Emer de Vattel
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Emer (Emmerich) de Vattel (French pronunciation: [vat-těl] 25 April 1714 – 28 December 1767[1]) was a Prussian international lawyer. He was born in Couvet in the Principality of Neuchâtel (now a canton part of Switzerland but part of Prussia at the time) in 1714 and died in 1767.
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Emer de Vattel | |
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Born | (1714-04-25)25 April 1714 |
Died | 28 December 1767(1767-12-28) (aged 53) |
Notable work | The Law of Nations |
School | International law |
Main interests | International law |
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Vattel's work profoundly influenced the development of international law.[2][3] He is most famous for his 1758 work The Law of Nations. This work was his claim to fame and won him enough prestige to be appointed as a councilor to the court of Frederick Augustus II of Saxony. Vattel combined naturalist legal reasoning and positivist legal reasoning.[2]