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The history of international adjudication is all too often presented as a triumphalist narrative of normative and institutional progress that casts aside its uncomfortable memories, its darker legacies and its historical failures.
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International law’s turn to history in the Americas receives invigorated refreshment with Christopher Rossi’s adaptation of the insightful and inter-disciplinary teachings of the English School and Cambridge contextualists to problems of hemispheric methodology and historiography.
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International Law and the Cold War is the first book dedicated to examining the relationship between the Cold War and International Law.
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Death Anniversary Hugo Grotius (1583-1645)
28-08-2020
Hugo Grotius was a major figure in the fields of philosophy, political theory and law during the sixteenth and seventeenth century.
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Freely accessible: A full and critical edition of the text of Hugo Grotius' De Iure Praedae Commentarius (IPC) as preserved in the single extant manuscript (Leiden UL, BPL 917).
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Grotius, H., De Iure Belli ac Pacis, 1625
08-09-2020
De Iure Belli ac Pacis libri tres (English: On the Law of War and Peace: Three books) is a work in Latin, written by Hugo Grotius and published in 1625 in Paris, on the legal status of war. It is now regarded as a foundational work in international law.
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Grotius, H., Mare Liberum, 1609
03-09-2020
Mare Liberum sive De iure quod Batavis competit ad Indicana commercia dissertatio (English: The Freedom of the Seas, Or, The Right Which Belongs to the Dutch to Take Part in the East Indian Trade) is a small pocket-sized booklet of 68 pages, written by Hugo Grotius, and published in 1609
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Nellen, H.J.M., Hugo Grotius: A Lifelong Struggle for Peace in Church and State, 1583-1645, 2014
03-09-2020
Hugo Grotius (1583-1645) is the most famous humanist scholar of the Dutch Golden Age. He wrote influential works on the laws of war and peace, Dutch history and the unification of the churches.
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Grotiana appears under the auspices of the Grotiana Foundation. The journal’s leading objective is the furtherance of the Grotian tradition. It welcomes any relevant contribution to a better understanding of Grotius’ life and works.
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The Martens Clause: A New Research Guide
31-08-2017
The Martens clause is named after the Russian diplomat and international law professor Fyodor Fyodorovich Martens (1845-1909), the Russian delegate at the The Hague Peace Conferences in 1899.
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This publication presents a comprehensive review of the life and intellectual legacy of the Dutch Nobel Peace laureate and father of the Hague tradition of international law: T.M.C. Asser (1838-1913).
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Swiss-born Emer de Vattel (1714–1767) was one of the last eminent thinkers of natural law. He shaped the later part of early-modern natural jurisprudence. At the time, the subject had become a fashionable academic sub-discipline in both jurisprudence and philosophy.
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“De bijdrage van Nederland aan de codificatie van het moderne humanitaire recht (1800-1914)”
16-04-2009
A legal historical study of the development of international humanitarian law in the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century in the Netherlands.
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The Peace Palace Library has made high resolution photographs of about 1700 prints from 17th and 18th-Century books from its collection and donates these photographs to the image database
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Grotius Collection Online: Printed Works
04-05-2020
The Grotius Collection Online, which is available through Brill, consists of 267 printed works by Dutch humanist and jurist Hugo Grotius (1583-1645) and are published between 1609-1941.
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HeinOnline [overview]
08-05-2020
Over the last 20 years, HeinOnline has succeeded in establishing itself as a leader in international legal publishing.
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HeinOnline: History of International Law
11-05-2020
HeinOnline: History of International Law includes materials dating back to 1690 on the history of international law and includes subjects such as war and peace, The Hague
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Ironically, or perhaps appropriately, it was during World War II that work began on what was to become the seminal bibliography of the great Dutch jurist and founder of international law, Hugo Grotius (1583-1645), to be published in 1950 under the joint authorship of Jacob Ter Meulen and P.J.J.
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The first session of the conference in Utrecht discussed the influence of the European balance of power on the drafting of the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713. Interestingly, the Peace Treaty of Utrecht contains an express reference to the balance of power. In his keynote address, Prof.
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Guest blog by Hans Blom, Professor of Social and Political Philosophy at Erasmus University in Rotterdam.