I was born and raised in Mexico City where I graduated in Law at the Universidad Panamericana. In 2010 I obtained the Master Européen en Histoire Politique et Culturelle de l’Europe coorganized by the Pablo de Olavide University in Seville and the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris. In 2015 I got my PhD in History and Civilization with a thesis focused on the Casa de la Contratación of Seville and its performance as a commercial jurisdiction in the Carrera de Indias during the 16th century. Ever since I have been working as a researcher on different projects, including the ERC project Mediterranean Reconfigurations: Intercultural trade, commercial litigation and legal pluralism (15th-19th centuries), in which I specialized in the study of the commercial jurisdictions of the kingdom of Valencia in the early modern period. In 2022 I joined the Scuola Superiore Meridionale in Naples as a researcher in the area of Global History & Governance. Here I was able to teach and develop an investigation in commercial conflict management and institutional entanglements between Sixteenth Century Italy and Spain.

I currently work as a doctoral researcher in the project IUSTITIA Mercatoria. Places, Spaces and Iconographies of Mercantile Justice in Europe (11th-17th Centuries). Within this project I intend to analyze merchants’ ideas about law and mercantile justice through the interpretation of the places and spaces in which such justice was administered in the Hispanic context.

Research title: I luoghi della giustizia mercantile: La Casa de la Contratación, il Consulado de Cargadores a Siviglia e la Lonja de la Seda a Valencia in età moderna.

I am interested in the institutions of commercial justice and the role they played in the urban map as symbols of political and economic power. Through my investigation I intend to understand how commercial jurisdictions contributed to support trade in the modern era from different points of view: substantive law (ius mercatorum), procedural law, and any other institutional mechanism (formal or informal) used by merchants to handle disputes.