Justice among Nations. A History of International Law - Stephen C. Neff

188 Reason and Its Rivals (ca. 1550– 1815) thoughts ranged much further. Th ey extended, like those of Wolff , to outer space, b ...

Of Spiders and Bees 189 joining states.” He was explicitly opposed to the idea of a world govern- ment, or “universal monarchy ...

190 Reason and Its Rivals (ca. 1550– 1815) critics of politicians rather than as loyal assistants. Th e more unswervingly one ad ...

Of Spiders and Bees 191 the present day. In 1791, the German scholar Georg Friedrich von Martens began publishing a collection o ...

192 Reason and Its Rivals (ca. 1550– 1815) the ranking of diplomats, as well as questions of immunities), and war- related issue ...

Of Spiders and Bees 193 sort. Moreover, reason could not be the sole basis of law because, as he wryly observed, it “usually off ...

194 Reason and Its Rivals (ca. 1550– 1815) fi ft y- volume treatise on Deutsches Staatsrecht (German Constitutional Law) in 1737 ...

Of Spiders and Bees 195 the Prus sian court. Vattel obtained a degree in humanities and philosophy at the University of Basle an ...

196 Reason and Its Rivals (ca. 1550– 1815) diff erent from the policy of cabinets.” And he was fully conscious that, “to the dis ...

Of Spiders and Bees 197 Th is voluntary law was closely related to the natural law of nations in being “derived from the same so ...

198 Reason and Its Rivals (ca. 1550– 1815) called the principle of necessity, meaning the right to take action in emer- gencies ...

Of Spiders and Bees 199 in 1785 in Latin— the last major occasion, incidentally, in which that vener- able tongue was employed i ...

200 Reason and Its Rivals (ca. 1550– 1815) of Eu ro pe an states and then to induce from them “a theory of the law of na- tions ...

Of Spiders and Bees 201 is something that is made and not merely (or exclusively) something that is found. Making Law Over the c ...

202 Reason and Its Rivals (ca. 1550– 1815) agree to grant to one another’s nationals the right to settle and trade in their resp ...

Of Spiders and Bees 203 on a neutral ship on the high seas. A “free ships– free goods” provision al- tered that rule between ...

204 Reason and Its Rivals (ca. 1550– 1815) to the demands of an eternal and universal natural law on high. It has been observed ...

Of Spiders and Bees 205 be disagreement, though, about the breadth of territorial seas (as they came to be called). For instance ...

206 Reason and Its Rivals (ca. 1550– 1815) their many slogans.) Th eir many plans for reform seemed worryingly un- settling, ...

Of Spiders and Bees 207 self from intervention by foreigners. It also committed France to granting asylum to “foreigners who, in ...