Posted in Books & Films, News & Commentary on Jun 29th, 2017
¡Bienvenidos! once again to the School of Salamanca blog, a site dedicated to transmitting the legacy of Spanish scholastic theologians and jurists of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This blog originally served as a platform for sharing my dissertation research back in 2011. It has been over five years since the last post so please […]
Posted in News & Commentary on Sep 19th, 2011
Exactly five hundred years ago, Antón Montesinos preached the unforgettable sermon as a voice crying in the desert of the Caribbean against the Spanish abuses of the Taínos on Española. I was relieved to see that a collaborative effort to commemorate this paradigmatic event on the Fourth Sunday of Advent in 1511 is very much underway. The conference is scheduled […]
Posted in News & Commentary on Jun 16th, 2011
The project of human rights and its enforcement through particular states and/or international criminal courts rests on claims of universal jurisdiction in the effort to protect individuals and peoples from gross violations of human dignity. From the Nuremberg trials to the Guatemalan civil war, crimes against humanity such as torture, war crimes, terrorism, and genocide have been the […]
Posted in Books & Films, News & Commentary on Apr 26th, 2011
During my visit to Madrid, I made it a point to visit the basilica of Nuestra Señora de Atocha. Most historians believe that this was the final resting place of Fray Bartolomé de las Casas before his death in 1566. When I arrived to the basilica with my family, I was pleased to be greeted by […]