Crossing Legal Cultures

Laura Beck Varela received her LL.B. in 1999 from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Porto Alegre, Brazil) and in 2001 obtained an LL.M. from the same University. She was a Research Fellow at the Max-Planck International Research School for Comparative Legal History (Frankfurt am Main) and gained her European Doctorate from the University of Seville. She is now Lecturer (Profesor Ayudante Doctor) in Legal History at the Autonomous University of Madrid. Alberto Spinosa received his LL.B from the University of Florence, where he completed his Doctorate in Theory and History of Law in 2007. He is currently a Research Fellow at Florence University’s Centre for the Study of History of Medieval and Modern Law. Pablo Gutiérrez Vega graduated in Law from the University of Oviedo and in Political Sciences from the Autonomous University of Madrid; he completed his Masters in Advanced European Studies at the College of Europe (Brussels). Since 1998 he has been a Lecturer (Professor Asociado) in Legal History at the University of Seville.