This book explores ways in which both the theory and the practice of international politics was built upon Roman private and public law foundations on a variety of issues including the organization and limitation of war, peace settlements, embassies, commerce, and shipping.

• 1: Benedict Kingsbury and Benjamin Straumann: Introduction


• Part I A Just Empire: The Roman Model


• 2: John Richardson: The Meaning of imperium in the Last Century BC and the First AD


• 3: Clifford Ando: Empire and the Laws of War: A Roman Archaeology


• 4: Diego Panizza: Alberico Gentili's De armis Romanis: The Roman Model of the Just Empire


• 5: David Lupher: The De armis Romanis and the exemplum of Roman Imperialism


• 6: Benjamin Straumann: The Corpus iuris as a Source of Law Between Sovereigns in Alberico Gentili's Thought


• Part II Gentili and the Law of War


• 7: Noel Malcolm: Alberico Gentili and the Ottomans


• 8: Christopher Warren: Gentili, the Poets, and the Laws of War


• 9: Peter Schröder: Vitoria, Gentili, Bodin: Sovereignty and the Law of Nations


• 10: Pärtel Piirimäe: Alberico Gentili's Doctrine of Defensive War and Its Impact on Seventeenth-Century Normative Views


• 11: Randall Lesaffer: Alberico Gentili's ius post bellum and Early Modern Peace Treaties


• 12: Alexis Blane and Benedict Kingsbury: Punishment and the ius post bellum


• Part III Law Between, Beyond and Within Sovereigns


• 13: Lauren Benton: Legalities of the Sea in Gentili's Hispanica Advocatio


• 14: Jeremy Waldron: Ius gentium: A Defense of Gentili's Equation of the Law of Nations and the Law of Nature


• 15: Martti Koskenniemi: International Law and raison d'état: Rethinking the Prehistory of International Law


• 16: Anthony Pagden: Gentili, Vitoria, and the Fabrication of a 'Natural Law of Nations'

Benedict Kingsbury is Murry and Ida Becker Professor of Law and Director of the Institute for International Law and Justice at New York University School of Law. He also directs NYU Law School's Program in the History and Theory of International Law, with Martti Koskenniemi. He is the editor, with Benjamin Straumann, of Alberico Gentili, The Wars of the Romans. De armis Romanis, trans. David Lupher (OUP, 2010), and, with Hedley Bull, Adam Roberts et al, of Hugo Grotius and International Relations (OUP, 1990).
Benjamin Straumann is Alberico Gentili Fellow at New York University. He is the author of Hugo Grotius und die Antike. Römisches Recht und römische Ethik im frühneuzeitlichen Naturrecht (2007), and the editor, with Benedict Kingsbury, of Alberico Gentili, The Wars of the Romans. De armis Romanis, trans. David Lupher (2010).