Willkommen beim Max-Planck-Institut für Rechtsgeschichte und Rechtstheorie

Willkommen beim Max-Planck-Institut für Rechtsgeschichte und Rechtstheorie

Wir sind ein Ort für das Nachdenken über Recht.
Wir erforschen seine Theorie und Geschichte in vergleichender und globaler Perspektive.
Wir tragen durch ein vertieftes Verständnis von Recht zur Bewältigung gesellschaftlicher Herausforderungen bei.
The British Empire's Framework of 'Protection' and Policing
Matilde Cazzola's research project examines the role of the 'protection' framework in the British colonial state, focusing on how it facilitated the governance and profitability of the mobility of indentured labourers and indigenous peoples. It highlights that this mobility was regulated and secured by law to remove disorderly or criminal elements, closely linking protection with policing and crime prevention from the early nineteenth century. She also explores the use of protection as a justification for the collection of social knowledge about these groups, which informed social policies and legal measures.
Redefining Academic Responsibility in the Face of Global Challenges
As legal frameworks struggle to keep pace with rapid technological advances and evolving societal norms, the urgency of linking academic research to real-world societal issues has never been greater. The field of law significantly benefits from the critical insights provided by researchers. We caught up with Anselm Küsters, who has just been awarded the Ludwig Erhard Prize for Economics Writing (Ludwig-Erhard-Förderpreis für Wirtschaftspublizistik). We talked to him about the need for experts to amplify their voices, the feedback his articles have generated, and his knack for finding topics that interest both academic and social audiences.
The Property/License Interface
Our upcoming Max Planck Lecture in Legal History and Legal Theory (on 4 July) will focus on 'The Property/License Interface'. This lecture by Larissa Katz (University of Toronto) is based on a chapter from her forthcoming book on People (Offices) and Things. She insists on the traditional property/licence distinction and explains how these two ideas relate. She argues that the property/licence distinction captures two basic and quite different ways in which someone in an office (whether public or private) can involve others in carrying out their mandate.

Veranstaltungen

Cover Rechtsgeschichte – Legal History 31 (2023)
Cover Studien zur Rechtstheorie – Band 001, Norberto Bobbio
Cover Global Perspectives on Legal History – Band 22, Seeking Capture, Resisting Seizure
Cover Studien zur europäischen Rechtsgeschichte - Band 346, Otto Hintze
Cover SSRN Paper 2023-13 - Dote / Dowry (DCH)
Cover Studien zur europäischen Rechtsgeschichte - Band 342, Michael Stolleis – zum Gedenken
Cover Max Planck Studies in Global Legal History of the Iberian Worlds - Band 4, The Production of Knowledge of Normativity in the Age of the Printing Press
Cover Studien zur europäischen Rechtsgeschichte - Band 337, Legal Pluralism and Social Change in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
Cover Global Perspectives on Legal History – Band 21, Law and Diversity
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