From the department of Historical Regimes of Normativity at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory

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.

Las peticiones por justicia en la Edad Moderna: episodios en la América portuguesa

Las peticiones están muy de moda. Algo que no siempre se reconoce es la profunda ancestralidad de las prácticas peticionarias, localizadas además en todos los rincones del mundo, mucho más allá del ámbito occidental. Aquí apresentamos algunos episodios de esas acciones en nombre de justicia en la América portuguesa, en el siglo XVIII.

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