Publications
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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 ...