History and Theory of International Law Publications

IILJ Working Papers:

History and Theory of International Law Series

Two recent books:

The Wars of the Romans: A Critical Edition and Translation of De Armis Romanis, Alberico Gentili. Benedict Kingsbury, Benjamin Straumann (eds.), David Lupher (trans.), Oxford University Press, 2011. Review by: David J. Bederman.

The Roman Foundations of the Law of Nations: Alberico Gentili and the Justice of Empire. Benedict Kingsbury and Benjamin Straumann (eds.), Oxford University Press, 2010. Review by: David J. Bederman. Review by Christopher Smith.

Contents:

Note on contributors	vii
Editors’ note and acknowledgments	xi
Note on references to Gentili’s main works	xiii
1. Introduction: The Roman Foundations of the Law of Nations Benedict Kingsbury and Benjamin Straumann	1
I A JUST EMPIRE: THE ROMAN MODEL
2. The Meaning of Imperium in the Last Century BC and the First AD John Richardson	21
3. Empire and the Laws of War: A Roman Archaeology Clifford Ando	30
4. Alberico Gentili’s De armis Romanis: The Roman Model of the Just Empire Diego Panizza	53
5. The De armis Romanis and the exemplum of Roman Imperialism David Lupher	85
6. The Corpus iuris as a Source of Law Between Sovereigns in Alberico Gentili's Thought Benjamin Straumann	101
II GENTILI AND THE LAW OF WAR
7. Alberico Gentili and the Ottomans Noel Malcolm	127
8. Gentili, the Poets, and the Laws of War Christopher N. Warren	146
9. Vitoria, Gentili, Bodin: Sovereignty and the Law of Nations Peter Schröder	163
10. Alberico Gentili’s Doctrine of Defensive War and its Impact on Seventeenth-Century Normative Views Pärtel Piirimäe	187
11. Alberico Gentili’s ius post bellum and Early Modern Peace Treaties Randall Lesaffer	210
12. Punishment and the ius post bellum Alexis Blane and Benedict Kingsbury	241
III LAW BETWEEN, BEYOND, AND WITHIN SOVEREIGNS
13. Legalities of the Sea in Gentili’s Hispanica Advocatio Lauren Benton	269
14. Ius gentium: A Defence of Gentili’s Equation of the Law of Nations and the Law of Nature Jeremy Waldron	283
15. International Law and raison d’état: Rethinking the Prehistory of International Law Martti Koskenniemi	297
16. Gentili, Vitoria, and the Fabrication of a ‘Natural Law of Nations’ Anthony Pagden	340