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Grotius, Hugo (1583–1645)
Scholar, lawyer and statesman, Grotius contributed to a number of different disciplines. His reputation as the founder both of a new international order and of a new moral ...
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Pufendorf, Samuel (1632–94)
Pufendorf was the first university professor of the law of nature and nations. His De iure naturae et gentium (On the Law of Nature and Nations) (1672) and ...
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Political philosophy
Political philosophy can be defined as philosophical reflection on how best to arrange our collective life - our political institutions and our social practices, such as our economic ...
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Stair, James Dalrymple, Viscount (1619–95)
An outstanding lawyer, senior judge, politician, and the founding father of modern Scots Law, Stair is also an interesting, if minor, philosopher of law of the seventeenth century. ...
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Carmichael, Gershom (1672–1729)
Gershom Carmichael was a teacher and writer of pivotal importance for the Scottish Enlightenment of the eighteenth century. He was the first Professor of Moral Philosophy at the ...
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Olivecrona, Karl (1897–1980)
Olivecrona was a Swedish jurist of the ’realist’ school, and from 1933 Professor of Procedural Law in the University of Lund. He regards law as a body of ...
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Selden, John (1584–1654)
Antiquarian, philologist, parliamentarian, legal historian and practising lawyer, John Selden was a major figure in the renaissance and systematization of common law. In jurisprudence, his importance lies in ...
Biographical
Blackstone, William (1723–80)
Blackstone produced the first systematic exposition of English law as a body of principles. His enterprise was founded upon the assumption that the detailed rules of English law ...
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Enlightenment, Scottish
Rooted in the intellectual revolution of the seventeenth century, the Scottish Enlightenment was a branch of the Moderate Enlightenment that dominated the Atlantic world in the eighteenth century. ...
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