The Last Waltz of the Law of Nations: A Translation of the 1803 Edition of the Institutions of Natural Law and the Law of Nations

ISBN-13: 9780198725138 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 256 str.

Joseph-Mathias Gerard De Rayneval; Jean Allain

Opis

De Rayneval's 1803 book, The Institutions of Natural Law and the Law of Nations, is a classic of international law. Its influence on the development of international law in the nineteenth century is undeniable. This translation and the introductory essay will reintroduce this classic work to a new audience.

Recenzje

Jean Allain's painstaking translation of Gérard de Rayneval's treatise Institutions du droit de la nature et des gens (1803) is an important addition to our still limited repertoire of continental international legal literature. W. E. Butler, Jus Gentium

O autorze

Jean Allain is a Professor of Law at Monash University, based in Australia and Professor of International Law at the Wilberforce Institute, University of Hull, UK. He also holds an Extraordinary Professorship with the Centre of Human Right, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, South Africa. Prof Allain is founding Editor of the Irish Yearbook of International Law, and author of four monographs and five edited volumes, including The Legal Understanding of Slavery: From the Historical to the Contemporary (Oxford University Press, 2012). While completing his doctorate at the Graduate Institute of International Studies of the University of Geneva, Switzerland; he clerked for the first President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.