Rewriting the history of the law of nations : how James Brown Scott made Francisco de Vitoria the founder of international law / Paolo Amorosa.

In the interwar years, international lawyer James Brown Scott wrote a series of works on the history of his discipline. He made the case that the foundation of modern international law rested not, as most assumed, with the seventeenth-century Dutch thinker Hugo Grotius, but with sixteenth-century Sp...

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Main Author: Amorosa, Paolo
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.
Edition:First edition.
Series:History and theory of international law.
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