Research Interests

My work centers on the relationship between Spain, Portugal, Portuguese and Spanish America and the ways by which Iberian societies changed as a result of their involvement in a colonial project. Having dealt with the way individuals negotiated being members of both local and kingdom communities, and how immigrants became citizens, and citizens were transformed in outsiders, I am currently writing a book manuscript on the formation of the border between Spain and Portugal in both Europe and the America. Rather than a political, military or diplomatic history, this is the story of how boundaries were formed on the ground by neighbors and how the right to land and the use of territory were discussed, negotiated, obtained or denied. In the past, my research centered on the working of colonial institutions in everyday life. It included an analysis of the relationship between legal norms and social and political practices, and was mainly concerned with the way institutions and normative orders responded to changing circumstances, and to material and symbolic constraints.

Publications

Books

• Upholding Justice: State, Law and the Penal System in Quito. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004 (French Translation by L'Harmattan 2001, Spanish version by Centro de Estudios Constitucionales, 1995).
• Defining Nations: Immigrants and Citizens in Early Modern Spain and Spanish America. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003 (Spanish translation by Alianza Editorial, 2006).
• Ritos de control, prácticas de negociación: Pesquisas, visitas y residencias y las relaciones entre Quito y Madrid (1650-1750). In Nuevas Aportaciones a la historia jurídica de Iberoamérica, [CD Rom] Madrid: Fundación Hernando de Larramendi-Mapfre, 2000.
• Mediación, archivos y ejercicio: Los escribanos de Quito (siglo XVII-XVIII). Frankfurt: Vittorio Klostermann, 1996.
• Los ministros de la Audiencia de Quito 1650-1750. Quito: Libri-Mundi, 1995.

Edited Volumes

• Polycentric Monarchies. How did Early Modern Spain and Portugal Achieve and Maintain a Global Hegemony? Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, (forthcoming) (with Pedro Cardim, José Javier Ruiz Ibáñez and Gaetano Sabatini).
• The Collective and the Public in Latin America. Cultural Identities and Political Order. Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2000. Co-edited with Prof. Luis Roniger.
• Observation and Communication: The Construction of Realities in the Hispanic World. Frankfurt: Vittorio Klostermann, 1997. Co-edited with prof.J.M. Scholz.

Articles

• “Did European Law Turn American? Territory, Property and Rights in an Atlantic World.” In Thomas Duve and Heikki Pihlajamäki eds. New Horizons of Spanish Colonial Law: Contributions to Transnational Early Modern Legal History. Frankfurt: Vittorio Klostermann Max Planck (forthcoming).
• “Can You Tell a Spaniard When You See One? ‘Us’ and ‘Them’ in the Early Modern Iberian Atlantic.” In Pedro Cardim, Tamar Herzog, José Javier Ruiz Ibáñez and Gaetano Sabatini, eds. Polycentric Monarchies. How did Early Modern Spain and Portugal Achieve and Maintain a Global Hegemony? Brighton: Sussex Academic Press (forthcoming).
• “La integración de los reinos y ultramar: las Américas durante y después de la unión ibérica.” In Mercedes Galán y Ana Zabala Seguin eds. España y América (siglos XVI-XVIII). Cizur Menor (Navarra): Thomson-Aranzadi (forthcoming).
• “Beyond Race: Alternative Mechanism of Exclusion in Early Modern Spain and Spanish America.” In María Elena Martínez, Max S. Herring Torrres and David Nirenberg eds., Race and Blood in Spain and Colonial Hispano-America. Berlin and London: LIT Verlag (forthcoming).
• “Naming, Identifying and Authorizing Movement in Spain and Spanish America (17-18th centuries).” In Keith Breckenridge and Simon Szreter eds. Comparative History of Civil Registration. Oxford: Oxford University Press (forthcoming).
• “prologue.” In Gaetano Sabatini ed. In The Shadow of an Empire: How Spanish Colonialism Affected Economic Development in Europe and the World, 16th-18th Centuries. Milan: Franco Angeli Editore (forthcoming).
