Ellen McClure

Law-related publications: Sovereignty and Mediation in Seventeenth-Century France (University of Illinois Press, (May) 2006), deals with questions of sovereignty and legitimacy both in the sphere of divine right monarchy and in that of diplomacy and diplomatic representation (she therefore treats international law topics such as exterritorialy and diplomatic immunity). McClure’s survey of French literature from the middle ages to the Revolution does address the question of how human authorship of law becomes possible. Finally, McClure has been an active participant in Steve Engelman and Mark Canuel’s Forum on Law, Politics and the Humanities this year.