CRI345 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Terra Nullius, Edward Coke, Caribbean
10 Aug 2022
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Links among colonial conquest, international law, and discourses of christianity and. Case about question of inheritance calvin, a scottish minor. Whether or not he could inherit property in england. Complex jurisdictional and constitutional wrangling specific to british isles during this time. All infidels are in law perpetui inimici, perpetual enemiesfor between them, as with the devils, whose subjects they be, and the christian, there is perpetual hostility, and can be no peace . If christian kind conquered non christian people coke argues that laws of non christian people (pre existing occupants) immediately expunged & replaced w/ christian laws. If christian nation claims kingdom of non christian nation their laws automatically extinguished, superseded by laws of christian conquering nation. Potential implications for the way international law, as constructed by european thinkers consequences for how jurisdiction & sovereignty practiced on ground. Understood implications to stretch beyond britain & british isles. British chartered exploring company trying to set up settlement at jamestown in.
