Philosophy of Law

Francisco Suárez Francisco Suárez was born in Granada on 5 January 1548 and died in Lisbon on 25 September 1617. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1564, studied at Salamanca, and taught philosophy and theology at Segovia, Valladolid, Rome (Roman College), Alcalá, Salamanca and, from 1597, Coimbra, where he remained until shortly before his death. He is the most influential figure of so-called Second Scholasticism, the revival of scholastic thought in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, especially on the Iberian Peninsula, in which Thomism and other medieval currents were reworked in dialogue with the questions of the age. ...

Hans Kelsen Hans Kelsen was born in Prague on 11 October 1881 and died in Orinda, California, on 19 April 1973. Raised in Vienna, he became professor of public law at the University of Vienna, where he founded the so-called Vienna School of legal positivism. He was the principal drafter of the Austrian Constitution of 1920 and sat on the Austrian Constitutional Court (1920–1930), the model of concentrated constitutional adjudication. Removed from the court in 1930, he taught at Cologne until dismissed by the Nazi regime in 1933; he passed through Geneva and Prague and emigrated to the United States in 1940, where he was a professor at Berkeley (from 1945). ...

Miguel Reale Miguel Reale was born in São Bento do Sapucaí (São Paulo state) on 6 November 1910 and died in São Paulo on 14 April 2006. A law graduate of the Largo de São Francisco Faculty, he was a full professor at the University of São Paulo, of which he was twice rector (1949–1950 and 1969–1973), and held chair 14 of the Brazilian Academy of Letters from 1975 until his death. He is regarded as the most influential Brazilian philosopher of law of the twentieth century and one of the leading representatives of Brazilian culturalism. ...