Division 2: Foundations of Political Theory

(Paper) Changing Uses of Fides in Early Modern Social Contract Theory - Signy Thora Gutnick Allen, University of Zurich

(Paper) Curing the Patria: Diagnostic History and Law as Medicine in Hotman’s Francogallia - Nicholas Barden, Georgetown University

(Paper) International Legal Personality in the Early Modern Law of Nations - Jeffrey Dymond, Stanford University

(Paper) Pufendorf and the Unaccountability of Sovereignty: Athens or Absolutism? - Joshua Freed

(Paper) Jean Bodin’s Involuntary Servitude and the Freedom of Subjection - Catherine R. Power, Glendon College, York University

Samuel Garrett Zeitlin UCL

Alexander Batson University of Texas at Austin