PD Dr. Christiane U. Birr

Researcher

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Publications

Main Focus

• Spanish late scholasticism and canon law of the early modern period
• European expansion and colonial law
• Learned law in the late middle ages and early modern period (especially questions regarding the law on limitation periods)
• Legal and constitutional history of the early modern period

Projects

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Salamanca in Amerika

Canon Law Early Modern Period Global History Iberian Worlds Moral Theology Glocalisation of Knowledge of Normativity

Christiane U. Birr, José Luis Egío García more

The Production of Knowledge of Normativity and the Early Modern Book Trade

Max Planck Partner Group

Thomas Duve, Manuela Bragagnolo, Polina Solonets, Christiane U. Birr, Fupeng Li more

The School of Salamanca

Canon Law Cooperation Digital Humanities Early Modern Period Global History Iberian Worlds Knowledge of Normativity from the Sphere of the Religious Moral Theology Sources

Thomas Duve, Matthias Lutz-Bachmann, Christiane U. Birr, José Luis Egío García, Andreas Wagner, Polina Solonets more

Legal History meets Digital Humanities

Digital Humanities Doing Legal History Seminar

Polina Solonets, Benedetta Albani, Christiane Birr, Manuela Bragagnolo, Karla Escobar, Yohan Park, Andreas Wagner, Johanna Wolf, Alexandra Anokhina more

Curriculum Vitae

After studying law in Würzburg (First State Examination 1994, Second State Examination 1996) Christiane Birr was awarded her doctorate in the year 2000 for her thesis about penal jurisdiction and power organization in the episcopal duchy of Würzburg during the 15^th and 16^th centuries.

Subsequently, she worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Legal History of Würzburg University (2000-2003). Her postdoctoral research project “Rights in the Stream of Time –Prescription and Usucapion in European Legal History” was awarded the “Bayerischer Habilitationsförderpreis” (Bavarian scholarship for the support of outstanding young researchers) in 2002. From 2003 till 2005 she was financially supported by this scholarship. In 2006, the Law Faculty of the University of Würzburg granted her permission to teach German and European legal history, canon law and civil law (“Habilitation”).

Between 2007 and 2009 she was auxiliary professor at the Leopold-Wenger Institute for Legal History at the Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich. Following this, she became lead researcher at theMax Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory (formerly Max Planck Institute for European Legal History) in Frankfurt.

Since 2013 Christiane Birr coordinates the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz's project “The School of Salamanca. A Digital Collection of Sources and a Dictionary of Its Juridical-Political Language”. In 2014, the Legal Department of Frankfurt’s Goethe University affiliated Christiane Birr as lecturer (Privatdozentin).

Selected Publications

Research Communication

Yearbook 2014 Legislation in Early Modern Hispanic America: The Third Mexican Provincial Council (1585)

Yearbook 2011 The School of Salamanca and the New World