• “Una Monarquías, dos territorios: La frontera entre españoles y portugueses, España y Portugal durante (y después) de la Unión.” In Carlos Martínez Shaw and José Antonio Martínez Torres eds. España y Portugal en el mundo (1580-1668). Madrid: Polifemo (forthcoming).
• “Naturales y advenedizos: La reorganización del derecho a la tierra en el reino de Quito (y otras partes).” In Jacques Poloni-Simard ed. Hommage à Nathan Wachtel. Paris: EHESS (forthcoming).
• “Judges in Colonial Spanish America.” In Herman Barreto ed. Historia social dos juristas na primeira modernidade (1500-1800). Belo Horizonte: Livraria Tempus (forthcoming).
• “How Did Early-Modern Slaves in Spain Disappear? The Antecedents.” Republics of Letters (forthcoming).
• “Naturales y extranjeros: sobre la construcción de categorías en el mundo hispánico.” In Óscar Recio Morales and Thomas Glesener eds. Los extranjeros y la construcción de la nación en España y la América española, 1700-1825. Cuadernos de Historia Moderna 10 (2011): 21-31.
• “¿Quien es el extranjero? Repensando las diferencias entre las personas en España e Hispanoamérica durante la época moderna.” In David González Cruz ed. Pueblos indígenas y extranjeros en la Monarquía Hispánica: La mirada del otro en tiempos de guerra (siglos XVI-XIX). Madrid: Sílex, 2011, 13-19.
• “Vieira, los jesuitas y la formación de una frontera entre Portugal y España en el Nuevo Mundo.” In Pedro Cardim and Gaetano Sabatini eds. António Vieira, Roma e o universalismo das monarquias portuguesa e espanhola. Lisbon: Centro de História de Além-Mar, 2011, 175-180.
• “Labor, Law, and Civic Identities in the British and Spanish Empires.” Co-authored with Richard J. Ross. William and Mary Quarterly. 68 (4) (2011): 707-712.
• “Conquista o integración: Los debates entorno a la inserción territorial (Madrid-México, siglo XVIII).” In Michel Bertrand and Natividad Planas eds. Les sociétés de frontière. De la Méditerranée à l’Atlantique (xvie- xviiie siècle). Madrid : Casa de Velázquez, 2011, 149-164.
• “Identities and Processes of Identification in the Atlantic World.” In Nicholas Canny and Philip Morgan eds. The Oxford Handbook of the Atlantic World c.1450-c.1820. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011, 480-495.
• “Constitution and Constitutional law in Spanish America in Light of the Bicentennial.” Rechtsgeschichte 16 (2010): 48-49.
• “naturalización,” “nombre,” “tormento (tortura) judicial,” and “vecindad,” entries to the Diccionario histórico judicial de México; Ideas e instituciones. México: Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación, 2010, v. II, 1153-1157 and 1171-1175 and v. III, 1625-1628 and 1719-1723.
• “Reconquista y repoblación: modelos ibéricos, realidades americanas y respuestas peninsulares (siglos XI-XVIII).” In Anne Dubet and José Javier Ruiz Ibáñez eds. Las monarquías española y francesa (siglos XVI-XVIII). ¿Dos modelos políticos? Madrid: Casa de Velázquez, 2010, 45-55.
• “Lengua y pertenencia en la América Española, siglos XVI-XVIII.” Ínsula 762 (2010): 7-10.
• “Immigrants and Citizens: Becoming a Spaniard in the Early Modern Age.” In José Alberto Galván Tudela ed. Migraciones e integración cultural. Lecturas históricas desde el espacio insular. Palma: Academia Canaria de la Historia, 2009, 147-171.
• “The Meeting of Worlds: Did Early Modern Expansion lead to Globalization?” In Benjamin Z. Kedar ed. New Ventures in Comparative History. Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 2009, 85-104.
