JOURNAL: Rechtsgeschichte – Legal History (Rg) (2024), No. 32

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Table of Contents 

Editorial

Thomas Duve

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Research

• Persona, Homo, Res: Building a Boundary in Early Modern European Legal Thought

  Carlo Bersani

  16-40

  
  

• Enslaved as Outsiders, Enslaved as Property: Understanding Slavery in a Global and Early Modern Context

  Tamar Herzog

  42-56

  
  

• »There Is in the Great Big Law Too Much Bad Little Law«: The Slavery Abolition Act and Labour Laws in the Post-Emancipation British West Indies

  Matilde Cazzola

  58-79

  
  

• Tradition and Innovation in Knowledge Production: Gregorio López’ Commentary on the Siete Partidas (1555)

  Christiane Birr

  81-106

  
  

• Knowledge of Production of Normativity at the Imperial Aulic Council. Towards a Procedural Perspective on Early Modern Legal Reasoning

  Tobias Schenk

  108-143

  
  

• The Diffusion of Common Law in the Straits Settlements: »The Six Widows’ Case« and the Rout of Custom

  Andrew James Harding

  144-158

  
  

• Kintal sut’i: Preservación, transmisión y usos de saberes normativos en ayllus y comunidades (Charcas, Bolivia, siglos XVI–XXI)

  Paola Revilla Orías, Pablo Quisbert Condori

  160-176
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Critique

• From Pontius to Pilate – and Back AgainReview of: David Lloyd Dusenbury, The Innocence of Pontius Pilate. How the Roman Trial of Jesus Shaped History

  Wolfgang Ernst

  182-185

• Purity and Law in Abrahamic Legal TraditionsReview of: Holger M. Zellentin, Law Beyond Israel. From the Bible to the Qur’an

  Serdar Kurnaz

  185-187

• »In the Enclosure of Saint Peter«? New Studies on Papal ResignationReview of: Amedeo Feniello e Mario Prignano (eds.), Papa, non più papa. La rinuncia pontificia nella storia e nel diritto canonico

  Orazio Condorelli

  187-194

• Under the Protective Umbrella of the Epistemic FrockReview of: Stephan Bruhn, Reformer als Wertegemeinschaften. Zur diskursiven Formierung einer sozialen Gruppe im spätangelsächsischen England

  Caspar Ehlers

  195-197

• The Age of ScribblersReview of: Josef Bongartz, Alexander Denzler, Carolin Katzer, Stefan Andreas Stodolkowitz (Hg.), Feder und Recht. Schriftlichkeit und Gerichtsweseni n der Vormoderne 

  Peter Oestmann

  197-199

• Experts WantedReview of: Anette Baumann (Hg.), Juristen als Experten?

  Marian Füssel

  199-201

• Court Privileges on TrialReview of: Ulrich Eisenhardt, Kaiserliche Gerichtsprivilegien

  Karl Härter

  201-203

• Rethinking the History of the Conquest in the AndesReview of: R. Alan Covey, Inca Apocalypse. The Spanish Conquest and the Transformation of the Andean World

  Leo J. Garofalo

  203-205

• Sacrificios y devociones: creación de imágenes sagradas y normatividades visualesReview of: Maria Berbara (ed.), Sacrifice and Conversion in the Early Modern Atlantic World & Adam Jasienski, Praying to Portraits 

  Pilar Mejía

  205-208

• »The Lawyers’ Tales«: episteme moderna, casuística y narratividadReview of: Marlen Bidwell-Steiner, Michael Scham (eds.), Casuistry and Early Modern Spanish Literature

  Ana Isabel Soler Otte

  208-210

• Tributary Regimes and Caste in Spanish AmericaReview of: Sarah Albiez-Wieck, Taxing Difference in Peru and New Spain (16th–19th Century)

  Adrian Masters

  210-212

• Ots Capdequí – Biografía intelectual y profesional de un jurista americanista

  Carlos Petit

  213-214

• Alternative Histories of LawReview of: Rebecca Hall, Wake. The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts

  Karla L. Escobar H.

