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Vattel was one of a number of 18th century European scholars who wrote on international law and were " well known in America " at the time, including Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui, Cornelius van Bynkershoek, Hugo Grotius, Samuel von Pufendorf, Thomas Rutherforth, and Wolff.

The Law of Nations has been described as " unrivaled among such treatises in its influence on the American founders ".