Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory

All projects of Department Thomas Duve

Joint Projects

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Normative knowledge in the praxis of the Congregation of the Council

Canon Law Digital Humanities Early Modern Period Historical Archives History of Christianity Knowledge of Normativity from the Sphere of the Religious Modernity Reference Work Roman Curia Sources

Benedetta Albani, Yohan Park more

Minerva

Rome and America. New analytical and methodological approaches

Canon Law Early Modern Period Global History History of Christianity Roman Curia Glocalisation of Knowledge of Normativity

Benedetta Albani more

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Non-state law of the economy. The normative order of industrial relations in the metal industry from the Empire to the early years of the Federal Republic of Germany

Digital Humanities Europe Germany Labour Law Modernity Special Legal Orders

Peter Collin, Johanna Wolf, Matthias Ebbertz, Tim-Niklas Vesper more

Historical map

Glocalising Normativities. A global legal history (15th-21st century)

Early Modern Period Global History Glocalisation of Knowledge of Normativity

Thomas Duve, Luisa Stella Coutinho, Rômulo da Silva Ehalt, Fupeng Li, Raquel R. Sirotti, Luca Alexander von Bogdandy, Karolyne Mendes Mendonça Moreira, Haochen Ku, Mauro Armando Adelino Manhanguele, Karoline Marques Machado, Vanessa Massuchetto, Sandra Michelle Röseler, Julia Hütten, Christian Pogies, Xinran Liu more

Monastery of San Esteban Salamanca

The School of Salamanca

Canon Law Cooperation Digital Humanities Early Modern Period Global History Iberian Worlds Knowledge of Normativity from the Sphere of the Religious Moral Theology Sources

Thomas Duve, Matthias Lutz-Bachmann, Christiane U. Birr, José Luis Egío García, Andreas Wagner, Polina Solonets more

Research Projects

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Indigenous knowledge: making captivity, slavery and freedom intelligible in Portuguese Amazonia (17th–18th centuries)

Canon Law Early Modern Period Global History Global South Historical Archives History of Christianity Iberian Worlds Knowledge of the Production of Normativity

André Luís Bezerra Ferreira more

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Governing by congregations. The Roman Curia: a complex organism between theories and practices (mid-16th – early 20th century)

Canon Law Cooperation Digital Humanities Early Modern Period Historical Archives History of Christianity Modernity Normativitätswissen aus der Sphäre des Religiösen Roman Curia Sources

Benedetta Albani more

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DCH Dictionary platform

Knowledge of Normativity from the Sphere of the Religious

María del Pilar Mejía Quiroga, Nádia dos Santos Aguiar more

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Methods of Legal History

Doing Legal History

Seminar more

Ivory figure on wooden base, "The Good Shepherd"

Book project Evidences of truth: Francisco Rodrigues SJ (1515–1573) and normative knowledge production in early modern Portuguese Asia

Asia Early Modern Period Iberian Worlds Glocalisation of Knowledge of Normativity

Rômulo da Silva Ehalt more

PhD Projects

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A local council in Tianjin, established in October 1909.

Nation State-Building from Below

Asia China PhD Project Special Legal Orders

Xinran Liu more

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Planning to fail? International organisations and the spatial organisation of African territories in the 20th century

International Law PhD Project Special Legal Orders

Manuela Camargo de Assis more

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Administrative law scholarship and the emergence of an administrative litigation system in 1980s China: actors-knowledge-translation

Asia China Knowledge of the Production of Normativity PhD Project

Sandra Michelle Röseler more

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Embodied spirits

Africa Beyond Slavery and Freedom Cooperation Global South Iberian Worlds Knowledge of the Production of Normativity Modernity Mutual dependencies and normative production in Africa PhD Project

Karolyne Mendes Mendonça Moreira more

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Negotiating the order. Works councils in the Weimar Republic

Completed Europe Labour Law Modernity PhD Project Special Legal Orders

Matthias Ebbertz more

Completed Projects

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Lecture series ‘Intervention State and Social Law’

Completed Cooperation Europe Labour Law Modernity Seminar Special Legal Orders

Martin Otto, Thorsten Keiser more

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German identity, intermarriage, and divorce in Samoa: 1900–1914

Completed Diversity Europe Global History Knowledge of the Production of Normativity Modernity PhD Project

Julia Hütten more

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The role of local knowledge in german courts in the Pacific

Completed Diversity Europe Global History Knowledge of the Production of Normativity Modernity

Julia Hütten more

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Expressing legal historical data in digital environment: methods and approaches for the Congregation of the Council data analysis and visualization

Canon Law Completed Digital Humanities Doing Legal History Early Modern Period History of Christianity PhD Project Reference Work Roman Curia

Alexandra Anokhina more

Historical document.

Regulation, normativity and organisation of corporate social policy. An interregional study of the German metal industry 1871–1932

Completed Europe Labour Law Modernity PhD Project Special Legal Orders

Tim-Niklas Vesper more