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

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  1. Seed, Ceremonies, 41– 68.

  2. Ibid., 56– 57.

  3. See generally Dorothy V. Jones, License for Empire: Colonialism by Treaty in
    Early America (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982).

  4. Walters, “Mohegan Indians v. Connecticut,” 803.

  5. For a cogent explanation of this point, see Pagden, “Law, Colonization,” 8– 14.

  6. J. P. Canning, “Law, Sovereignty and Corporation Th eory, 1300– 1450,” in J. H.
    Burns, ed., Th e Cambridge History of Medieval Po liti cal Th ought c. 350– c. 1450, 454–
    76 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988), 462– 63.

  7. Mónica Brito Vieira, “Mare Liberum vs. Mare Clausum: Grotius, Freitas, and
    Selden’s Debate on Dominion over the Seas,” 64 J. Hist. Ideas 361– 77 (2003), 376.

  8. See Digest 8.4.13 (Ulpian); and Digest 43.8.3 (Celsus).

  9. Philip D. Curtin, Cross- Cultural Trade in World History (Ca mbridge: Ca m-
    bridge University Press, 1984), 139– 40.

  10. On Grotius, see J. Basdevant, “Hugo Grotius,” in Pillet, ed., Fondateurs, 125–
    267; and La Pradelle, Maîtres et doctrines, 71– 92.

  11. On De Indis, see J. Basdevant, “Hugo Grotius,” 155– 79.

  12. Hugo Grotius, Commentary on the Law of Prize and Booty, trans. Gwladys
    Williams (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1950 [1606]), 2.

  13. Ibid., 244.

  14. Ibid., 234– 55.

  15. Fernando Vázquez should not be confused with his much younger contempo-
    rary Gabriel Vázquez, a signifi cant writer on po liti cal and legal issues in other areas.

  16. See C. H. Alexandrowicz, An Introduction to the History of the Law of Nations in
    the East Indies (16th, 17th and 18th Centuries) (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1967),
    42– 49; and W. E. Butler, “Grotius and the Law of the Sea,” in Hedley Bull, Benedict
    Kingsbury, and Adam Roberts, eds., Hugo Grotius and International Relations, 209– 20
    (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990).

  17. Decree of James I, Mar. 4, 1604, in Grewe, ed., Fontes, vol. 2, 164.

  18. See Alexandrowicz, Introduction, 49– 57; and Vieira, “Mare Liberum.”

  19. Adam Smyth, “Better Mouldy,” TLS, Dec. 24– 31, 2010, 16.

  20. On these aspects of Selden’s thought, see Jason P. Rosenblatt, Re nais sance En-
    gland’s Chief Rabbi: John Selden (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006).

  21. See Eric G. M. Fletcher, “John Selden (Author of Mare Clausum) and His Con-
    tribution to International Law,” 19 Grotius Soc. Trans. 1– 12 (1933).


Part II. Reason and Its Rivals (ca. 1550– 1815)
Epigraph: Hugo Grotius, On the Law of War and Peace, trans. Francis W. Kelsey
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1925 [1625]), 15.



  1. Frederick Sherwood Dunn, Th e Practice and Procedure of International Confer-
    ences (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1929), 78.


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