• “El Arbitrismo y América.” In José Martínez Millán and Maria Antonietta Visceglia, eds. La monarquía de Felipe III: La Corte (volumen III). Madrid: Fundación Mapfre, 2008, 925-931.
• “Nosotros y ellos: españoles, americanos y extranjeros en Buenos Aires a finales de la época colonial.” In José I. Fortea and Juan E. Gelabert eds. Ciudades en conflicto. Valladolid: Junta de Castilla y León, 2008, 241-257.
• “Los naturales de España: entre el Viejo y Nuevo Mundo.” In Francisco José Aranda Pérez and José Damião Rodrigues eds. De Re Publica Hispaniae. Una vindicación de la cultura política en los reinos ibéricos en la primera modernidad.Madrid: Sílex, 2008, 409-422.
• "Solórzano Pereira, Juan de.” In Joanne Pillsbury ed. Guide to Documentary Sources for Andean Art Studies 1530-1900. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008, v.3, 648-650.
• “Penser l’exclusion: les discours espagnols et hispano-américains sur l’“Autre” (autours de 1740-1811).” In Anath Ariel de Vidas, ed. Jeux de mémoires, enjeux d’identités. Pour une histoire souterraine des Amériques. Mélanges offert à Nathan Wachtel. Paris: L’Harmattan, 2008, 173-196.
• “Nombres y apellidos: ¿cómo se llamaban las personas en Castilla e Hispanoamérica durante la época moderna?” Jahrbuch für Geschichte von Staat, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft Lateinamerikas 44 (2007) 1-36.
• “Terres et déserts, société et sauvagerie. De la communauté en Amérique et en Castille à l’époque moderne.” Annales HSS 62 (3) (2007) 507-538.
• “Communities Becoming a Nation: Spain and Spanish America in the Wake of Modernity (and Thereafter),” Citizenship Studies 11 (2) (2007) 151-172.
• “Être espagnol dans un monde moderne et transatlantique,” in Alan Tallon ed., Le sentiment national dans l'Europe méridionale aux XVI et XVIIe siècles (France, Espagne, Italie), Madrid, Casa de Velázquez, 2007, pp.1-18.
• “Indiani e cowboys: il ruolo dell’indigeno nel diritto e nell’immaginario ispano-coloniale,” in Aldo Mazzacane ed., Oltremare. Diritto e istituzione dal colonialismo all’età postocolniale, Naples, Cuen, 2006, pp.9-44.
• “Judges in Colonial Spanish America (seventeenth and eighteenth centuries),” in Bernard Durand and Martine Fabre ed., Le juge et l’outre-mer. Tome 1: Phinée le devin ou les leçons du passé. Lille, Publication du Centre d’Histoire Judiciaire Editeur, 2006, pp.169-189.
• “Early Modern Spanish Citizenship: Inclusion and Exclusion in the Old and the New World,” in John Smolenski and Thomas J. Humphrey eds., New World Orders. Violence, Sanction, and Authority in the Colonial Americas, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005, pp.205-225.
• "La justice en ses murs. L'Audience de Quito au XVIIIème siècle," in J. C. Garavaglia and J. F. Schaub eds., Lois, justice, coutume. Amérique et Europe latine (16e-19e siècle). Paris, EHESS, 2005.
• Los americanos frente a la monarquía: el criollismo y la naturaleza española, in Antonio Álvarez-Ossorio Alvariño and Bernardo J. García García, eds, La monarquía de las naciones. Patria, nación y naturaleza en la Monarquía de España, Madrid, Fundación Carlos de Amberes, 2004, 77-92.
• La comunidad y su administración: Sobre el valor político, social y simbólico de las residencias de Quito (1653-1753), In Benoît Pellistrandi, coord., Couronne espagnole et magistratures citadines á lépoque moderne. Dossie de Mélanges de la Casa de Velásquez, Nouvelle série 34 (2) (2004): 161-183.
