Notes on Contributors
Christiane Birr
is affiliate researcher at Max Planck Institute for European Legal History (Frankfurt) and leads the project “The School of Salamanca. A Digital Collection of Sources and a Dictionary of its Juridical-Political Language”. Her recent publications include “Dominium in the Indies. Juan López de Palacios Rubios’ Libellus de insulis oceanis quas vulgus indias appellat (1512–1516)”, Rechtsgeschichte 26 (2018), 264–283.
Felipe Castañeda
is currently Professor at the Department of Philosophy and Vice-Dean for Research at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá. He focusses on topics related to the conquest and colonization of America. His publications include (as editor) Juan Solórzano y Pereira: pensar la Colonia desde la Colonia (2006) and (as co-translator) Aristóteles Sobre la República-Libro I según la traducción latina y escollos de Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda (2015).
Francisco Castilla Urbano
is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Alcalá. He has published extensively of theories of conquest such as El pensamiento de Francisco de Vitoria. Filosofía política e indio americano (1992), El pensamiento de Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda: vida activa, humanismo y guerra en el Renacimiento (2013). He has edited Discursos legitimadores de la conquista y colonización de América (2014), Visiones de la conquista y la colonización de las Américas (2015) and (with Mª José Villaverde), La sombra de la leyenda negra (2016).
Wim Decock
is Professor of Legal History at the Universities of Leuven and Liège in Belgium and an associate researcher at the Max-Planck-Institute for European Legal History in Frankfurt and the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University, USA. He has published Theologians and Contract Law: The Moral Transformation of the Ius Commune (ca. 1500–1650) (2013).
José Luis Egío
is affiliate researcher at Max Planck Institute for European Legal History in Frankfurt and teaches Philosophy at Goethe University. His recent publications include “Matías De Paz and the Introduction of Thomism in the Asuntos De Indias”, Rechtsgeschichte 26 (2018), 236–262.
Beatriz Fernández Herrero
received her Ph.D. at the University of Santiago de Compostela. She teaches moral philosophy and among her publications stand out La utopía de América (1992), País de Utopía (2013) and Mundos posibles. Utopía para tiempos de crisis (2016).
Manuel Herrero Sánchez
is Associate Professor of Early Modern History at Pablo de Olavide University in Seville. His research focuses on the comparative approach to the history of the mercantile republics of the Netherlands and Genoa, and on the complex constitution of the Hispanic Monarchy, Europe’s first transnational, polycentric and global empire. He has recently published Repúblicas y republicanismo en la Edad Moderna (2017).
Tamar Herzog
is Monroe Gutman Professor of Latin American Affairs and Professor of Spanish and Portuguese History at Harvard. Jurist and historian, she is the author of six monographs, most recent among them Frontiers of Possession: Spain and Portugal in Europe and the Americas, Upholding Justice: State, Law and the Penal System in Quito and Defining Nations: Immigrants and Citizens in Early Modern Spain and Spanish America.
Virpi Mäkinen
is Senior Lecturer in Theological and Social Ethics at the University of Helsinki. She specializes in medieval and early modern moral philosophy and political thought and her recent publications include New Perspectives on Aristotelianism and Its Critics (co-ed. with Miira Tuominen and Sara Heinämaa, 2014) and Transformations in Medieval and Early-Modern Rights Discourse (co-ed. with Petter Korkman, 2006).
Miguel Anxo Pena González
is Director of the Institute for History and Professor of History of the Church and Spirituality at the Pontifical University of Salamanca, where he is in charge of Estudia el Humanismo and Proyección del pensamiento salmantino del siglo XVI. His many monographs include La Escuela de Salamanca. De la Monarquía hispánica al Orbe católico (2009).
Luis Perdices de Blas and José Luis Ramos Gorostiza
are Professors of the History of Economic Thought at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid. Specialized on the economic thought in Spain, they publish, among others, on the topic of slavery, such as “Blanco White, Spanish America, and Economic Affairs: The Slave Trade and Colonial Trade”, in History of Political Economy 46(2014), 573–608.
Merio Scattola
was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Padua and he was a frequent guest at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History and the Herzog- August-Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel. Among his writings are Das Naturrecht vor dem Naturrecht. Zur Geschichte des ‘ius naturae’ im 16. Jahrhundert (1999) and Dalla virtù alla scienza. La fondazione e la trasformazione della disciplina politica nell’età moderna (2003). He passed away in August 2015.
Christian Schäfer
is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bamberg. He has published widely in ancient and medieval philosophy. His recent books include a commentary on Aquinas’s Quaestiones disputatae de malo (2013) and a new edition and translation of Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda’s Democrates secundus (2018).
Daniel Schwartz
is a Senior Lecturer at the Departments of Political Science and International Relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the editor of Interpreting Suarez (2011) and the author of Aquinas on Friendship (2007) and The Political Morality of the Late Scholastics (Cambridge, 2019).
Jörg Alejandro Tellkamp
is Professor of Philosophy at the Autonomous Metropolitan University in Mexico City. His research focuses on medieval epistemology and the political thought of 16th and 17th century Spanish and Colonial Scholasticism on which he has published extensively, most recently “Francisco de Vitoria on self-defense and killing innocents: the limits of ‘double effect’”, in Beneyto, J.M. and Corti Varela, J. (eds.), At the origins of modernity: Francisco de Vitoria and the discovery of International Law (2017), 155–173.