Massimo Meccarelli

Aufenthalt

September−Dezember 2017

Forschungsthema

»The Spatiality of the Law in the Second Scholastic Thought«

Projektbeschreibung

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.

Wissenschaftliches Profil

Massimo Meccarelli ist Professor für Rechtsgeschichte an der Juristischen Fakultät für Rechtsgeschichte der Universität Macerata, Italien. Er ist Forscher am Max-Planck-Institut für europäische Rechtsgeschichte in Frankfurt am Main und war Gastwissenschaftler an der Facultad de Derecho der Universidad Autonoma de Madrid.

Veröffentlichungen (Auswahl)

• »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)
• (Hg. mit 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)
• (Hg.) 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)
• »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/)
• »Paradigmi dell'eccezione nella parabola della modernità penale. Una prospettiva storico-giuridica«, In: Quaderni Storici, 131, 2, 2009.
• »Ein Rechtsformat für die Moderne: Lex und Iurisdictio in der spanischen Spätscholastik«, In: Ch. Strohm, H. De Wall (Hgs.): Konfessionalität und Jurisprudenz in der frühen Neuzeit, Berlin: Duncker [&] Humblot, 2009.
• Le Corti di cassazione nell'Italia unita. Profili sistematici e costituzionali della giurisdizione in una prospettiva comparata (1865-1923), Milano: Giuffrè, 2005.
• Arbitrium. Un aspetto sistematico degli ordinamenti giuridici in età di diritto comune, Milano: Giuffrè, 1998.

Forschungskontext

Massimo Meccarelli folgt der Einladung von Thomas Duve (Professor für vergleichende Rechtsgeschichte, Max-Planck-Institut für Europäische Rechtsgeschichte, Frankfurt am Main) und dem Historischen Kolleg des Forschungskollegs Humanwissenschaften im Rahmen des Themenschwerpunkts »Imperien und ihr Ende«.