Book contents
- The Cambridge History of International Law
- The Cambridge History of
- Frontispiece
- The Cambridge History of International Law
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Plates
- Contributors
- Introduction
- 1 International Law at the Time of the League of Nations
- 2 The League of Nations and the Global Legal Order
- 3 The Scholarship of International Law at the Time of the League of Nations
- 4 The League of Nations as an International Organisation
- 5 The League of Nations and the Relationship between International Law and Municipal Law
- 6 Sovereignty, Territory and Jurisdiction
- 7 The Law of the Sea
- 8 Colonies and Mandates
- 9 The Use of Force
- 10 Law of Armed Conflict and Neutrality
- 11 Preventive Diplomacy, Peacekeeping and Peacemaking
- 12 The Law of State Responsibility: A Period of Great Advances
- 13 ‘The Beginning of Something Great’?
- 14 Investment
- 15 Trade Integration
- 16 Minorities, Refugees and Human Rights
- 17 A Period of Reckoning
- 18 Diplomatic Law
- 19 Dispute Settlement, Particularly Adjudication and Arbitration
- 20 The League for Nature
- 21 Soviet Approaches to International Law
- 22 The Americas at the Time of the League of Nations
- Index
- Plate Section (PDF Only)
- References
6 - Sovereignty, Territory and Jurisdiction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 May 2025
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Book contents
- The Cambridge History of International Law
- The Cambridge History of
- Frontispiece
- The Cambridge History of International Law
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Plates
- Contributors
- Introduction
- 1 International Law at the Time of the League of Nations
- 2 The League of Nations and the Global Legal Order
- 3 The Scholarship of International Law at the Time of the League of Nations
- 4 The League of Nations as an International Organisation
- 5 The League of Nations and the Relationship between International Law and Municipal Law
- 6 Sovereignty, Territory and Jurisdiction
- 7 The Law of the Sea
- 8 Colonies and Mandates
- 9 The Use of Force
- 10 Law of Armed Conflict and Neutrality
- 11 Preventive Diplomacy, Peacekeeping and Peacemaking
- 12 The Law of State Responsibility: A Period of Great Advances
- 13 ‘The Beginning of Something Great’?
- 14 Investment
- 15 Trade Integration
- 16 Minorities, Refugees and Human Rights
- 17 A Period of Reckoning
- 18 Diplomatic Law
- 19 Dispute Settlement, Particularly Adjudication and Arbitration
- 20 The League for Nature
- 21 Soviet Approaches to International Law
- 22 The Americas at the Time of the League of Nations
- Index
- Plate Section (PDF Only)
- References
Summary
This chapter deals with questions of sovereignty, territory and jurisdiction during the League of Nations era. It discusses how the concept of sovereignty developed until the League era and how it was understood then. Questions of territory and jurisdiction are closely linked with sovereignty, but, given the immense scope of this topic, it will only be considered as far as it affects the central substance of the chapter. This general exposition of the concept of sovereignty will be followed by an explication how the interwar period saw the emergence of, first, its general principle of horizontal protection of the territorial and jurisdictional aspect of states by international law; second, structured exceptions to this principle qua its vertical limitation of sovereignty through the League system; and third, curious cases where the territorial and jurisdictional powers of states had to be reconciled with other innovative legal principles such as human rights and self-determination. These explications will be illustrated and substantiated by a selection of the relevant cases decided by the Permanent Court of International Justice and other judicial bodies.
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