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Research Project

The Dictionary is made up of 120 articles or entries that provide access to the different themes of the canon law that took shape in Latin America and the Philippines between the 16th and 18th centuries. These have a thematic distribution that broadly follows the scheme of canon law coined by the Decretals of Gregory IX. This arrangement of subjects, although not the only one, was the one used in teaching and in different particular ordinances, such as in the Third (1585) and Fourth (1771) Mexican Provincial Councils, and the Cursus Iuris Canonici Hispani et Indici (1793) by Pedro Murillo Velarde. The project takes into account the thematic place that each of the subjects occupied in the canonical order, focusing on analysing the continuities and transformations of each concept.

Throughout the process of construction of the Dictionary, the 120 entries are published as Research Papers on our SSRN platform. In addition to the independent articles in open access, the complete reference work will also become a printed publication in several volumes.