Seminar on Legal History of Ibero-America
Ibero-American and European legal history have been closely linked since the beginning of the European expansion. Normative orders, which had grown in a European context, were reproduced, complemented, modified and adjusted in a new environment. The encounter of alien cultures and religions as well as the long distances to Europe and within in the slowly measured continent produced new challenges for jurists. Europe and its understanding of law also changed. Well-known are the debates about human rights and political theory on the basis of scholastic rationality in the 16th and 17th century. But the Spanish monarchy had to develop forms of imperial governance. Without them the reign over long distances would have been impossible. Legal pluralism, the integration or oppression of cultural diversity, the different spaces one encountered – this all gave the law its imprint. For the church and its law a new world opened up, too. Mission was the central justification of this expansion. Religion was the fundament of the early modern era legal culture in the oversea territories of the Spanish and Portuguese monarchy. The experiences with these global dimensions of canon law, too, did not remain without backlashes on the canon law itself. It started to embrace imperial structures. The Latin American independence movements of the 19th century also stood in a worldwide context and affected Europe. This close attachment to Europe did not end. To the contrary: especially the Latin American criminal and civil law of the republican era features complex connections to many European states – not only Portugal and Spain anymore.
At the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History several research focus areas are working on these questions. The legal history of Ibero-America is a special research field since the year 2010. The seminar on the legal history of Ibero-America is a forum for debating these research projects and for integrating guest researchers and their interests. External guests are welcome, too.
For more information please contact Pilar Mejia, Max Planck Institute for European Legal History.
Guest Presentations at the Seminar on Legal History of Ibero-America
04.09.17
Fernanda Bretones Lane
El bautismo y la concesión de la libertad: El asilo religioso en el Caribe español del s.XVIII
03.07.17
Jaime Ricardo Teixeira Gouveia
Justicia episcopal en las Américas portuguesa e hispánica: algunas comparaciones
12.06.2017
Jose María Martín Humanes
Tras la Frontera de Granada: una sociedad en movimiento a través de los fondos de la Real Chancillería de Granada (ss. XV-XVI)
Antonio Manuel Luque Reina
Entre gobierno jurisdiccional y jurisdicción gobernativa: algunas reflexiones en torno a esta transición en España (1834-1845)
03.04.2017
Alvaro Caso Bello
Una aproximación a los representantes de ciudades Hispanoamericanas en Madrid en el siglo XVIII
06.03.2017
Pedro Henrique Ribeiro
Escándalos mundiales como fundamentación de validez de los derechos humanos
06.02.2017
Carlos Ramos Núñez
Realidad y quimera: el jurado en el Perú
09.01.2017
Nicolás Beraldi
¿Trasplantes Legales en el Río de la Plata? El caso de la justicia de paz en la provincia de Buenos Aires (1821-1824)