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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

April 2023 to Current

Adjunct Lecturer

Law Faculty Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg

Participation in Conferences at Home and Abroad

Ius Commune and local testamentary succession laws and customs (c.1400-1620). Jagiellonian University of Krakow and KU Leuven. Presented paper: 'Legitim and Implied Revocation under Canon and Common Law in English Testamentary Succession Law, c.1450-1540'., Jagiellonian University of Krakow, 12.01.2023 - 13.01.2023

The Fifteenth Century Conference 2022. Presented Paper: 'Testamentary law in Late Fifteenth-Century England: a Reassessment of Canon Influence through a 1476 Embezzlement Case Study.' Supported by Pembroke College and the Richard III Soceity Graduate Bursary., Pembroke College, University of Cambridge, 05.09.2022 - 07.09.2022

Law in Transmission: The Movement of Practices, Texts and Concepts across Time and Space, c.400-1500. Presented Paper: 'The Intersection between Canon and Common Law Jurisdiction in English Inheritance Law during the 1400s.', Institute of Legal and Constitutional Research, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, 05.05.2021 - 07.05.2021

Memberships

Ecclesiastical Law Society (Oct. 2022 - Present)

The Stair Soceity (Oct. 2022 - Present)

American Society for Legal History (Jan. 2021 - Present)

Selden Society (Jan. 2021 - Present)

Medieval Academy of America (Jan. 2021 - Present)

Osgoode Soceity for Canadian Legal History (Sept. 2020 - Present)