Overview
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.
Full Product Details
Author: Simone Zurbuchen
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Volume: 1
Dimensions:
Width: 15.50cm
, Height: 2.60cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.690kg
ISBN: 9789004384194
ISBN 10: 9004384197
Pages: 348
Publication Date: 15 August 2019
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
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)
""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). ""The book provides numerous profound insights into a variety of texts and contexts in the European development of natural law and the law of nations and illustrates its importance in creating a shared European language and mental horizon not only for academics, but also for political practitioners and the ruling classes"". Gabriella Silvestrini, in Grotiana, 42 (2021), pp. 161-177.
Author Information
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.
