Rafael Domingo Osle

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Rafael Domingo Oslé (born 1963 in Logroño, La Rioja) is a Spanish jurist, legal historian and professor of law who is specialized in ancient Roman law, Comparative law, law and religion, and Global law. Domingo is the Spruill Family Professor of Law and Religion at Emory University in Atlanta, GA, and the Alvaro d'Ors Professor of Law at the University of Navarra in Pamplona, Spain.

Rafael Domingo Oslé

Education[]

Rafael Domingo received his university law degree (LLB 1985) and a doctorate in law (Ph.D. 1987) from the University of Navarra (Pamplona, Spain), both with the highest honors. He conducted legal research as an Alexander von Humboldt research fellow at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany (1989 and 1995), and as a visiting scholar at the Columbia Law School in New York City (2000 and 2009).^[1]

Academic and professional activities[]

In 1989, Domingo was awarded tenure at University of Cantabria and promoted to associate professor's rank.^[2] Two years later, in 1993 Domingo was elevated to the rank of professor of law.^[3] In 1995, Domingo joined the University of Navarra School of Law, where he served as dean (1996–1999), and founding director of the Garrigues Chair in Global Law.^[4]

In 2011–12, Domingo served as Straus and Emile Noël joint Fellow at New York University (NYU) School of Law.^[5] Since 2012 he has served as Francisco de Vitoria Senior Fellow and the Spruill Family Professor of Law and Religion at the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University in Atlanta, GA. In 2020 Domingo was appointed the Alvaro d'Ors Professor of Law at the Institute of Culture and Society in the University of Navarra.^[6]

Honors and awards[]

Domingo has been awarded the Toribio Rodriguez de Mendoza Medal of Honor from the Peruvian Constitutional Court (2006);^[7] the Rafael Martinez Emperador Award from the Spanish Council of the Judiciary (2007);^[8] the Medal of Honor from the Paraguayan Academy of Law (2009),^[9] the Jose Barandiaran Medal of Honor from the National University of San Marcos (2016),^[10] and the Honorary Diploma from the Congress of the Republic of Peru (2016).^[11]

Domingo received honorary doctorates in law from the Inca Garcilaso University (2012)^[12] and the University of Saint Ignatius of Loyola (2016),^[13] both in Lima (Peru).

Domingo is a corresponding member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Legal Science and Legislation (Madrid), the Spanish Academy of Moral Sciences and Politics (Madrid), the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Vienna), the Academy of Social Sciences (Cordoba, Argentina), and the Peruvian Academy of Moral and Political Sciences (Lima).^[14]

Global law[]

Domingo believes that the dislocations of the worldwide economic crisis, the necessity of a system of global justice to address crime against humanity, and the notorious democratic deficit of international institutions highlight the need for an innovative and truly global legal system^[15] -one that permits humanity to reorder itself according to acknowledged global needs and evolving consciousness.^[16]

To this end, he is a supporter of the Campaign for the Establishment of a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly, an organization which advocates for democratic reformation of the United Nations.^[17]

Roman law, comparative law, and law and religion[]

In the field of Roman law, following the steps of Alvaro d'Ors, Domingo has carried out critical studies of Edictum Perpetuum, offering a new reconstruction of the first edictal title on jurisdiction (De iurisdictione). He also has analyzed the nature of the Roman concepts of auctoritas (moral authority) and potestas (constituted power).^[18]

In comparative law, Domingo has focused on the origin of common legal rules and aphorisms in both civil law and common law tradition, the historical development of the civil law tradition, and modern Japanese Civil Code.

In law and religion, Domingo has advocated for a theistic conception of the secular legal system that also includes and protects non-theistic approaches.^[19]

Major publications[]

• The New Global Law (Cambridge University Press, 2010)
• God and the Secular Legal System (Cambridge University Press, 2016)
• Roman Law. An Introduction (Routledge, 2018)
• Great Christian Jurist in Spanish History (Cambridge University Press, 2018), co-editor with
• Great Christian Jurist in French History (Cambridge University Press, 2019), co-editor with Olivier Descamps
• Christianity and Global Law (Routledge, 2020), coeditor con John Witte, Jr.
• Law and the Christian Tradition in Italy (Routledge, 2020), co-editor with Orazio Condorelli
• Estudios sobre el primer título del Edicto del Pretor [Studies on the First Part of the Praetor's Edict] (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, 1992, 1993, 1995)
• Auctoritas [On Authority] (Ariel, 1999)
• Código civil japonés. Estudio preliminar, traducción y notas [The Japanese Civil Code. Preliminary Study, Translation and Notes] (Marcial Pons 2000), in collaboration with Nobuo Hayashi.
• Juristas universales [Universal Jurists] (editor and coordinator), 4 vols. (Marcial Pons, 2004)
• Ex Roma ius [From Rome, Law] (Thomson Aranzadi, 2005)
• Álvaro d’Ors, una introducción a su obra [Alvaro d’Ors, an Introduction to his Works] (Thosmon Aranzadi, 2005)
• Principios de Derecho Global. 1000 reglas jurídicas y aforismos comentados [Principles of Global Law. 1000 Legal Rules and Commented Aphorisms] (editor and coordinator) (Thomson Aranzadi, 2006)
• ¿Qué es el Derecho Global? [What is Global Law?] (Thomson Reuters Aranzadi, 2008)

References[]

https://en.unpacampaign.org/supporters/overview/?mapcountry=ES&mapgroup=all

External links[]

• Rafael Domingo profile at Emory University School of Law
• https://www.jstor.org/action/doBasicSearch?Query=%22Rafael+Domingo%22
• https://cnnespanol.cnn.com/author/rafael-domingo-osle/
• https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=KRizDHkAAAAJ&hl=en
• https://www.unav.edu/en/web/catedra-alvaro-dors/equipo/titular-de-la-catedra
• https://www.unav.edu/en/web/investigacion/nuestros-investigadores/detalle-investigadores-cv?investigadorId=25041&investigador=Domingo%20Osle,%20Rafael
• https://law.strathmore.edu/rafael-domingo/