From the department of Historical Regimes of Normativity at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory
Epifanio de Moirans (1644–1689): An Abolitionist Ahead of His Time?
The Capuchin missionary Epifanio de Moirans is widely regarded as an abolitionist ahead of his time. But did he truly want to outlaw slavery?
Past, Present, and Future of the School of Salamanca. A Congress Report on its Fifth Centenary
The School of Salamanca was an intellectual movement in sixteenth century’s Spain. But what remains of it, and does it still matter for the challenges of our present and future? This was the central theme of the congress marking the fifth centenary of Francisco de Vitoria’s appointment to the cátedra de prima theologia at the University of Salamanca in 1526.
Independent Knowledge System for the People’s Republic? Using Chinese Legal History in Law
Regardless of how radical the transformation may be, as long as it is a change initiated by Chinese actors themselves, Chinese people remain Chinese.
Normativities of Slavery: A Global History
Global studies of slavery have run into persistent conceptual cul-de-sacs, caught between defining slavery as property or as exclusion: an impasse that can be overcome by revisiting the field’s foundations through the lens of normativity.
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