Unheard Voice of Law in Bartolome de Las Casas's Brevisima Relacion de la Destruicion de las Indias

The Unheard Voice of Law in Bartolomé de las Casas’s Brevísima relación de la destruición de las Indias reinterprets Las Casas’s controversial treatise as a legal document, whose legal character is linked to civil and ecclesial genres of the Early Modern and late Renaissance juridical tradition.

Bartolomé de las Casas proclaimed: "I have labored to inquire about, study, and discern the law; I have...