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Hugo Grotius, The Rights of War and Peace, Edited and with an Introduction by Richard Tuck. From the Edition by Jean Barbeyrac, 3 vols. (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2005).

Grotius’s Rights of War and Peace is a classic of modern public international law which lays the foundation for a universal code of law and which strongly defends the rights of individual agents - states as well as private persons - to use their power to secure themselves and their property. This edition is based upon that of the eighteenth-century French editor Jean Barbeyrac and also includes the Prolegomena to the first edition of Rights of War and Peace (1625); this document has never before been translated into English and adds new dimensions to the great work. 

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