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Fellow during the winter term 2019/20
Project: In the Spirit of the Laws: The Russian Empire in the International Order, 1700-1856
My manuscript-in-progress, In the Spirit of the Laws: The Russian Empire in the International Order, 1700-1856, brings together my wide academic interests in the history of international law and international relations, maritime legal culture, and comparative early-modern empires. The monograph locates the shifting boundaries of international society in which European norms operated by analyzing the Russian Empire’s maritime posture. From within a vast sea of petitions, admiralty court records, and legal treatises, the monograph draws out three themes: the social significance of the law of nations in the Russian Empire and its relationship to power; the influence of local officials and community voices on the formulation of imperial policy; and, the Russian-Ottoman maritime frontier in the Mediterranean and Black Seas as the place where the distinctiveness of Russian legal practice emerged.