, 2018 – via Google Books.
  2. ↑ Wheaton, Henry (1855). Elements of International Law; with last corrections of the author, additional notes, and introductory remarks, containing a notice of Mr. Wheaton's diplomatic career, and the antecedents of his life by William Beach Lawrence (6 ed.). Boston: Little, Brown and Company. Retrieved April 20, 2018 – via Internet Archive.
  3. ↑ Wheaton, Henry (1866). Elements of International Law; edited, with notes, by Richard Henry Dana (8 ed.). Boston: Little, Brown and Company. Retrieved November 27, 2017 – via Internet Archive.
  4. 1 2 3  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wilson, James Grant; Fiske, John, eds. (1889). "Wheaton, Henry". Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.
  5. ↑ Wikisource Ripley, George; Dana, Charles A., eds. (1879). "Wheaton, Henry". The American Cyclopædia.
  6. ↑ "William Alexander Parsons Martin". Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Christianity. Retrieved 2010-09-09.
  7. 1 2 "The Cambridge History of English and American Literature". Retrieved 2010-09-09.
  8. ↑ Janis, Mark W.; Evans, Carolyn, eds. (1999). Religion and international law. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. p. 141. ISBN 978-90-411-1174-6. Wheaton's historical 'Sketch' disappeared in later editions of the Elements but re-emerged in a more comprehensive form in 1845 when Wheaton published his 'History of the Law of Nations in Europe and America; from the Earliest Times to the Treaty of Washington, 1842 (1845) [...]
  9. ↑ "Treaty as prelude to annexation". Korea Herald. Retrieved 2010-09-09.
  10. ↑ Anghie, Antony (1999). "Finding the Peripheries: Sovereignty and Colonialism in Nineteenth-Century International Law" (PDF). Harvard International Law Journal. Harvard Law School. 40 (1): 1–71 [8]. ISSN 0017-8063. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 July 2011. Retrieved 2010-09-11.
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