The Law of War and Peace. De Jure Belli ac Pads Libri Tres. By Hugo Grotius. (Reprint from The Classics of International Law edited by James Brown Scott. Essay and Monograph Series, The Liberal Arts Press. Indianapolis and New York: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1963. pp. xlvi, 946. Indices.)

1964 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 839-839
Author(s):  
Eleanor H. Finch
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
International Law ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
War And Peace ◽  
Law Of War ◽  
Monograph Series ◽  
Hugo Grotius ◽  
The Law

Sources in the Modern Tradition

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dominique Gaurier
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Canon Law ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Legal Issues ◽  
Legal Knowledge ◽  
War And Peace ◽  
Law Of War ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Intellectual Context ◽  
The Law

This chapter observes that early writers on the law of war or on the law of peace offered their contributions in an intellectual context that was very different from our own. They were attempting to provide explanations for the questions related to war and peace, and in doing so drew upon interesting elements in Roman or canon law. Yet, none of the sources available to them were sufficient to offer a comprehensive response to related legal issues. Although these authors were all largely relying on the Bible and on ancient or contemporaneous history, some also drew information from their own life experiences. The majority, however, built their theories on the basis of their own readings and legal knowledge. Furthermore, only very few authors addressed the question of the sources of international law.

Hugo Grotius and the Thirty Years War, An early reception of De iure belli ac pacis

2009 ◽  
Vol 77 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 499-538 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edgar Müller
Keyword(s):  
War And Peace ◽  
Law Of War ◽  
Peace Negotiations ◽  
Hugo Grotius ◽  
The Law ◽  
Francisco Suarez ◽  
Francisco De Vitoria

AbstractIt is generally assumed that the peace negotiations at Münster and Osnabrück were influenced by the Spanish authors of the so-called Second Scholastics such as Francisco Suarez and Francisco de Vitoria, although evidence of that influence is lacking. It is possible, however, to establish that Grotius's book on the law of war and peace did influence the Westphalian negotiations. De iure belli et pacis was first published in 1625; it was widely read and during the 1630s it was used for teaching purposes in the universities of Strasbourg, Tübingen, Ingolstadt and Uppsala.

Hugo Grotius’ Use of Jewish Sources in On the Law of War and Peace

1977 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phyllis S. Lachs
Keyword(s):  
Source Material ◽  
War And Peace ◽  
Law Of War ◽  
Recent Interest ◽  
Hugo Grotius ◽  
The Law

Some recent interest in the writings of Hugo Grotius (1583-1645) has focused on his use of classical and medieval sources. Another sphere of interest has been the extent to which Grotius knew Hebrew and was able to find and use Jewish source material himself, as distinct from being dependent on Latin translations that were becoming increasingly available at the time that he wrote. This article has a two-fold purpose: the first is to identify exactly the Jewish sources that Grotius cited in On the Law of War and Peace, an identification which has not yet been made with thoroughness and precision.

Grotius, Hugo (1583–1645)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.D. Ford
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
International Law ◽  
Natural Law ◽  
International Order ◽  
War And Peace ◽  
Moral Science ◽  
Law Of War ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
The Law ◽  
Moral Philosophers

Scholar, lawyer and statesman, Grotius contributed to a number of different disciplines. His reputation as the founder both of a new international order and of a new moral science rests largely on his De iure belli ac pacis (The Law of War and Peace) (1625). Though the tendency today is to regard Grotius as one figure among others in the development of the concept of international law, he is increasingly regarded as one of the most original moral philosophers of the seventeenth century, in particular as having laid the foundations for the post-sceptical doctrine of natural law that flourished during the Enlightenment.

Questions of Guerrilla Warfare in the Law of War

1946 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 534-562 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. P. Trainin
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Guerrilla Warfare ◽  
Law Of War ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Moment

The history of war knows no such brigandage, fanaticism, or such craftiness as the German fascist usurpers practiced from the moment of their attack upon the peoples of other states. The rules and customs relating to the conduct of war, recognized by all civilized peoples, were rejected and trampled under foot by these usurpers. These rules and customs relating to the conduct of war, put together in the course of many centuries, have received the title “the law of war” and constitute an inseparable part of international law.

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