CATHOLIC CONCEPTION OF INTERNATIONAL LAW FRANCISCO DE VITORIA, FOUNDER OF THE MODERN LAW OF NATIONS. FRANCISCO SUAREZ, FOUNDER OF THE MODERN PHILOSOPHY OF LAW IN GENERAL...Item #: 62996 Pages: xviii, 494 pp. Published: Union; Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.; Reprinted in 2007. Subjects: INTERNATIONAL LAW Reprint of the sole edition. Scott's studies of two of the great precursors of modern international law. Suarez "was a forerunner of Grotius and Pufendorf in finding a natural law basis for a law of nations" (Oxford Companion to Law, 1194). Francisco de Vitoria is best known for a treatise which questioned the justice of the Spanish conquest and upheld the rights of the Indians. Reprinted by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. Distributed by William S. Hein & Co., Inc. Please contact us to request purchasing information. |