Property, Piracy and Punishment -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Hugo Grotius's Political and Scholarly Activities in the Light of his Correspondence -- Grotius, Maritime Intra-Asian Trade and the Portuguese Estado da Índia: Problems, Perspectives and Insights from De iure praedae -- Problems of Legal Systematization from De iure praedae to De iure belli ac pacis. De iure praedae Chapter II and the Prolegomena of De iure belli ac pacis Compared -- Law, War and Method in the Commentary on the Law of Prize by Hugo Grotius -- Grotius and Stobaeus -- The Patristic Context in Early Grotius -- Secularization in De Iure Praedae: From Bibe Criticism to International Law -- War, Piracy and Religion: Godfried Udemans' Spiritual Helm (1638) -- Using the Work. Remarks on the Text of De iure praedae -- Preparing Mare liberum for the Press: Hugo Grotius' Rewriting of Chapter 12 of De iure praedae in November-December 1608 -- 'Sequuntur Dogmatica De Iure Praedae' Law and Theology in Grotius's Use of Sources in De Iure Praedae -- The VOC, Corporate Sovereignty and the Republican Sub-Text of De iure praedae -- Natural Rights and Roman Law in Hugo Grotius's Theses LVI, De iure praedae and Defensio capitis quinti maris liberi -- Tuck's Grotius: De iure praedae in Context -- Beyond the Law. The Image of Piracy in the Legal Writings of Hugo Grotius -- Grotius and the Origin of the Ruler's Right to Punish -- Index.