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. 1947-; Nederlands Instituut voor Voortgezet Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek op het Gebied van de Mens- en Maatschappijwetenschappen.
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Brill eBook titles 2009
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (428 p.)
• 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.

In 1604-1605 Hugo Grotius wrote De iure praedae , a commentary on the law of booty and prize and a first step towards the Law of War and Peace of twenty years later. Not published in his own times, rediscovered in 1864, and subsequently published, it has been over-interpreted and under-studied. The...