Bulletin n. 2-3/2013
February 2014
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Blank Andreas
    Johannes von Felden on Usucaption, Justice, and the Society of States
    in Journal of the History of Ideas , Volume 74, Number 3, July ,  2013 ,  403-423
    In his response to Grotius, the seventeenth-century German jurist and philosopher Johannes von Felden rejects Grotius’s view that usucaption—the acquisition of ownership through long-standing possession—could be a suitable means for settling territorial conflicts. At the same time, he defends a conception of a society of states. For him, the human need for security from the risks of war and the human need for justice demand from rulers that they establish international courts that have jurisdiction over territorial matters. In his view, the juridical relations connected with such international courts are constitutive of a society of states.
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