Notes on Contributors
Dominique Bauer
is Professor of history at κu Leuven, Faculty of Architecture and a member of the gemca at UCLouvain, and works on the awareness of time, temporality, hisÂtory and subjectivity between cultural history and cultural philosophy.
She has published in this framework on twelfth century canon law (Ivo of Chartres) and the emergence of legal subjectivity and proceduralism in its cultural-historical context, on the history of international law, and on Francisco Suarez, custom and history, among others with Cambridge University Press, Peeters Leuven, Eleven International Publishing, the Journal of the History of International law and the Zeitschrft der Savigny-StiJtungJur Rechtsgeschichte. She delivered various papers for the Carlsberg Academy conferences on Medieval Legal History, published by Djof Publishing. She has recently co-edited, with Randall Lesaffer, History, Casuistry and Custom in the Legal Thought of Francisco Suarez (1548-1617) with Brill.Thomas Behme
is Faculty Member (wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) at the Institute for Philosophy, Freie Universitat Berlin. He works on the philosophy and scienÂtific history of the seventeenth century and is mainly engaged in a critical ediÂtion of the Works of the mathematician and philosopher Erhard Weigel. Seven volumes have already been published, most recently the miscellany Kleine Schrften zur Logik, Logistik und zum Begriff der Mathesis (Clavis Pansophiae 3,6). Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 2021.
His doctoral thesis at the University of Gottingen in 1992 had been on Samuel von Pufendorf: Naturrecht und Staat (Gottingen 1995), and he also edited the ElementorumJurisprudentiae Universalis Libri Duo of that author (Berlin 1999) and its English translation as Two Books of the Elements of UniversalJurisprudence (Indianapolis 2009). He is author of numerous articles on Pufendorf and Weigel in conference publications.
Hans W. Blom
upon retiring from Erasmus University Rotterdam, was 2011-13 daad Professor at the University of Potsdam. He has also taught at Cambridge University, the University of Buenos Aires, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Hans publishes on early-modern (Dutch) political thought, in particular republicanÂism, public morality, on Spinoza, Grotius. His edited works include Property, Piracy and Punishment: Hugo Grotius on War and Booty in De iure praedae (Brill, 2009), Monarchisms in the Age of Enlightenment (University of Toronto Press, 2007), Grotius and the Stoa (Van Gorcum, 2004), Hobbes: The Amsterdam Debate (Olms, 2001), and Sidney: Court Maxims (Cambridge University Press, 1996). He is editor-in-chief of the journal Grotiana.
Jiri Chotas
is a research fellow at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences. His interests include political philosophy, certain aspects of law (especially human rights, natural law, and international law), theory of knowlÂedge and metaphysics, and theory of higher education. He has published numerous articles on Hegel, Kant, Humboldt, Rousseau, Locke, and Hobbes and edited An Ethical Modernity? Hegel’s Concept of Ethical Life Today (2020, with Tereza Matejckova), Krankheit des Zeitalters oder heilsame Provokation? (2016, with Martin Bondeli and Klaus Vieweg) and Metaphysik undKritik (2010, with Jindrich Karasek and Jurgen Stolzenberg).
Alberto Clerici
is Associate Professor of History of political thought at the Universita Niccolo Cusano in Rome. He earned his PhD in History of political thought from the Universita di Roma La Sapienza (2004). He is Associate editor of the Brill series History of European Political and Constitutional Thought, and member of the Editorial Board of the journals Grotiana (Brill) and Storia delpensiero politico (Il Mulino). His research interests focus on early modern European political thought, natural law, the law of nations, and constitutionalism. His publicaÂtions include two monographs on Dutch early modern political thought, an article in Grotiana (2019), and chapters in the volumes Trust and Happiness in the History of European Political Thought (2017), Nicholas of Cusa and the makÂing of the Early Modern World (2019) and Crisis and Renewal in the History of European Political Thought (2021).
Stefanie Ertz
studied Philosophy, Literature and and Art History at Dresden and Berlin (Humboldt University). She wrote her PhD thesis on mutual interferences between natural law theories and biblical hermeneutics in Grotius, Hobbes and Spinoza. She has since collaborated on diverse research and edition proÂjects and is currently preparing a larger research project in the field of early modern natural law theory.
Arthur Eyffinger
is a classicist and law historian. He was on the research staff of the Grotius Institute (1970-1985), and co-founder and Secretary of the Grotiana Foundation (1977-2000). A former Head Librarian of the International Court of Justice (1987-2003), he is currently Director of the Judicap Research Centre (f. 2003; wwwjudicap.com.). His research and publications focus on Grotian and seventeenth-century studies, along with the history of international law, and notably so the role and record of the International Courts at The Hague.
