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The researchers of the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory (mpilhlt), located in Frankfurt am Main (Germany), engage in research on the history and theory of law. Established in 1964, the Institute with its three departments, the specialist library with more than 470,000 printed media units as well as numerous international visitors, has become a worldwide hub for those working on past and present national and transnational legal orders. Many of the research results are published in the Institute’s own publication series, one of which is the book series Global Perspectives on Legal History. It publishes monographs as well as edited volumes which transcend the established boundaries of national legal scholarship and focus on different modes of normativity and law as well as on their historical development. The peer-reviewed series addresses the global research community also in terms of its format. From its outset in 2014, it was designed as a multilingual Open Access publication series. GPLH primarily appears online, freely accessible to everyone on the Institute’s homepage and via online services that are also committed to Open Access. A print-on-demand service is available for those readers who prefer or require a printed copy. Contact the GPLH editorial office: gplh@lhlt.mpg.de