Prof. Dr. Thomas Duve
Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory
Hansaallee 41
D-60323 Frankfurt
Phone: +49 69 789 78 165
https://www.lhlt.mpg.de/duve/en
sekduve@lhlt.mpg.de
Academic Profile
Thomas Duve works on the legal history of the imperial spaces of the Iberian monarchies in the early modern period and modernity. He is interested particularly in the history of canon law and moral theology, especially that of the School of Salamanca, and in the history of knowledge creation in the field of law and other modes of normativity. Further fields of Duve’s interest include the history and methodology of legal history.
As the director of Department II at the Max-Planck-Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory, Thomas Duve is responsible for the Institute’s cooperation project “Law and the Creation of Dependency in the Ibero-Atlantic” led by Mariana Dias Paes.
2005
Habilitation (venia legendi) in the subjects: Civil Law, German Legal History, Historical Comparative Law, Canon Law and Philosophy of Law, Faculty of Law, University of Munich, Germany
1997
Ph.D. at the Faculty of Law, University of Munich, Germany
1989–1994
Studies of Law at the Universities of Heidelberg, Germany, Buenos Aires, Argentina and Munich, Germany
since 2010
Director at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory, Professor for Comparative Legal History, Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2009–2010
Professor for the History of Canon Law at the Faculty of Canon Law, Pontifícia Universidad Católica Argentina
2005–2009
Professor for Legal History with a dedicación especial en investigación at the Faculty of Law and for the History of Canon Law at the Faculty of Canon Law, Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina
2023
Honorary Fellow, American Society for Legal History
2023
Honorary Professor, Chinese University of Political Science and Law (CUPL), Beijing
1999
Award for dissertation by the Karl-Lamprecht-Gesellschaft, Leipzig, Germany
1997
Faculty Award of the University of Munich, Germany
- Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society
- Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz, Germany
- Board of Directors and Principal Investigator of the Cluster of Excellence "The Formation of Normative Orders," Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- Academia Europaea (Section A1 – History & Archaeology)
- Academia Nacional de la Historia de Argentina (corrs. M.)
For a comprehensive list of academic activities see: https://www.lhlt.mpg.de/duve/en
Various Grants from the German DFG and other institutions (Union of the German Academies of Science and Humanities, Thyssen Foundation, Volkswagen Foundation, Province of Hesse, Germany, MinCyt, CONICET) as part of joint research projects (e.g. SFB, Cluster of Excellence, Loewe-Initiative), cooperation partner and individual beneficiary.
- 2024. As editor. With Tamar Herzog. The Cambridge History of Latin American Law in Global Perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- 2023. With José Luis Egío. Rechtsgeschichte des frühneuzeitlichen Hispanoamerika. Berlin: De Gruyter.
- 2021. "Rechtsgeschichte als Geschichte von Normativitätswissen?" In Rechtsgeschichte – Legal History 29: 41–68. Open access
- 2020. "What is Global Legal History?" In Comparative Legal History 8(2): 73–115. Open access
- 2018. As editor. With Stefan Ruppert. Rechtswissenschaft in der Berliner Republik. Berlin: Suhrkamp.
- 2018. "Indigenous Rights in Latin America." In The Oxford Handbook of Legal History, edited by Markus D. Dubber and Christopher L. Tomlins, 817–837. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- 2018. "Global Legal History. Setting Europe in Perspective." In The Oxford Handbook of European Legal History, edited by Heikki Pihlajamäki, Markus D. Dubber, and Mark Godfrey, 115–139. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- 2014. As editor. Entanglements in Legal History. Conceptual Approaches. Global Perspectives on Legal History 1. Frankfurt am Main: Max Planck Institute for European Legal History.
- 2008. Sonderrecht in der Frühen Neuzeit. Studien zum ius singulare und den privilegia miserabilium personarum, senum und indorum in Alter und Neuer Welt. Studien zur europäischen Rechtsgeschichte 231. Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann.