The Roman Foundations of the Law of Nations

"[T]he contributions are of a uniformly high quality, and the entire project design is sound. Particularly praiseworthy is the integration of interdisciplinary voices into the discussion of early modern international affairs... The editors should be congratulated for bringing this effort to fruition, marking what may be anew turn in the scholarship of international legal history, one that properly emphasizes the intellectual, social, and cultural contexts of the subject."- American Journal of International Law

Andreas Wagner, European Journal of International Law, vol. 23 no. 3 The editors are to be congratulated without reservation for their cardinal - and beautiful - accomplishment.

Anthony Carty, Leiden Journal of International Law Kingsbury and Straumann have made a dramatic bid to place Roman law at the foundation of international law. ... The reviewer has been hugely stimulated and challenged by this work, to begin to think out for himself just how important Roman law inspiration was for the practice of states in international law. ... I am sure that other readers willing to engage with the exacting and sometimes confusing scholarship of this book will be stretched to their own limits in trying to make sense of the history of international law.

<br>Benedict Kingsbury is Murry and Ida Becker Professor of Law and Director of the Institute for International Law and Justice at New York University School of Law. He also directs NYU Law School's Program in the History and Theory of International Law, with Martti Koskenniemi. He is the editor, with Benjamin Straumann, of Alberico Gentili, The Wars of the Romans. De armis Romanis, trans. David Lupher (OUP, 2010), and, with Hedley Bull, Adam Roberts et al, of Hugo Grotius and International Relations (OUP, 1990). <br>Benjamin Straumann is Alberico Gentili Fellow at New York University. He is the author of Hugo Grotius und die Antike. Romisches Recht und romische Ethik im fruhneuzeitlichen Naturrecht (2007), and the editor, with Benedict Kingsbury, of Alberico Gentili, The Wars of the Romans. De armis Romanis, trans. David Lupher (2010).<br>

1. Introduction; PART I A JUST EMPIRE: THE ROMAN MODEL; 2. The Meaning of imperium in the Last Century BC and the First AD; 3. Empire and the Laws of War: A Roman Archaeology; 4. Alberico Gentili's De armis Romanis: The Roman Model of the Just Empire; 5. The De armis Romanis and the exemplum of Roman Imperialism; 6. The Corpus iuris as a Source of Law Between Sovereigns in Alberico Gentili's Thought; PART II GENTILI AND THE LAW OF WAR; 7. Alberico Gentili and the Ottomans; 8. Gentili, the Poets, and the Laws of War; 9. Vitoria, Gentili, Bodin: Sovereignty and the Law of Nations; 10. Alberico Gentili's Doctrine of Defensive War and Its Impact on Seventeenth-Century Normative Views; 11. Alberico Gentili's ius post bellum and Early Modern Peace Treaties; 12. Punishment and the ius post bellum; PART III LAW BETWEEN, BEYOND AND WITHIN SOVEREIGNS; 13. Legalities of the Sea in Gentili's Hispanica Advocatio; 14. Ius gentium: A Defense of Gentili's Equation of the Law of Nations and the Law of Nature; 15. International Law and raison d'etat: Rethinking the Prehistory of International Law; 16. Gentili, Vitoria, and the Fabrication of a 'Natural Law of Nations'