Emergence of the modern science of international law in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries is usually attributed to Hugo Grotius (1583-1645) and other “

Excerpt from History of the Law of Nations in Europe and America, From the Earliest Times to the Treaty of Washington, 1842 This work was originally written and

In offering a critical analysis of the writings of Cornelius van Bynkershoek (1673-1743) - the eminent Dutch jurist known traditionally as a `positivist', in th