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Grotius' de Jure Belli ac Pacis Libri Tres: The Work of a Lawyer, Statesman and Theologian

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 May 2017

James Brown Scott
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Huig de Groot, whom we know and venerate under the Latinized name of Hugo Grotius, is not a man with one book to his credit; but lawyers of all parts of the world are celebrating the three hundredth anniversary of one work of his, De Jure Belli ac Pacis Libri Tres. It appeared, it would seem, sometime in the month of March, 1625. For many years it was looked upon as a tour deforce, as an extraordinary achievement for a politician in exile and a humanist to his finger-tips to have turned off within the space of a few months a treatise on a dry and admittedly technical subject, whose principles were ill-defined and, where known, were treated with scant respect.

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Research Article
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 19 , Issue 3 , July 1925 , pp. 461 - 468
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Copyright © by the American Society of International Law 1925

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References

1 See, also, introductory note prefixed to Grotius' Freedom of the Seas, translated, with a revision of the Latin text of 1633, by Ralph Van Deman Magoffin and published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (1916), pp. v–x.Google Scholar

2 Translated from Professor Hamaker's preface to Hugonis Grotii de Jure Praedae Com-mentarius (1868), pp. ix–x.Google Scholar

3 vol. II (1902), pp. 403–404.Google Scholar

4 Bynkershoek calls Grotius Ò Mèras in his De Dominio Maris, p. 374.Google Scholar

5 Henry Hallam, Introduction to the Literature of Europe (fourth edition, 1854), vol. II, p. 545.Google Scholar