Hugo Grotius
- Jurist
- Hugo Grotius
- School
- Natural Law / International Law
- Father of
- Modern International Law; Secular Natural Law
- Theory
- Secular Natural Law — etiamsi daremus (would hold even if there were no God); Father of modern International Law; just war theory.
- Quote
Law is not an end in itself, but a means to an end; and that end is the preservation of human society.
- Books
De Jure Belli ac Pacis (On the Law of War and Peace), Mare Liberum (The Free Sea)
- Propounded
Just War Theory; etiamsi daremus (natural law holds even if there were no God); Mare Liberum (freedom of the seas)
- Born
- 1583
- Died
- 1645
- Portrait
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