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Natural Law and Domestic Government in the Early Modern Period examines how natural law informed evolving ideas of governance from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. Through case studies spanning France, the Low Countries, England, Iberia, and colonial America, this volume explores how jurists, theologians, and political thinkers grappled with questions of sovereignty and justice. Contributors analyse influential figures from Bodin and Coke to Tuldenus and Lipsius, tracing how natural law intersected with legal concepts of rights, obligations, contracts, and associations. By uncovering diverse and contested uses of natural law, this collection offers a nuanced account of its enduring role in shaping early modern statecraft and political thinking. Contributors are: Marie Seong-Hak Kim, Rafael Cronje Mateus, Jeffrey Dymond, Pedro Ricardo da Silva Santos, Geert Sluijs, Paolo Astorri, Lars Cyril Nørgaard, Rosalind Acland, Carlos Pérez-Crespo, Signy Gutnick Allen, Sarah Limão Papa, and Alain Wijffels.

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Wouter Druwé is an associate professor of Roman law and legal history at KU Leuven. He studies the interaction between late medieval and early modern learned law (ius commune) and legal practice, with a particular focus on the Low Countries. Randall Lesaffer is a professor of legal history at KU Leuven and Tilburg University. His research focuses on the history of international law in early modern Europe. He is the general editor of The Cambridge History of International Law and the Brill book series Studies in the History of International Law. Geert Sluijs is a Ph.D. candidate at KU Leuven, holding degrees in law, philosophy, and intellectual history. His research interests include early modern legal and intellectual history. He has previously published on these topics, in particular regarding the Leuven scholar Tuldenus.

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