Notes on Contributors
Katharina Beiergroesslein
is historian and archivist. She works as a research fellow at the City Archives of Stuttgart. Her main research interests lie in the field of early modern English and German History, the history of migration as well as natural law as a university subject. She also teaches early modern history at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich.
Lisa Broussois
holds a PhD in philosophy from the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and from the Brazilian Federal University of Minas Gerais. She has published in French, English and Portuguese on Scottish moral and political philosophy, modern philosophy, animal and environmental ethics. She was a postdoctoral researcher at the snf research project âNatural law in Switzerland and beyond: sociability, natural equality, social inequalityâ (University of Lausanne).
Iris von Dorn
is a historian who has participated in research and exhibition projects at, among others, the Universität Bayreuth, the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, the Max-Planck-Institut für europäische Rechtsgeschichte (Frankfurt am Main). Her main research interests in early modern German history include the history of scholarship, the history of administrative law (15th to 19th century), and princely courts as places of political decision making.
Elisabetta Fiocchi Malaspina
is Assistant Professor of Legal History at the Law Faculty of the University of Zurich. Her main research fields include history of international law, circulation and dissemination of natural law and law of nations theories from the 18th to the 19th century, history of water resources law, history of land ownership and land registration (19th and 20th centuries).
Frank Grunert
is Senior Research Fellow at the Interdisciplinary Centre for European Enlightenment Studies at the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg and an associated fellow of the Max Weber Centre at the University of Erfurt. He has published extensively on the German Enlightenment, especially on its early period. He is one of the editors of the series Werkprofile and of the correspondence of Christian Thomasius.
Francesca Iurlaro
is a PhD candidate in international legal thought at the European University Institute (Florence), working on an analysis of the concept of customary international law from Francisco de Vitoria to Emer de Vattel. Her interests include modern jus naturae et gentium and the relationship between law and literary genres. She has published on Alberico Gentili, including a translation of his commentary on Virgil, Lectionis Virgilianae Variae Liber (1603).
Mads Langballe Jensen
is a postdoctoral researcher at Royal Holloway, University of London. He has published on Protestant political thought and natural law theory from Philipp Melanchthon to the early enlightenment. He is currently working on the role natural law theory played in the ideological legitimisation and politics of the early absolutist monarchy of Denmark-Norway, from domestic to foreign affairs, including the colonization of the Guinea Coast.
Patrick Milton
is a Research Fellow at Peterhouse and affiliated lecturer at Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge. He has published numerous articles on the political and constitutional history of the Holy Roman Empire, and the history of early modern European international relations and law. He is currently working on a Cambridge-based project entitled âA Westphalia for the Middle Eastâ.
Pärtel Piirimäe
is Professor of Intellectual History at the University of Tartu, Estonia. He has published on early modern international political and legal thought, the history of propaganda, polemics and official historiography, and regionalist concepts and identities. He is also the editor of The Estonian Historical Journal.
Thor Inge Rørvik
is a Lecturer in History of Ideas at the Faculty of Humanities (ifikk), University of Oslo. He is the author of several articles on Norwegian and Danish-Norwegian intellectual history in the eighteenth and nineteenth century, with a focus on the history of philosophy, university history, and legal history. He recently published âSamuel Pufendorf â Natural Law, Moral Entities and the Civil Foundation of Moralityâ, in Contemporary Philosophy, vol. 12: Philosophy of Justice, ed. Guttorm Fløistad (2014), 61â73.
Kari Saastamoinen
is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Helsinki. He has published on early modern natural law, especially on Samuel Pufendorf. He is a member of the directorial team of the Helsinki Centre for Intellectual History. His latest publication is âNatural Equality and Natural Law in Lockeâs Two Treatisesâ, in Laws, Rights and Politics, 1579â1832, Studies in Honour of Knud Haakonssen, eds. Ian Hunter and Richard Whatmore (Edinburgh: 2019), 127â146.
Peter Schröder
is Professor of the History of Political Thought at University College London. His main research interest is early modern and modern history of political thought and he has published widely in this field. His latest monograph Trust in Early Modern International Political Thought, 1598â1713 was published in 2017. He has been visiting professor at universities in Paris, Rome and Seoul, and held numerous visiting research fellowships.
Simone Zurbuchen
is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Philosophy at the University of Lausanne. She has published widely on the history of early modern moral and political philosophy, with a focus on Samuel Pufendorf and the reception of his work in the eighteenth century. She was the director of the snf research project âNatural law in Switzerland and beyond: sociability, natural equality, social inequalityâ (2014â2018).