Norms Beyond Empire: Law-Making and Local Normativities in Iberian Asia, 1500-1800

In: Max Planck Studies in Global Legal History of the Iberian Worlds Series v.3

Abstract

Norms beyond Empire seeks to rethink the relationship between law and empire by emphasizing local normative production. Its ten chapters explore normative production by focusing on case studies from the Iberian empires in China, India, Japan, and the Philippines.