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Roman Law in the State of Nature: The Classical Foundations of Hugo Grotius' Natural Law
Contributor(s): Straumann, Benjamin (Author)
ISBN: 1107092906     ISBN-13: 9781107092907
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
OUR PRICE:   $114.00  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: February 2015
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BISAC Categories:
- Law | Legal History
- Law | Jurisprudence
- Law | Natural Law
Dewey: 340.112
LCCN: 2014032228
Series: Ideas in Context
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (1.15 lbs) 286 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 17th Century
- Cultural Region - Benelux
- Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
- Cultural Region - Italy
 
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Roman Law in the State of Nature offers a new interpretation of the foundations of Hugo Grotius' natural law theory. Surveying the significance of texts from classical antiquity, Benjamin Straumann argues that certain classical texts, namely Roman law and a specifically Ciceronian brand of Stoicism, were particularly influential for Grotius in the construction of his theory of natural law. The book asserts that Grotius, a humanist steeped in Roman law, had many reasons to employ Roman tradition and explains how Cicero's ethics and Roman law - secular and offering a doctrine of the freedom of the high seas - were ideally suited to provide the rules for Grotius' state of nature. This fascinating new study offers historians, classicists and political theorists a fresh account of the historical background of the development of natural rights, natural law and of international legal norms as they emerged in seventeenth-century early modern Europe.

Contributor Bio(s): Straumann, Benjamin: - Benjamin Straumann is Alberico Gentili Fellow at New York University School of Law. He is the editor, with Benedict Kingsbury, of Alberico Gentili's The Wars of the Romans: A Critical Edition and Translation of De armis Romanis (2011). With Nehal Bhuta and Anthony Pagden, Straumann edits the new series in the History and Theory of International Law for Oxford University Press.