Online text: “Human Identity and Otherness – Learning from Francisco De Vitoria”, by Dr. Claus Dierksmeier

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• “Human Identity and Otherness – Learning from Francisco De Vitoria”, by Professor Claus Dierksmeier, Ph.D. (September 29, 2011). Available in pdf format at the Humanistic Management Center and at the Social Science Research Network (SSRN). [Note: It is unclear if the author is a Catholic Christian. However his published body of work manifests at least the strong influence of ethical thought in the intellectual tradition of the one true Church.]

See also these related texts:

• “The Catholic Neo-Scholastic Contribution to Human Rights: The Natural Law Foundation”, by Robert John Araujo, S.J., Ave Maria Law Review, Volume 1, No. 1 (2003): pp. 159-174. Available in PDF format at Loyola University.
• “Francisco de Vitoria on the Ius Gentium and the American Indios,” by Professor Victor Salas, Ph.D., Ave Maria Law Review, Vol. 10, Issue 2 (Spring 2012): pp. 331-342. Available in pdf format on this page of the Ave Maria Law Review.
• “Inter Homines Esse: The Foundations of International Criminal Law and the Writings of Ambrose, Augustine, Aquinas, Vitoria and Suárez”, by Judge Dr. Hanne Sophie Greve, in Philosophical Foundations of International Criminal Law: Correlating Thinkers, edited by Morten Bergsmo and Emiliano J. Buis (Brussels: Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher, 2018): pp. 111-164.
  • The text is available in pdf format on this page of the ICC Legal Tools Database (linked from Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher). The text may also be read as part of the larger work at Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher. [Note: Catholic Christians without adequate theological formation are cautioned against perusing other essays in the larger work, as they are mainly texts written from non-Catholic perspectives.
  • Media are also available of Dr. Greve’s lecture on the subject, which necessarily abbreviates the discussion in the text: “The Foundations of International Criminal Law and the Writings of Ambrose, Augustine, Aquinas, Vitoria and Suarez” (lecture), by Judge Dr. Hanne Sophie Greve, delivered on 25 August 2017 at the Indian Law Institute, New Delhi.
    • The video may be viewed at the Centre for International Law Research and Policy.
    • The audio/podcast is available at the Centre for International Law Research and Policy. (To find the said audio, search on the page for “Hanne Sophie Greve”, which will show 3 talks by Judge Greve, or “The Foundations of International Criminal Law and the Writings of Ambrose, Augustine, Aquinas, Vitoria and Suarez”)
• “Our Debt to De Vitoria: A Catholic Foundation of Human Rights”, by Robert John Araujo, S.J., Ave Maria Law Review 10:2 (2012), pages 313-329. Available in PDF format on this page of the Ave Maria School of Law—Law Review.
• “The Thomism of Bartolomé de Las Casas and the Indians of the New World”, by Thomas Francis Xavier Varacalli, Ph.D. LSU Doctoral Dissertations, 1664 (2016). Available in pdf format in pdf format of the LSU Digital Commons.
• “The Unheard Voice of Law in Bartolomé De Las Casas’s Brevísima Relación De La Destruición De Las Indias”, by Professor Fr. David Thomas Orique, O.P., Ph.D.. Dissertation, University of Oregon, June 2011. 485 pages. Available in pdf format on this page of the University of Oregon Libraries Scholars’ Bank, and at CORE.
• “The Valladolid Controversy Revisited: Looking Back at the Sixteenth-Century Debate on Native Americans While Facing the Current Status of Human Embryos”, by Professor Agustín Parise, Ll.D., Ph.D., LSU Law Center Journal of Civil Law Studies, Vol. 1 (2008): pp. 107-138. Available in pdf format at the LSU Law Digital Commons, at CORE (provided by the Louisiana State University), and the Social Science Research Network (SSRN).

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