Abstract
Abstract This chapter outlines an approach to the history of the global legal order that incorporates non-Western polities and encompasses the period before the rise of Western-dominated international law. The approach centres on the study of ‘interpolity law’, defined as a set of legal practices with broad recognition and participation across a diverse range of polities in the early modern and modern world. Drawing on recent research and emphasizing interpolity law in relation to European empires, the chapter probes three prominent categories of legal action and discourse: jurisdictional politics, protection arrangements, and the regulation of violence. It draws on recent research to outline a series of generalizations about these widely occurring modalities, then briefly considers their influence on the formation of interpolity zones and other pluri-political configurations.
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