Rafael Domingo Oslé
Rafael Domingo Oslé (Logroño, 1963) is a Spanish jurist and professor of law who specializes in Roman law, comparative law, global law, and law and religion. He is the Alvaro d’Ors Professor of Law at the University of Navarra and co-editor of the Journal of Law and Religion (Cambridge University Press).
Professor Domingo has published more than 30 books and 100 articles in English, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, German, Russian, and Japanese, and has given dozens of lectures in Europe, North America, Latin America, and Japan. His recent authored books include The New Global Law (Cambridge University Press, 2010), God and the Secular Legal System (Cambridge University Press, 2016), Roman Law: An Introduction (Routledge, 2018), Derecho y Trascendencia (Aranzadi, 2023), and Law and Religion in a Secular Age (CUA Press, 2023).
Domingo’s recent coedited books include Great Christian Jurists in Spanish History (Cambridge University Press, 2018), Great Christian Jurists in French History (Cambridge University Press, 2019), Christianity and Global Law (Routledge, 2020), Law and the Christian Tradition in Italy (Routledge, 2020), Law and Christianity in Latin America (Routledge, 2021), Law and Christianity in Poland (Routledge, 2023) and The Oxford Handbook on Christianity and Law (2023).
Domingo has authored articles published in the leading journals of Roman law, legal history, law and religion, constitutional law and international law, such as The European Journal of International Law, The International Journal of Constitutional Law, The Oxford Journal of Law and Religion, or The Chicago Journal of International Law. Domingo has also published more than 200 op-eds in Spanish, North American and Latin American newspapers and has been interviewed more than 40 times on CNN.
Domingo earned his bachelor’s degree (1985) and PhD (1987) in law from the University of Navarra (both with higher honors). He conducted post-doctoral research at the University of Munich (LMU) as an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation fellow (1989 and 1995), and as a visiting scholar at La Sapienza University of Rome (1995), and Columbia University in New York (2000 and 2009).
Domingo was professor of Roman law at the University of Cantabria from 1989 to 1993. In 1995, he joined the University of Navarra as successor to his mentor Álvaro d’Ors, with whom he worked for twenty years. From 1996 to 1999, Domingo served as Dean of Navarra’s School of Law. He was founding director of the Garrigues Chair in Global Law at the same university, launching three international programs, namely the Anglo-American Law Program (AALP), the International Business Law Program (IBLP) and the Global Law Program (GLP).
During the 2011-2012 academic year, Professor Domingo served as a fellow of the Straus Institute for the Study of Law and Justice at the University of New York, as well as Emile Noël Senior Fellow at the same university’s Jean Monnet Center. In 2013, he was appointed Francisco de Vitoria Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia (USA). From 2016 to 2023 he was appointed the Spruill Family Professor of Law and Religion at the same center. Since 2018, he has also been a visiting professor at Strathmore University’s School of Law in Nairobi, Kenya.
Rafael Domingo was founder and director of Thomson Reuters Aranzadi’s Global Law Collection from 2005-2014, and is the founder and current coeditor of Aranzadi’s Roots of Law Series. He chairs the Maiestas Foundation, where he has coordinated various cultural and social projects in India, Latin America and Africa.
Professor Domingo is a corresponding academic for various international academies, such as the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Vienna), the National Academy of Law and Social Science of Córdoba (Argentina), the Royal Academy of Jurisprudence and Legislation (Madrid), and the Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences (Madrid). Additionally, Professor Domingo is a member of the Inter-American Academy of International and Comparative Law and the Peruvian Academy of Moral and Political Sciences.
Among other honors, he received the Rafael Martínez Emperador Research Prize from the General Council of the Spanish Judiciary, the Toribio Rodríguez Mendoza Medal from the Peruvian Constitutional Court, the Silver Medal from the University of Navarra, the Honorary Medal from the Paraguayan Academy of Law, and the José Barandiarán Medal from the National University of San Marcos. He also received honorary doctorate degrees from the Inca Garcilaso de la Vega University and from the University of San Ignacio de Loyola (USIL), both in Lima (Peru). His close ties with this country were recognized with a Diploma of Honor awarded by the President of the Congress of the Republic of Peru (2016). In 2019, Domingo received the Vicente Ricaforte Medal from the Ecuadorian National Assembly.
Featured publications
→ Rafael Domingo, Law and Religion in A Secular Age (Catholic University of America Press, 2023).
→ Rafael Domingo, God and the Secular Legal System (Cambridge University Press, 2016)
→ Rafael Domingo, The New Global Law (Cambridge University Press, 2010).