Publications
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Nem teúdas, nem manteúdas
(2020)
This book develops a legal history of colonial women as a methodological approach to studying the women of Paraíba, a captaincy on the northeast coast of Brazil, from the end of the Dutch occupation (1661) to Brazilian ...
A Global History of Ideas in the Language of Law
(2021)
This book argues that the narrowing focus of the global history of ideas on narratives in historical research, philosophy and political theory neglects the fact that the central concepts of the history of political ideas ...
Towards a Democratic Franchise
(2022)
This book examines the process of electoral reform in the Bahamas during the 20th century in the broader context of decolonisation. Beginning with the General Assembly Elections Act of 1919, which reaffirmed a franchise ...
Staatsangehörigkeit und Rassismus
(2021)
When Italy and Germany joined the ‘scramble for Africa’ and established colonies on the continent in the late 19th century, they, like other imperial powers before them, had to deal with the question of how to define the ...
Celebrar lo imposible
(2021)
This book offers a legal-historical examination of the construction of property in the province of Córdoba, Argentina, at the end of the 19th century. The author analyzes the interaction of the civil codification, ...
Esclavos y tierras entre posesión y títulos
(2021)
This book examines the social construction of legal relations between people and things in Brazil during the 19th century through the analysis of court cases discussing dominion and possession over slaves and land. The ...
Los viajes de las ideas sobre la cuestión criminal hacia /desde Argentina
(2024)
This edited volume aims to contribute to the understanding
of the metamorphoses of knowledge on the ‘criminal
question’ as it circulated, in different directions, to
and from the Argentine context between the late ...
Diritto: storia e comparazione
(2018)
"Comparative law and the history of law are traditionally devoted to expanding the context of legal rules and legal institutions. Comparison involves history, as the well-known motto proclaims, but history also involves ...
Entanglements in Legal History
(2014)
"Legal History presents a broad panorama of historical processes that trigger theoretical reflections on legal transfers and legal transplants and on the problem of the reception and assimilation laws and other modes of ...
Normatividades e instituciones eclesiásticas en el virreinato del Perú, siglos XVI–XIX
(2019)
Ecclesiastical institutions and actors were essential for the formation of normative orders in early modern Ibero-America. In a series of seminars, organised by the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History in Mexico ...
L'eterno ritorno del Droit des gens di Emer de Vattel (secc. XVIII-XIX)
(2017)
"The numerous editions and early translations produced throughout the eighteenth century enabled the broad dissemination of Emer de Vattel’s juridical-political work Droit des gens. This book investigates the global impact ...
Derecho privado y modernización
(2015)
The volume contains essays on the modernization of private law in Europe and Latin America from the viewpoint of legal history. Through a comparison between different forms of legal development in various normative und ...
Spatial and Temporal Dimensions for Legal History
(2016)
"The spatiotemporal conjunction is a fundamental aspect of the juridical reflection on the historicity of law. Despite the fact that it seems to represent an issue directly connected with the question of where legal history ...
Normatividades e instituciones eclesiásticas en la Nueva España, siglos XVI–XIX
(2018)
"Ecclesiastical institutions and actors were essential for the formation of normative orders in early modern Ibero-America. However, both legal historiography, due to its strong legalistic, state-centred imprint, and general ...
New Horizons in Spanish Colonial Law
(2015)
"Spanish colonial law, derecho indiano, has since the early 20th century been a vigorous subdiscipline of legal history. One of great figures in the field, the Argentinian legal historian Víctor Tau Anzoátegui, published ...
Legislar en la América hispánica en la temprana edad moderna
(2016)
"The Third Mexican Provincial Council, celebrated in 1585, has always been considered a cornerstone of the canonical law of Spanish America, both with regard to its content and the long period and vast territory in which ...
The World of Rules
(2017)
"This book takes a stand against the narrowing focus of (German) jurisprudence on state law, rooted in the history of the territorially organised nation state. In the shadow of this tradition, state(-hood) law was only ...
El Jurista en el Nuevo Mundo
(2016)
"The present work addresses the history of Derecho Indiano (Spanish Colonial Law) and proposes to examine the role played by Indiano-Castilian jurists in the New World as creators and enforcers of a science and the practice ...
Außergerichtliche Konfliktlösung in der Antike
(2017)
"Antiquity is often utilized as a reference to provide a historical dimension for contemporary phenomena. This also holds true for the prevailing scientific discourse on alternative or adequate remedies of dispute resolution. ...
Le tre costituzioni pacifiste
(2020)
The three defeated Axis powers – Japan, Italy and Germany – incorporated a prohibition on wars of aggression into their democratic constitutions. This book covers the years of the Nuremberg and Tokyo Trials and the constituent ...
Normatividades e instituciones eclesiásticas en el Nuevo Reino de Granada, siglos XVI–XIX
(2020)
Ecclesiastical institutions and actors were essential for the for-mation of normative orders in early modern Ibero-America. In a series of seminars, organised by the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History in Mexico ...
Seeking Capture, Resisting Seizure
(2024)
The treaties to suppress the slave trade were the subject
of intense legal battles in the first half of the 19th century.
This book explores the legal disputes about the Anglo Brazilian treaty to highlight the political ...
Law and Diversity: European and Latin American Experiences from a Legal Historical Perspective
(2024)
Our modern legal system is based on the principle of
equality. But is equality perhaps not also a concept that
inadequately describes the complexity of normative orders?
Highly differentiated societies with a multitude ...
Constitución y Arbitrariedad
(2025)
The Fabric of the Ordinary
(2024)
Much has been written about the political tension between ultramontanists and liberal jurisdictionalists in the Empire of Brazil during the reign of D. Pedro II (1840–1889), in view of the sui generis patronage regime of ...
Legal Transfer and Legal Geography in the British Empire
(2025)
The legal history of the British Empire is in its infancy. The research field Legal Transfer in the Common Law World in the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory under the Directorship of Prof Stefan ...
German Identity, Intermarriage, and Divorce in Colonial Samoa (1900–1914)
(2025)
Germany’s colonial past is again at the center of public debate. This book offers a focused contribution: a study of how the German administration in Samoa (1900–1914) used family law as a tool of colonial governance. ...
Studies in Multilingualism, Lingua Franca and Lingua Sacra
(2018)
The present book comprises a number of studies centered around the topic of how knowledge diffuses from one culture to another, and how knowledge diffusion is connected with the spread of languages and the conceptual systems ...