de la Rasilla del Moral on Vitoria & international law in Spain

Ignacio de la Rasilla del Moral, Brunel University London, has published In the Shadow of Vitoria: A History of International Law in Spain (1770-1953) with Brill. From the press:

In the Shadow of Vitoria: A History of International Law in Spain (1770-1953) offers the first comprehensive treatment of the intellectual evolution of international law in Spain from the late 18th century to the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War. Ignacio de la Rasilla del Moral recounts the history of the two ‘renaissances’ of Francisco de Vitoria and the Spanish Classics of International Law and contextualizes the ideological glorification of the Salamanca School by Franco’s international lawyers. Historical excursuses on the intellectual evolution of international law in the US and the UK complement the neglected history of international law in Spain from the first empire in history on which the  sun never set to a diminished and fascistized national-Catholicist state.

Table of Contents after the jump.

 A History of International Law in Spain, 1770–1953
Introduction  

1 The Study of International Law in the Spanish Nineteenth Century
 The Academic Study of International Law—An Early Spanish Awakening
 Enlightened Despotism and the Study of the Law of Peoples in Spain
 The Law of Peoples in Spain From the 1812 Constitution of Cadiz to the Aftermath of the Independence of the Latin-American Republics
 The First Professorships in International Law in Spain
 Revolution in Spain and ‘Conscience Juridique du Monde Civilisé’
 The First ‘Professional Generation’ in Spain
 The First ‘Renaissance’ of Francisco Vitoria 

2 A Point of Inflection for International Law in Spain and the United States
 The Spanish-American War—A Point of Inflection for International Law
 The Legacy of the Nineteenth Century in the U.S.’ International Legal Academia
 The Insular Cases. The Standard of Civilization and Universal Particularism
 Education and Spanish International Lawyers—The ‘Institutionist’ Creed
 Revista de Derecho Internacional y Política Exterior
 International Codification—The Hague Conferences
 Colonial Policy of Substitution—The Moroccan Question
 The Founding of the American Society of International Law
 James Brown Scott—The Omnipresent ‘Amigo Americano’  

3 The Silver Age of International Law in Spain
 ‘The Strongest Breakthrough for the World at Large’
 The League—A Fundamental Transformation
 The Spanish Policy of Prestige and Revisionism at the League and the Second ‘Professional Generation’ of Spanish International Law Scholars
 The Re-Awakening of Universalism—The ‘International Community’ in the Interwar Doctrine
 The Founding of the Association Francisco de Vitoria
 The Second Spanish Republic—A Principled Engagement with Internationalism  

4 The Spanish Civil War—Inter Armas Pugnant Leges
 Non-Intervention in the ‘Last Great Cause’
 Setting the Stage for the Localization of the Spanish Civil War and the League of Nations
 International Legal Aspects of the Spanish Civil War
 H. Lauterpacht and the Practitioner’s Approach to the Spanish Civil War
 Francisco de Vitoria and the Spanish Civil War  

5 Noli Foras Ire. In Hispaniae Habitat Veritas
 Unity of Fate in the Universal
 The Fascist Mimesis of International Law in Spain and the Axis Temptation
 The ‘Vitorian’ Aftermath and Autarchic Ostracism
 Hispanidad, International Law and International Re-Alignment  

Conclusion 

Further information about the book is available here.