Hugo Grotius

People

Huigh de Groot (Hugo Grotius) - Netherlands

Dutch jurist, collected a listing of rules and legal norms as the underpinning of a new system of international law. considered the "Father" of modern international law.

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Questions of

individualism, property, economy, natural law

Reading

De iure praedae (On the right of the goal), including Mare liberum (The Free Seas) - 1604
De iure belli ac pacis (On the laws of war and peace) - 1625
De veritate religionis Christianae (On the truth of the Christian religion) - 1627
Inleydinge tot de Hollantsche rechtsgeleertheit - 1631

Writing available on the net

Full English text of Of laws of war and peace (http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Thebes/8098/)

Commentaries

See study by E. Durnbauld (1969).

Biography in 1911 Encyclopedia (http://81.1911encyclopedia.org/G/GR/GROTIUS.htm)
The Grotius Collection (http://www.ppl.nl/fulltext/grotius/)
Grotius page, with other links to texts (http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/grotius.htm)

Huigh de Groot (Hugo Grotius) - Netherlands

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