Richard Zouche

Richard Zouche, who lived from around 1590 to 1 March 1661, was an English jurist educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford, who was appointed Regius Professor of Civil Law at Oxford in 1620 and later became principal of St Alban Hall and a judge of the High Court of Admiralty from 1641. He is recognized as one of the earliest systematic writers on international law for his 1650 treatise Juris et Judicii Fecialis, sive Juris Inter Gentes, whose Latin phrase jus inter gentes, meaning law between peoples, went on to influence Jeremy Bentham's later coinage of the English term international law. He also served as Member of Parliament for Hythe from 1621 to 1624 and maintained Royalist sympathies through the English Civil War while pragmatically adapting to the government of the Commonwealth.