Juan López de Palacios Rubios
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Juan López de Palacios Rubios (1450–1524) was a Spanish jurist called El Doctor for his expertise in canon law. He was the primary author of the famous
López studied at the University of Salamanca, where he later served as a professor of law. He served as College of San Bartolome, President of the
As a member of the Council of Castile from 1504, by appointment of the Catholic Monarchs, he was one of the drafters of the Laws of Toro (enacted in 1505), one of the main proponents of the issue of the Righteous Domain Titles of Castile on Indies. Specifically, in his Oceanis Insulis Libellus of legal reasoning makes a conscientious about the legitimacy of Spanish sovereignty in the American territories.
Among his works are also found military writings, most notably the Treaty of the heroic war effort (Salamanca, 1524), the only work he wrote in Castilian with a distinctly political tone.
Bibliography
- Hanke, Lewis (1949). The Spanish Struggle for Justice in the Conquest of America. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 29–33.
- Lantigua, David M. (2020). Infidels and Empires in a New World Order. Cambridge University Press. pp. 62–65.
- McAllister, Lyle N. (1984). Spain and Portugal in the New World, 1492-1700. University of Minnesota. p. 90.
- Seed, Patricia (1995). Ceremonies of Possession in Europe's Conquest of the New World: 1492-1640. Cambridge University Press. pp. 69–71.
- Williams, Robert A. (1990). The American Indian in Western Legal Thought: The Discourses of Conquest. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0195050223.
Spanish
- Barrientos Grandón, Javier. "Juan Lopez de Vivero". Real Academia de la Historia (in Spanish).
- "Juan López de Palacios Rubios" (Spanish). Biografías y Vidas. 2004. pp. 90–91.