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12 - Rights (II)

from Part II - Concepts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 September 2021

By
Laurens Winkel
Edited by
Randall Lesaffer  and
Janne E. Nijman
Randall Lesaffer
Affiliation:
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Janne E. Nijman
Affiliation:
Universiteit van Amsterdam
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Summary

In De jure belli ac pacis, Grotius constructs international law with the vocabulary of private law. For this purpose, he uses distinctions from the Institutes of Justinian and the Digest, but redefines key concepts of Roman law, such as natural law or law of nations (jus gentium). In doing so, he uses a method that is typical for humanist jurisprudence. On the one hand, he describes history, on the other hand, he renews the traditional system of law and adapts the law to the needs of his own day and age.

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Grotiussubjective rightsInstitutesprivate law analogiesJustiniannatural lawinternational lawRoman-Dutch law
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The Cambridge Companion to Hugo Grotius , pp. 259 - 274
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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Blom, H.W. and Winkel, L., ‘Grotius and the Stoa: Introduction’, Grotiana N.S. 22–3 (2001–2), 3–19.Google Scholar
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Lee, R.W., The Jurisprudence of Holland by Hugo Grotius, vol. 1: Text (Oxford, 1926); vol. 2: Commentary (Oxford, 1936).Google Scholar
Nörr, K.W., ‘Zur Frage des subjektiven Rechts in der mittelalterlichen Rechtwissenschaft’, in Festschrift für Hermann Lange (Stuttgart etc., 1992), 193–204.Google Scholar
Olivecrona, K., ‘The concept of a right according to Grotius and Pufendorf’, in Festschrift A. Germann (Bern, 1969), 175–97.Google Scholar
Schrage, E.J.H., Actio en subjectief recht – over Romeinse en middeleeuwse wortels van een modern begrip ([Amsterdam], 1977).Google Scholar
Ter Meulen, J. and Diermanse, P.J.J., Bibliographie des écrits imprimés de Hugo Grotius (The Hague, 1950).Google Scholar
Vermeulen, B.P. and van der Wal, G.A., ‘Grotius, Aquinas and Hobbes, Grotian natural law between lex aeterna and natural rights’, Grotiana N.S. 16–17 (1995–6), 55–84.Google Scholar
Wubbe, F.B.J., ‘Ius in re’, Paulys Realencyclpopädie der classischen ALtrtumswissenschaften, ed. Wissowa, G., Suppl. 10 (Stuttgart, 1965), 333–43, reprinted in Wubbe, F.B.J., Ius vigilantibus scriptum est – Ausgewählte Schriften/Oeuvres choisies, ed. Pichonnaz, P. (Fribourg, 2003), 65–77.Google Scholar

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