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  title info:
    title: Rewriting the history of the law of nations
    sub title: how James Brown Scott made Francisco de Vitoria the founder of international law
  name:
    name part: Amorosa, Paolo
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: History
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (312 pages)
  abstract: In the interwar years, international lawyer James Brown Scott wrote a series of works on the history of his discipline. He made the case that the foundation of modern international law rested not, as most assumed, with the seventeenth-century Dutch thinker Hugo Grotius, but with sixteenth-century Spanish theologian Francisco de Vitoria. Far from being an antiquarian assertion, the Spanish origin narrative placed the inception of international law in the context of the discovery of America, rather than in the European wars of religion. The recognition of equal rights to the American natives by Vitoria was the pedigree on which Scott built a progressive international law, responsive to the rise of the United States as the leading global power and developments in international organization such as the creation of the League of Nations. 0This book describes the Spanish origin project in context, relying on Scott's biography, changes in the self-understanding of the international legal profession, as well as on larger social and political trends in US and global history. Keeping in mind Vitoria's persisting role as a key figure in the canon of international legal history, the book sheds light on the contingency of shared assumptions about the discipline and their unspoken implications. The legacy of the international law Scott developed for the American century is still with the profession today, in the shape of the normalization and de-politicization of rights language and of key concepts like equality and rule of law.
  note: Paolo Amorosa.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Scott, James Brown
      name part: 1866-1943
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Vitoria, Francisco de
      name part: 1486?-1546
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Scott, James Brown
      name part: 1866-1943
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Vitoria, Francisco de
      name part: 1486?-1546
  subject:
    topic: International law
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Droit international
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: International law
  classification: KZ1242 .A65 2019
  classification: 341.09
  related item:
    title info:
      title: History and theory of international law
  identifier: 9780191883491
  identifier: 0191883492
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  identifier: 0192589059
  identifier: 9780192589040
  identifier: 0192589040
  identifier: 9780198849377
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  record info:
    record content source: EBLCP
    record creation date: 190921
    record change date: 20260319181321.0
    record identifier: in00005717615
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng