I. Methods: Approaches and Encounters: 1. Between History, Politics and Law: History of Political Thought and History of International Law Annabel Brett; The Past According to International Law: A Practice of History and Histories of a Practice Martti Koskenniemi; The Context for Context: International Legal History in Struggle David Kennedy; II. Thinking Through the International: Carl Schmitt's International Thought and the State Armin von Bogdandy and Adeel Hussain; Carl Schmitt on the Theory and Practice of Occupation and Dictatorship Joshua Smeltzer and Duncan Kelly; Law of Nations, World of Empires: The Politics of Law's Conceptual Frames Jennifer Pitt; The History of Political Thought in the African Political Present Emma Hunter; The (In)hospitable World; Ventriloquism in Geneva: The League of Nations as International Organisation Megan Donaldson; Sea Change Surabhi Ranganathan; The Political Economy of Context: Theories of Economic Development and the Study of Conceptual Change Joel Isaac; Gender in the State of Nature Anna Becker; Gender and the Lost Private Side of International Law Karen Knop.