Concepts and Contexts of Vattel's Political and Legal Thought

Swiss-born Emer de Vattel (1714–1767) was one of the last eminent thinkers of natural law. He shaped the later part of early-modern natural jurisprudence. At the time, the subject had become a fashionable academic sub-discipline in both jurisprudence and philosophy. Vattel''s considerable impact on statesmen, political thinkers, diplomats and lawyers during his lifetime and after rested primarily ...