'Inter ruinas publicas scriptum' : Ernest Nys, a legal historian in defence of Belgian tax payers during the Great War

The Belgian scholar Ernest Nys (1851-1920), a big name in public international law and legal history, is mainly known for his extensive publications in the Revue de droit international et de législation comparée, often focusing on medieval and early modern doctrine. Yet, Nys was active as a judge and an ad hoc legal adviser, combining his abilities as a traditional continental law-jurist and a legal historian. During World War One, he drafted an impressive manifesto against wartime contributions on movable property designed by the German Occupant. The text combines an intellectual pedigree of... Mehr ...