• Identidades modernas: Estado, comunidade e nação no imperio hispânico, in Brasil: Formação do estado e da nação, São Paolo, Editora Hucitec, 2003, 109-122.
• El marco jurídico de las relaciones entre iglesia y estado www.iustel.com (Portal de Derecho - Materiales para el estudio del derecho Historia del derecho).
• Las personas según su ciudadanía,www.iustel.com (Portal de Derecho - Materiales para el estudio del derecho Historia del derecho).
• "Vecindad y oficio en Castilla: la libertad económica y la exclusión política en el siglo XVIII," in José Ignacio Fortea, Juan E. Gelabert, and Tomás A. Mantecón eds. Furor et rabies. Violencia, conflicto y marginación en la época moderna, Cantabria, Universidad de Cantabria, 2002, 239-252.
• "The Meaning of Territory: Colonial Standards and Modern Questions in Ecuador," in Luis Roniger and Carlos H. Waisman, eds., Globality and Multiple Modernities: Comparative North American and Latin American Perspectives, Brighton, Sussex Academic Press, 2002, 162-182.
• "Citizenship and Empire: The Meaning of Spanishness in the Eighteenth Century," in Julius Kirshner and Laurent Mayali eds., Privileges and Rights of Citizenship: Law and the Juridical Construction of Civil Society, Berkeley, University of California Press, 2002, 147-167.
• "La política espacial y las tácticas de conquista: Las 'Ordenanzas de descubrimiento, nueva población y pacificación de las Indias' y su legado (siglos XVI-XVII)," in José Román Gutiérrez, Enrique Martínez Ruiz, and Jaime González Rodríguez eds, Felipe II y el oficio de rey: La fragua de un imperio, Madrid, Sociedad Estatal para la Conmemoración de los Centenarios de Felipe II y de Carlos V, 2001, 293-303.
• "La vecindad: Entre condición formal y negociación continua. Reflexiones en torno de las categorías sociales y las redes personales," in "El análisis de los grupos sociales: Balance historiográfico y debate crítico," Anuario/IEHS 15 (2000): 123-131.
• "'Viva el rey, muera el mal gobierno' y la administración de justicia quiteña, siglos XVII-XVIII," in Marco Bellingeri, ed., Dinámicas de antiguo régimen y orden constitucional. Representación, justicia y administración en Iberoamérica. Siglos XVIII-XIX, Turin, Otto, 2000, pp. 77-98.
• "Redes personales y capitales institucionales: La real hacienda y el cabildo de Quito a mediados del siglo XVIII, Fronteras 4(4) (2000): 113-126.
• "Private Organizations as Global Networks in Early Modern Spain and Spanish America," in Luis Roniger and Tamar Herzog, eds., The Collective and the Public in Latin America: Cultural Identities and Political Order, Brighton, Sussex Academic Press, 2000, pp. 117-133.
• "De la historia y el mito: Las rebeliones de Quito (1592-1765)," Reflejos 7(1998): 72-80.
• "La Política espacial y su aplicación: Las 'Ordenanzas de descubrimiento, nueva población y pacificación de las Indias' y las tácticas de conquista (siglos XVI-XVII)," Actas del XI congreso internacional de Ahila (Liverpool 17-22 de septiembre de 1996), Liverpool, Ahila - University of Liverpool, 1998, v.1, pp. 30-47.
• "La configuración histórica del espacio: Caminos y correos en la Audiencia de Quito (siglos XVII y XVIII)," Actas del XI Congreso Internacional de Ahila (Liverpool 17-22 de septiembre de 1996), Liverpool, Ahila - University of Liverpool, 1998, v.1, pp. 413-427.
• "Identidades colectivas, fronteras comunitarias y derecho. La domiciliación de mujeres de oidores quiteños durante el siglo XVII," Anuario de Historia del Derecho Español: Homenaje a Francisco Tomás y Valiente, 67 (2)(1997): 1423-1431.
