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

From Metadata to FAIR Principles: Make Your Data Better Now – Love Your Data Blog Series Part 3
In this latest installment of our ‘Love Your Data’ series, we delve into the crucial role of metadata and the FAIR principles in research data management. Giving examples from legal history, this blog post will explain what to include in your metadata, what FAIR means in practice and how applying these principles can make your data more visible and sustainable.

“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).
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