Beck Varela, Laura

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Associate Professor, Legal History Section
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Facultad de Derecho - Área de Historia del Derecho
Calle Kelsen 1 - 28049 Madrid - España
Tel. (+34) 91 497 2559

laura.beck@uam.es

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Research interests
Legal history, book history, censorship history, ius commune, history of legal education, law in the early modern Iberian world, gender history and law


Projects
Book project exploring the connections between book history and legal history and the circulation, censorship and adaptations of Protestant legal textbooks for the study of law in eighteenth century Spain and Portugal.


Selected bibliography concerning Natural law

  • Books

Literatura Jurídica y Censura. Fortuna de Vinnius en España (Valencia: Tirant lo Blanch, 2013), 639 p.

  • Articles

'La enseñanza del derecho y los Índices de libros prohibidos. Notas para un panorama ibérico, 1583-1640' in Le università e la Riforma protestante. Studi e ricerche nel quinto anniversario delle tesi luterane, ed. Simona Negruzzo (Bologna: Il Mulino, 2018), p. 275-300.

'Authorship in Early Modern Jurisprudence. Paul Voet (1619-1667) on auctor and editor' in Quærendo. A Journal Devoted to Manuscripts and Printed Books, vol. 47, issue 3-4 (2017), p. 252-277 (doi 10.1163/15700690-12341385) [Open access].

'The Diffusion of Law Books in Early Modern Europe: A Methodological Approach' in Spatial and Temporal Dimensions for Legal History. Research experiences and itineraries [Global Perspectives in Legal History], ed. M. Meccarelli, J. Solla (Frankfurt am Main: Max-Planck-Institut für europäische Rechtsgeschichte, 2016), p. 195-239 (ISBN 978-3-944773-05-6) [Open access].

'Translating Law for Women? The Institutes du Droit Civil pour les Dames in Eighteenth Century Helmstedt' in Rechtsgeschichte (Rg) 24 (2016), p. 171-189 [Open access].

'¿El Censor Ineficaz? Una lectura histórico-jurídica del Índice de libros prohibidos' in Revista Jurídica de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 31, 2015-I (ISSN 1575720X), pp. 71 -89.

(with Jesús Vallejo) 'La cultura del derecho común (siglos XI-XVIII)' in Manual de Historia del Derecho, ed. M. Lorente, J. Vallejo (Valencia: Tirant lo Blanch, 2012), p. 59-100.