Emer de Vattel

Emer (Emmerich) de Vattel (French pronunciation: [vat-těl] 25 April 1714 – 28 December 1767) was a Prussian international lawyer. He was born in Couvet in the Principality of Neuchâtel (now a canton part of Switzerland but part of Prussia at the time) in 1714 and died in 1767.

Emer de Vattel
Born(1714-04-25)25 April 1714
Couvet, Neuchâtel
Died28 December 1767(1767-12-28) (aged 53)
Couvet, Neuchâtel
Notable workThe Law of Nations
SchoolInternational law
Main interests
International law

Vattel's work profoundly influenced the development of international law. He is most famous for his 1758 work The Law of Nations. This work was his claim to fame and won him enough prestige to be appointed as a councilor to the court of Frederick Augustus II of Saxony. Vattel combined naturalist legal reasoning and positivist legal reasoning.

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