Francisco de Vitoria’s Unexpected Transformations and Reinterpretations for International Law

Abstract

A review of some of the legacies of Vitoria for international legal scholarship accompanies, in the first pan, a retrospective gaze at the first third of the Twentieth century, in order to examine how the founder of the American Society of International Law, James Brown Scott, contributed to (re)establish Vitoria as the father of international law in the inter-war years. The second part provides a genealogy of the critical front of the Vitorian revival in international law today. Special attention is, then, paid to some of the intellectual building-blocks and programmatic tenets which have inspired a Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) anti-imperial narrative of the international legal order along with a TWAlL's re-interpretation and re-contextualisation of the works of the sixteenth century's Prima professor of Sacred Theology at the University of Salamanca. The conclusion reflects on the lasting legacy of the Spanish Classics in the American tradition of international law.

On the spectral properties of multi‐branes, M2 and M5 branes

“…The potential is assumed to be locally integrable and bounded from below. Using the above theorem we proved in [1] the following proposition which allows to show that all bosonic membrane, multibrane and pbrane Hamiltonia have discrete spectrum. The proof may also be obtained from the results from [9] which are very useful for polynomial potentials.…”

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Abstract: In this note we summarize some of the properties found in [1], [2][3]. We characterize spectral properties of the quantum mechanical hamiltonian of theories with fermionic degrees of freedom beyond semiclassical approximation.

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Looking Forward Through and Beyond the Western Classics of International Law

“…B. Scott through the Carnegie Endowment. See Amorosa, supra note 4. establishment of national 60 and international 61 associations bearing the name of Vitoria and also homonymous yearbooks, 62 by erecting public statues, setting up research centres, and even by giving his name to universities. 63 In both cases, this nationalistic instrumentalization and glorification of the classics is not without dark sides.…”