i-HILT
i-HILT, Institute for the History of International Law @ Tilburg is a group of researchers from the Department of Public Law and Governance at Tilburg Law School, the Netherlands.
i-HILT is a virtual platform on the history of international law. Here, ‘International law’ is used in the broadest sense. It refers to all bodies of law, which regulated relations between polities throughout recorded history: from pre-classical Antiquity to the present and from all civilizations.
i-HILT will run the ‘Bibliography of the History of International Law’. This bibliography can be downloaded from the website. It is updated on a 3-monthly basis. Furthermore, i-HILT will provide information on events and new publications in the field of the history of international law.
i-HILT also stands for Institute of the History of International Law @ Tilburg research group within the Department of Public Law and Governance at Tilburg Law School.
Education
I-HILT is responsible for teaching several classes on the subject of the history of international law and relations on the curriculum of Tilburg Law School. We also organize a series of lectures on the history of international law at the Tilburg Law School.
Research
Members of i-HILT participate in the research program 'Global Law and Governance’ of the Department of Global Law and Governance at Tilburg Law School.
i-HILT@Tilburg News
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New book: The Cambridge Companion to Hugo Grotius
22nd September 2021Cambridge University Press has recently published the new volume ‘The Cambridge Companion to Hugo Grotius’, edited by our professor Randall Lesaffer together with Janne Nijman.
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New book: History, Casuistry and Custom in the Legal Thought of Francisco Suárez (1548-1617)
12th July 2021On 17 June 2021, Brill will publish the volume ‘’History, Casuistry and Custom in the Legal Thought of Francisco Suárez (1548-1617)'', edited by our own professor Randall Lesaffer together with Dominique Bauer.
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New publication by Prof. Randall Lesaffer
17th June 2021Recently, an article titled ‘The Cradle of International Law: Camilo Barcia Trelles on Francisco de Vitoria at The Hague (1927)’ from the hand of our own professor Randall Lesaffer was published.