  215-217

• The Still Raveled Legal History of Modern AbolitionReview of: Edgardo Pérez Morales, Unraveling Abolition. Legal Culture and Slave Emancipation in Colombia

  Bruno Lima

  218-219

• Houses of »Coercion«: Slave Labour and the Origin of the Penitentiary in BrazilReview of: Martine Jean, Policing Freedom. Illegal Enslavement, Labor, and Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century Brazil

  Marjorie Carvalho de Souza

  220-222

• Free to Build an EmpireReview of: Maeve Ryan, Humanitarian Governance and the British Antislavery World System

  Edward Jones Corredera

  222-224

• Indirect Rule in West Africa and the Paradoxes of Secular ImperialismReview of: Rabiat Akande, Entangled Domains. Empire, Law and Religion in Northern Nigeria

  Michael Lobban

  224-226

• Empowering Voices: African Agencies in Northern MozambiqueReview of: Fernanda Thomaz, Casaco que se despe pelas costas. História do colonialismo, justiça e agências africanas em Moçambique

  Karolyne Mendes Mendonça Moreira

  226-227

• The Influence of Mughal Law on the Creation of the British Colonial State in IndiaReview of: Robert Travers, Empires of Complaints

  Priyasha Saksena

  228-229

• Personal Law, Divorce and DemocracyReview of: Saumya Saxena, Divorce and Democracy. A History of Personal Law in Post-Independence India

  Julie Rocheton

  230-231

• Migrant Histories in the Period of DecolonisationReview of: Kalyani Ramnath, Boats in a Storm: Law, Migration, and Decolonization in South and Southeast Asia

  Reeju Ray

  232-234

• The Ideology of Greater Italy: Absolving the Guilt of EmpireReview of: Emanuele Ertola, Il colonialismo degli italiani

  Matilde Cazzola

  234-236

• Law as Practice: History and Theory Concerning the Empire of BrazilReview of: José Reinaldo de Lima Lopes, Cultura giuridica e istituzioni in Brasile tra Otto e Novecento

  Andréa Slemian

  236-239

• Código y periferiaReview of: Carlos Petit, Otros códigos. Por una historia de la codificación civil desde España

  Manuel Martínez Neira

  240-241

• Countercolonialism and Legal History Through the Lens of a Black BishopReview of: Antônio Bispo dos Santos, A terra dá, a terra quer

  Karolyne Mendes Mendonça Moreira

  226-227

• Sovereignty DeferredReview of: Natasha Wheatley, The Life and Death of States: Central Europe and the Transformation of Modern Sovereignty

  Sebastian M. Spitra

  244-247

• Originalism in a Sea of Sound and Unsound ArgumentsReview of: Adrian Vermeule, Common Good Constitutionalism

  Santiago Legarre

  247-248

• America’s Engagement with Foreign Law. A (Nearly) Comprehensive AccountReview of: David Scott Clark, American Comparative Law. A History

  Mathias Reimann

  249-252

• A Constitutional History with Literary SupplementsReview of: Stefan Korioth, Deutsche Verfassungsgeschichte

  Thomas Simon

  252-254

• Constitutional Historiography Between History and JurisprudenceReview of: Ino Augsberg, Michael W. Müller (Hg.), Theorie der Verfassungsgeschichte

  Thomas Simon

  255-256

• Invention of »Competences« – A Unique Path of German Constitutional Lawyers?Review of: Christian Neumeier, Kompetenzen. Zur Entstehung des deutschen öffentlichen Rechts

  Christoph Schönberger

  257-259

• Constitution – Which Constitution?Review of: Frank Schorkopf, Die unentschiedene Macht. Verfassungsgeschichte der Europäischen Union

  Brigitte Leucht

  260-261

• The Banality of Legal LifeReview of: Benjamin Lahusen, »Der Dienstbetrieb ist nicht gestört«. Die Deutschen und ihre Justiz 1943–1948

  Jan Schröder

  262-264

• What a LifeReview of: Hans-Hermann Klare, Auerbach. Eine jüdisch-deutsche Tragödie

  Sascha Ziemann

  264-267

• On the Use of Deviations – The Productive Power of Dissenting OpinionsReview of: Matthias K. Klatt, Das Sondervotum beim Bundesverfassungsgericht

  Heinz Mohnhaupt

  267-269

• The Chequered History of Sociology of Law in West GermanyReview of: Clemens Boehncke, Karlson Preuß, Doris Schweitzer (Hg.), Reform, Revolte, Rechtssoziologie

  Ralf Rogowski

  269-271

• The Overlooked Experts – On the Role of Lawyers in the European UnionReview of: Emilia Korkea-aho, Päivi Leino-Sandberg (eds.), Law, Legal Expertise and EU Policy-Making

  Jan-Henrik Meyer

  271-274
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• Marginalia

  About Staging Law in late 19th-Century Painting. Stairs as Platforms for Sex-Based Glorification and Condemnation

  • • Erk Volkmar Heyen

      280-297

  The Multicultural State: Progress or Tragedy?

  • • Paul W. Kahn

      300-303