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Benjamin Straumann - Roman Law in the State of Nature, Inbunden

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Roman Law in the State of Nature

The Classical Foundations of Hugo Grotius' Natural Law

Av Benjamin Straumann

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Roman Law in the State of Nature offers a new interpretation of the foundations of Hugo Grotius' natural law theory. Surveying the significance of texts from classical antiquity, Benjamin Straumann argues that certain classical texts, namely Roman law and a specifically Ciceronian brand of Stoicism, were particularly influential for Grotius in the construction of his theory of natural law. The book asserts that Grotius, a humanist steeped in Roman law, had many reasons to employ Roman tradition and explains how Cicero's ethics and Roman law - secular and offering a doctrine of the freedom of the high seas - were ideally suited to provide the rules for Grotius' state of nature. This fascinating new study offers historians, classicists and political theorists a fresh account of the historical background of the development of natural rights, natural law and of international legal norms as they emerged in seventeenth-century early modern Europe.
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Benjamin Straumann is Alberico Gentili Fellow at New York University School of Law. He is the editor, with Benedict Kingsbury, of Alberico Gentili's The Wars of the Romans: A Critical Edition and Translation of De armis Romanis (2011). With Nehal Bhuta and Anthony Pagden, Straumann edits the new series in the History and Theory of International Law for Oxford University Press.

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'Grotius' significant influence on the development of international law is undisputed, and existing scholarship has investigated his works from almost every possible perspective. The more surprising it seems, then, that the Roman legacy and, in particular, the significant influence of Cicero's writings on Grotius, have been neglected. Straumann addresses this issue masterfully in his competent and original interpretation. His command of the ancient and early modern material is exemplary.' Peter Schröder, History Today

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