Publication Date
2024
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Book
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This project aims to investigate the emergence of international law as inextricably tied to the rise of the capitalist world-ecology across the long sixteenth century. Through a world-historical methodology, my project charts the interpenetration of legal doctrine and legal practice in the making of the modern world. After 1492, a transformation took place within the law of nations (jus gentium) from its determination by canonical law within the parameters of Christendom to its determination by merchant law within the parameters of a world-economy. It is the contention of this paper that this transformation was a transformation in the natural law endemic to the prevailing mode of production—its legal regime.
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Santora, Jeremy, "Lex Capitalocenae: The Dialectics of Law and Accumulation in the Capitalist World-Ecology" (2024). Research Days Posters 2024. 105.
https://orb.binghamton.edu/research_days_posters_2024/105