Education
He studied in Leiden and Oxford and was appointed professor of law at Heidelberg (1672) and in Utrecht (1688).
He studied in Leiden and Oxford and was appointed professor of law at Heidelberg (1672) and in Utrecht (1688).
Named Geheimrat and marquis, he became ordinary professor in the faculty of law at Frankfurt (Oder), where he later died. Cocceji"s main opus, the Juris publici prudentia (Frankf 1695) was for a long time the main compendium for German state law. Widely circulated is his Anatomia juris gentium (Frankf 1718).
His other works include Juris feudalis hypomnemata (Frankf 1702, 1715, 1727) and Disputatio Juridica, De concursu plurium jurisdictionum in eodem loco (Heidelberg nd).