Matthew Cleary

PhD, Senior Research Fellow

cleary@mpil.de

Main Fields of Research:

Legal History; Comparative Constitutional Law; Legal Theory; Property Law

Academic Career:

Member of the Max Planck Research Group Heisenberg Project: Grotius Census Bibliography (since Oct. 2022)

Former Co-Editor of the Edinburgh Student Law Review (June 2021 - Dec. 2022)

 

Education:

Ph.D. in Law, The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

M.A. in History, University of Western Ontario, Canada

B.A. (Hons., Spec.) in History with Minor in Ancient Studies (cum laude), Laurentian University, Canada

Recent Publications

• A Printer's View of Hugo Grotius' Mare Liberum (1633). In: Ideas Across Borders: Translating Visions of Authority and Civil Society in Europe c.1600-1840 (edited by Gaby Mahlberg and Thomas Munck). Routledge, London, 2024, 211-244 p. doi: 10.4324/9781003321781-17 (with Edward Jones Corredera, Pablo Nicolas Dufour, Lara Muschel, Jonathan Nathan, Emanuele Salerno and Mark Somos) .
  
• Henry Swinburne and Devise of Land: The Textual Evolution of A briefe treatise of Testaments and last Willes and its Reflection on the Law, 1590-1803. In: Forum Historiae Iuris 2024, 1-25 (2024). https://forhistiur.net/media/pdf/2024-01... 2024-01-cleary.pdf (PDF, 244.8 KB)
  
• Grotian Moments and Appeals to Authority in Law and History. In: Grotiana 44(1), 65-93 (2023). doi: https://brill.com/view/journals/grot/44/1/article-p65_004.xml (with Pablo Dufour, Emanuele Salerno, Mark Somos).
  
• Hugo Grotius’s De Iure Belli ac Pacis: A Report on the Worldwide Census of the Seventh Edition (1646). In: Grotiana 44(1), 154-180 (2023). doi: https://brill.com/view/journals/grot/44/1/article-p154_008.xml (with Edward Jones Corredera, Pablo Dufour, Jonathan Nathan, Emanuele Salerno, Mark Somos).
  
• Hugo Grotius’s De iure belli ac pacis: Henricus Laurentius’ Re-Issue (1647) of the 1631 Edition. In: Grotiana 44(1), 181-196 (2023). doi: https://brill.com/view/journals/grot/44/1/article-p181_009.xml (with Edward Jones Corredera, Pablo Dufour, Jonathan Nathan, Emanuele Salerno, Mark Somos).
  
• Hugo Grotius’s De iure belli ac pacis: A Report on the Worldwide Census of the 1650 Edition. In: Grotiana 44(1), 197-216 (2023). doi: https://brill.com/view/journals/grot/44/1/article-p197_010.xml (with Edward Jones Corredera, Pablo Dufour, Jonathan Nathan, Emanuele Salerno, Mark Somos).
  
• Book Review: Bogle, Stephen: Contract before the Enlightenment: The Ideas of James Dalrymple, Viscount Stair, 1619–1695, New York, Oxford University Press, 2023. In: Grotiana, volume 44, issue 2, 391-393, 2023. https://brill.com/view/journals/grot/44/...
  
• Book Review: Gigliola di Renzo Villata, Maria: Succession Law, Practice and Society in Europe across the Centuries, Springer, Studies in the History of Law and Justice, vol. 14, 2018. In: American Journal of Legal History, volume 61, issue 3, 345-347, 2021.
  

Blogposts

• Photographing Environmental History — The Humanistic Elements of the Bagh-e-Shazdeh: Man’s Attempts to Control Nature. The Otter blog, NiCHE: Network in Canadian History & Environment., 2019.
  

Teaching

Participation in Conferences at Home and Abroad

Memberships

Miscellaneous