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

“Tinta sobre o papel” Relato de uma experiência humana e intelectual no Max Planck Institute – The Doucet Scholarship 2025

Este texto propõe uma reflexão sucinta sobre a experiência intelectual, metodológica e humana proporcionada pela residência em Frankfurt no contexto da Doucet Scholarship, marcada pela prática artesanal da pesquisa, pelo contato direto com fontes primárias e pelo intercâmbio de ideias em um ambiente acadêmico plural e verdadeiramente estimulante.

A Researcher’s Guide to the Data Life Cycle – Love Your Data Blog Series Part 2

Research data management does not begin and end with data collection – it follows a sequence of steps, from planning to publishing and re-use, commonly referred to as the research data lifecycle. Find out how RDM supports each stage of the data lifecycle and why it is important to start planning it well before the project begins.

Las pasiones como saber normativo. Algunos usos de la vergüenza en la cultura barroca

¿Qué puede decir el derecho hoy sobre la historia de las pasiones? La historiografía de las últimas décadas se sirve de las herramientas del mundo psicoanalítico que domina la temática con efectos prácticos. Pero, ¿qué disciplina de saber efectuaba un uso de las pasiones con dicho semblante práctico en el pasado? La historia jurídica evidencia cómo dichas pasiones, especialmente la vergüenza, dieron forma a un universo pragmático para la cultura barroca (siglos XVI-XVII).

What is Research Data Management and Why it Matters – Love Your Data Blog Series Part 1

Research Data Management (RDM) has been part of good scientific practice for a while now. A requirement by many funding bodies, it also has become a standard in research institutions. This blog series, will show the key principles of RDM and how it benefits one`s research project. In the first post, the author breaks down what research data management is (and isn’t) and why it is something that every research projects needs.

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