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The Spanish Origin of International Law Francisco De Vitoria and His Law of Nations (Publications of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Division of International Law.) by James Brown Scott is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Study of Vitoria by a leading figure in twentieth-century international law. Originally published: Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1934. 19a, 288, [6], clviii pp. Francisco de Vitoria [c.1483-1546] was a founder of international law. Scott holds that Vitoria's doctrines, popularized in his important Reflectiones, De Indis Noviter Inventis and De Jure Belli (the text of these are included in the appendix), are in fact the first works to address the law of nations, which was to become the international law of Christendom and the world at large. Vitoria held that pagans were entitled to freedom and property, declared slavery to be unsound and upheld the rights of Indians. He also questioned the legitimacy of Spain's recent conquest of the New World. This was the source of his thesis that the community of nations transcends Christendom. One of the greatest figures in modern international law, James Brown Scott [1866-1943] was the guiding force behind the American Society of International Law, and was editor-in-chief of the American Journal of International Law. He played a key role in several important diplomatic conferences and was secretary of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

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Author
James Brown Scott
Publisher
The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
Published
2000
Language
EN
ISBN
9781584771104
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Law, History, World History

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