OF THE LAW OF NATURE AND NATIONS EIGHT BOOKSPufendorf, Samuel vonItem #: 10563 Pages: 878p. Published: Union; Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.; 1729. Reprinted in 2005. Subjects: INTERNATIONAL LAW Reprint of the fourth English edition of De Jure Naturae et Gentium. In 1662 Samuel Pufendorf was appointed to the first modern professorship in natural law (at the University of Heidelberg). In 1670 he became professor of natural law at the University of Lund in Sweden. First published in 1672, this is his principal work and a landmark in the history of natural and international law. It proposed a thorough system of private, public and international law based on natural law. Beginning with a consideration of fundamental legal ideas and their various divisions, Pufendorf proceeded to a discussion of the validity of customs, the doctrines of necessity and innate human reason. Reprinted by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. Distributed by William S. Hein & Co., Inc.
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