Max Planck Partner Groups
Cooperations
More than 90 Partner Groups exist worldwide. They are an effecturve instrument for jointly promoting young talents with countries that want to strengthen their research through international cooperation, such as India, China, Central and Eastern European countries, Russia and Argentina..
The idea is that after a research stay at a Max Planck Institute, highly qualified researchers (postdocs) return to their home country or continue their research in another country to work on a topic that is also of interest to their former host.
mpilhlt - Stefan Vogenauer | University of Bologna - Matilde Cazzola
Problems of protection, concerns of evidence: Concepts and laws in the British Empire
The Max Planck Partner Group ‘Problems of protection, concerns of evidence’ is led by Matilde Cazzola, in cooperation with Stefan Vogenauer, and is based at the University of Bologna. It aims to promote scientific cooperation between the Bologna Department of History and Cultures and the Department ‘European and Comparative Legal History’ at the mpilhlt around the study of legal concepts and practices drawn from the history of the 19th-century British Empire.
The collaboration started in 2026.
mpilhlt - Thomas Duve | China University of Political Science and Law - Fupeng Li
Mapping Conflicts: A Digital Global Legal History of Missionary Cases in Late Qing China (1860-1911)
This group, headed by Fupeng Li, formerly PhD candidate at the mpilhlt and now Professor at the China University for Political Science and Law, Beijing, and Thomas Duve, will examine the Chinese experience with the global production of multi-normative knowledge throughout the diplomatic negotiations with foreign powers over missionary disputes across China (1860-1911).
The collaboration started in 2025.
mpilhlt - Thomas Duve | Università degli Studi di Trento - Manuela Bragagnolo
The Production of Normative Knowledge and the Early Modern Book Trade
This group, headed by Manuela Bragagnolo, formerly a post-doc fellow at the mpilhlt and now Professor at the Università di Trento in Italy, and Thomas Duve, seeks to investigate the extent to which, following the emergence of the early modern book trade, the production, circulation and consumption of legal books had an impact on the production of normative knowledge.
The collaboration started in 2022.
