What was ius gentium

Sign in with your library card Please enter your library card number. Search within Article contents Bibliography. Show Summary Details ius gentium. The course of the development of this ius gentium is conjectural. No doubt the establishment c. You do not currently have access to this article Login Please login to access the full content.

Subscribe Access to the full content requires a subscription. Oxford University Press. Thirdly, both jurists and theologians elaborated extensively upon the connections between ius gentium and ius naturale : they first drew a distinction between ius naturale primaevum and secundarium , and then reformulated this distinction in such a way that ius gentium itself was split into ius gentium primaevum and secundarium.

Many words were to be expended on this distinction until well into Early Modern Times, in the course of a discussion which recent scholarship has studied in depth. This chapter, however, will focus less on this doctrinal debate during the the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries than on the transformation undergone by ius gentium as it developed into a ius inter gentes specifically regulating relations between political communities. Special attention will be paid to diplomatic theory, which has proven to be a particularly interesting field within which to fully evaluate the slow emergence of the state as the only legitimate subject of international law.

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