• "Reglas jurídicas e integración social: El comercio (Quito, primera mitad del siglo XVIII)," Actas del XI Congreso del Instituto Internacional de Historia del Derecho Indiano, Buenos Aires 4-9 de septiembre de 1995, Buenos Aires, Instituto de Investigaciones de Historia del Derecho, 1997, pp. 379-396.
• "La presencia ausente: El virrey desde la perspectiva de las élites locales (Audiencia de Quito, 1670-1747)," in Pablo Fernández Albadalejo ed., Monarquía, Imperio y Pueblos en la España Moderna, Actas de la IV Reunión Científica de la Asociación Española de Historia Moderna, Alicante 27-30 de mayo de 1996, Alicante, Universidad de Alicante, 1997, pp. 819-826.
• "Percibir el otro: El código penal de 1924 y la división de los peruanos en personas "civilizadas," "semi-civilizadas" y "salvajes" in Johannes Michael Scholz and Tamar Herzog eds., Observation and Communication: The Construction of Realities in the Hispanic World, Frankfurt, Vittorio Klostermann, 1997, pp. 399-414.
• "Conclusion: Observation, Communication and the Construction of Realities in the Hispanic World" in Johannes Michael Scholz and Tamar Herzog eds., Observation and Communication: The Construction of Realities in the Hispanic World, Frankfurt, Vittorio Klostermann, 1997, pp. 609-623.
• "'A Stranger in a Strange Land'. The Conversion of Foreigners into Members in Colonial Latin America (Seventeenth-Eighteenth Centuries)," Social Identities 3(2) (1997): 247-263. Also published in Luis Roniger and Mario Sznajder eds., Constructing Collective Identities and Shaping Public Spheres: Latin American Paths, Brighton, Sussex Academic Press, 1998, pp. 46-64.
• "Las reformas borbónicas a escala humana: la extinción y el restablecimiento de la Audiencia de Quito 1718-1721," E.I.A.L, 7(2) (1996): 133-145.
• "La empresa administrativa y el capital social: los Sánchez de Orellana (Quito, siglo XVIII)," in Juan Luis Castellano ed., Sociedad, administración y poder en el siglo XVIII. Hacia una nueva historia institucional, Grenada, Universidad de Granada, 1996, pp. 381-396.
• "De la autoridad al poder. Quito, los Larrea y la herencia inmaterial (siglos XVII y XVIII)," in Ronald Escobedo Mansilla, Ana de Zaballa Reascoechea and Oscar Alvarez Gila eds., Emigración y redes sociales de vascos en América, Vitoria, Universidad del País Vasco, 1996, pp. 373-383.
• "El rescate de una fuente histórica: Los libros de visita de cárcel (el caso de Quito 1738-1750)," Anuario de Estudios Americanos, 52(2) (1995): 251-261.
• "Sobre la cultura jurídica en la América colonial (siglos XVI-XVIII)," Anuario de Historia del Derecho Español, 65 (1995): 903-912.
• "Territorial space and national identity: Thoughts about the last war between Ecuador and Peru (January 1995)," Zmanim (1995): 42-59 (in Hebrew).
• "La naturaleza, la legitimidad y la estructura de la familia colonial (Quito, XVII-XVIII)," Mar Océana, 2 (1995): 231-242.
• "Centro, periferia e integración política: El eje Quito-Madrid (siglo XVIII)," Interpretatio: Revista de Historia del Derecho, 3 (1995): 139-148.
• "Comunidad y jurisdicción en las aljamas Judeo-Castellanas (siglos XIII-XV)," in Javier Alavarado Planas, ed., Los derechos históricos de Castilla-La Mancha: Fueros, Cartas Pueblas y Ordenanzas Municipales (siglos XI-XVI), Madrid, Polifemo, 1995, pp. 451-468.
• "Sobre Justicia, honor y grado militar en la Audiencia de Quito durante el siglo XVIII," Procesos6(2) (1995): 49-57.
