Heisenberg Professor @mpilheidelberg. PolSci PhD @Harvard, Law PhD @LeidenLaw. @Cambridge_Uni, @SussexLaw & @Yale alumnus.

Joined June 2012
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6 Jun 2025
Our book is out. A lot of newly discovered facts, very few grand theories or wanton opining. I really hope you'll like it and use it. Thanks to everyone, incl. the dog that sabotaged my selfie. #whereisgrotius shorturl.at/Ld393
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Now online and open access! An autobiographical essay by John Dunn (@Cambridge_Uni) entitled "The History of Political Thought as Window on the World" @Global_IH tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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I miss the evil billionaires who'd try to buy their way into heaven by funding massive public libraries
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International Human Rights Defenders Day is a reminder that progress on human rights doesn't happen by accident. Each step forward happens because HRDs persevere, year after year, choosing to be lighthouses instead of hurricanes. We owe them an eternity of gratitude. #HRDday
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15 Jul 2025
Sorry sorry I was just trying to buy a book from Cambridge University Press.
A $52 billion withdrawal by a single client at BlackRock has dealt a blow to the world’s biggest asset manager thetimes.com/business-money/…
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25 Jun 2025
Delighted to present our book at The Peace Palace Library, and grateful to the organisers and librarians for herding cats and to the audience for asking superb questions that made me reexamine what we've been doing. @EdJonesC @PeacePalaceLib @MPILheidelberg
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11 Jun 2025
Grateful for a truly world-class conference and the opportunity to present our Grotius Census at NYU Law on 29-31 May. Congratulations to Benjamin Straumann for the event and his new book! @IurisConsensus wiley.com/en-us/The Just Sta… global.oup.com/academic/prod…
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Book Launch hosted by the Peace Palace Library: 'The Unseen History of International Law', 17 June 2025 peacepalacelibrary.nl/event/… Edward Jones Corredera and Mark Somos, two of the co-authors, will introduce the book and answer questions.
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Someone has to write a history on this. So many books on the East India and the Dutch East India company. None of those ends with a shopping mall going bankrupt
#Breaking: Hudson's Bay is set to shut the doors of all 80 of its stores and lay off some 8,000 employees by June 1 — marking an end to a 355-year legacy closely tied to the origins of Canada. trib.al/Y1jREsX
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BOOK: Mark SOMOS, Matthew CLEARY, Pablo DUFOUR, Edward JONES CORREDERA & Emanuel SALERNO, The Unseen History of International Law. A Census Bibliography of Hugo Grotius' De Iure Belli Ac Pacis (1625-1650 Editions) [The History and Theory of International… ift.tt/iJ5KdSl

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Today!
10 Apr 2025
I’ll be launching my book The Limits of Erudition in Cambridge on 2 May 2025 with Simon Ditchfield. All very much welcome, whether in person or online! For further details see the poster attached and to register for Zoom see below.
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Our Just City ERC project is nearing its conclusion after intense years of research and publishing. We’ll say goodbye with a final conference on May 29-31 at NYU Law School, with keynotes by Carlos Lévy (Paris) and Lauren Benton (Yale)
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Proofs have arrived!!
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⚖️ Bist du ein:e in Deutschland ausgebildete:r #Volljurist:in oder #DiplomJurist:in? 💚 Just Access e.V. sucht Verstärkung durch eine Juristische Fachkraft, die unsere strategischen Prozessführungen unterstützt! Lies mehr und bewirb dich jetzt! 👇 just-access.de/stellenaussch…
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The crisis in Myanmar today ranks as one of the deadliest ongoing conflicts. More than 3.5 million people have been displaced and 18.6 million people need humanitarian assistance. Can the big powers justify their continuing inaction? Read now! 👉 just-access.de/myanmars-ongo…
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Our book on Hugo Grotius' magnum opus has a cover and a website! ⚖️⚖️⚖️ A new history of the origins of international law A new material history of the production and reception of De iure belli ac pacis More info coming soon!
13 Dec 2024
The census bibliography of Grotius’ De iure belli ac pacis we’ve been working on for 5 years now has a website: global.oup.com/academic/prod… Pricey but 752pp, 99% newly discovered facts, 1% analysis, none of my boring opinions. @pablo_dufour @EdJonesC @EmanueleSalern5 @MPILheidelberg
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The census bibliography of Grotius’ De iure belli ac pacis we’ve been working on for 5 years now has a website: global.oup.com/academic/prod… Pricey but 752pp, 99% newly discovered facts, 1% analysis, none of my boring opinions. @pablo_dufour @EdJonesC @EmanueleSalern5 @MPILheidelberg

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With many thanks to the series editors, incl. @IurisConsensus, to @OUPLaw and @OUPHistory, and to @AnnePetersMPIL for giving us a home.
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Human rights defenders are the torchbearers of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted 76 years ago. Their work ensures that these rights are not just words, but lived realities. On #HumanRightsDay, let’s recommit to protecting those who breathe life into the #UDHR.
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