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This book explores how ocean governance expert Elisabeth Mann Borgese (1918-2002) spent decades fighting to promote her radical vision of a just ocean order in the United Nations Law of the Sea Convention.

In Theologians and Contract Law, Wim Decock offers an account of the moral roots of modern contract law. He explains why theologians in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries built a systematic contract law around the principles of freedom and fairness.

In Taming Ares Emiliano J. Buis studies the narrative foundations of the (il)legality of warfare in the classical Greek world in order to demonstrate its contribution to a better historical understanding of the international legal rules applicable to the use of force and the conduct of hostilities.