London, 1991); A Claire Cutler, "The '
Grotian tradition'
(19) This, Bull terms, the
Grotian conception of an international society, one whose
Research into the work of Grotius offers a different portrayal in respect of the influence of Spanish thinkers on the
Grotian conception of international law.
Scharf, Seizing the "
Grotian Moment": Accelerated Formation of Customary International Law in Times of Fundamental Change, 43 CORNELL INT'L L.J.
4 (1977): 717-38; Claire Cutler, "The
Grotian Tradition in International Relations," Review of International Studies 17, no.
(5) Hersch Lauterpacht, 'The
Grotian Tradition in International Law', British Yearbook of International Law, 23 (1946), 1-53 (pp.
(29) Bull ayni gelenekleri Hobbescu,
Grotian ve Kantci gelenekler olarak isimlendirir.
Gassama, International Law at a
Grotian Moment: The Invasion of Iraq in Context, 18 EMORY INT'L L.
(324) See Boutros Boutros-Ghali, A
Grotian Moment, 18 FORDHAM
To establish the significance of Grotius to the moral refoundation of international law, May applies
Grotian "humaneness" to the Just War tradition and to contemporary war crimes cases in international law.
FRIEDHEIM, NEGOTIATING THE NEW OCEAN REGIME 288 (University of South Carolina Press 1993) ("The
Grotian rules of flag-state dominance in jurisdiction are bent and modified, but not eliminated.").
The political theorist Richard Falk has written about a "
Grotian moment," in which the political, legal, and diplomatic status quo is being transformed.
He ended a proponent of universal redemption grounded in divine "philanthropy," and of a
Grotian view of the atonement.
Though May admits that his reading of Grotius is 'nonstandard' (53), by emphasizing the importance of 'sociableness' and 'friendliness' as the fundamental concepts for
Grotian natural law, he makes a good case for accentuating their importance for the purposes of developing an idea of humanity that restrains individual actions during conflict.
(41.) See Randall Lesaffer, The
Grotian Tradition Revisited: Change and Continuity in the History of International Law, in 73 THE BRITISH YEAR BOOK OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 103, 118 (2002) (discussing how successors were bound to treaties in the Spanish Age of international law, circa 1450-1648).
