The Las Casas Institute for Social Justice
About the
LAS CASAS INSTITUTE
for social justice
Established in 2008, the Las Casas Institute brings insights from the Catholic intellectual tradition to bear on hard and urgent questions facing contemporary society. Attention is focused in four main areas: Human Dignity, Economics as a Moral Science, Migration, and Poverty. Our home at Blackfriars Hall, one of the forty-five Permanent Private Halls and Colleges of the University of Oxford, puts us at the heart of a community of scholars and students with global interests and outlook.
Bartolomé de las Casas OP was a sixteenth-century entrepreneur turned opponent of genocide and advocate for the rights of indigenous peoples in the “new world”. His experience of the suffering of the people and his preaching profoundly influenced debates within colonial Spain. His dialogue with his brethren in Salamanca, especially Francisco de Vitoria OP, contributed to the emergence of international law.
Blackfriars Hall is a Permanent Private Hall of the University of Oxford and is also part of the English Province of the Order of Preachers (also known as the Dominicans), a charity registered in England and Wales (231192) and in Scotland (SC039062).
Las Casas Institute,
Blackfriars Hall, St Giles,
Oxford. OX1 3LY
About the
LAS CASAS INSTITUTE
for social justice
Established in 2008, the Las Casas Institute brings insights from the Catholic intellectual tradition to bear on hard and urgent questions facing contemporary society. Attention is focused in four main areas: Human Dignity, Economics as a Moral Science, Migration, and Poverty. Our home at Blackfriars Hall, one of the forty-five Permanent Private Halls and Colleges of the University of Oxford, puts us at the heart of a community of scholars and students with global interests and outlook.
Bartolomé de las Casas OP was a sixteenth-century entrepreneur turned opponent of genocide and advocate for the rights of indigenous peoples in the “new world”. His experience of the suffering of the people and his preaching profoundly influenced debates within colonial Spain. His dialogue with his brethren in Salamanca, especially Francisco de Vitoria OP, contributed to the emergence of international law.
Blackfriars Hall is a Permanent Private Hall of the University of Oxford and is also part of the English Province of the Order of Preachers (also known as the Dominicans), a charity registered in England and Wales (231192) and in Scotland (SC039062).
Las Casas Institute,
Blackfriars Hall, St Giles,
Oxford. OX1 3LY
