Vattel

[ German faht-l ]

noun

1. Em·me·rich [em, -, uh, -, r, i, kh], 1714–67, Swiss jurist and diplomat.

Example Sentences

The president borrowed The Law of Nations by Emer de Vattel on 5 October 1789, according to the records of the New York Society Library.

From The Guardian

The length of Johnson’s loan was epic, but she would still have a way to go to match George Washington: he proved a very bad borrower with The Law of Nations by Emer de Vattel, which the first US president checked out more than 200 years ago and never returned.

From The Guardian

Even George Washington neglected to return The Law of Nations by Emer de Vattel and a volume of debates from the English Parliament to the elites-only New York Society Library.

From Slate

Arguably, Thomas Jefferson, who had based his Declaration of Independence on a genuinely intimate familiarity with Locke, Vattel, Hobbes, Grotius, Rousseau and Montesquieu, was the most learned of all.

From US News

It’s fair to say that he synthesized and integrated many different sources, including John Locke’s “Second Treatise of Government,” the English Bill of Rights from 1689, the Scottish Enlightenment philosopher Francis Hutcheson and Emer de Vattel’s “Law of Nations,” among others.

From Salon