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The Law of Nations and Natural Law 1625-1800 offers innovative studies on the development of the law of nations after the Peace of Westphalia. This period was decisive for the origin and constitution of the discipline which eventually emancipated itself from natural law and became modern international law. A specialist on the law of nations in the Swiss context and on its major figure, Emer de Vattel, Simone Zurbuchen prompted scholars to explore the law of nations in various European contexts. The volume studies little known literature related to the law of nations as an academic discipline, offers novel interpretations of classics in the field, and deconstructs ‘myths’ associated with the law of nations in the Enlightenment.

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Author:   Simone Zurbuchen
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   1
Weight:   0.690kg
ISBN:  

9789004384194

ISBN 10:   9004384197
Pages:   338
Publication Date:   15 August 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction  Simone Zurbuchen Part 1 Teaching the Law of Nations 1 Natural Law for the Nobility? The Law of Nature and Nations at the Erlangen Ritterakademie (1701–1741)  Katharina Beiergroesslein and Iris von Dorn 2 Serving Danish Foreign Policy: Andreas Hojer’s De eo quod iure belli licet in minores (1735)  Mads Langballe Jensen 3 The Law of Nations at the Naval Academy in Copenhagen around 1800: the Lectures of Christian Krohg  Thor Inge Rørvik 4 The Law of Nations in German historia literaria and Encyclopaedias in the Eighteenth Century  Frank Grunert Part 2 The Law of Nations from the Peace of Westphalia to the Enlightenment 5 Pufendorf on the Law of Sociality and the Law of Nations  Kari Saastamoinen 6 The International Political Thought of Johann Jacob Schmauss and Johann Gottlieb Heineccius: Natural Law, Interest, History and the Balance of Power  Peter Schröder 7 Men, Monsters and the History of Mankind in Vattel’s Law of Nations  Pärtel Piirimäe 8 Guarantee and Intervention: the Assessment of the Peace of Westphalia in International Law and Politics by Authors of Natural Law and of Public Law, c. 1650–1806  Patrick Milton Part 3 The Law of Nations and the ‘École romande du droit naturel’ 9 Born to Rule: Burlamaqui and Rousseau on the Education of Princes  Lisa Broussois 10 Defining the Law of Nations: the École romande du droit naturel and the Lausanne Edition of Grotius’ De jure belli ac pacis (1751–1752)  Simone Zurbuchen 11 Vattel’s Doctrine of the Customary Law of Nations between Sovereign Interests and the Principles of Natural Law  Francesca Iurlaro 12 The Circulation of the École romande du droit naturel in Eighteenth-Century Italy  Elisabetta Fiocchi Malaspina Index

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This is an extremely valuable work on natural law that actually manages to bring theory and practice together by displaying for the reader how these topics were understood not just by theorists, but by those who engaged in practical politics. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; professionals. - Michael Harding, Montgomery College, in: Choice Connect, Vol. 57, No. 7 (March 2020)

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Simone Zurbuchen, Ph.D. (1991), University of Zurich, is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Philosophy at the University of Lausanne. She has published widely on early modern moral and political philosophy, focusing on Samuel Pufendorf and the Swiss-romande school of natural law.

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