Was Francisco de Vitoria Really the Father of International Law?
Francisco de Vitoria was the first intellectual who reflected on the new characteristics that the discovery of America would bring to the organization of the world. He used doctrinal arguments by which his paternity of international law was recognized, as it developed in subsequent centuries. He had...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2022 |
| País: | México |
| Institución: | UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO |
| Repositorio: | Anuario Mexicano de Derecho Internacional |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/16951 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.juridicas.unam.mx/index.php/derecho-internacional/article/view/16951 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Francisco de Vitoria Hugo Grocio classic international law global law international community totus orbis droit international classique droit global communauté internationale derecho internacional clásico derecho global comunidad internacional |
| Sumario: | Francisco de Vitoria was the first intellectual who reflected on the new characteristics that the discovery of America would bring to the organization of the world. He used doctrinal arguments by which his paternity of international law was recognized, as it developed in subsequent centuries. He had the virtue of considering the existence of a totus orbis, which today we would call the “international community”. He would later rival Hugo Grotius in relation to the paternity of this branch of law. However, the thought of him was perhaps not well understood. Vitoria was not thinking of a legal system whose center was the State, but the person. |
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