Mark Somos

BA, MPhil (Cantab.), LL.M (Sussex), AM, PhD (Harv.), PhD (Lugd.Bat.), FRHistS. DFG, Heisenberg Position

somos@mpil.de

Academic Career:

2019: Winner of a Heisenberg Position

Since 2012: Senior Visiting Research Fellow, Sussex Law School, UK

01-03/2017: Balsdon Senior Fellow. British School at Rome, Italy

2016: Lecturer in Political Science. Yale University, USA

2015-2016: Visiting Scholar. Department of Government, Harvard University, USA

2014-2015: Lecturer on Leadership Studies. Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service and the Department of Political Science, Tufts University, USA

2014-15: Research Fellow. Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University, USA

2014-2015: Affiliated Scholar, Institutions of Democracy and National Security programs. The Tobin Project, USA

2012-2014: Research Director. Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University, USA

2012-2014: Lecturer on Law. Harvard University, USA

2011-2012: Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Rechtskulturen, Research Network Recht im Kontext, Forum Transregionale Studien, at Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and Humboldt-Universität, Juristische Fakultät, Berlin, Germany

2008-2011: Leverhulme Early Career Fellow. Sussex Centre for Intellectual History. Brighton, UK

Education:

2014: Ph.D in Law, Leiden University, The Netherlands

2012: LL.M in Law and International Security (Distinction), University of Sussex, UK

2007: Ph.D in Political Science, Harvard University, USA

2006: A.M. in Government and Social Policy, Harvard University, USA

2000: M.Phil., Political Thought and Intellectual History, University of Cambridge, UK

1999: B.A. (Honours) in History (First Class), University of Cambridge, UK

Recent Publications

• The Well-Ordered Print Shop: Sequencing the Woodblocks in the 1543 and 1555 Editions of De humani corporis Fabrica,. In: Reassessing Images in the Early Modern World, Ruth Noyes (eds.), Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam 2023, 59-80 (with Daniel Margocsy). download
  
• Hugo Grotius’s De iure belli ac pacis: A Report on the Worldwide Census of the Sixth Edition (1642, Blaeu). In: Grotiana 43:2, 437-464 (2022) (with Edward Jones Corredera, Pablo Nicolas Dufour, Lara Muschel, Emanuele Salerno, Timothy Twining). download
  
• Hugo Grotius’s De iure belli ac pacis: A Report on the Worldwide Census of the Fifth Edition (1632, Blaeu). In: Grotiana 43:2, 412-436 (2022) (with Edward Jones Corredera, Pablo Nicolas Dufour, Lara Muschel, Emanuele Salerno, Timothy Twining). download
  
• Hugo Grotius’s De iure belli ac pacis: A Report on the Worldwide Census of the Fourth Edition (1632, Janssonius). In: Grotiana 43:2, 395-411 (2022) (with Edward Jones Corredera, Pablo Nicolas Dufour, Lara Muschel, Emanuele Salerno, Timothy Twining). download
  
• Grotian Moments, Vol. 2: Introduction. In: Dossier on Grotian Moments, Vol. 2. Brill, Leiden 2022, 1-2 (with Tom Sparks). download
  

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Hugo Grotius’s De iure belli ac pacis: a Report on the Worldwide Census of the Third Edition (1631). In: Grotiana 43:1, 246-272 (2022) (with Edward Jones Corredera, Lara Muschel). download


Hugo Grotius’s De iure belli ac pacis: a Report on the Worldwide Census of the Second Edition (1626). In: Grotiana 43:1, 236-245 (2022) (with Edward Jones Corredera, Lara Muschel). download


Hugo Grotius’s De iure belli ac pacis: a Report on the Worldwide Census of the First Edition (1625). In: Grotiana 43:1, 208-235 (2022) (with Edward Jones Corredera, Francesca Iurlaro, Lara Muschel). download


Corruption in International Law: Illusions of a Grotian Moment. In: Grotiana 43:1, 55-86 (2022) (with Simona Ross). download


Introduction. In: The State of Nature: Histories of an Idea, Anne Peters, Mark Somos (eds.). Brill, Leiden 2021, 1-5 (with Anne Peters). download


Dossier on Grotian Moments, vol. 2. Brill, Leiden, 2022, 1-186 p. (editor with Tom Sparks). download


The State of Nature: Histories of an Idea. Brill, Leiden, 2021, 1-428 p. (editor with Anne Peters). download


Dossier on Grotian Moments, vol. 1. Brill, Leiden, 2021, 179-372 p. (editor with Tom Sparks). download


Grotian Moments: An Introduction. In: Grotiana 42:2, 179-191 (2021) (with Tom Sparks). download


