Main Focus
The research interests concern early modern and modern legal, political and constitutional history. The research activities focus on early modern ‘good order and police’ / police ordinances (Policeyordnungen), penal law and criminal justice as well as on governance and administration within the pre-modern state and on the Holy Roman Empire as a juridical-constitutional system. A secondary focus lies on the legal history of (particular cities and regions) in Hesse.
Projects
Curriculum Vitae
Positions / Academic Appointments
2022
Retired and Affiliate Researcher
2005
Prof. for Early Modern & Modern History University of Darmstadt
2005
Research Group Leader Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
2002-2004
Full Professorship (temporary) for Early Modern History, University of Cologne
Since 1992
Researcher, Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, Frankfurt/M.
Since 1991
University Lecturer, University of Darmstadt
1987-1990
Researcher, Institute for European History, Main
Education
2002
Habilitation, University of Darmstadt, Early Modern & Modern History
1991
Doctoral degree (Dr. phil.), University of Darmstadt, History
1986
2nd State Examination (teacher), Seminary of Bensheim, History & Politics
1984
1st State Examination (teacher), University of Darmstadt, History & Politics
Memberships
- Member of the European Science Foundation College of Expert Reviewers
- Member of the evaluation team of the Centre for Research on Modern and Contemporary History of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (2011)
- Member of the International Advisory Board of the Journal „Beiträge zur Rechtsgeschichte Österreichs – BRGÖ“
- Member of the Advisory Board of the „Turku Medieval and Early Modern Studies publication series“, ed. by the Turku Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (TUCEMEMS), University of Turku, Finland
https://www.utu.fi/en/units/hum/sites/tucemems/publications/Pages/home.aspx - Member of the Association for Constitutional History (Vereinigung für Verfassungsgeschichte); 2010-2014 Member of the Board and Secretary
- Member of the Hessian Historical Commission (Hessische Historische Kommission) Darmstadt
- Member of the Historical Commission for the History of the Jews in Hesse (Kommission für die Geschichte der Juden in Hessen)
- Member of the Consiglio scientifico of the journal 'Quaderno di storia del penale e della giustizia'
- Member of the Advisory Board of the Transnational Criminal Law Review
Teaching
Lectures and Courses
Completed Projects
Research Communication
Yearbook 2018 The formation of transnational criminal law regimes in the 18th and 19th century
Yearbook 2007 Pictures in the Law