Contribution to Book
Spanish Law and its Expansion
in OXFORD HANDBOOK OF EUROPEAN LEGAL HISTORY
(2018)
Abstract
This chapter provides an overview of the legal aspects of Spain's enterprise in the Americas. It addresses the uses of law in discovery, exploration and conquest; Castilian law before its expansion to new territories; the use of law to justify conquest; slavery and indigenous labour; institutions; sources of law; legal actors; and Spanish law after independence. It also presents some of the present debates surrounding the nature and construction of derecho indiano.
Keywords
- Spain,
- colonial law,
- derecho indiano,
- Americas
Disciplines
- Law,
- European Law and
- Legal History
Publication Date
2018
Editor
Pihlajamäki, Dubber & Godfrey, eds.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
ISBN
9780198785521
Citation Information
M. C. Mirow, Spanish Law and its Expansion, in OXFORD HANDBOOK OF EUROPEAN LEGAL HISTORY (Pihlajamäki, Dubber & Godfrey, eds., Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018).