Grotiana
The Grotiana Foundation (Stichting Grotiana) is an academic foundation whose activities are devoted to fostering the study of the life, works and legacies of the Dutch polymath Hugo Grotius (1583-1645). The Foundation was formed in 1979 from the merger of three pre-existing Dutch Grotius societies: the Foundation for the Editions of the Works of Grotius, founded in 1917 by Cornelius Van Vollenhoven; the Foundation for the Furtherance of the Research into the Life and Works of Hugo Grotius, founded in 1949 by Jacob Ter Meulen; and the Grotius Seminary, founded in 1954 by Bart Landheer.
The Grotiana Foundation relaunched Grotiana. This series of yearbooks was first established by Van Vollenhoven’s Foundation in 1917. Between that year and 1947, ten volumes were published. Grotiana New Series became an academic journal which has been appearing quasi annually since 1980.
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[Call for papers] Grotiana special forum – Mare Liberum in the 21st Century: The Strait of Hormuz and the Grotian Legacy
[Call for Papers] – Grotiana invites article proposals for a special forum on Mare Liberum in the 21st Century: The Strait of Hormuz and the Grotian Legacy. Hugo Grotius’s Mare Liberumi (1609) established the foundational principle of the high seas and international straits as common property. The escalating US-Iran conflict in the Strait of Hormuz has profoundly strained this classical legal order. This forum seeks to examine this modern maritime crisis through a Grotian lens. We welcome interdisciplinary contributions from the fields of international law, legal history and political studies.