Amaya Amell is assistant professor of Spanish.

• Chapter 1. Vitoria: His Life and InfluencesChapter 2. Vitoria and LawChapter 3. Vitoria: On the Indians (De Indis Prior)Chapter 4. Vitoria on Just War and International LawChapter 5. The Vitorian Concept of Law and Just War in Hugo GrotiusChapter 6. John Locke and the enlightened evolution of Vitorian thought

Amaya Amell’s authoritative work brilliantly explores the evolution of international law through the lens of the conquest of the Americas as a crucial moment of reassessment of human rights. Students, practitioners, and scholars of international law will find Professor Amell’s work particularly compelling because she critically and systematically considers, in part, the highly influential work of renown international law scholar Francisco de Vitoria on divine, natural, and human law, the concepts of Church, nation, state, just war, and human rights, and the legitimizing process involved in the encounter between colonizers and the indigenous people.

Amaya Amell is assistant professor of Spanish.

• Chapter 1. Vitoria: His Life and InfluencesChapter 2. Vitoria and LawChapter 3. Vitoria: On the Indians (De Indis Prior)Chapter 4. Vitoria on Just War and International LawChapter 5. The Vitorian Concept of Law and Just War in Hugo GrotiusChapter 6. John Locke and the enlightened evolution of Vitorian thought

Amaya Amell’s authoritative work brilliantly explores the evolution of international law through the lens of the conquest of the Americas as a crucial moment of reassessment of human rights. Students, practitioners, and scholars of international law will find Professor Amell’s work particularly compelling because she critically and systematically considers, in part, the highly influential work of renown international law scholar Francisco de Vitoria on divine, natural, and human law, the concepts of Church, nation, state, just war, and human rights, and the legitimizing process involved in the encounter between colonizers and the indigenous people.

Amaya Amell is assistant professor of Spanish.

• Chapter 1. Vitoria: His Life and InfluencesChapter 2. Vitoria and LawChapter 3. Vitoria: On the Indians (De Indis Prior)Chapter 4. Vitoria on Just War and International LawChapter 5. The Vitorian Concept of Law and Just War in Hugo GrotiusChapter 6. John Locke and the enlightened evolution of Vitorian thought

Amaya Amell’s authoritative work brilliantly explores the evolution of international law through the lens of the conquest of the Americas as a crucial moment of reassessment of human rights. Students, practitioners, and scholars of international law will find Professor Amell’s work particularly compelling because she critically and systematically considers, in part, the highly influential work of renown international law scholar Francisco de Vitoria on divine, natural, and human law, the concepts of Church, nation, state, just war, and human rights, and the legitimizing process involved in the encounter between colonizers and the indigenous people.