Alberico Gentili

Alberico Gentili (January 14, 1552 – June 19, 1608) was an Italian lawyer, jurist, and a former 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. Recognised as the founder of the science of international law, Gentili is perhaps one of the most influential people in legal education ever to have lived. He is one of the four men referred to as the "Father of international law". Gentili has been the earliest writer on public international law  and the first person to split secularism from canon law and Roman Catholic theology. In 1587, he became the first non-English Regius Professor.