Alberico Gentili

Italian jurist (1552–1608)

Alberico Gentili (14 January 1552 – 19 June 1608) was an Italian jurist, a tutor of Queen Elizabeth I, and a standing advocate to the Spanish Embassy in London, who served as the Regius Professor of Civil Law at the University of Oxford for 21 years. He is regarded as the co-founder of the field of international law, and thus is known as the "Father of international law". The first medieval writer on public international law, Gentili became in 1587 the first non-Englishman to be a Regius Professor.

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