Research Areas:

Selected Memberships:

• Spruill Family Professor of Law and Religion (Emory University, Atlanta)
• Spanish Academy of Jurisprudence
• Spanish Academy of Moral and Political Sciences
• National Academy of Social Sciences, Cordoba, Argentinien
• American Society of International Law and American Society of Comparative Law
• Societe d’Histoire du Droit
• Latin American Society of Roman Law

Selected Prizes:

• Honorary Degree in Law from the Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola in Lima and the Inca Garcilaso University in Lima
• Silver Medal of the University of Navarra
• Medal of Honor by the Paraguayan Academy of Law
• Medal of Honor, Toribio Rodriguez de Mendoza by the Peruvian Constitutional Court
• Rafael Martinez Emperador Prize on Legal Research by the Spanish Council of the Judiciary

Selected Publications:

• The New Global Law (Cambridge University Press, 2020).
• God and the Secular Legal System (Cambridge University Press, 2016).
• Roman Law: An Introduction (Routledge, 2018).
• Law and the Secular Legal System (Catholic University of America, 2023).
• El sentido del cristianismo (Esfera de los Libros, 2025).