Tag: Rechtspluralismus
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“Standardisation was never a goal of the Peruvian liberal legislator”
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Interview with Armando Guevara Gil on the legal history of Peru and the potential of micro-historical analyses In 1821, Peru gained independence from the Spanish colonial empire. Despite the new legal codes issued in the…
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| FocusPluralism of what? On Laws, and on Rights – in Translation
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European legal terminology is often organised in dichotomies. In the continental languages, this holds true for the concept of law itself, which can be ius or lex, droit or loi, diritto or legge, Recht or Gesetz. These dichotomies cannot easily be translated into English. The problem does…
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“What remains of the colonial period? Everything.”
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Interview with Heikki Pihlajamäki on early modern colonial laws The police legislation of the early modern period, which attempted to legally regulate wide areas of people‘s lives, has been extensively studied since the 1970s, especially…
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| FocusDid long-distance trade not have its own intrinsic logic?
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Report on the workshop “How to Ensure Predictability in Legal Pluralism. Northern Europe in the Later Middle Ages” on 5 and 6 October 2022 The workshop focused on merchants engaged in long-distance trade in late-medieval…
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“In Sub-Saharan Africa, particularism supports centrifugal tendencies”
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Interview with Dorothea Schulz on religious plurality in Africa The German government has just decided to withdraw the Bundeswehr troops from Mali. France and other countries have already taken this step and ended their military…
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“Jurisprudence is a strong unifying factor in the Middle Ages”
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Interview with Susanne Lepsius on law in the Middle Ages Susanne Lepsius has set her sights high: she is working at the Kolleg on a general volume that is intended to introduce readers with no…
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Legal unity and pluralism at the 2022 Conference of Legal Historians
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Probably the most important such conference in the German-speaking world, the 43rd (German)[1] Conference of Legal Historians (Rechtshistorikertag) could at last take place in Zurich in August 2022.[2] Addressing the overarching theme of “Legal Forms…
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“An exceptional Exception”
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Communal-informal tribunals as a form of legal pluralism in Mandatory Palestine Professor Dr. Dr. Eyal Katvan is currently a fellow at the EViR Kolleg, where he is investigating family litigation in communal-informal tribunals in Mandatory…