Famous Dutch humanist, diplomat, lawyer, theologian, and jurist Hugo Grotius believed the Noahide Laws were analogous to ius gentium Roman law which the Romans believed applied to all nations and foreigners withing Rome. This follows the revelations that John Selden (here), John Milton (here) and Isaac Newton (here, here, here, here & here) all supported the Noahide Laws to some degree or another, with Newton seemingly to be an almost complete Noahide. Some are upset that I have been posting that all these intellectual heavyweights supported the Noahide Laws, but it is important to know just how old and entrenched this conspiracy is, how much influence it can have, and how Noahide advocates can use this history to their advantage in promoting the Noahide Laws.
Hugo Grotius, the great Dutch philosopher of international law, analogized Noahide law to the ius gentium of Roman law, those laws, putatively discernable by the exercise of reason, that the Romans understood to be common to all nations and that applied to foreigners living under Roman authority in lieu of Roman civil law and state religion.80
Footnote 80: H. Grotius, De Jure Belli ac Pacis (F. Kelsey trans. 1964). For discussion, see Stone, supra note 77, at 1163-64. Grotius viewed Noahide law as an early universal law, the foundation for international law. Gidon Rothstein, Involuntary Particularism: What the Noahide Laws Tell Us About Citizenship and Alienage, 18 GEO. IMMIGR. L. J. 543, 548 (2004). For discussion of ius gentium and its relationship to natural law, see Jeremy Waldron, Foreign Law and the Modern Ius Gentium, 119 HARV. L. REV. 129 133- 35 (2005)
SOURCE: Neil Weinstock Netanel. "Maharam of Padua v. Giustiniani; the Sixteenth-Century Origins of the Jewish Law of Copyright". 44 Houston Law Review (forthcoming 2007). Retrieved 08/07/2020 from: https://www.law.uh.edu/ipil/symposium/prior/final/Netanel.pdf
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