Matthew Cleary

Senior Research Fellow

cleary@mpil.de

Main Fields of Research:

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

B.A. (Hons., Spec.) in History (cum laude), Laurentian University, Canada

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

Ph.D. in Law, The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (completed, awaiting graduation ceremony) 

Recent Publications

• 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.
  
• 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 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).
  
• 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).
  

Blogposts

• Photographing Environmental History. The Otter blog, NiCHE: Network in Canadian History & Environment., 2019.
  

Teaching

Participation in Conferences at Home and Abroad

Memberships