The Unheard Voice of Law in Bartolom? de las Casas's Brev?sima relaci?n de la destruici?n de las Indias reinterprets Las Casas's controversial treatise as a legal document, whose legal character is linked to civil and ecclesial genres of the Early Modern and late Renaissance juridical tradition. Bartolom? de las Casas proclaimed: "I have labored to inquire about, study, and discern the law; I have plumbed the depths and have reached the...