De Jure Praedae Commentarius: A translation of the original manuscript of 1604, by G. L. Williams with the collaboration of W. H. Zeydel
Author: Hugo Grotius
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Published: 1950
Total Pages: 492
ISBN-13:
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Property, Piracy and Punishment
Author: Hans W. Blom
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 428
ISBN-13: 900417513X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContains papers from a conference on De iure praedae, held in June 2005 at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Reassessing Legal Humanism and its Claims
Author: Paul J du Plessis
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2015-12-31
Total Pages: 405
ISBN-13: 1474408877
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a fundamental reassessment of the nature and impact of legal humanism on the development of law in Europe. It brings together the foremost international experts in related fields such as legal and intellectual history to debate central issues
Grotius and Law
Author: Emily McGill
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-05
Total Pages: 555
ISBN-13: 1351564919
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe essays collected for this volume represent the best scholarly literature on Hugo Grotius available in the English language. In the English speaking world Grotius is not as well known as his fellow 17th century political philosophers, Thomas Hobbes or John Locke, but in legal theory Grotius is at least as important. Even on central political concepts such as liberty and property, Grotius has important views that should be explored by anyone working in legal and political philosophy. And Grotius‘s work, especially De Jure Belli ac Pacis, is much more important in international law and the laws of war than anyone else‘s work in the 17th or 18th centuries. This volume is therefore useful not only to Grotius scholars, but also to anyone interested in historical and modern debates on key issues in political and legal philosophy more broadly, and international law in particular.
Roman Law in the State of Nature
Author: Benjamin Straumann
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-02-12
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 1316241076
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRoman Law in the State of Nature offers a new interpretation of the foundations of Hugo Grotius' natural law theory. Surveying the significance of texts from classical antiquity, Benjamin Straumann argues that certain classical texts, namely Roman law and a specifically Ciceronian brand of Stoicism, were particularly influential for Grotius in the construction of his theory of natural law. The book asserts that Grotius, a humanist steeped in Roman law, had many reasons to employ Roman tradition and explains how Cicero's ethics and Roman law - secular and offering a doctrine of the freedom of the high seas - were ideally suited to provide the rules for Grotius' state of nature. This fascinating new study offers historians, classicists and political theorists a fresh account of the historical background of the development of natural rights, natural law and of international legal norms as they emerged in seventeenth-century early modern Europe.
Hugo Grotius Mare Liberum 1609-2009
Author: Robert Feenstra
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2009-12-07
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 904743045X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe quadricentenary of Hugo Grotius’ Mare liberum (1609-2009) offered the opportunity to publish a reliable critical edition – combined with a revised English translation – of Grotius’ first publication in the field of international law. Starting from a comparison with the autographic manuscript, Robert Feenstra undertook a verification of the text of the first and only authorised edition – in particular of the numerous marginal references – resulting in many corrections and further annotations. In his ‘Editor’s Introduction’, he explains the history of the later editions of the Latin text and the translations of Mare liberum. Jeroen Vervliet’s ‘General Introduction’ aims at providing a better understanding of the circumstances in which Hugo Grotius wrote this work; it elucidates the legal argument used by Grotius, and the reaction of his contemporary opponents.
Hugo Grotius, the Portuguese, and Free Trade in the East Indies
Author: Peter Borschberg
Publisher: NUS Press
Published: 2011-01-01
Total Pages: 510
ISBN-13: 9971694670
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book considers the background to the treatises, their content and significance, and what Grotius actually knew about Southeast Asian polities or Portuguese institutions of trade and diplomacy when he wrote them. --
Jus Post Bellum: The Rediscovery, Foundations, and Future of the Law of Transforming War into Peace
Author: Jens Iverson
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-05-31
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9004331042
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Jus Post Bellum, Jens Iverson provides for the first time the Just War foundations of the concept, reveals the function of jus post bellum, and integrates the law that governs the transition from armed conflict to peace.
The Memoirs and Memorials of Jacques de Coutre
Author: Peter Borschberg
Publisher: NUS Press
Published: 2013-11-01
Total Pages: 485
ISBN-13: 9971697831
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJacques de Coutre was a Flemish gem trader who spent nearly a decade in Southeast Asia at the turn of the 17th century. He left history a substantial autobiography written in Spanish and preserved in the National Library of Spain in Madrid. Written in the form of a picaresque tale, with an acute eye for the cultures he encountered, the memoirs tell the story of his adventures in the trading centres of the day: Melaka, Ayutthaya, Cambodia, Patani, Pahang, Johor, Brunei and Manila. Narrowly escaping death several times, De Coutre was inevitably drawn into dangerous intrigues between the representatives of European power, myriad fortune hunters and schemers, and the rulers and courtiers in the palaces of Pahang, Patani, Siam and Johor.
The Position of the Individual in International Law according to Grotius and Vattel
Author: Peter Pavel Remec
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9401510156
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAccording to democratic theory the state is for man not man for the state. This theory has been implemented by bills of rights in many national constitutions giving the individual a legal opportunity to redress abuses by his state. In Federal Consti tutions, however, difficulties have been faced when central au thority seeks to enforce the standards of the constitution against the legislation and customs of the constituent states. The latter habitually resist, proclaiming the virtues of horne rule and local self-govemment, also supported by democratic theory. Thus the opposition of man versus the state develops into a double op position of man versus the state and the state versus the super state. To what extent should the super-state take the part of man demanding respect for human rights, or of the state demand ing self-govemment, when the two conflict? The failure to solve this problem precipitated the American Civil War and continues to agitate American politics. Should the human right of equal educational opportunities prevail over the "State's Right" of autonomy in the organization of its schools? The same problem appears in more virulent form in the efforts of the United Nations to "promote respect for human rights and for fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion" without "intervening in matters which are essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of any state.
