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Jeff

@strangeasitseems.bsky.social

This day in #StrangeAsItSeems history!

June 24th, 1937

#HugoGrotius #ElephantJewelry #BaseballHistory #GreatIsleShrines

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June 25, 2026 at 4:23 AM

Dorine van den Beukel

@beukel.bsky.social

Misschien leuk idee @koninklijkhuis.bsky.social @minister-president.bsky.social om dit werkje uit 1609 nog even ter sprake te brengen. Als jullie er toch zijn #HugoGrotius #VN #lawofthesea….

April 12, 2026 at 4:05 PM

The Sociological Review Foundation

@thesociologicalreview.org

Renisa Mawani explores the writings of #HugoGrotius, the idea of the “free sea” and the relationship between law, trade and colonisation.

🔎 The #ConnectedSociologies Curriculum Project offers free open-access educational resources, including lectures, lesson plans and readings.

Ocean Legalities - Professor Renisa Mawani

Law has conventionally been tied to land, territory, and nation states. What does its history look like from the sea, from above and below the waterline, and...

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March 21, 2025 at 11:00 AM

Sight Magazine

@sightmagazine.bsky.social

Essay: Ukraine peace talks reveal a world slipping back into an acceptance of war. @sightmagazine.bsky.social #Ukraineconflict #Ukraine #Russia #USpeaceplan #Europe #EU #HugoGrotius #justwar

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Essay: Ukraine peace talks reveal a world slipping back into an acceptance of war - Sight Magazine

ROMAN BIRKE says Europe faces a growing obligation to stop what could be the biggest setback for international law since the Cold War...

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December 5, 2025 at 12:27 AM

lronlacy.bsky.social

@lronlacy.bsky.social

‘Great Codifiers of the Law. Grotius - Vitoria. Socrates’ (Likeness of Vitoria a portrait of Dr. James Brown Scott, then the Secretary of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.)
#HugoGrotius 👉ALT

‘Hugo Grotius (1583-1645) - A Dutch jurist & humanist...the “father of international law.” In 1625, he wrote the 3-volume De Jure Belli ac Pacis (On the Law of War & Peace),...one of the earliest definitive texts on international law, along with those of Alberico Gentili & Francisco de Vitoria, pictured to the right of Grotius. Robinson depicted Grotius along a shoreline gesturing toward a departing ship, suggesting the global reach of his legal writings.’
‘Francisco de Vitoria (1480-1546) – A Spanish Dominican friar & legal scholar...was one of the founders of modern international law & was known for defending the legal rights of American Indians. ... Robinson based this portrait on [Scott]... Upon viewing the mural, Scott wrote to Robinson, “Words fail me to express my appreciation of the magnificent mural of Francisco de Vitoria...[F]rom the bottom of his heart the unworthy one whose likeness likeness Vitoria bears...thanks you for the most perfect portrait he has ever had.”’

November 29, 2025 at 2:23 PM

EMoDiR

@emodir.bsky.social

#CfP 📢 International Conference: "Grotius and Toleration", University of Zürich and the Grotius Foundation
📆17-18 June 2026 | 🏫 University of Zürich
⏰Deadline: 1 June 2026
🔗 grotiana.eu/call-for-pap...

#EarlyModern #ReligiousHistory #Tolerance #HugoGrotius

Call for papers: Grotius and toleration – Grotiana

grotiana.eu

May 28, 2026 at 7:02 AM