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Challenges to Legal Theory offers the reader a fascinating journey through a variety of multi-disciplinary topics, ranging from law and literature, and law and religion, to legal philosophy and constitutional law. The collection reflects some of the challenges that the field of legal theory currently faces. It is compiled by a selection of international and Spanish scholars, whose essays are made available in English translation for the first time. The volume is based on a collection of essays, published in Spanish, in honour of Professor José Iturmendi Morales, of Complutense University, Madrid, and brings the rich scholarship of pre-eminent Spanish scholars of law and legal theory to an international audience.
About the author
María José Falcón y Tella is Professor of Legal Philosophy (1991) of the Complutense University of Madrid. She is the author of 30 books, many of them translated into different languages, such as Civil Disobedience (2004), Punishment and Culture (2006), Equity and Law (2008), A Three-Dimensional Theory of Law (2010), Jurisprudence in Roman, Anglosaxon and Continental Law (2011), Justice and Law (2014) and Law and Literature (2016), all of them published with Brill/Nijhoff. She was awarded the "National Prize of Studies in Law" in 1987.
Juan Antonio Martinez MuÑoz is Professor of Legal Philosophy (2000) at the Complutense University of Madrid. He has been Director of the Department of Legal Philosophy of this University. He is the author of five books, such as El conocimiento jurídico (4th ed., 2019) and Derechos humanos. ¿Criterios de justicia o ideología política? (2nd ed., 2020) and has published more than fifty articles in his area of specialty.
