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.
• Other title: Grotiana (1980)
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 1282401122; 9786612401121; 9047428587
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Hans W. Blom.

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 sixteen essays in this volume discuss De iure praedae , its intellectual sources, personal and political circumstances and over-all consequences, exploring how Grotius as a humanist, theologian, jurist and politician proceeded in this his first exercise in the theory of natural law and rights. The essays are written by an international and interdisciplinary team of specialists, based on papers delivered at a conference at NIAS in Wassenaar in 2005. Originally published as Volumes 26 (2005), 27 (2006) and 28 (2007) of Brill's journal Grotiana .