Grotian Moments and Appeals to Authority in Law and History
Journal: Grotiana
Year: 2023

Abstract This article examines whether the publication of Hugo Grotius’s De iure belli ac pacis ( ibp ) constitutes a Grotian Moment. After a brief sketch of ibp ’s early reception, we focus on the book’s uses in teaching, identifying and creating international law in the twenty-first century, and that ibp ’s authority looms large in State practice, in opinio iuris , and in both scholarly and applied understandings of customary international law. While the publication of ibp meets the technical