Home >
Law >
Administrative / Constitutional Law >
Concepts and Contexts of Vattel's Political and Legal Thought

Concepts and Contexts of Vattel's Political and Legal Thought

Author: Peter Schröder
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781108489447
Published In: June 2021
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

List Price: HKD 1,560.00

HKD 1,513.20 Save HKD 46.80 (3%)

Download Order Form

Add to Wishlist
| Add to Compare

Description
Contents

Details

Swiss-born Emer de Vattel (1714–1767) was one of the last eminent thinkers of natural law. He shaped the later part of early-modern natural jurisprudence. At the time, the subject had become a fashionable academic sub-discipline in both jurisprudence and philosophy. Vattel's considerable impact on statesmen, political thinkers, diplomats and lawyers during his lifetime and after rested primarily on the fact that his The Law of Nations (1758) transformed natural law into the basis of a more comprehensive and practicable theory of interstate relations. His ideas served to promote reform programmes whose comprehensive natures spanned the domains of economic reform, constitutionalism and international diplomacy and foreign trade policy. Vattel's conception centred round the principle that defined all sovereign states as nations composed of societies of free men and profoundly influenced legal and political debates in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Concepts and contexts of Vattel's political and legal thought – an introduction

Peter Schröder

Part I. Historical and Intellectual Contexts:

1. In search of a nation: Vattel, Neuchâtel and the Swiss confederacy

Nadir Weber

2. Sovereignty contested: Vattel's use of Leibniz, Hobbes and Pufendorf

Ben Holland

3. The development of the law of nations: Wolff and Vattel

Ere Nokkala

4. Vattel and the Abbe de Choisy: French historiography, piety and law of nations

Francesca Iurlaro

5. Vattel and the seven years' war