Wednesday, 3 February 2010, 6.15pm
Campus Westend, Hörsaalzentrum HZ 3
Professor Dr. Thomas Duve, Max-Planck-Institut für europäische Rechtsgeschichte
Recht ohne Staat
Ein Blick auf die Rechtsgeschichte
Biographical sketch
Thomas Duve is the Director of the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History. Following his habilitation in the fields of civil law, German legal history, historical comparative law, canon law, and legal philosophy, he was Professor of the History of Law with dedicación especial en investigación in the Faculty of Law and Professor of the History of Canon Law in the Faculty of Canon Law at the Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina (UCA) from 2005 to 2009; since August 2009 he is Adjunct Professor of the History of Canon Law in the Faculty of Canon Law at the UCA. Recent publications: Sonderrecht in der Frühen Neuzeit: Das frühneuzeitliche ius singulare, untersucht anhand der privilegia miserabilium personarum, senum und indorum in Alter und Neuer Welt (2008).
Abstract
Whereas the history of law is measured in millennia, the ‘modern state’ is a comparatively recent phenomenon. Clearly, what was understood by ‘law’ and ‘state’ were not always seen as necessarily connected with one another. The lecture will present historical experiences illustrating how ‘law’ can also exist apart from or alongside the ‘state’.
