In der 2. Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts suchten die ostasiatischen Länder in unterschiedlicher Weise und mit unterschiedlichem Erfolg das europäische Völkerrecht zu rezipieren. Aber was für ein Recht war das? Ein monolithisches Weltrecht – oder hatte jeder europäische Staat sein eigenes Völkerrecht anzubieten? Das vorliegende Werk enthält folgende Beiträge: Kinji Akashi, Japanese ‘Acceptance’ of the European Law of Nations. A Brief History of International Law in Japan c. 1853-1900; Hui-gi Sim, Brutal Internal Struggle against External Imperialism: The Initial Phases in the Reception of Western Law into Korean Society in the 1890s; Ingo Hueck, Pragmatism, Positivism and Hegelianism in the Ninetheenth Century. August Wilhelm Heffter’s Notion of Public International Law; Mathias Schmoeckel, The Story of a Success. Lassa Oppenheim and his ‘International Law’; Benedict Kingsbury, Legal Positivism as Normative Politics: International Society, Balance of Power and Lassa Oppenheim’s Positive International Law; Masaharu Yanagihara, The Idea of Non-discriminating War and Japan; Michael Stolleis, International Law under German National Socialism. Some Contributions to the History of Jurisprudence 1933-1945; Anthony Carty, State and Nation in the International Law Tradition: A History of French-German Antagonisms and Possible Responses in the Spanish Late Medieval Tradition; Albrecht Cordes, The Hanseatic League and its Legal Nature: Political, Legal and Historical Discourse.