The Faculty of Law and Administration in the Department of Roman Law, Legal Traditions and Cultural Hertiage Law is looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher in the project: EXTRA: The Decretals, early modern science of canon law and legal commentaries today.
The project aims at the examination of the methods and development of the early modern science of canon law through the study of the most relevant legal commentaries of the time. For ages thick volumes of commentaries to statutes have been the most typical output of scientific endeavours of legal scholars in Europe. The universality of this practice allows us to study its nature in the past and relate the conclusions also to contemporary issues which in many ways resemble the past challenges. EXTRA will contribute to the overall understanding of the legal developments in the early modern Europe and the functions of commentary for legal discourse. Moreover, the conceptualizations developed to approach the early modern science of canon law will serve as the framework for addressing the current challenges of legal writing such as legal data overload or the impact of technological revolutions on law. The other broadly discussed issue today is the very nature of legal commentary and its ‘scientific’ character and EXTRA will contribute to this topic as well.
The textual basis for the research is commentaries to the Decretals (so called Liber extra, hence the project acronym) written by canonists c.1450-1650 which were usually several-hundred-pages-long multi-volume works in Latin. In the early modern period the Decretals were still the pivotal legal text handled within canon law science and canon law still formed a relevant part of the universal legal system of European ius commune. Therefore commentaria were a vehicle for addressing all currently relevant legal issues in Europe and were a tool for updating old laws to the new times. During the preliminary research there were listed sixteen works fulfilling selection criteria, the most relevant of which were those written by such authors as Felino Sandeo, Filippo Decio, Hendrik Zoesius, Emanuel González Téllez, and Prospero Fagnani.
This is a full-time position for 6 months, with the possibility of extension for an additional 10 months, starting June 2025 (or later).
For more information do not hesitate to contact the project PI, Piotr Alexandrowicz (piotr.alexandrowicz[at]amu.edu.pl).
More information can be found here.
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