Asymmetrical Dependency: A view from Global Legal History

As part of the BCDSS' Joseph C. Miller Memorial Lecture Series, Thomas Duve (Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory, Frankfurt) gave a lecture on Asymmetrical Dependency: A view from Global Legal History. Thomas Duve is director of the department “Historical Regimes of Normativity” at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory, Frankfurt, and Professor of Comparative Legal History at Goethe University, Frankfurt. A jurist and legal historian, he writes about the legal history of the Iberian empires and modern Germany from a global perspective. His main research explores how knowledge of normativity was produced in the early modern period, taking into account the entanglement of the secular and religious normative spheres. He is also interested in colonial law and the formation of the international legal thought of jurists from the Global North, particularly the members of the School of Salamanca and early modern and modern German scholars of law.