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Topic: The Laws of War

The founder of the modern idea that the destructiveness of war could be limited by law, Hugo Grotius, wrote his great work during the Thirty Years War. It was taken up again during the Enlightenment by theorists like Vattel and reached its pinnacle in the 20th century with the Hague and Geneva Conventions.

12 Titles in this Group:

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author: Hugo Grotius, introduction: Martine Julia van Ittersum Commentary on the Law of Prize and Booty 1603
author: Hugo Grotius, translator: A.C. Campbell, introduction: David Jayne Hill The Rights of War and Peace (1901 ed.) 1625
author: Hugo Grotius, editor: Richard Tuck, editor: Jean Barbeyrac The Rights of War and Peace (2005 ed.) 3 vols. 1625
author: Hugo Grotius, editor: Richard Tuck, editor: Jean Barbeyrac The Rights of War and Peace (2005 ed.) vol. 1 (Book I) 1625
author: Hugo Grotius, editor: Richard Tuck, editor: Jean Barbeyrac The Rights of War and Peace (2005 ed.) vol. 2 (Book II) 1625
author: Hugo Grotius, editor: Richard Tuck, editor: Jean Barbeyrac The Rights of War and Peace (2005 ed.) vol. 3 (Book III) 1625
author: Emer de Vattel Le droit des gens, ou Principes de la loi naturelle, 2 vols. 1758
author: Emer de Vattel Le droit des gens, ou Principes de la loi naturelle, vol. 1 1758
author: Emer de Vattel Le droit des gens, ou Principes de la loi naturelle, vol. 2 1758
author: Emer de Vattel, editor: Béla Kapossy, editor: Richard Whatmore The Law of Nations, Or, Principles of the Law of Nature, Applied to the Conduct and Affairs of Nations and Sovereigns, with Three Early Essays on the Origin and Nature of Natural Law and on Luxury (LF ed.) 1797
author: Emer de Vattel, editor: Joseph Chitty, notes: Edward Duncan Ingraham The Law of Nations; or, Principles of the Law of Nature, applied to the Conduct and Affairs of Nations and Sovereigns (1833 ed.) 1833
editor: A. Pearce Higgins The Hague Peace Conferences and Other International Conferences concerning the Laws and Usages of War 1909