Synopsis Of The Law Of Nations. Volume Two - The Translation
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Worn and soiled cloth; moderate rubbing and bumping on edges, corners and spine. Internally sound, binding remains tight, clean text.
At a time when the sovereign states of Europe were locked in perpetual contest over territory, commerce, and diplomacy, Johann Wolfgang Textor — jurist, professor, and Electoral Councillor of the Palatinate — produced one of the most rigorous and systematic early treatises on the principles governing relations between nations. First published in Basel in 1680 at the press of Jacob Bertsch, the Synopsis of the Law of Nations presents a comprehensive codification of international legal norms, drawing on natural law theory, customary practice, and classical scholarship to argue that sovereign states are bound by a higher order of legal obligation. This Volume Two, rendered into English by John Pawley Bate, LL.D., Reader in Roman and International Law at the Inns of Court, London, makes Textor's landmark Latin text accessible to a modern anglophone readership for the first time. Published in 1916 by the Carnegie Institution of Washington as part of its distinguished series on the classics of international law, this translation stands as a monument to early modern legal scholarship and its enduring relevance to twentieth-century jurisprudence. Textor's work predates and anticipates the great systematisers of international law — Vattel, Wolff, and Pufendorf — and his precision of argument reveals how the foundations of modern statecraft were laid centuries before they were formally codified. For scholars of legal history, diplomacy, and the philosophy of nations, this volume raises a question that remains stubbornly unresolved: can nations ever truly be bound by law?
Author: Johann Wolfgang Textor; John Pawley Bate
Format: Hardback
Published: 1916, Carnegie Institution of Washington
Genre: Politics & law
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Worn and soiled cloth; moderate rubbing and bumping on edges, corners and spine. Internally sound, binding remains tight, clean text.
At a time when the sovereign states of Europe were locked in perpetual contest over territory, commerce, and diplomacy, Johann Wolfgang Textor — jurist, professor, and Electoral Councillor of the Palatinate — produced one of the most rigorous and systematic early treatises on the principles governing relations between nations. First published in Basel in 1680 at the press of Jacob Bertsch, the Synopsis of the Law of Nations presents a comprehensive codification of international legal norms, drawing on natural law theory, customary practice, and classical scholarship to argue that sovereign states are bound by a higher order of legal obligation. This Volume Two, rendered into English by John Pawley Bate, LL.D., Reader in Roman and International Law at the Inns of Court, London, makes Textor's landmark Latin text accessible to a modern anglophone readership for the first time. Published in 1916 by the Carnegie Institution of Washington as part of its distinguished series on the classics of international law, this translation stands as a monument to early modern legal scholarship and its enduring relevance to twentieth-century jurisprudence. Textor's work predates and anticipates the great systematisers of international law — Vattel, Wolff, and Pufendorf — and his precision of argument reveals how the foundations of modern statecraft were laid centuries before they were formally codified. For scholars of legal history, diplomacy, and the philosophy of nations, this volume raises a question that remains stubbornly unresolved: can nations ever truly be bound by law?