PD Dr. Christiane U. Birr

Affiliate Researcher - Goethe University Frankfurt

Phone: +49 (69) 789 78 - 161

Fax: +49 (69) 789 78 - 169

Email:

• birr@rg.mpg.de

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Main Focus

• Spanish late scholasticism and canon law of the early modern period
• European expansion and colonial law
• Learned law in the late middle ages and early modern period (especially questions regarding the law on limitation periods)
• Legal and constitutional history of the early modern period

Projects

Curriculum Vitae

After studying law in Würzburg (First State Examination 1994, Second State Examination 1996) Christiane Birr was awarded her doctorate in the year 2000 for her thesis about penal jurisdiction and power organization in the episcopal duchy of Würzburg during the 15^th and 16^th centuries.

Subsequently, she worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Legal History of Würzburg University (2000-2003). Her postdoctoral research project “Rights in the Stream of Time –Prescription and Usucapion in European Legal History” was awarded the “Bayerischer Habilitationsförderpreis” (Bavarian scholarship for the support of outstanding young researchers) in 2002. From 2003 till 2005 she was financially supported by this scholarship. In 2006, the Law Faculty of the University of Würzburg granted her permission to teach German and European legal history, canon law and civil law (“Habilitation”).

Between 2007 and 2009 she was auxiliary professor at the Leopold-Wenger Institute for Legal History at the Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich. Following this, she became lead researcher at the Max-Planck Institute for European Legal History in Frankfurt.

Since 2013 Christiane Birr coordinates the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz's project “The School of Salamanca. A Digital Collection of Sources and a Dictionary of Its Juridical-Political Language”. In 2014, the Legal Department of Frankfurt’s Goethe University affiliated Christiane Birr as lecturer (Privatdozentin).

Selected Publications