Mirow on Juan Solórzano Pereira as a Christian Jurist

M. C. Mirow, Florida International University College of Law, is publishing Juan Solórzano Pereira in Great Christian Jurists in Spanish History (Rafael Domingo and Javier Martinez-Torron, eds.; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017). Here is the abstract.

This biography of the seventeenth-century jurist Juan Solórzano Pereira analyzes his major writings with particular focus on his justifications of Spanish activity in the Americas. The study addresses his views of papal authority, indigenous peoples, and Spanish rule through his use of Roman Catholic sources and doctrine.

Download the essay from SSRN at the link.

Spanish Law and Religion

Rafael Palomino, Facultade de Derecho, Universidad Complutense, has published Manual Breve de Derecho Eclesiástico del Estado (Spanish Law and Religion in a Nutshell). Here is the abstract.

Manual breve de Derecho eclesiástico del Estado español. El manual comprende 10 capítulos sobre elementos fundamentales del Derecho estatal en materia religiosa.
Spanish Law and Religion in a Nutshell. Ten chapters of the fundamentals of Spanish Law and Religion.

Download the two hundred page document, which is in Spanish, at the link.