Virtue. In: The Cambridge Companion to Hugo Grotius, Randall Lesaffer, Janne Nijman (eds.). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2021, 91-117. download


Houses without Cities: The Dialectic of Political Crisis and Familial Resilience. In: Crisis and Renewal in the History of Political Thought, Cesare Cuttica, Laszlo Kontler (eds.). Brill, Leiden 2021, 195-213. download


Sir Daniel Dun's Mare liberum and the 1613 Anglo-Dutch Conference. In: Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht 81:2, 479-496 (2021) (with Edward Jones Corredera, George Gallwey). download


Vattel's Reception in British America, 1761-1775. In: Concepts and Contexts of Vattel's Political and Legal Thought, Peter Schröder (ed.). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2021, 203-219. download


Spotlight Interview. In: Journal of the History of International Law 23, 243-248 (2021) (with Raphael Schäfer, Maren Körsmeier). download


Provisional Measures and the Humanisation of International Law. In: Provisional Measures Issued by International Courts and Tribunals, F.M. Palombino et al (ed.). T.M.C. Asser, The Hague 2021, 77-105 (with Tom Sparks). download


Sigonio in Anglo-American Projects to Reform the Imperial Constitution, 1751-1777. In: The Renaissance of Roman Colonization: Carlo Sigonio and the Making of Legal Colonial Discourse, Arthur Weststeijn, Jeremia Pelgrom (eds.). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2020, 95-113. download


Public-Private Concord through Divided Sovereignty: Reframing Societas for International Law. In: Journal of the History of International Law 22:4, 565-588 (2020) (with Hans Blom). download


George Bancroft in Göttingen: An American Reception of German Legal Thought. In: Comparative Constitutional History: Principles, Developments, Challenges, Francesco Biagi, Justin Frosini, Jason Mazzone (eds.). Brill, Leiden 2020, 9-40. download


Vitoria, Suárez, and Grotius: James Brown Scott’s Enduring Revival. In: Grotiana 41:1, 137-162 (2020), with Joshua Smeltzer. download


George Ticknor in Gottingen: An Impact of German Comparative Constitutional Thought on American Education, 1816-1836. In: Transatlantic Encounters in History of Education, Fanny Isensee, Andreas Oberdorf and Daniel Topper (eds.), Routledge, New York 2020, 120-134. download


Open and Closed Seas: The Grotius-Selden Dialogue at the Heart of Liberal Imperialism. In: Empire and Legal Thought: Ideas and Institutions from Antiquity to Modernity. Brill, Leiden 2020, 322-361. download


Christianity, Global Environmental Protection, and Animal Law. In: Christianity and Global Law. Routledge, Abingdon 2020, 365-383 (with Anne Peters). download


John Selden. In: Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy. Springer, Dordrecht 2019. download


The Unseen History of International Law: A Census Bibliography of Hugo Grotius’s De iure belli ac pacis. In: Grotiana 40, 173-179 (2019). download


John Selden. In: Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, Mortimer N.S. Sellers (ed.). Springer, Dordrecht 2020, 1-7. download


The Embodiment of Anatomical Education. In: Thinking 3D, Daryl Green (ed.). Bodleian Library, Oxford 2019, 170-175.


The New Architecture of Justice: Dan Kiley's Design for the Nuremberg Trials. In: Journal of the History of International Law 21:1, 104-138 (2019) (with Morgan Gostwyck-Lewis). download


American States of Nature: The Origins of Independence, 1761-1775. Oxford University Press, New York, 2019, 424 p. website


Vesalius Annotations and the Rise of Early Modern Medicine. In: The Lancet 393, 738-739 (2019) (with Daniel Margocsy and Stephen Joffe). download


Synecdochic Representation: How the History of Political Thought can Fill Gaps in Political Theory. In: Politics. Rivista di Studi Politici 9, 1-16 (2018). download


The Urgent, the Plausible and the Irreparable: The Significance of Lowering ICJ Thresholds for Provisional Measures. In: Völkerrechtsblog. Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht, Heidelberg 2018 (with Tom Sparks). download


Sex, Religion and a Singular Anatomist. In: Nature 560:7718, 304-305 (2018) (with Daniel Margocsy and Stephen N. Joffe). download


The Fabrica in Pécs. In: Per Aspera Ad Astra V, 124-131 (2018) (with Daniel Margocsy and Stephen N. Joffe). download


The Fabrica of Andreas Vesalius: A Worldwide Descriptive Census, Ownership, and Annotations of the 1543 and 1555 Edition. Brill, Leiden, 2018, 518 p. (with Daniel Margocsy and Stephen Joffe) download


Boston in the State of Nature, 1761-1765: The Birth of an American Constitutional Trope. In: Jus Gentium: Journal of International Legal History 3:1, 63-113 (2018). download

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