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De Legibus

De Legibus ( De legibus ac Deo legislatore ) is a major Catholic scholastic treatise on law and the theological foundations of human and divine law written by the **Spanish Jesuit theologian and philosopher Francisco Suárez, S.J. (1548 – 1617) . In this comprehensive work first published in 1612 Suárez systematically examines the nature of law, natural law, human law, canon law, and political authority within a theological and philosophical framework rooted in the tradition of St. Thomas Aquinas, but with his own original contributions to the doctrine of law. Suárez’s De Legibus became one of the most influential works on natural law and legal theology in the early modern era, shaping Catholic and even broader Western understandings of law, obligation, and moral order.

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