REF DT- Journal Article TI- Teaching the Law of Nature and Nations in the Swiss Context AU- Zurbuchen, Simone BT- PU- Etudes Lumières.Lausanne TIS- TXS- AB- TD- SE- NO- VO- None NV- None EN- LI- Université de Lausanne ET- Lumières.Lausanne DA- 2018-11-01 YE- 2018 PA- TC- IS- AB-

Natural law became the dominant form of moral and political philosophy in the Enlightenment. This was largely because the law of nature and nations was introduced as a subject in most universities, either in the philosophy or in the law faculty, as well as in other educational institutions in Protestant Europe, and, after some delay, also in Catholic regions as well as overseas. The paper provides an overview of natural law as an academic discipline in the old Helvetic confederation and in the allied republic of Geneva. The focus is on little-known professors, their published texts as well as lecture notes which have been kept in Swiss archives.

KE- Droit et justice; Lieux géographiques; Société; Droit des gens; Droit naturel; Suisse - Bâle; Suisse - Berne; Suisse - Fribourg; Suisse - Genève; Suisse - Lausanne; Suisse - Zurich; Ecole/Académie; Barbeyrac, Jean; Clavel de Brenles, Jacques Abram Daniel; Cramer, Jean Antoine (II); Grotius, Hugo (1583-1645); Mussard, Bénigne; Pillichody, Jean-Georges; Prevost, Pierre; Pufendorf, Samuel von (1632-1694); Roques, Pierre (1685-1748); Schweizer, Johann Heinrich; Vicat, Béat-Philippe; Académie - Bâle; Académie - Berne (Hohe Schule - Bern); Académie - Genève; Académie - Lausanne UR- AC- DB- lumieres.VD LG- Français END