Author
Mieke van der Linden
Year
2017
Publisher
Brill
Language
English
Pages
34
ISBN
978-9-00431-913-4
Last Update
01-Nov-2024
Keywords
Law
The responsibility of European powers for their past actions as colonizers has not wanted for scholarly attention. The present book contributes to this lively debate by exploring that responsibility under international law. Assuming such responsibility presupposes the violation of international law as it stood at the time of colonization. In the ‘Scramble for Africa’¹ (1870–1914) during the age of New Imperialism, European States and non-State actors mainly used cession and protectorate treaties to acquire territorial sovereignty (imperium) and property rights over land (dominium). A key question raised in this book is whether in doing so these European parties did...
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