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Conference: A Just Empire?
Rome ’s Legal Legacy and the Justification of War and Empire
in International Law

Commemorative Conference on Alberico Gentili (1552-1608)
New York University School of Law
March 13-15 2008

Agenda

Participants

Clifford Ando     ["Empire and the laws of war: the Roman case"]

Lauren Benton     ["The Many Legalities of the Sea in Gentili's Hispanica Advocatio"]

Alexis Blane     ["Punishment and the Ius post bellum"]

David Golove     ["On an Equal Footing:Constitution-Making and the Law of Nations in the Early American Republic"]

Robert Howse     ["Montesquieu on Commerce, Conquest, War and Peace"]

Daniel Hulsebosch     ["On an Equal Footing:Constitution-Making and the Law of Nations in the Early American Republic"]

Emmanuelle Jouannet     ["The disapearance of the concept of empire"]

Benedict Kingsbury     ["Punishment and the Ius post bellum"]

Petter Korkman     ["The Vital String of Mankind - Sociability and the Foundation of Natural Law and Universal Rights"]

Martti Koskenniemi     ["INTERNATIONAL LAW AND RAISON D’ÉTAT;RETHINKING THE PREHISTORY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW"]

Randall Lesaffer     ["Gentili’s ius post bellum and early-modern peace treaties"]

Liliana Obregón     ["Andrés Bello´s Roman Law and International Law as foundational projects for the newly independent Latin American States"]

Diego Panizza     ["Alberico Gentili's De Armis Romanis: the Roman Model of the Just Empire"]

Partel Piirimae     ["Alberico Gentili's doctrine of defensive war and its impact on seventeenth-century normative views"]

Ileana Porras     ["Atheists, cannibals, rebels and pirates: Cementing the bonds of human society in Gentili’s De Iure Belli"]

John Richardson     ["The meaning of imperium in the last century BC and the first AD"]

Peter Schröder     ["It is the nature of wars for both sides to maintain that they are supporting a just cause"]

Benjamin Straumann     ["The Corpus iuris civils as a source of law between nations in Gentili's thought" ]

Kaius Tuori      ["The invader's remorse: Gentili and the criticism of expansion in the Roman empire"]

Jeremy Waldron     ["US GENTIUM: A Defense of Genitli's Equation of the Law of Nations and the Law of Nature"]

Christopher Warren     ["Gentili, the Poets, and the Laws of War"]

James Whitman     ["The Verdict of Battle"]

Chairs

Anabel Brett

David Lupher

Anne Orford

Jennifer Pitts

Rahul Rao

John Fabian Witt

  

Photos from Welcome Reception at Silvano Lattanzi

Press

Event Review by Pepe Ragoni (Italian)

 

 

 

 

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