{"product_id":"roman-law-in-the-state-benjamin-straumann-9781107092907","title":"Roman Law in the State of Nature: The Classical Foundations of Hugo Grotius' Natural Law","description":"Roman Law in the State of Nature offers a new interpretation of the foundations of Hugo Grotius' natural law theory. Surveying the significance of texts from classical antiquity, Benjamin Straumann argues that certain classical texts, namely Roman law and a specifically Ciceronian brand of Stoicism, were particularly influential for Grotius in the construction of his theory of natural law. The book asserts that Grotius, a humanist steeped in Roman law, had many reasons to employ Roman tradition and explains how Cicero's ethics and Roman law - secular and offering a doctrine of the freedom of the high seas - were ideally suited to provide the rules for Grotius' state of nature. This fascinating new study offers historians, classicists and political theorists a fresh account of the historical background of the development of natural rights, natural law and of international legal norms as they emerged in seventeenth-century early modern Europe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Benjamin Straumann\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1107092906\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781107092907\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cambridge University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/12\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 286\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.90d","brand":"Benjamin Straumann","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44120805343487,"sku":"9781107092907","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_49597f1c-0090-414f-8b11-66251a919fe9.jpg?v=1687416368","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/roman-law-in-the-state-benjamin-straumann-9781107092907","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}