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Grotius never uses the expression “international law” or its Latin counterpart “jus inter gentes.”1 He writes widely about the law of nations or “jus gentium.” Yet by reading his monumental work De iure belli ac pacis libri tres it soon becomes clear that this is not the only law which binds the nations; rather, it is only a special and limited body of rules valid in international relations. These relations can also be and are regulated, according to Grotius, by some more comprehensive laws than the so-called law of nations alone.
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War in the legal sense has been in large measure ‘outlawed’; that is, the international law conventionally accepted by most states no longer recognizes that large-scale hostilities may constitute a ‘state of war’ in which the belligerents are legally equal.“ Quincy Wright, ”The Outlawry of War and the Law of War, A. J.,XLVII (July, 1953), 365.
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© 1960 Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands
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Remec, P.P. (1960). The Position of the Individual in International Law According to Hugo Grotius. In: The Position of the Individual in International Law according to Grotius and Vattel. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-1015-8_3
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