Publications
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...