• "El baile inquisitorial: unas notas sobre el derecho y el abuso del poder (El proceso de Francisco de la Cruz, Lima 1571-1578)," Inquisición y conversos. Conferencias pronunciadas en el III Curso de Cultura Hispano-Judía y Sefardí de la Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Toledo, Cromograf, 1994, pp. 119-129.
• "La historia social del derecho," in José María Sauca ed., Problemas actuales en los Derechos Fundamentales, Madrid, Instituto de Derechos Humanos Bartolomé de las Casas, 1994, pp. 67-72.
• "¿Letrado o teólogo? Sobre el oficio de la justicia a principios del siglo XVIII," in Johannes Michael Scholz ed., Fallstudien zur spanischen und portugiesischen Justiz (16.-20. Jahrhundert), Frankfurt, Vittorio Klostermann, 1994, pp. 697-714.
• "The Penal System of Justice and Its Public: Some Reflections on the Problem in a Historical Perspective," in H. Mohnhaupt and D. Simon, eds., Vortrage zur Justizforschung. Geschichte und Theorie, Frankfurt, Vittorio Klostermann, 1993, pp. 87-95.
• "La Recopilación de Indias and its Discourse: The Spanish Monarchy, the Indies and the Seventeenth Century," Ius Commune, 20 (1993): 143-163."La Gaceta de Lima (1756-1761). La reestructuración de la realidad y sus funciones," Histórica 16(1)(1992): 33-61.

Awards

• Guggenheim Fellowship, 2012-2013.
• Invited scholar, Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris, France, 2010.
• Invited professor, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, 2004 and 2006.
• XIV International Prize of Spanish American Legal History Ricardo Levene, corresponding to the period 2000-2 for the book Ritos de control, prácticas de negociación, 2003.
• Research Grant, Program for Cultural Cooperation Between Spain's Ministry of Culture and United States' Universities, 2003.
• Jean Monnet Fellow, European University Institute, Florence, Italy, 2000-2001.
• Research Grant, Program for Cultural Cooperation Between Spain's Ministry of Culture and United States' Universities, 2000.
• Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N.J., USA, 1996-1997.
• Visiting Scholar, Center of Latin American Studies and Wolfson College, Cambridge University, England, 1996.
• Post-doctorate fellowship, Yad Hanadiv (Rothschild Foundation), United-Kingdom and Israel, 1995-1997.
• "Temporary stay for foreign scholars in Spain", The Spanish Ministry of Education and Science, 1992-1994.
• Research Scholarship - Department of Education and Science, Junta de Andalucía, Seville, Spain, 1992.
• Scholarship of the "Casa de Velázquez" (Madrid), sponsored by the French Ministry of Education, 1992.

Research Projects

• Membre associé, “Américanisation e américanité : dynamiques spatio-temporelles et enjeux multiculturels, ” an international research project based in France.
• External Expert, Excellence-Initiative/ Institutional Strategies, German Council of Science and Humanities, 2011-2012.
• Panel Member, European Research Council, Brussels, 2011-2017.
• Consultant, International Project “The Government of Difference. Political
  Imagination in the Portuguese Empire,” funded by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, Portugal, 2010-2013.
• Member, Spanish Research Project “Las Fronteras del imperio espanol (1659-1812),” Coordinated by prof. Miguel-Ángel Mellón, of the Universidad de Extremadura (Cáceres), 2010- 2015.
• Correspondent, “La Vie des Idées,” a joint venture of “ La République des Idées” and Collège de France directed by Professor Pierre Rosanvallon, Paris, 2010- present.
• Redactor-corresponsal of E-Legal History Review (e-LHR), 2005-present.
• Coordinator of the project “The circulation of Legal, Administrative, Social, and Cultural Models in the Spanish Monarchy,” which is part of Columnaria, an international research network centered on the Spanish Monarchy and directed by José Javier Ruíz Ibánez (Universidad de Murcia, Spain), Pedro Cardim (Universidade Nova/ Lisbon, Portugal) and Gaetano Sabatini (Universita da Roma III, Italy), with members from various European countries, the USA, Latin America, Asia, and Canada, 2004-present.
