“Freedom of the Seas, 1609: Grotius and the Emergence of International Law,” curated by Edward Gordon and Michael Widener, is on display October 2009 through January 2010 in the Rare Book Exhibition Gallery, Level L2, Lillian Goldman Law Library, Yale Law School. Libro llamado Consulado de mar (Valencia, 1539).Ī translation from the original Catalan into Spanish of “The Book of the Consulate of the Sea,” the basis for much of Europe’s maritime law. Rare Book Collection, Lillian Goldman Law Library. De dominio maris Hadriatici desceptatio (Lyons, 1619). 1484) had codified admiralty law on a range of subjects, including, for example, ship ownership, discipline and punishment of crews, and salvage. With the growth of maritime commerce, especially in the later Middle Ages, maritime powers asserted dominion over wide areas of ocean space: Venice to dominion over the Adriatic Sea (Guido Pace, De dominio maris Adriatico, 1619) Genoa the Ligurian (Pietro Battista Borgo, De dominio serenessimae Genuinsis Reipublica in mari Liguria, 1641) Sweden, Denmark and Poland to all or parts of the Baltic.Įarly efforts to codify maritime law, such as the 12th century Laws of Oleron and the Consolat de Mar (ca. When was the Freedom of the Seas Built The Freedom of the Seas was built in 2006 and joined the cruise line’s Freedom Class. But in practice the principle was frequently disregarded – even by Rome itself, when its naval power was at its height, and by others after its decline. In principle, the Roman Civil Law had already established that navigation on the high seas was open to all. Freedom of the Seas ranks 7 out of 23 Royal Caribbean International Cruise Ships based on an analysis of expert and user ratings, as well as health ratings. This exhibit marks the 400th anniversary of the publication of Hugo Grotius’s Mare liberum, a short work, originally published as a pamphlet, which produced the first effective argument for the freedom of the seas and, with Grotius’s more mature work, De jure belli ac pacis (1625), lent substance and prestige to the idea of an international law in the service of the common good. Special Collections, Harvard Law School Library. Grotius launched his illustrious career in international law with this little book that initially did not bear his name. Freedom of the Seas, 1609: Grotius and the Emergence of International LawĪn exhibit marking the 400th anniversary of Hugo Grotius’s Mare Liberum
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