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

28 Law and Morality Abroad (to ca. ad 1550) War (of 431– 404 bc) between Athens and Sparta, related a famous instance in which c ...

Doing Justice to Others 29 invoke what would later be termed the principle of necessity. Th ey conceded that their occupation of ...

30 Law and Morality Abroad (to ca. ad 1550) A major contribution made by the Greeks in the fi eld of international re- lations w ...

Doing Justice to Others 31 forswore policies of imperialism, coercion, and intervention into the aff airs of other Greek states. ...

32 Law and Morality Abroad (to ca. ad 1550) raids, each side sent envoys to the other to demand the return of stolen property. T ...

Doing Justice to Others 33 hurl the spear into the enemy’s territory, thereby offi cially inaugurating the hostilities. Livy rec ...

34 Law and Morality Abroad (to ca. ad 1550) manded compensation of fi ve hundred talents for the injuries and dispatched militar ...

Doing Justice to Others 35 Th e attitude of the Greeks illustrates the position all too clearly. Prior to the conquests of Alexa ...

36 Law and Morality Abroad (to ca. ad 1550) cooperates with the other, with no defections by either. And the best way of bringin ...

Doing Justice to Others 37 ing provision for extradition of wanted criminals (along with a promise that extradited persons would ...

38 Law and Morality Abroad (to ca. ad 1550) in Central Asia, along the trade routes that had grown up since the fi rst cen- tury ...

Doing Justice to Others 39 China and the Wider World With the unifi cation of the various Warring States into a single central- ...

40 Law and Morality Abroad (to ca. ad 1550) conjunction with diplomatic visits. Viewed from the Chinese standpoint, these gift s ...

Doing Justice to Others 41 standing with China, while relations with other, lesser, countries continued on the basis of the trib ...

42 Law and Morality Abroad (to ca. ad 1550) Greece and the Birth of Natural Law It has been observed that the Greeks had a consc ...

Doing Justice to Others 43 human convention: the cynics and the stoics. Th e cynics— the word means literally “doglike” in Greek ...

44 Law and Morality Abroad (to ca. ad 1550) On a slightly more down- to- earth note, some stoic writers thought that the world h ...

Doing Justice to Others 45 the Greeks. Th ere has been much speculation as to the extent of stoic infl u- ence on Roman lawyers. ...

46 Law and Morality Abroad (to ca. ad 1550) both parties were non- Roman. It was for the resolution of these disputes in- volvin ...

Doing Justice to Others 47 Th ere was some divergence of opinion among Roman writers as to whether the diff erences between natu ...