本书在国际和国内学术界产生了很好的学术影响，增进全球治理与国内治理的互动。长期以来，以历史方法进行国际法研究的著作付之阙如，已有的国际法史研究也多以欧洲为中心，强调欧洲中心论的国际法叙事，与同类项目相比，本书致力于寻求真正的全球性国际法史，它打破了国际法研究的传统范式，汇集了来自多个学科、多个国家和地区的六十三位顶尖学者，包括德国马克斯·普朗克比较公法与国际法研究所等教授等享誉全球的国际法学、社会学、历史学、翻译学名家。本书撰写每一章节的每位作者，都在这个领域，做出了全球最好的研究成果，将成为本领域最新、最好、最全面、最深入的国际法史译著。

< 星轺指掌>是晚清刊印的第一部专门介绍西方外交制度的国际法译作,影响深远.但关于它的外文原书及其作者情况,中文版最早刊行年代,以及对当时中国外交事务究竟有何作用等,还不甚清楚.以中、英、法文材料经考证而知,翻译时依据的外文原书为德国查尔斯·马顿斯所著法文版<外交指南>,中文版最早刊行于1876年,由同文馆学员联芳、庆常翻译初稿,贵荣、杜法孟稍加润色,最后经总教习、美国传教士丁韪良校核定稿.此书首次将西方近代外交制度系统地介绍到中国,包括国际关系准则,各国外交机构、使臣、礼仪规范等,还介绍了西方民主思想和政治制度.无庸讳言,其中有宣扬领事裁判权的消极内容, 但从总体上看,毕竟填补了晚清国际法及外交学著作的空白,许多内容对当时中国外交的近代化,特别是在派遣驻外使臣、处理外交事务等方面起到了推动作用,对先进中国人思想观念的开放,也产生了积极影响.

On the Duty of Man and Citizen (1673) is Pufendorf's succinct and condensed presentation of the natural law political theory he developed in his monumental classic On the Law of Nature and Nations (1672). His theory was the most influential natural law philosophy of the seventeenth- and eighteenth-centuries. He advanced a compelling reply to Grotius and Hobbes, and in doing so, set the intellectual problems for theorists such as Locke, Hutcheson, Hume, Rousseau, and Smith. In the aftermath of the Thirty Years' War, Pufendorf sets forth a classic justification of the early modern enlightened state and of the proper relations of moral and political subjection to it. This lucid and historically sensitive translation by Michael Silverthorne, (a classicist and a specialist in Roman Law and early modern political thought) is the first since the early twentieth century. James Tully's introduction sets the text in its seventeenth-century context, summarises the main arguments, surveys recent literature on Pufendorf, and shows how Pufendorf transformed natural law theory into an independent discipline of juristic political philosophy which dominated reflection on politics until Kant.