Property, piracy and punishment : Hugo Grotius on war and booty in De iure praedae : concepts and contexts / / edited by Hans W. Blom.

• Author: Nederlands Instituut voor Voortgezet Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek op het Gebied van de Mens- en Maatschappijwetenschappen.
• TeilnehmendeR: Blom, H. W.; Nederlands Instituut voor Voortgezet Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek op het Gebied van de Mens- en Maatschappijwetenschappen.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: vi, 422 p. :; ill.
• Notes: Contains papers from a conference on De iure praedae, held in June 2005 at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences.; "Originally published as Volumes 26 (2005), 27 (2006) and 28 (2007) of Brill's journal Grotiana"--T.p. verso.

Table of Contents

Hugo Grotius's political and scholarly activities in the light of his correspondence / Henk J.M. Nellen -- Grotius, maritime intra-Asian trade, and the Portuguese Estado da India : problems, perspectives and insights from De iure praedae / Peter Borschberg -- Problems of legal systematization from De iure praedae to De iure belli ac pacis. De iure praedae Chapter II and the prolegomena of De iure belli ac pacis compared / Laurens Winkel -- Law, war, and method in the Commentary on the law of prize by Hugo Grotius / Merio Scattola -- Grotius and Stobaeus / Jon Miller -- The patristic context in early Grotius / Silke-Petra Bergjan -- Secularization in De iure praedae : from Bible criticism to international law / Mark Somos -- War, piracy and religion : Godfried Udemans' Spiritual helm (1638) / Joris van Eijnatten -- Using the work : remarks on the text of De iure praedae / Jan Waszink -- Preparing Mare liberum for the press : Hugo Grotius' rewriting of Chapter 12 of De iure praedae in November-December 1608 / Martine Julia van Ittersum -- 'Sequuntur dogmatica de iure praedae' law and theology in Grotius's use of sources in De iure praedae / Franco Todescan -- The VOC, corporate sovereignty and the republican sub-text of De iure praedae / Eric Wilson -- Natural rights and Roman law in Hugo Grotius's Theses LVI, De iure praedae and Defensio capitis quinti maris liberi / Benjamin Straumann -- Tuck's Grotius : De iure praedae in context / George Wright -- Beyond the law : the image of piracy in the legal writings of Hugo Grotius / Michael Kempe -- Grotius and the origin of the ruler's right to punish / Gustaaf van Nifterik.