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
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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).
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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).
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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).
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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).
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Grotian Moments, Vol. 2: Introduction. In: Dossier on Grotian Moments, Vol. 2. Brill, Leiden 2022,
1-2 (with
Tom Sparks).
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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).
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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).
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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).
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Corruption in International Law: Illusions of a Grotian Moment.
In: Grotiana 43:1, 55-86 (2022) (with
Simona Ross).
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Introduction. In: The State of Nature: Histories of an Idea,
Anne Peters,
Mark Somos (eds.). Brill, Leiden 2021,
1-5 (with
Anne Peters).
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Dossier on Grotian Moments, vol. 2.
Brill, Leiden, 2022, 1-186 p.
(editor with
Tom Sparks).
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The State of Nature: Histories of an Idea.
Brill, Leiden, 2021, 1-428 p.
(editor with
Anne Peters).
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Dossier on Grotian Moments, vol. 1.
Brill, Leiden, 2021, 179-372 p.
(editor with
Tom Sparks).
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Grotian Moments: An Introduction.
In: Grotiana 42:2, 179-191 (2021) (with
Tom Sparks).
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Virtue. In: The Cambridge Companion to Hugo Grotius,
Randall Lesaffer,
Janne Nijman (eds.). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2021,
91-117.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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Spotlight Interview.
In: Journal of the History of International Law 23, 243-248 (2021) (with
Raphael Schäfer,
Maren Körsmeier).
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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).
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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.
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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).
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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.
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Vitoria, Suárez, and Grotius: James Brown Scott’s Enduring Revival.
In: Grotiana 41:1, 137-162 (2020), with Joshua Smeltzer.
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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.
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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.
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Christianity, Global Environmental Protection, and Animal Law. In: Christianity and Global Law. Routledge, Abingdon 2020,
365-383 (with
Anne Peters).
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John Selden. In: Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy. Springer, Dordrecht 2019.
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The Unseen History of International Law: A Census Bibliography of Hugo Grotius’s De iure belli ac pacis.
In: Grotiana 40, 173-179 (2019).
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John Selden. In: Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy,
Mortimer N.S. Sellers (ed.). Springer, Dordrecht 2020,
1-7.
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The Embodiment of Anatomical Education. In: Thinking 3D,
Daryl Green (ed.). Bodleian Library, Oxford 2019,
170-175.
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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).
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American States of Nature: The Origins of Independence, 1761-1775.
Oxford University Press,
New York, 2019, 424 p.
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Vesalius Annotations and the Rise of Early Modern Medicine.
In: The Lancet 393, 738-739 (2019) (with
Daniel Margocsy and Stephen Joffe).
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Synecdochic Representation: How the History of Political Thought can Fill Gaps in Political Theory.
In: Politics. Rivista di Studi Politici 9, 1-16 (2018).
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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).
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Sex, Religion and a Singular Anatomist.
In: Nature 560:7718, 304-305 (2018) (with
Daniel Margocsy and Stephen N. Joffe).
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The Fabrica in Pécs.
In: Per Aspera Ad Astra V, 124-131 (2018) (with
Daniel Margocsy and Stephen N. Joffe).
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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)
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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).
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Presentations
27 Jan 2020
American States of Nature: The Origins of Independence, 1761-1775
Seminar at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History, Frankfurt
website
23 Jan 2020
American States of Nature: Rights, Race, and the Environment in the US Constitution
Baden-Württemberg Seminar, Heidelberg Center for American Studies
Heidelberg
08 Nov 2019
The census method
National Museum, Copenhagen
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15 Oct 2019
Thomas Hollis at Harvard: adaptive networking and translating liberty
Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel
website
30 Aug 2019
Restarting eternity: the revolutionary construction of American times immemorial
University of Cambridge
website
27 Jun 2019
American states of nature: the origins of independence
American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia
website
19 Jun 2019
American States of Nature: The Origins of Independence
University of Oxford, Faculty of Law
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23 May 2019
American States of Nature: book presentation
Stone Library, Adams National Historical Park
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22 May 2019
American States of Nature: book presentation
Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston
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01 May 2019
The state of nature and the American Revolution: book presentation
St Andrews Institute of Intellectual History
St Andrews
website
30 Apr 2019
Company-states, sanctions and secession: expansive and divisible sovereignty in law and history
Sovereignty: A Global Perspective. St Andrews Institute of Legal and Constitutional Research
programme
25 Apr 2019
American States of Nature: book presentation
Lauterpacht Centre for International Law
Cambridge
31 Jan 2019
Sanctions, state companies and secession: histories and laws of economic sovereignty
Durham
programme
14 Dec 2018
Plausibility of rights and provisional measures
with Tom Sparks
Benevento, Italy
programme
15 Nov 2018
Suárez v Grotius: James Brown Scott’s enduring revival
University of Leuven
12 Oct 2018
Houses without cities: switching between republican and anti-political self-sufficiency
University of Heidelberg
31 Jul 2018
A Jewish common law for the world: John Selden’s pursuit of international law
Fürth-Nürnberg, Jewish Museum of Franconia
27 Jun 2018
The travels of Grotius’ Mare liberum
Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Library
12 Jun 2018
Geometry, skepticism, and standards of legal fiction: Dutch-British conceptualisations of territorial sovereignty
University of St Andrews
24 May 2018
Second Founders in Göttingen: the origins of modern German-American legal education
University of Münster
24 Mar 2018
Open and closed seas: the Grotius-Selden dialogue at the heart of liberal imperialism
University of Cambridge