The Law of Nations and Natural Law, 1625-1800

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Table of contents
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
part 1 Teaching the Law of Nations
	­chapter 1 Natural Law for the Nobility? The Law of Nature an
		1 The Matveyev Incident
		2 Natural Law and Law of Nations at the Erlangen Ritterakademie
			2.1 Baron Christoph Adam Gross von Trockau
			2.2 Johann Christoph Vetter
			2.3 Dietrich Hermann Kemmerich
		3 Conclusion
		Bibliography
	­chapter 2 Serving Danish Foreign Policy: Andreas Hojer’s De eo quod iure belli licet in minores (1735)
		1 Introduction
		2 Natural Law in Copenhagen in the Early Eighteenth Century
		3 Denmark-Norway in the Great Northern War
		4 Amthor’s Legitimation of the Danish Conquest
		5 Hojer’s Choice of Topic
		6 Hojer on the Right of War against Minors
		7 Conclusion: a Radical Pufendorfian in the Service of Denmark-Norway
		Bibliography
	­chapter 3 The Law of Nations at the Naval Academy in Copenhagen around 1800: the Lectures of Christian Krohg
		1 Introduction
		2 The Law of Nations as an Academic Subject
		3 Towards a New Understanding of the Law of Nations
		4 Krohg’s Lectures 1: the Founding Principles
		5 Krohg’s Lectures 2: Trade, War and Neutrality
		6 Conclusion
		Bibliography
	­chapter 4 The Law of Nations in German historia literaria and Encyclopaedias in the Eighteenth Century
		1 Introduction: Textbooks for Academic Teaching
		2 A Brief Sketch: the Law of Nations, Seventeenth to Eighteenth Century
		3 Neglect: the Law of Nations in the Early General Compendia of historia literaria
		4 Philosophy vs. Law: the Law of Nations in Later Compendia of historia literaria and in Encyclopaedias
		5 Effects of Specialization: the Law of Nations in Juridical Encyclopaedias and the Example of a Specialized historia literaria
		6 Conclusion
		Bibliography
part 2 The Law of Nations from the Peace of Westphalia to the Enlightenment
	­chapter 5 Pufendorf on the Law of Sociality and the Law of Nations
		1 Introduction
		2 Sociality as the Fundamental Principle of Natural Law
		3 The Application of the Principle of Sociality to Interstate Relations
		Bibliography
	­chapter 6 The International Political Thought of Johann Jacob Schmauss and Johann Gottlieb Heineccius: Natural Law, Interest,
		1 Introduction
		2 Heineccius, the Natural Law Tradition and Systems of States
		3 Schmauss, the Natural Law Tradition and Interstate Relations
		4 Heineccius and Schmauss on Trust and Mistrust in Interstate Relations
		5 Interest and the Balance of Power
		6 Conclusion
		Bibliography
	­chapter 7 Men, Monsters and the History of Mankind in Vattel’s Law of Nations
		1 Introduction
		2 Men and Monsters in Vattel’s Law of Nations
		3 Peter the Great and the Moral Development of Nations
		4 Conclusions
		Bibliography
	­chapter 8 Guarantee and Intervention: the Assessment of the Peace of Westphalia in International Law and Politics by Authors
		1 Introduction
		2 The Impact of the Treaties of Westphalia on the droit public de l’Europe
		3 ‘Palladium of the Empire’: Overall Assessments of Westphalia
		4 Interventions and Guarantees in the Law of Nature
		5 The Mutual Guarantee of Westphalia in the Law of Nations and International Politics: Perceptions by Natural Law and Public L
		6 Conclusion
		Bibliography
part 3 The Law of Nations and the ‘École romande du droit naturel’
	­chapter 9 Born to Rule: Burlamaqui and Rousseau on the Education of Princes
		1 The Barbarous Philosopher: Rousseau’s Critique of the Education of Princes
		2 Teaching the Laws of Justice and Humanity: Burlamaqui’s Royal Education
		3 The Results: Two Burlamaquian Cases
		Bibliography
	­chapter 10 Defining the Law of Nations: the École romande du droit naturel and the Lausanne Edition of Grotius’ De jure belli
		1 Introduction
		2 The Lausanne Edition of Grotius in Context
		3 Defining the Law of Nations
		4 Conclusion
		Bibliography
	­chapter 11 Vattel’s Doctrine of the Customary Law of Nations between Sovereign Interests and the Principles of Natural Law
		1 Introduction
		2 Vattel vs. Wolff: Self-Interest as the Foundational Principle of Natural Law
		3 Distinguished, Yet Not Treated Separately: Natural and Positive Law of Nations
		4 Customary Law of Nations: Between Facts and Principles
		5 Facts with Meaning: Customs Originating in an Overlapping of Practice and Principles
		6 ‘Non-indifferent’ Customs
		7 Is the Violation of Custom Punishable?
		8 Conclusion
		Bibliography
	­chapter 12 The Circulation of the École romande du droit naturel in Eighteenth-Century Italy
		1 Introduction
		2 First Scenario: Translating Pufendorf’s Works through Barbeyrac
		3 Second Scenario: Translation and Use of Burlamaqui’s and Vattel’s Works
		4 Third Scenario: Translating Barbeyrac’s, Burlamaqui’s and Vattel’s Ideas for Academic and Practical Purposes
		5 Conclusion
		Bibliography
Persons Index
Places Index
Subjects Index