BOOK REVIEW: Ignazio CASTELLUCCI on Law and diversity: European and Latin American Experiences from a legal historical perspective, vol. 1: fundamental questions, edited Peter Collin and Agustín Casagrande (Comparative Legal History, XIII (2025), nr. 2 (December), pp. 373-381)

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The book reviewed here is the first of four volumes derived from two conferences held in 2019 at the Max-Planck-Institut für Rechtsgeschichte und Rechtstheorie within the framework of a research project also titled Law and Diversity: European and Latin American Experiences from a Legal Historical Perspective. This volume, edited by Peter Collin and Agustín Casagrande, deals, according to its sub-title, with ‘Fundamental Questions’ of ‘Law and Diversity’ in historic and societal terms: the idea behind it is to assess how the different laws and legal environments researched deal(t) with the notion of ‘diversity’ and associated concepts – eg, those of ‘difference’, ‘discrimination’, ‘equality’ and ‘inequality’ – and which societal elements have been the focus of legally relevant ‘diversities’ in the various historic experiences analysed alongside the related express or implied diversified legal disciplines. Three further volumes are expected as part of the project’s research output, dealing in more detail with private, public and criminal law issues associated with the research project’s main theme.

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DOI: 10.1080/2049677X.2025.2580118