According to
Grotius, the right of necessity issues from a constraint imposed by natural law on the positive law of private property.
Instrumental reason--the narrow sort used in courts to justify any position whatever--was not invented by
Grotius, but he was among the first to show how it could be used to advance the national secular interest (as opposed to the interests of princes and the church).
As I wrote last Sunday, the Philippine claim was begun by President Ferdinand Marcos when the Philippine delegation to the law of the sea conferences was able to convince the much more numerous 'coastal' states to agree to 1) the complicated 'archipelagic principles' in computing the baselines from which to measure the territorial sea, contiguous zone, exclusive economic zone and extended continental shelves of 'mid-ocean' states, and 2) the much longer boundaries of these zones compared with the traditional 3-mile limit spelled out long ago by Hugo
Grotius, the father of international law.
Arguably, its most captivating depiction appears in the beautiful edition of Phaenomena published in 1600 by Hugo
Grotius and called Syntagma Arateorum.
The corpus of sources included in this volume comprises letters written by Cornelis Matelieff de Jonge (to figures such as the land's advocate, Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, or Hugo
Grotius), memorials, and reports concerning the company's operations, as well as apocryphal texts such as journals of his voyages.
According to reports, around 30 experts from Asia, Africa, Europe and the United States spoke about the South China Sea issue at a seminar co-organised by Leiden Universitys
Grotius Center for International Legal Studies and Wuhan Universitys Institute for Boundary and Ocean Studies.
Though they used slightly different terminology,
Grotius,
Such philosophical luminaries as Leibniz,
Grotius, Pufendorf, Schopenhauer, and Heidegger, all found cite him Francisco Suarez as a source of inspiration and influence with respect to their own works.
(6) Two eulogies dedicated to King Louis XIII appeared in 1629 and 1643, and in 1639 and 1640, Cruce published his response to the severe criticisms of Johann Friedrich Gronovius, the German publisher of Statius and friend of Hugo
Grotius, another precursor of the international order.
Hugo
Grotius (1583-1645) overlooked the North Sea from
Eva van Hooijdonk extends this approach to the collection of Latin epigrams on Prince Maurice of Nassau that Hugo
Grotius composed around 1600 to accompany a series of engravings depicting various Dutch successes in the revolt against the Spanish.
Quando
Grotius escreveu suas obras, os vestigios do poder supranacional que tanto marcaram a Europa na Idade Media tinham quase que desaparecido.
