Petar Popović, is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Canon Law, Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, Rome, Italy. He teaches the courses of Philosophy of Law, Foundations of Rights in the Church, and Deontology of Canon Law at the aforementioned Faculty. He obtained a Doctoral degree in 2019 from the aforementioned Faculty, with a previously obtained “Master” degree in legal studies in 2008 at the Faculty of Law, University of Rijeka, Croatia. His main publications include The Goodness of Rights and the Juridical Domain of the Good: Essays in Thomistic Juridical Realism (Roma: EDUSC, 2021), foreword by Carlos J. Errázuriz; Natural Law and Thomistic Juridical Realism: Prospects for a Dialogue with Contemporary Legal Theory (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2022), with a foreword by F. Russell Hittinger; and Exploring the Nature of Law: Thomistic Juridical Realism and the Elements of Law’s Ontology (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2025), with a foreword by Kevin C. Walsh. He published scholarly papers in distinguished academic journals, such as The American Journal of Jurisprudence, Rivista di filosofia del diritto, Jurisprudence, Ius Ecclesiae, Ius Canonicum, Persona y Derecho, The Jurist, Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia del diritto, Revus: Journal for Constitutional Theory and Philosophy of Law, and others. More biographical and scholarly information available at http://docenti.pusc.it/homepage/?u=p.popovic