The Law of Nations and Natural Law 1625–1800

Simone Zurbuchen, Ph.D. (1991), University of Zurich, is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Philosophy at the University of Lausanne. She has published widely on early modern moral and political philosophy, focusing on Samuel Pufendorf and the Swiss-romande school of natural law.

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Notes on Contributors



Introduction

 Simone Zurbuchen



Part 1

Teaching the Law of Nations

1 Natural Law for the Nobility? The Law of Nature and Nations at the Erlangen Ritterakademie (1701–1741)

 Katharina Beiergroesslein and Iris von Dorn

2 Serving Danish Foreign Policy: Andreas Hojer’s De eo quod iure belli licet in minores (1735)

 Mads Langballe Jensen

3 The Law of Nations at the Naval Academy in Copenhagen around 1800: the Lectures of Christian Krohg

 Thor Inge Rørvik

4 The Law of Nations in German historia literaria and Encyclopaedias in the Eighteenth Century

 Frank Grunert



Part 2

The Law of Nations from the Peace of Westphalia to the Enlightenment

5 Pufendorf on the Law of Sociality and the Law of Nations

 Kari Saastamoinen

6 The International Political Thought of Johann Jacob Schmauss and Johann Gottlieb Heineccius: Natural Law, Interest, History and the Balance of Power

 Peter Schröder

7 Men, Monsters and the History of Mankind in Vattel’s Law of Nations

 Pärtel Piirimäe

8 Guarantee and Intervention: the Assessment of the Peace of Westphalia in International Law and Politics by Authors of Natural Law and of Public Law, c. 1650–1806

 Patrick Milton



Part 3

The Law of Nations and the ‘École romande du droit naturel’

9 Born to Rule: Burlamaqui and Rousseau on the Education of Princes

 Lisa Broussois

10 Defining the Law of Nations: the École romande du droit naturel and the Lausanne Edition of Grotius’ De jure belli ac pacis (1751–1752)

 Simone Zurbuchen

11 Vattel’s Doctrine of the Customary Law of Nations between Sovereign Interests and the Principles of Natural Law

 Francesca Iurlaro

12 The Circulation of the École romande du droit naturel in Eighteenth-Century Italy

 Elisabetta Fiocchi Malaspina



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