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标题：Piracy, privateering and the United States of the Netherlands
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作者：Philip THOMAS
期刊名称：Revue Internationale des Droits d'Antiquite
印刷版ISSN：0556-7939
出版年度：2003
卷号：L
出版社：FUSL - Facultes Universitaires Saint-Louis
摘要：The scenes from Baghdad during April of this year (2003) lead to the reflection whether looting may not stake a claim to being the oldest profession. Another hotly debated aspect of the war on Iraq was the question whether this was a just war. Of particular interest for legal historians is that both topics lead us to the renaissance man of Dutch legal history, Hugo de Groot, who is regarded to be one of the founding fathers of international law. Less well known is, however, the preliminary work leading to his De Iure Belli ac Pacis and it is this work, the De Jure Praedae Commentarius and the insights it provides into the Dutch ‘state’ and society, which will be the topic of this paper.