Recent years have seen scholarly debate over the legacy of Francisco De Vitoria gain increasing prominence. The article offers a fresh perspective on this debate by historicizing the twentieth century recovery of Vitoria and reading it as a response to crisis of international order that faced jurists following the Great War. In the face of the failure of international law to restrain the outbreak of violence, the twentieth century recovery of Vitoria’s writings by Dr James Brown Scott and others reflected the desire to return to a jurisprudence orientated towards the production of community. Coinciding with the decline of the imperial order of the world, Vitoria and his twentieth century recovery are often celebrated as examples of the turn towards universal humanism. However, this article offers a new lens through which to understand the way in which Vitoria’s inclusive/exclusion of the colonial subject was recovered by twentieth century international law in order to operate as sacrificial, in the manner theorised by philosophical anthropologist Rene Girard. This argument refers to the way in which the Vitorian model for international law corresponds with Girard’s understanding of community production through a sacred, legitimizing violence. The interior/exterior positionality that Girard mandates as necessary for the scapegoat to exorcise the intra-communal violence marries with Vitoria’s inclusion of the colonial subject in a condition of primary exclusion. By synthesising Girard’s scapegoat mechanism and Vitoria’s universal juridical schema, this article illuminates the extent to which the communality of international law produced through the twentieth century recovery of Vitoria remains indebted to an imperial, sacrificial violence.

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维多利亚时代的复苏和（重新）转向牺牲国际法

近年来，关于弗朗西斯科·德·维多利亚 (Francisco De Vitoria) 遗产的学术辩论越来越突出。本文通过将维多利亚 20 世纪的复兴历史化并将其解读为对一战后法学家面临的国际秩序危机的回应，为这场辩论提供了一个全新的视角。面对国际法未能遏制暴力的爆发，20世纪对詹姆斯·布朗·斯科特博士等人维多利亚著作的恢复反映了回归以社区生产为导向的法理学的愿望。恰逢世界帝国秩序的衰落，维多利亚和他 20 世纪的复兴经常被庆祝为转向普世人文主义的例子。然而，本文提供了一个新的视角，通过它来理解维多利亚对殖民主体的包容/排斥是如何被 20 世纪国际法恢复的，以便以哲学人类学家雷内吉拉德的理论化方式作为牺牲运作。这个论点是指维多利亚的国际法模式与吉拉德通过神圣的、合法化的暴力对社区生产的理解相一致的方式。吉拉德要求替罪羊驱除社区内暴力所必需的内部/外部位置与维多利亚将殖民主体纳入主要排斥条件相结合。通过综合吉拉德的替罪羊机制和维多利亚的普遍司法模式，