The history of International Law is commonly considered to have begun in the mid-19th century with the first Geneva Convention, whereas its theoretical foundations are traced back to 1625, when Hugo Grotius wrote De jure belli ac pacis.
But is that true? Can it be possible to trace back the origins of a universal legal system without paying even the slightes attention to the remaining two thirds of the world? Or is rather another eurocentric approach to a asses the history of a legal order?
MuslimLawyer will try to shed some light on this issue and find out where it all began in the next article.
Coming soon: A different approach to the history of the ius gentium.
But is that true? Can it be possible to trace back the origins of a universal legal system without paying even the slightes attention to the remaining two thirds of the world? Or is rather another eurocentric approach to a asses the history of a legal order?
MuslimLawyer will try to shed some light on this issue and find out where it all began in the next article.
Coming soon: A different approach to the history of the ius gentium.