Property, Piracy and Punishment: Hugo Grotius on War and Booty in De iure praedae

Hans W. Blom teaches political philosophy and political science at Erasmus University Rotterdam and Collegium Civitas Warsaw. He publishes widely on early-modern political thought and the history of social and political concepts. He is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Grotiana.

Introduction, Hans Blom

Hugo Grotius’s Political and Scholarly Activities in the Light of his Correspondence, Henk J.M. Nellen
Grotius, Maritime Intra-Asian Trade and the Portuguese Estado da Índia: Problems, Perspectives and Insights from De iure praedae, Peter Borschberg
Problems of Legal Systematization from De iure praedae to De iure belli ac pacis. De iure praedae Chapter II and the Prolegomena of De iure belli ac pacis Compared, Laurens Winkel
Law, War and Method in the Commentary on the Law of Prize by Hugo Grotius, Merio Scattola
Grotius and Stobaeus, Jon Miller
The Patristic Context in Early Grotius, Silke-Petra Bergjan
Secularization in De iure praedae: from Bible Criticism to International Law, Mark Somos
War, Piracy and Religion: Godfried Udemans’ Spiritual Helm (1638), Joris van Eijnatten
Using the Work. Remarks on the Text of De iure praedae, Jan Waszink
Preparing Mare liberum for the Press: Hugo Grotius’ Rewriting of Chapter 12 of De iure praedae in November-December 1608, Martine Julia van Ittersum
‘Sequuntur dogmatica De iure praedae’ - Law and theology in Grotius’s use of sources in De iure praedae, Franco Todescan
The VOC, Corporate Sovereignty and the Republican Sub-Text of De iure praedae, Eric Wilson
Natural Rights and Roman Law in Hugo Grotius’s Theses LVI, De iure praedae and Defensio capitis quinti maris liberi, Benjamin Straumann
Tuck’s Grotius: De Iure Praedae in Context, George Wright
Beyond the Law. The Image of Piracy in the Legal Writings of Hugo Grotius, Michael Kempe
Grotius and the Origin of the Ruler’s Right to Punish, Gustaaf van Nifterik

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