My essay Hugo Grotius on War and the State has been posted on Liberty Matters, the online scholarly site of the Liberty Fund.  I claim, among other things, that while Grotius’ jurisprudential method was confused, his recommendations on the laws of war were ahead of their time.  As a political theorist he does not measure up to the giants of the Enlightenment, but has the merit of having been the first on a number of points.

Comments from Hans Blom and Eric Mack will follow, with my reply.