Books
Uma breve história do Direito: a matriz europeia nos últimos dois milênios e meio
São Paulo: Contracorrente, 2024 (Brazilian translation of a Short History of European Law)
Breve storia del diritto in Europa. Dal diritto romano al diritto europeo
Bologna: Il Mulino, 2024 (Italian translation of a Short History of European Law)
A Short History of European Law
Seoul: Minsokwon, 2023 (A Korean translation of A Short History of European Law)
Une brève histoire du droit en Europe. Les 2500 dernières années.
Toulouse: Anacharsis, 2023 (French tralsation of a Short History of European Law).
A Short History of European Law. The Last Two and a Half Millenia.
Beijing: China University of Political Sciences and Law Press, 2019 (Chinese translation of a Short History of European Law).
Una breve historia del derecho europeo: los últimos 2,500 años.
Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 2019 (Spanish translation of A Short History of European Law)
Fronteiras da posse. Espanha e Portugal na Europa e nas Américas
Belo Horizonte, Arraes Editores, 2019 (Brazilian translation of Frontiers of Possession)
A Short History of European Law. The Last Two and a Half Millenia.
Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2018.
Fronteras de Posesión. España y Portugal en Europa y las Américas.
Madrid: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2018 (Spanish translation of Frontiers of Possession)
Fronteiras da Posse. Portugal e Espanha na Europa e na América
Lisbon: Imprensa ISC, 2018 (Portuguese translation of Frontiers of Possession)
Nations, Citoyens, Immigrés: dans l'Espagne et l'Amérique espagnole du XVIIIe siècle
Le Poisson Volant, 2017 (French translation of Defining Nations)
Rites de contrôl et pratiques de négociation dans l'Empire espagnol. Dialogues distant entre Quito et Madrid (1650-1750).
Paris: L'Harmattan, 2014 (French translation of Ritos de Control).
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 (updated and revised translation of La administración como un fenónemo social).
Vecinos y extranjeros. Hacerse español en la edad moderna.
Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 2006 (Spanish translation of Defining Nations).
Rendre la justice à Quito (1650-1750).
Paris: L’Harmattan, 2001 (French translation of La administración como un fenómeno social).
Defining Nations: Immigrants and Citizens in Early Modern Spain and Spanish America.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003.
Mediación, archivos y ejercicio: los escribanos de Quito (siglo XVII-XVIII).
Frankfurt: Vittorio Klostermann, 1996.
Ritos de control, prácticas de negociación: Pesquisas, visitas y residencias y las relaciones entre Quito y Madrid (1650-1750).
Madrid: Fundación Hernando de Larramendi, 2000.
La administración como un fenónemo social: la justicia penal penal de la ciudad de Quito (1650-1750).
Madrid: Centro de Estudios Constitucionales, 1995.
Los ministros de la Audiencia de Quito 1650-1750.
Quito: Libri-Mundi, 1995.
Co-Edited Volumes
Historia del derecho en América latina en perspectiva global
Valencia: Tirant lo Blanch, 2026 (with Thomas Duve).
História do Direito Latino-americano em Perspetiva Global
São Paulo: Tirant Brasil, 2025 (with Thomas Duve).
The Cambridge History of Latin American Law in Global Perspective
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023 (with Thomas Duve)
Polycentric Monarchies. How did Early Modern Spain and Portugal Achieve and Maintain a Global Hegemony?
Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2012 (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 (with Luis Roniger).
Observation and Communication: The Construction of Realities in the Hispanic World.
Frankfurt: Vittorio Klostermann, 1997 (with J.M. Scholz).