Heikki Haara
is a Lecturer of Political History in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Visiting Fellow in the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies at the University of Helsinki. His research interests have principally been early modern moral and political thought. He has been a visiting researcher at the uniÂversities of California, Berkeley and Oxford and published articles in acaÂdemic journals such as Journal of the History of Ideas, Political Theory and Journal of Scottish Philosophy. He is the author of Pufendorfs Theory of Sociability: Passions, Habits and Social Order (Springer, 2018) and the co-edi- tor of Rights at Margins: Historical, Philosophical and Legal Perspectives (Brill, 2020) and Passions, Politics and the Limits of Society (de Gruyter, 2020).
Mads Langballe Jensen
is a historian of Early Modern political thought with a particular interest in theories of natural law. He gained his PhD in History from University College London, and now holds a Carlsberg Reintegration Fellowship at the Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen.
His research explores the ways theories of natural law were developed and used to tackle religious, legal, and politÂical problems at different times and in different places, from the Protestant reformation of the sixteenth century, during the Enlightenment in Denmark- Norway, to European slave trade and colonization in West Africa and the West Indies. He has published articles in a number of journals and edited volumes, including History of Political Thought, History of European Ideas, and Intellectual History Review. His first book is A Humanist in Reformation Politics: Philipp Melanchthon on Natural Law and Political Philosophy (Brill, 2019). He is curÂrently working on his second book on the uses of natural law in Danish coloniÂalism in West Africa and the West Indies, c. 1660-1850.Adriana Luna-Fabritius
is an Academy of Finland Researcher at the Department of History of the University of Helsinki. She has worked and published on Early Modern languages of republicanism, natural law and political economy in the Spanish monarchy, especially Naples, Catalonia and Piedmont since the 1990s. Her research expands to include the transformation of imperialism and colonialÂism through legal, scientific and political practices and ideas of the commuÂnicating networks of the Spanish monarchy in Early Modern times. Before arriving at the University of Helsinki in 2009 she was appointed assistant proÂfessor in Western political thought in the history department of the Centre for Economic Research and Education (cide) in Mexico. Luna-Fabritius is the current president of the European Society for the History of Political Thought and associate editor of its book series History of European Political and Constitutional Thought (Brill). She is affiliated with the following research groups: “Cameralism as a European Political Science: A Reassessment”; Societa Italiana per la Storia dell’Eta Moderna; “International Research Network: Natural Law 1625-1850”; and the Helsinki Centre for Intellectual History.
Denis Ramelet
received the degree of Doctor of Law from the University of Lausanne (Switzerland), with a PhD thesis about usury in Antiquity (Le pret a interet dans l’Antiquite prechretienne: Jerusalem, Athenes, Rome. Schulthess, 2014). Between 2012 and 2015, he trained as a notary. From 2015 to 2018, he was a postdoctoral researcher in philosophy at the University of Neuchatel (Switzerland), involved in a research project on Samuel Pufendorf funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. In 2018, in Lausanne he opened a bookshop specializing in humanities and theology. His main fields of interest and research are history and philosophy of law (notably natural law), metaÂphysics, natural theology and, in general, Aristotelian philosophy.
JozsefSimon
(1974) is Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Szeged, Hungary. He received his PhD at the University of Gottingen in Germany (2008). His interest of research focuses on the hisÂtory of Western philosophy between thirteenth and seventeenth centuries with a special emphasis on Eastern Europe. He has published several papers and books in Hungarian, German and English concerning the history of phiÂlosophy in Early Modern Hungary, most notably Die Religionsphilosophie Christian Franckens (1552- 1610?): Atheismus und Radikale Reformation im Fruhneuzeitlichen Ostmitteleuropa (Wolfenbutteler Forschungen Bd. 117, Verlag Harrassowitz 2008).
Markus M. Totzeck
Dr. Theol. (University of Heidelberg), Pfarrer, is a postdoctoral research associate at the Institute for Religion and Society (Institut fur Religion und Gesellschaft), Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, where he teaches practical theology. He is also working as a pastor in the Evangelical Church of Westphalia.
His main areas of research are the relationship between religion and law in Early Modern history, Calvinism, homiletics, and poimenics. He is the author of Die politischen Gesetze des Mose. Entstehung und Einflusse der politia- judaica-Literatur in der Fruhen Neuzeit (Gottingen, 2019), which won the J.F. Gerhard Goeters Award. He is currently working on a monograph on the legal dimensions of sermons and Friedrich D.E. Schleiermacher.