• Researcher in the international project “Instituciones y justicia: administrar el lazo colonial,” coordinated by Jacques Poloni-Simard, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France, with colleagues from France, Ecuador, Mexico and the USA, 2003-present.
• Member, Editorial Board, The Minnesota Studies in Early Modern History, 2005-present.
• Organizer, ““Spain and Portugal: One Kingdom, Two Empires?,” an International Seminar, Center for Latin American Studies, Stanford University, 2011.
• Co-organizer, “The Struggle for Land: Property, Territory and jurisdiction in Early Modern Europe and the Americas.” Symposium on Comparative Early Modern Legal History, Newberry Library, Chicago IL, 2011.
• Organizer, “Latin America and the Spanish Monarchy,” an International Seminar, Stanford, CA, 2008.
• Associated member of Cerma, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and Centre National de Recherches Scientifiques (CNRS), 1996- 2009.
• Co-organizer, ”Citizenship, Revolution and Political Violence in the Formation of Latin American States,” an international conference, Center for Latin American Studies, Stanford, 2007.
• Member of a working group on political and economic thought in early modern Spain with colleagues from France, Spain, and Italy, 2001-2006.
• Founding member of a research group on social networks under the hospices of AHILA, 1999-2005.
• Member of a research group on civil society, collective identities and modernity, directed by Prof. S.N. Eisenstadt, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, 1994-2005.
• Member of the editorial board of the review Interpretatio: Revista de Historia del Derecho (Madrid, Spain), 1994 – 2004.
• Participated in two French based international projects on comparative colonialism (“Histoire comparative de la justice coloniale des pays européens”), ran by prof. Bernard Duran, Law Faculty, Université Montpellier I, France, and including colleagues from France, Belgium, Tunisia, Senegal, India, Italy, Spain and Portugal, 2003-2007.
• Member of the Wilder House Series Editorial Committee, an interdisciplinary editorial board including historians, social scientists, anthropologists, sociologists, and jurists, Cornell University Press and Chicago University Press, 1997-2005.
• Member of the editorial board of the "Iberian and Latin American Working Papers Series," The University of Chicago, 1996-2005.
• Member of a research project of the Max Planck Institut (Frankfurt), Maison des Pays Ibériques (CNRS - Université Bordeaux III), Université de Toulouse-La Mirail, Universidad Complutense (Madrid), Universidad de Granada and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales concerning the prosopography of 17th to 19th-century Spanish bureaucrats, 1995- 2005.
• Member of the board of the review Mar Océana, Madrid, Spain, 1994-2003.
• Participant in the project "Las Normas y las Prácticas: Derroteros del Estado y de la Administración Pública en América Latina," Financed by the Universities of Turin, Milan, Padova, Florence and Rome and by the Italian Ministry of Universities and Scientific and Technological Research. The aim of this project was to study the transition from old regime to liberal forms of government, 1995-2000.
• Session organizer "Blood, Lineage and Race in the Hispanic Past: A Conversation," The 31st Annual meeting of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, New York, N.Y., 1999.
• Member of the research group "Relaciones de poder en la historia del Ecuador," AHILA, 1995-1997.
• Session organizer, "Collective Identities and Public Spheres in Latin America," 49th Congress of the Americanistas, Quito, 1997.
• Member of a working group on Society and Public Finances in the Early Modern Atlantic World, under the auspices of AHILA, 1995-1997.
• Preparation of a new edition of A.M. Rabello. The Gift law, 5728 (1968), Jerusalem, Harry and Michael Sacher Institute for Legislative Research and Comparative Law, 1978. My work (1986-1987) consisted in revising the jurisprudence on these issues since 1978 and updating the book accordingly.
• Researcher, research project on "Judicial Independence" directed by Prof. S.Shitreet, professor of Administrative Law, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, 1985-1987.