• Vita

    Fernando Liendo-Tagle holds a PhD in Law, having been granted a full doctoral scholarship by the State Research Agency of the Government of Spain. He obtained his Research Master's degree from Carlos III University of Madrid. He is also a fully qualified lawyer, recieved his Bachelor of Laws with highest honors from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú-PUCP.

    He was a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory in Frankfurt am Main, the École Normale Supérieure de Paris-Ulm, and the Institute for Interdisciplinary Legal Studies (Lucernaiuris) at the University of Lucerne in Switzerland. Furthermore, he was a post-doc guest fellow at the Institut für Rechts- und Verfassungsgeschichte of the University of Vienna in 2022.

    His doctoral dissertation, which focused on 19th-century journals, models of jurists, and legal disciplines, was co-directed by Prof. Martínez Neira (Carlos III University, Madrid) and Prof. Carlos Petit (University of Huelva). It was awarded the 'Eduardo de Hinojosa' Prize for the best doctoral thesis in Legal History completed in Spain in 2020.

    In his professional career, he has practiced as a lawyer specialising in dispute resolution, arguing cases before the Constitutional Court and the Supreme Court of Peru on constitutional, civil, and administrative matters, as well as representing clients in arbitration proceedings. He has also served as a consultant to government institutions and as an advisor to organisations dedicated to the preservation of historical heritage in Peru. In Madrid, he worked on a European Commission project focused on mediation and conflict resolution networks among agents in the European single market.

    He is a lecturer at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and head of the Research Group on Legal History at the Riva-Agüero Institute/PUCP. His research interests, which are reflected in his publications and teaching, include Legal History, Comparative Law, and Methodology of Legal and Interdisciplinary Research. 

  • Research Project

    ‘Under the Shadow of potestas’. Legal Capacity and Personal Status: A Fraught Relationship between Unity and Plurality. An Historical and Comparative Analysis of Legal Personhood (19th and Early 20th century)

    A conventional view holds that the liberal state fostered the unity of a ‘single subject’ in private law, who interacted with other legally equal individuals under symmetrical conditions.  My project argues this was not the case in most Latin American and European experiences. Instead, a variety of statuses and types legal personalities persisted, maintaining legal differentiation between individuals. Those granted limited legal capacity included married women, indigenous peoples in sovereign states or under imperial rule, enslaved individuals, and foreigners, among others. I examine how specific rules regarding legal capacity developed and how actors used existing laws to challenge these rules and, in the process, transformed the law.

    My project aims to delve into legal mechanisms as the distinction between the ability to hold rights and the capacity to exercise them, the need for prior authorisation to perform certain acts, limitations of legal capacity based on race, gender, literacy, property, or nationality. The study examines also status registration, its shift from ecclesiastical to civil records, and the legal means -civil codes, special legislation, judicial rulings, legal doctrine- used to shape or contest these limitations.

    Covering the period between 1850 and 1920, I seek to analyse the historical configurations of legal capacity by integrating two strands: a genealogy of conceptual changes (and the discursive foundations that upheld them), and local case studies taken from Latin America and continental Europe.

  • Selected Publications

    Legal Disciplines in Spanish Law Journals. A Legal Bibliography (1836-1935). (Disciplinas jurídicas en revistas españolas. Un repertorio bibliográfico, 1836-1935).  Madrid, Dykinson, 2023, pp. 244 ISBN: 978-84-1170-026-9. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/10016/36663  

    «El Gutachtenstil (informe en Derecho) alemán y sus raíces históricas», en Revista de Estudios Histórico-Jurídicos (Valparaíso, Chile, 2024) 46 (2024), pp. 437-464, (with A. Pérez-Ragone).

    «The Study of Natural Law in Coimbra, Seville, and Santiago de Chile (Eighteenth and nineteenth centuries)», in Comparative Legal History, 10:2, (2022), pp. 110-136, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/2049677X.2022.2131524 (with F. Pérez Godoy, C. Fernando Teixeira Alves)  

    «Challenges to Legal History in Peru on the Occasion of the Bicentennial of Independence» (Desafíos a la Historia del Derecho en el Perú a propósito del Bicentenario), en Congreso Nacional de Historia Bicentenario. Tomo II: República. Lima: Proyecto Especial Bicentenario de la Independencia del Perú, 2024, pp. 406-414. (ISBN: 978-612-5152-53-4).   

    Spanish Legal Journals (1836-1931), (Prensa jurídica española. Avance de un repertorio), Madrid, Dykinson, 2020, pp. 244 ISBN: 978-84-1377-212-7. Available at: https://e-archivo.uc3m.es/handle/10016/31583 

    Pablo Olavide and the New Programme of Studies of 1768 (Pablo de Olavide y la nueva planta de los estudios), Madrid, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, 2016, pp. 176. In: Colección de Historia de las Universidades, 38, ISBN: 978-84-16829-06-4. Electronic version available at: http://e-archivo.uc3m.es/handle/10016/23895 

    «Disciplina-(s) jurídica-(s)», EUNOMÍA: Revista en Cultura de la Legalidad, 23 (2022), pp. 311-327. DOI: https://doi.org/10.20318/eunomia.2022.7126 

    «A Spanish Legal Journal Defining the Centre and the Periphery: Revista de Legislación y Jurisprudencia de Ultramar (1877-1878)», en Journal on European History of Law, 12 (2021), issue 2, pp. 79-85.