CfP: Law in Transnational Spaces. Cross-border Biographies in Legal History in the 19th and 20th Century

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Writing transnational history comes with its own set of unique requirements. It is challenging to construct a coherent narrative out of the numerous factors involved. A biographical approach is one possibility to operationalize research on transnational networks and institutions. Biographies reveal individuals’ assumptions and attitudes, help contextualize their debates and explain the historical change of norms in their local context. This also applies to legal histories investigating intera...