Thomas Duve How Is Normative Knowledge Globalized and Localized?
Thomas Duve is Director at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History and Professor of Comparative Legal History at Goethe University Frankfurt. Between 2005 and 2010, he held Professorships in the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Canon Law at Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina (UCA). His main research interests include the history of canon law, moral theology and global historical perspectives on European legal history. Duve is the editor of the journal Rechtsgeschichte – Legal History and the books series Studien zur europäischen Rechtsgeschichte as well as the founding editor of the Max Planck Institute book series Global Perspectives on Legal History.
Area of Research
European Legal History, Comparative Legal History
since 2009
since 2010
Professor of Comparative Legal History
Goethe University of Frankfurt (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main)
2009-2010
Professor for the History of Canon Law
Universidad Católica Argentina (UCA)
Faculty of Canon Law
2005-2009
Professor of Legal History with a dedicación especial en investigación
Universidad Católica Argentina (UCA)
Faculty of Law and for the History of Canon Law at the Faculty of Canon Law
2005
Habilitation (venia legendi): Civil Law, German Legal History, Historical Comparative Law, Canon Law and Philoso
Ludwig Maximilian University Munich (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
Faculty of Law
1997
Doctorate
Ludwig Maximilian University Munich (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
Faculty of Law
1994-1996
BA in Philosophy
Hochschule für Philosophie
1989-1994
Law Studies
Heidelberg University (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg)
& Universidad de Buenos Aires, LMU
- Co-Editor of the journal Rechtsgeschichte – Legal History (Vittorio Klostermann/Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, together with Stefan Vogenauer)
- Founding Editor of the series Global Perspectives on Legal History (Max Planck Institute for European Legal History)
- Founding Editor of the series methodica – Einführungen in die rechtshistorische Forschung (De Gruyter / Oldenbourg)
- Co-Editor of the series Studien zur Europäischen Rechtsgeschichte (Vittorio Klostermann/Max Planck Institute for European Legal History)
- Co-Editor of the series Beiträge zur Rechtsgeschichte des 20. Jahrhundert (Mohr Siebeck)
- Co-Editor of the series Politische Philosophie und Rechtstheorie des Mittelalters und der Neuzeit (fromann-holzboog)
- Co-Editor of the series Jahrbuch für Geschichte Lateinamerikas – Anuario de Historia de América Latina, Beihefte
- Co-Editor of the series Die Schule von Salamanca. Eine Digitale Quellensammlung, digital edition
- Co-Editor of the journal forum historiae iuris (2004-2017)
- Co-Editor of the journal Jahrbuch für Geschichte Lateinamerikas – Anuario de Historia de América Latina (2012-2016)
- Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society
- Member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz
- Member of the Academia Europaea (Section A1 - History & Archaeology
- Corresponding Member of the National Academy of History of the Argentinian Republic (Academia Nacional de la Historia de la República Argentina, Buenos Aires)
- Member of the Instituto de Investigaciones de Historia del Derecho, Buenos Aires
- Member of the Instituto Internacional de Historia del Derecho Indiano
- Member of the Board of Directors and Partner Investigator of the Cluster of Excellence ‘The Formation of Normative Orders’, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main
Prizes
- Award Karl-Lamprecht-Gesellschaft, Leipzig, 1999 (for the PhD Thesis)
- Faculty Award, University of Munich, 1997 (for the PhD Thesis)
- Various ((Union of the German Academies of Science and Humanities, Thyssen Foundation, Volkswagen Foundation, Province of Hesse, Germany, MinCyt, CONICET)
- Die Schule von Salamanca: Eine digitale Quellensammlung und ein Wörterbuch ihrer juristisch-politischen Sprache (Union der Akademien der Wissenschaften, Langzeitvorhaben, http://www.salamanca.adwmainz.de/informationen.html)
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Institute
Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
Since its establishment in 1964, the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History (MPIeR), with its two departments, has devoted itself to investigating the history of law in Europe and beyond. Its research, its specialised library with more than 470,000 printed items and its numerous cooperations has made it one of the central research hubs for the worldwide scientific community concerned with investigating our past and present national and transnational legal orders.
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How does religious normative knowledge spread throughout the world? How is such normative knowledge translated, adapted and regionalized in particular geographical domains? In this video, THOMAS DUVE analyzes the processes by which normative knowledge is globalized and localized with a specific focus on religious knowledge. Focusing on places that came into contact with the Iberian empires in the early modern period, Duve argues that our understanding of epistemic communities like the celebrated School of Salamanca requires serious reconsideration. The work also presents an important reassessment of the types of sources to be used by legal historians, highlighting the vital insights provided by so-called pragmatic texts, those texts employed by practitioners on a daily basis.
LT Video Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.21036/LTPUB10768
Internationalisierung und Transnationalisierung der Rechtswissenschaft
- Thomas Duve
- Rechtswege
- Published in 2015
Global Legal History: Setting Europe in Perspective
- Thomas Duve
- The Oxford Handbook of European Legal History
- Published in 2018
Global Legal History – A Methodological Approach
- Thomas Duve
- Max Planck Institute for European Legal History Research Paper Series
- Published in 2016
