Kirstin Bunge Knihy

Francisco de Vitoria (1483–1546) is best known as one of the founders of »modern« public international law. His concept of international law, however, is based on a detailed but hardly acknowledged discussion of the conditions of the validity of law in general, in which Vitoria, referring to philosophical, legal and theological traditions, takes a stance on the relation between natural and positive law and on the relation between legal and political integration. The present volume therefore seeks to explore Vitoria’s texts from the perspective of the fundamental question of the normativity of law and attempts to situate his concept of ius gentium within the wider horizon of his legal philosophy. Among the contributors to this volume are: Norbert Brieskorn, Juan Cruz Cruz, Stefan Kadelbach, Matthias Kaufmann, Andreas Niederberger, Augusto Sarmiento, Merio Scattola and Jörg Tellkamp.

Dieser Band versammelt unter der Frage nach der Normativitat des Rechts Untersuchungen zu Autoren der Schule von Salamanca. Die Vitalitat dieses Diskussionszusammenhangs wird deutlich in den kontroversen und innovativen Stellungnahmen von Vitoria, Soto, Las Casas, Sepulveda, Covarrubias, Acosta, Veracruz, Suarez, Molina und F. Vazquez zu Fragen der Rechtsgeltung. Diese interdisziplinaren und uber die Grenzen Europas hinausreichenden Debatten haben weitreichende Bedeutung fur die Ausbildung des modernen Rechtsverstandnisses. Mit Beitragen (deutsch, englisch) u.a. von Georg Cavallar, Nils Jansen (nicht in der ebook-Version verfugbar), Matthias Kaufmann, Hernan Neira, Merio Scattola, Christian Schafer, Kurt Seelmann, Gideon Stiening und Jorg A. Tellkamp.Concerned with the question of the normativity of law, the present volume collects essays on the authors of the 'School of Salamanca'. In this context, authors such as Vitoria, Soto, Las Casas, Sepulveda, Covarrubias, Acosta, Veracruz, Suarez, Molina and F. Vazquez have commented on the normative claim and validity of law. These interdisciplinary debates reached far beyond Europe and have a lasting influence on the modern understanding of law. With English and German contributions by Georg Cavallar, Nils Jansen (not available in the ebook-Version), Matthias Kaufmann, Hernan Neira, Merio Scattola, Christian Schafer, Kurt Seelmann, Gideon Stiening und Jorg A. Tellkamp.