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Massimo Meccarelli



Professor of Legal History, Dipartimento di Giurisprudenza der Università di Macerata (Italy)

Resident at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften:
September−December 2017

Research topic at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften:
»The Spatiality of the Law in the Second Scholastic Thought«

Project outline:
The late scholastic thought takes shape in a very complex historical turn in which the universality of the Respublica Christiana is challenged by two new (opposite) issues: the discovery of the Americas opens to Christianity a field of expansion in a new world; the religious Reform in Europe sets new boundaries within Christendom. In the first case we are faced with the problem of how to support the »construction« of a new jurisdictional sphere. In the second case the problem is how to face the »deconstruction« (and, eventually, to promote the possible »reconstruction«) of a legal-political universal Frame for the Christendom. In both cases it is has been a matter of rethinking the relationship between law and space in the perspective of a possible space.
I would like to study, in the late scholastic, attitudes and approaches to the problem of law and space, addressing the two challenges (the American and the European) of the modernity. I would take in consideration especially three areas of investigation: classifications of the legal spheres; rules and processes for the establishment and legitimacy of (new) legal systems and regimes of government; regimes of rights and legal protection. (Massimo Meccarelli)

Research partner:
Massimo Meccarelli follows an invitation of Thomas Duve (Max-Planck-Institute for European Legal History, Goethe University) and the History Programme of the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften.

Scholarly profile of Massimo Meccarelli


Massimo Meccarelli is Full Professor of Legal History at the Faculty of Law, University of Macerata, Italy. He is affiliate researcher of the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History in Frankfurt am main and he has been Visiting scholar at the at the Facultad de Derecho der Universidad Autonoma de Madrid.

Website:
Please find more information about Massimo Meccarelli here.

Main areas of research:
History of legal thought; history of justice; legal spaces; law in transitional time; rights and legal protection; law and diversity.

Selected publications:
  1. »The Assumed Space: Pre-reflective Spatiality and Doctrinal Configurations in Juridical Experience«, In: Rechtsgeschichte - Legal History, Rg 23, 2015. (online: http://dx.doi.org/10.12946/rg23/241-252)
  2. (Ed. with Maria Julia Solla Sastre), Spatial and Temporal Dimensions for Legal History. Research Experiences and Itineraries, Frankfurt am Main, Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, 2016. (e-book avaliable at: https://www.rg.mpg.de/gplh_volume_6)
  3. (Ed.) Diversità e discorso giuridico. Temi per un dialogo interdisciplinare su diritti e giustizia in tempo di transizione, Madrid, 2016. (e-book avaliable at: https://e-archivo.uc3m.es/handle/10016/23792)
  4. »La protección jurídica como tutela de los derechos: reducciones modernas del problema de la dimensión jurídica de la justicia«, In: Forum Historiae Iuris, 2014. (http://www.forhistiur.de/2014-08-meccarelli/)
  5. »Paradigmi dell'eccezione nella parabola della modernità penale. Una prospettiva storico-giuridica«, In: Quaderni Storici, 131, 2, 2009.
  6. »Ein Rechtsformat für die Moderne: Lex und Iurisdictio in der spanischen Spätscholastik«, In: Ch. Strohm, H. De Wall (Eds.): Konfessionalität und Jurisprudenz in der frühen Neuzeit, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2009.
  7. Le Corti di cassazione nell'Italia unita. Profili sistematici e costituzionali della giurisdizione in una prospettiva comparata (1865-1923), Milano: Giuffrè, 2005.
  8. Arbitrium. Un aspetto sistematico degli ordinamenti giuridici in età di diritto comune, Milano: Giuffrè, 1998.

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