Kathryn Greenman (University of Technology, Sydney), Anne Orford (University of Melbourne), Anna Saunders (Harvard Law S
In 1917, the October Revolution and the adoption of the revolutionary Mexican Constitution shook the foundations of the international order in profound, unprecedented and lasting ways. These events posed fundamental challenges to international law, unsettling foundational concepts of property, statehood and non-intervention, and indeed the very nature of law itself. This collection asks what we might learn about international law from analysing how its various sub-fields have remembered, forgotten, imagined, incorporated, rejected or sought to manage the revolutions of 1917. It shows that...
In 1917, the October Revolution and the adoption of the revolutionary Mexican Constitution shook the foundations of the international order in profoun...