The Chair “Francisco Suárez” of the University of Granada (1939-1985)

Abstract

This paper makes a genealogy of the Francisco Suárez Chair, structure on which this journal was born. The author begins with a first step since its inception until 1948 (its directors were Corts Grau and Gómez Arboleya), as an ideological apparatus of the Franco dictatorship: the chair tried to draw a story, looking for a place to locate the legitimacy of the new state. After a parenthesis of little activity, the next stage, 1957-1967 (with Asís Garrote), was an attempt to open beyond scholasticism, being published from 1961 the Anales de la Cátedra Francisco Suárez. Finally, in the last stage (1967-1985), with the arrival of López Calera at the University of Granada, a change occurs: the founding objectives were abandoned, ceasing to be an ideological apparatus of Francoism to become, through the Journal, in a vantage point from which to spot the trends and current issues in the Philosophy of Law.