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Capture of Maastricht, 1632. Strada: Histoire de la guerre des Païs Bas. The collections of the Peace Palace Library on the Wikimedia Commons consist of 1985 high resolution photographs of prints from old books, and of other subjects.

The Peace Palace (and the Library!) officially opened on 28 August 1913. Home of the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA), the International Court of Justice (ICJ), The Hague Academy of International Law and the Carnegie Foundation/Peace Palace Library

Hugo Grotius was a major figure in the fields of philosophy, political theory and law during the sixteenth and seventeenth century.

On 2 December 2009, the 64th session of the United Nations General Assembly declared 29 August the International Day against Nuclear Tests through the unanimous adoption of its resolution 64/35.

On 21 December 2010, by its resolution 65/209 the UN General Assembly expressed its deep concern about the increase in enforced or involuntary disappearances in various regions of the world, including arrest, detention and abduction, when these are part of or amount to enforced disappearances, an

COVID-19 in America: Response, Issues, and Law COVID-19

The SDG Action Day will take place on 25 September - this year in a virtual setting. Entitled 'Decade of Transformation', there will be a discussion on how we can stimulate sustainable transitions based on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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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