Stephen Neff's edited and annotated version of the text rectifies this situation.

An edited and annotated edition of one of the classic works of Western legal and political thought.

1625 book in Latin, written by Hugo Grotius and published in Paris, on the legal status of war. It is now regarded as a foundational work in international law.

This volume also contains William Welwod's critque of Grotius (reprinted for the first time since the seventeenth century) and Grotius's reply to Welwod.

First critical edition and first English translation with introduction and commentary of this early work by Hugo Grotius on church politics (original edition 1613).

The Rights of War and Peace establishes a system of international law based on the concept of natural law. Natural law, as Grotius describes it, is law that applies to all people, regardless of country or nationality.