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Grotius: His Relevance to Present Day Law of Armed Conflict

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2017

Frits Kalshoven*
Affiliation:
University of Leiden

Abstract

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Type
Humanitarian Law
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 1983

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References

1 At p. 599 in the translation published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in its series CLASSICS OF INTERNATIONAL LAW (James Brown Scott ed.). The references in the subsequent footnotes are to the same edition.

2 Id., at 609.

3 Id., at 646, 648, 649

4 Id., at 652

5 Id., at 716

6 Id., at 718-19.

7 Id., at 733, 734, 736, 737, 739, 740.

8 “[W]e are confronted with a treatise whose purpose was to bring the actions of this world at war into harmony with principles of justice and the practice of Christian peoples.” Scott in his Introduction to Grotius' treatise, supra n.l, at x.