From the department of Historical Regimes of Normativity at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory
How was Knowledge of Normativity Produced in the Early Modern Period? A Book on the Lab Table. Coordinates of an Experiment
How was knowledge of normativity produced in the in the age of early modern globalisation? To answer this question the fourth volume of the Max Planck Studies in Global Legal History of the Iberian Worlds puts a pragmatic book on the lab table: Manual de Confessores by the Spanish canon law professor Martín de Azpilcueta (1492-1586).
Nichtstaatliches Kündigungsrecht im Nationalsozialismus?
Schlaglichter aus dem Projekt „Nichtstaatliches Recht der Wirtschaft. Die normative Ordnung der Arbeitsbeziehungen in der Metallindustrie vom Kaiserreich bis in die frühe Bundesrepublik“.
Rule of Law Ambassador and Legal Educator – Professor Jiang Ping 江平 (1930–2023)
Chinese legal academia is mourning the loss of Professor Jiang Ping, an eminent figure acknowledged as perhaps the most prominent rule of law ambassador and an esteemed legal educator in the modern history of Chinese law.
Why a new research profile for the department of Historical Regimes of Normativity?
The department „Historical Regimes of Normativity” has restructered its research profile. The well established research fields “Special Legal Orders” and “Doing Legal History” will be accompanied by new research fields that concentrate on three specific aspects of the history of law: the production and the glocalization of knowledge of normativity and knowledge of normativity from the sphere of the religious.
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