Research interests
British and German intellectual history, c. 1650 to c. 1820
 

Selected bibliography concerning Natural law

• Books

(ed. and translator) Christian Thomasius. Institutes of Divine Jurisprudence, with Selections from the Foundations of the Law of Nature and Nations (Indianapolis, IN: 2011), xxiv + 621 p.

(co-ed. with Peter Schröder) Johann Gottlieb Heineccius. A System of the Law of Nature and Nations (Indianapolis, IN: 2008), xix + 618 p.

(co-ed. and –translator with Ian Hunter and Frank Grunert) Christian Thomasius. Essays on Church and State (Indianapolis, IN: 2007), xxiv + 278 p.

Religion and the Origins of the German Enlightenment: Faith and the Reform of Learning in the Thought of Christian Thomasius (Rochester: NY, 2006), vi + 167 p.

• Articles

'Samuel Pufendorf and Religious Intolerance' in Proceedings of the British Academy 186 (2013), p. 15 – 33.

'Epicureanism and the Transformation of Natural Law in the Early German Enlightenment', in Epicurus in the Enlightenment: Mode d’emploi. Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, ed. A. Lifshitz and N. Leddy (Oxford: 2009), p. 53 – 68.

'Problematische Bindungswirkung: Zum ‘Epikureismus’ im Naturrecht der deutschen Frühaufklärung', in Das Naturrecht der Geselligkeit. Studien zum Naturrecht im achtzehnten Jahrhundert, ed. F. Grunert and V. Fiorillo (Berlin: 2009), p. 39 – 54.

'Enthusiasm and Enlightenment: The Reform of Faith and the Reform of Philosophy in the Thought of Christian Thomasius' in Modern Intellectual History 2/2 (2005), p. 153 – 177.

'Pleasure, Pain and Punishment in the early Enlightenment: German and Scottish Debates' in Jahrbuch für Recht und Ethik 12 (2004), p. 173 – 187.

'De Sympathia et Antipathia Rerum: Natural Law, Religion and the Rejection of Mechanistic Science in the Works of Christian Thomasius' in Early Modern Natural Law Theories: Strategies and Contexts in the Early Enlightenment, ed. T. Hochstrasser and P. Schröder (Dordrecht: 2003), p. 257 – 277.

'The Relationship between Prince and Church in the Thought of Christian Thomasius' in Natural Law and Civil Sovereignty, ed. I. Hunter and D. Saunders (Basingstoke: 2002), p. 91 – 106.

'Roman Law in early Enlightenment Germany: the Case of Christian Thomasius' De Aequitate Cerebrina Legis Secundae Codicis de Rescindenda Venditione (1706)' in Ius Commune XXIV (1997), p. 153 – 170.