All Classical International Law Founders (17th to 19th Century)

Classical International Law Founders (17th to 19th Century) gathers the jurists and philosophers, born from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries, whose treatises built international law into a recognized field of study distinct from natural law philosophy generally. Its members include Hugo Grotius, standardly credited as the founder of international law as a distinct field for his 1625 work on the law of war and peace, Samuel von Pufendorf, Emer de Vattel and Alberico Gentili, and Muhammad al-Shaybani, the eighth century Islamic jurist whose own writing on the law of war and treaties makes him this group's earliest figure by several centuries, placed here as the earliest-era founder in this subcategory's own live membership rather than left without an era group of his own.