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Grotius: the impious hypothesis - a paradox in Hugo Grotius? M.B. Crowe;Hugo Grotius and the history of political thought, Knud Haakonssen; Grotiuson scepticism and self-interest, Robert Shaver; Grotius, Carneades andHobbes, Richard Tuck. Selden: an eccentric 17th century witness to NaturalLaw - John Selden (1584-1654), M. B. Crowe; John Selden, the Law of Nature,and the origins of government, Johann P. Sommerville. Pufendorf: Pufendorf,sociality and the modern state, Craig L. Carr, Michael J. Seidler; Pufendorfand the correlativity theory of rights, Thomas Mautner; Samuel Pufendorf -obligation as the basis of the state, Michael Nutkiewicz; Pufendorf's placein the history of ethics, Jerome B. Scneewind. Leibniz: the early developmentof Leibniz's concept of justice, Robert J. Mulvaney; divine justice inLeibniz, Robert J. Mulvaney. Cumberland: the place of Richard Cumberland inthe history of Natural Law, Murray Forsyth; voluntarism and the origins ofutilitarianism, J. B. Schneewind. Thomasius: the 'practical philosophy' ofChristian Thomasius, F.M. Barnard; Fraternity and citizenship - two ethics ofmutuality in Christian Thomasius, F.M. Barnard; on Christian Thomasius andhis alleged offspring, the' German enlightment', Robert Spaeting. Barbeyrac:conscience and reason - the Natural Law theory of Jean Barneyrac, TimHochstrasser. Vattel: Vattel's doctrine of the state, Frederick G. Whelan.Rousseau: Rousseau's Pufendorf, Robert Wokler. Kant: Kant and Natural Lawethics, J.B. Schneewind. Other natural law theories: the source of the"Encyclopedie Article, Anthony Burns; Johann August Schlettwein and theEconomic Faculty at the University of Gieben, Diethelm Klippel; politicalphilosophers and the trouble with polygamy - patriarchal reasoning in modernNatural Law, Ursula Vogel.