Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
| Max Planck Institute for European Legal History | |
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 MPI for European Legal History (building since 2013) |
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| Category: | research Institute |
| Carrier: | Max Planck Society |
| Legal form of the carrier: | Registered association |
| Seat of the wearer: | Munich |
| Facility location: | Frankfurt am Main |
| Type of research: | Basic research |
| Subjects: | Jurisprudence |
| Areas of expertise: | Legal history |
| Basic funding: | Federal government (50%), states (50%) |
| Management: | Thomas Duve |
| Homepage: | www.rg.mpg.de |
The Max Planck Institute for European Legal History (MPIeR) in Frankfurt am Main is one of currently 83 institutes of the Max Planck Society (MPG). Since its establishment in 1964, scholars have been researching the fundamentals of the history of law in and beyond Europe.
history
The founding director of the institute was Helmut Coing (1964–1979). He was followed by Dieter Simon (1980–2001), Walter Wilhelm (1980–1987), Michael Stolleis (1991–2006) and Marie Theres Fögen (2001–2008) on the board of directors . After his retirement in 2006, Michael Stolleis took over the provisional management of the institute again in September 2007. In 2009 Thomas Duve was appointed director. Another director was appointed in October 2015, Stefan Vogenauer . Scientific members of the MPG are at the MPIeR: Thomas Duve, Dieter Simon, Michael Stolleis and Stefan Vogenauer.
research
Under Helmut Coing, the research focus was initially on the history of European private law and its relation to economic history. Dieter Simon, Walter Wilhelm, Michael Stolleis and Marie Theres Fögen gradually supplemented the work with legal theory and legal sociology , the history of public law , international law , criminal law , the law of modern Eastern Europe and the European dictatorships of the 20th century. Today Thomas Duve and Stefan Vogenauer accentuate the transnational approach of European legal history with global historical and comparative law topics.
The institute's numerous individual research projects are based on two research departments. Regarding very different epochs and topics, they are bundled in a good dozen cross-departmental research fields. These include: legal historiography, sources, private law history, criminal law history and historical crime research in Europe, ecclesiastical legal history between the late Middle Ages and modern times, regulatory regime, history of legal methods and practices, legal history of the European Union, transfer of law in common law, legal history of Ibero-America, law as Civilization factor in the first millennium, legal history of the School of Salamanca and government of the universal Church after the Council of Trent. Four main research areas also enable integrative questions to be formulated for the individual research projects and fields. Multinormativity, translation, legal spaces and conflict regulation, these four main research areas offer interfaces to related disciplines such as social and legal sciences.
Available areas of expertise are: the history of private law in the modern era, good policey and policey science, the history of science in public law, communication and representation of law in the (visual) media, scientific communication in the 19th century, law in the industrial revolution, legal cultures of modern Eastern Europe. Traditions and transfers, The Europe of the dictatorship: economic control and law, indexing of the legal archaeological picture collection Karl Frölich and the history of international law.
Furnishing
The interdisciplinary research approach, the institute's own special library with meanwhile more than 470,000 media units, the publications and the inter-institutional and international networking of the MPI for European Legal History offer worldwide unique working conditions for legal history research and other disciplines. Over the past 50 years, all of this has made the institute a reference point for the global scientific community, which researches the past and present of our national and transnational legal systems.
The cooperation with the Goethe University in the Rhine-Main scientific region plays an important role in this. The University and the Max Planck Institute make a lasting contribution to promoting Frankfurt am Main as a place of normativity through cooperation, for example in the cluster of excellence "The Formation of Normative Orders" or the LOEWE focus on "Judicial and extrajudicial conflict resolution". The Max Planck Institute for European Legal History and the Goethe University finally succeeded in establishing the research project “The School of Salamanca” as a long-term project of the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz and thus legal historical and philosophical perspectives in the research work to connect with each other.
Publications
Rechtsgeschichte - Legal History (Rg), a journal of the MPI for European Legal History, has been published in printed form by Vittorio Klostermann Verlag since 2002. It has been published online in open access since 2012. The forerunners of the Rg were the journals "Ius Commune - Journal for European Legal History" (1967-2001, Vittorio Klostermann Verlag) and the "Legal History Journal" (1982-2001, Verlag der Löwenklau Gesellschaft eV).
In the institute's own "Research Paper Series in the Social Science Research Network", research results from the institute's projects are published freely accessible online as working papers, pre-print and post-print.
In addition, the MPIeR publishes four series of publications, including the "Studies on European Legal History", "Jurisprudence. Materials and Studies.", "Studies on Policey and Policey Science" and "Studies on the History of International Law".
organization
The Max Planck Institute for European Legal History consists of two research departments headed by Stefan Vogenauer (Department I) and Thomas Duve (Department II). The role of the managing director changes regularly. Benedetta Albani's Max Planck research group also works at the institute on the subject of “The Government of the Universal Church after the Council of Trent”. A second Max Planck research group is currently being set up. Friends and sponsors of the institute joined forces in 2003 to form the association “Friends of the Frankfurt Max Planck Institute for European Legal History” based in Frankfurt am Main.
The administration (head: Carola Schurzmann), the library (head: Sigrid Amedick), the editorial team (head: Karl-Heinz Lingens) and IT management (head: Volker Novak) offer specific services for science. Stefanie Rüther coordinates the various research tasks.
literature
- Max Planck Institute for European Legal History (Max Planck Institute for European Legal History) , in: Eckart Henning , Marion Kazemi : Handbook on the history of the institute of the Kaiser Wilhelm / Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science 1911–2011 - dates and Sources , Berlin 2016, 2 volumes, volume 2: Institutes and research centers MZ ( online , pages 1451–1463 chronology of the institute).
Web links
- Website of the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
- Publications of the institute in the MPG eDoc server (bibliography)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Max Planck Institute for European Legal History: Thomas Duve - Vita , accessed on April 22, 2020.
- ^ Anne Grewlich: Anglo-American law in view. Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, press release dated December 22, 2014 from the Science Information Service (idw-online.de), accessed on April 22, 2020.
Coordinates: 50 ° 7 ′ 40.6 ″ N , 8 ° 40 ′ 13.9 ″ E