No other scholar has so deeply influenced the development of international law or shaped the doctrinal debates as Vattel. More than 250 years after its publicat

The concept of customary international law, although differently formulated, is already present in early modern European debates on natural law and the law of n

This book explores the history of the international order in the eighteenth and nineteenth century through a new study of Emer de Vattel’s Droit des gens (175

This edited collection offers a reassessment of the complicated legacy of Emer de Vattel’s Droit des gens, first published in 1758. One of the most influentia

Explores how Vattel used the natural law tradition to frame a pragmatic and treaty-oriented model of the law of nations.