Natural Law and the Law of Nations in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Italy

Elisabetta Fiocchi Malaspina, Ph.D. (2012), University of Genoa, is Assistant Professor of Legal History at the Law Faculty of the University of Zurich. She has published L’eterno ritorno del Droit des gens di Emer de Vattel (secc. XVII–XIX) (Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, 2017). Gabriella Silvestrini, Ph.D. (1992), University of Turin, is Associate Professor of History of Political Thought at the Humanities Department of the Università del Piemonte Orientale. She has published on early modern political thought, including Diritto naturale e volontà generale. Il contrattualismo repubblicano di Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Claudiana, 2010).

Contents

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors



Introduction

 Elisabetta Fiocchi Malaspina and Gabriella Silvestrini



Part 1: Between Civil Law and the Law of Nature and Nations

1 Natural Law at the University of Pisa: From the Ius Civile Teachings to the Establishment of the First Chair of Ius Publicum in 1726

 Emanuele Salerno



2 Reception and Reinterpretation: Natural Law and the Law of Nations at the Roman ‘Sapienza’ in the Eighteenth Century

 Alberto Clerici



3 The Teaching of Natural Law and Universal Public Law at the University of Pavia in the Late Eighteenth Century

 Elisabetta Fiocchi Malaspina



4 The Law of Nature and Nations in the Mirror of the Academy of Fists: Reforms, Philosophy, Law and Economy

 Gabriella Silvestrini



Part 2: Recoveries and Criticisms of Natural Law

5 Natural Ethics and History: Antonio Genovesi and Mario Pagano

 Girolamo Imbruglia



6 Pufendorf and Hutcheson in the Alps: Variations on Natural Law in Eighteenth-Century Italy

 Serena Luzzi



7 The Transformation of Eighteenth-Century Jus Gentium into Nineteenth-Century Law of Nations: An Italian Debate

 Antonio Trampus



Part 3: From Natural Law and the Law of Nations to International Law

8 The Political Science of Natural Law: The Case of Perugia

 Vittor Ivo Comparato



9 The Chair of International Law and Pasquale Stanislao Mancini’s Lectures in Turin

 Frédéric Ieva



10 The Law of International Love: Luigi Taparelli d’Azeglio on Catholic Natural Law and the Law of Nations

 Francesca Iurlaro



11 The Teaching of International Law in Cagliari, the ‘Italian School’ and the Unification of Italy

 Giuseppina De Giudici



Index of Persons

Index of Places

Subject Index