The purpose of this work is to present a comprehensive view of Hugo Grotius's main work De Jure Belli ac Pacis, a view based on the text. Its main argument shows that, far from being a bookish theoretician indulging himself in the construction of an abstract system, Grotius had in mind, above all, a practically oriented treatise aiming about all at 'regulating and restraining war'. At the same time the authors take the opportunity to re-examine the historiography of international law with its anachronistic Eurocentric bias.
ISBN: | 9780198257097 |
Publication date: | 8th July 1993 |
Author: | Professor of International Law, Tokyo University) Onuma Yasuaki (Professor of International Law |
Publisher: | Clarendon Press an imprint of Oxford University Press |
Format: | Hardback |
Pagination: | 440 pages |
Genres: |
Public international law: treaties and other sources Public international law: humanitarian law Methods, theory and philosophy of law |