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The Rise and Fall of Cosmopolitan Law

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A change in perspective on the notion of citizenship and citizen of the world occurred after the discovery of America. A radical enlargement of the world, together with the ongoing shaping of modern states, transformed the medieval dispute about the rights of the individual. In this period we find a definition of the individual as a citizen of the world that stays at the basis of a defense on the independency of states and their status as subjects of self-determination with separate interests and destinies, while at the same time united in a comprehensive universal community of juridical nature. The works of Francisco de Vitoria, Domingo de Soto, Francisco Suárez, and Fernando Vázquez de Menchaca, as well as the work of the jurist Alberico Gentili, reflect the rise of a legal concept of cosmopolitanism that originates and comes to an end within a short period in history.

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Sanahuja, L.C. (2017). The Rise and Fall of Cosmopolitan Law. In: Toward Kantian Cosmopolitanism. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63988-8_3

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