Conquest and the Origins of International Law | IL Episode 3
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What to do with the Indians? Such was the question Columbus posed to Francisco de Vitoria, leading Spanish theologian and jurist of the 16th century. Columbus had landed in Hispaniola to find a people with families, organisational systems, and normative frameworks, hardly the savages he anticipated. What is more they were hospitable and even welcoming. Did they possess any rights to their resources, lands, and bodies, the very items Columbus wanted to spirit back to Ferdinand. Enter de Vitoria and jus gentium, the 'law of nations' that he fashioned and that gave rise to the modern international legal framework.
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