Tamar Herzog

Tamar Herzog is the Monroe Gutman Professor of Latin American Affairs at Harvard and an affiliated faculty member at the Harvard Law School. She is a legal historian of Spain, Portugal, and their overseas territories, having worked on diverse topics such as colonial administration, penal justice, scribes, citizenship, the right to land, and territorial conflicts. She is the author of seven monographs, three edited volumes and over 140 articles.

The project

The History of Law in Europe: a Longue Durée Outlook

Hosting Institution: Laboratoire interdisciplinaire pour la sociologie économique (LISE) | Cnam, CNRS

Selective bibliography

• Une brève histoire du droit en Europe : les 2500 dernières années. Toulouse: Anacharsis, 2023 (a French translation of A Short history of European law).
• Ed., The Cambridge History of Latin American Law in Global Perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (forthcoming) (co-edited with Thomas Duve).
• Frontiers of Possession: Spain and Portugal in Europe and the Americas. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2015.
• Upholding Justice: State, Law and the Penal System in Quito. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004
• Defining Nations: Immigrants and Citizens in Early Modern Spain and Spanish America. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003.