Max Planck Institute for European History of Law

The Max Planck Institute for European Legal History ( MPIeR ) in Frankfurt am Main was founded in 1964. It is dedicated to the presentation of the development of European law and the transnational comparison of legal systems. It is one of the Institutes of the Humanities Section of the Max Planck Society.

History

The first director of the institute was Helmut Coing ( 1964-1979 ). He was followed by Dieter Simon (1980-2001), Walter William (1980-1987), Michael Stolleis (1991-2006) and Marie Theres Fögen ( 2001-2008 ). Michael Stolleis has once again taken over in 2006 after his retirement in September 2007, the acting head of the Institute ( end of 2009 ). On September 1, 2009 Thomas Duve has been appointed full-time director since 1 January 2010, he also took over the management. External Scientific Member of the Institute is Knut Wolfgang Noerr.

The Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Institute had 1964-1989 Robert Feenstra (Leiden) holds. He was followed from 1990 to 1997 André Gouron (Montpellier). 1998 to 2007 was chairman Peter Pieler (Vienna). The Advisory Board of the Institute currently comprises Olivier Jouanjan (Strasbourg / Freiburg), Marta Lorente Sariñena (Madrid ), Heiner Lück (Hall, Chairman ), Jürgen Osterhammel ( Constance), Heikki Pihlajamäki (Helsinki) ..

The Board of Trustees included by the end of 2008: Patrick Bahners ( Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung), Eberhard Desch ( Federal Ministry of Justice ), Dieter Grimm ( Institute for Advanced Study Berlin), Traudl Mr. Hausen ( Bad Homburg ), Christine Hohmann- Dennhardt ( Federal Constitutional Court, Chairman), Tommaso Padoa- Schioppa (European Central Bank, resigned 2006), Petra Roth ( former Mayor of the city of Frankfurt am Main ), Helwig Schmidt- Glintzer (Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel ), attorney Karl Star Zacher ( Dusseldorf ), Uwe Justus Wenzel ( Neue Zürcher Zeitung). Also, the Board of Trustees was re- occupied in 2010, it joined in April 2011 together for the first time and chose Helwig Schmidt- Glintzer (Director of the Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel ) as Chairman and Traudl Mr. Hausen ( Bad Homburg, Germany ) as Vice- Chairman. Other members are currently Nicola Beer ( Secretary of State for European Affairs, Wiesbaden, Germany ), Barbara Göbel (Director, Ibero -American Institute of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin ), Norbert Gross ( attorney at the Federal Court, President of the Bar Association at the Federal, Karlsruhe), Heribert Prantl (Head departmental internal politics, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich ), Petra Roth ( former Mayor of the city of Frankfurt am Main ), Felix bread Roth ( Director of Cultural Affairs of the city of Frankfurt am Main).

Research priorities

At the beginning were below Coing the research focuses on the European Private Law and their implications for economic history. Simon and Fögen translated later, the focus on legal theory and legal sociology, while Stolleis accentuated the history of public law and international law. Duve comes with a research interest in the field of Hispano-American legal history.

Current research topics are:

  • Source development
  • Law as part of civilization in the first millennium
  • Law and Religion
  • Criminal history and historical crime research in Europe between medieval and modern
  • International Law History
  • Modern regulatory regimes
  • Age and Law

As a regional research fields with cross-sectional character, the institution has two regions:

  • Legal History of Latin America
  • Legal history of South - Eastern Europe

Some older research areas will be maintained as areas of competence:

  • Policeyordnungen the early modern period
  • Right in the Industrial Revolution
  • Legal cultures of modern Eastern Europe
  • The "Europe of dictatorship." Economic control, and law
  • Private Law Modern History
  • History of Science by public law
  • Mediation and representation of law in ( visual) media
  • Scientific communication in the 19th century

Publications

As a magazine of the Institute since 2002, the magazine " legal history " appears every six months. Precursors were the magazine " Ius Commune - Journal of European Legal History " ( published 1967-2001 ) and edited by Dieter Simon " legal history journal " ( published 1982-2001 ). In addition, the Institute publishes the series " Studies on European legal history."

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