Stefano Cattelan is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Faculty of Law and Criminology of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Research Group CORE) and Adjunct Professor at the Brussels School of Governance. His research focuses on the history of international law and the law of the sea between the 16th and 18th centuries and has been funded by the Carlsberg Foundation and the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO). Frederik Dhondt is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law and Criminology of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Research Group CORE) and Voluntary Collaborator at the Ghent Legal History Institute and the Gustave Rolin Jaequemyns Institute of International Law (GRILI). His publications focus on the history of legal argumentation and diplomacy from the eighteenth century onwards, such as Balance of Power and Norm Hierarchy. Franco-British Diplomacy after the Peace of Utrecht (Brill, 2015).