1. Scope, scale and humility in the history of international law Randall Lesaffer; Part I. The Historiography of International Law: Methods and Approaches Randall Lesaffer and Anne Peters; 2. A thousand flowers blooming, or the desert of the real? International Law and its many problems of history Nehal Bhuta; 3. Political thought and the historiography of international law Mark Somos; 4. The turn to the history of international law in the discipline of international relations Giovanni Mantilla and Carsten-Andreas Schulz; 5. Economic history and international law: a peculiar absence Christopher Casey; Part II. The Historiography of International Law: Regional Traditions Randall Lesaffer and Anne Peters; 6. The historiography of international law in East Asia Keun-Gwan Lee; 7. The historiography of international law in sub-Saharan Africa Inge Van Hulle; 8. The historiography of international law on the European continent Frederik Dhondt; 9. The historiography of international law in Russia and its successor states Lauri Mälksoo; 10. 'The most neglected province': British historiography of international law David Armitage and Ignacio de la Rasilla; 11. The view from the Leviathan: history of international law in the hegemon John Fabian Witt; 12. Using history in Latin America Arnulf Becker Lorca; Index.