Theory and politics of the Law of Nations : political bias in international law discourse of seven German court councilors in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / / by Tetsuya Toyoda.

Emergence of the modern science of international law in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries is usually attributed to Hugo Grotius (1583-1645) and other “founders of international law.” Based on the belief that “all seventeenth and eighteenth-century writers of international law had their own pa...

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Superior document:Legal history library, v. 5
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Year of Publication:2011
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Legal history library. Studies in the history of private law ; v. 2.
Legal history library. Studies in the history of international law ; 2.
Physical Description:1 online resource (234 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • I Introduction
  • II The Pufendorfian Doctrine as the Standard
  • III Holsteiner Court Councilor Samuel Rachel’s Criticism of Samuel Pufendorf
  • IV Hannoverian Court Councilor Gottfried Leibniz and His Concept of International Legal Person
  • V Saxon Court Councilor Glafey Pleading for Rules of Conduct in War
  • VI Catholic Doctrine of the Law of Nations by Johann Adam Ickstatt
  • VII Prussian Court Councilor Samuel Cocceji’s Denial of the Voluntary Law of Nations
  • VIII Johann Jacob Moser as Defender of Rights of German States
  • IX Vattel’s Doctrine of National Sovereignty in the Context of Saxony-Poland and Neuchâtel
  • X Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index.