A Max Planck Institute for European Legal History Open Access Publication

Open Access version (License CC-BY-NC-ND) available at http://dx.doi.org/10.12946/gplh8

Print-on-demand version (paperback) available at epubli https://www.epubli.de/shop/buch/63133

The numerous editions and early translations produced throughout the eighteenth century enabled the broad dissemination of Emer de Vattel’s juridical-political work Droit des gens. This book investigates the global impact of the Droit des gens with regard to the different political realities, the historical and legal contexts as well as the attempts, mechanisms and strategies used to put these ideas into practice and establish new doctrine between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.