New York University Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers
Document Type
Article
Abstract
The relation between the law of nature and the law of nations (ius gnetium) remains unclear. This paper examines Gentili's apparent equation of the two, and it considers more generally how abstract natural law reasoning might be improved by the sort of empirical/comparative law reasoning (as we would call it) that thinkers like Gentili, Grotius and others engaged in when they tried to determine what natural law teaches us about the regulation of war.
Date of Authorship for this Version
December 2008
Recommended Citation
Waldron, Jeremy, "Ius Gentium: A Defense of Gentili's Equation of the Law of Nations and the Law of Nature" (2008). New York University Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers. Paper 99.
http://lsr.nellco.org/nyu_plltwp/99