Journal of Civil Law Studies Volume 4 Number 2 Mediterranean Legal Hybridity: Mixtures and Movements, the Relationship between the Legal Article 6 and Normative Traditions of the Region; Malta, June 11-12, 2010 12-1-2011 From Capitulations to Unequal Treaties: The Matter of an Extraterritorial Jurisdiction in the Ottoman Empire Eliana Augusti Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.law.lsu.edu/jcls Part of the Civil Law Commons Repository Citation Eliana Augusti, From Capitulations to Unequal Treaties: The Matter of an Extraterritorial Jurisdiction in the Ottoman Empire, 4 J. Civ. L. Stud. (2011) Available at: https://digitalcommons.law.lsu.edu/jcls/vol4/iss2/6 This Conference Proceeding is brought to you for free and open access by the Law Reviews and Journals at LSU Law Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Journal of Civil Law Studies by an authorized editor of LSU Law Digital Commons. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. FROM CAPITULATIONS TO UNEQUAL TREATIES: THE MATTER OF AN EXTRATERRITORIAL JURISDICTION IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE Eliana Augusti* Abstract ....................................................................................... 285 I. A Sovereignty in Abeyance: Premise ...................................... 286 II. Dialogue by Capitulations ...................................................... 291 III. Understand and Legitimize: The Immiscibility, Extraterritoriality and Nationality Criteria ... 293 IV. From Capitulations to Unequal Treaties: The Literary Places of the Exception .......................................... 298 V. Ottoman Empire: The Elusive Sovereignty and the Great Expectations ................. 301 ABSTRACT In the nineteenth century, justice in the Ottoman Empire appeared to international jurists deeply corrupted and far from the Western model. European consular jurisdictions, as in the past, solved this embarrassment in the prevalent and private interest of Western States in order to control the Mediterranean area.