Researcher in Digital Humanities

Our mission statement: We provide a forum for reflecting on the law. We explore its theory and history in a comparative and global perspective. We address societal challenges by contributing to a deeper understanding of law. The Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory in Frankfurt/Main is a world-leading research institute with a staff of more than 150. Its three departments with more than 70 scholars, the unrivalled collections of its specialized library and its numerous national and international co-operations make it the central research hub for a global scientific community investigating the past, present and future of legal regimes. The Department 'Historical Regimes of Normativity' is looking to recruit, from 1 October 2026, or as soon as possible thereafter, one Researcher in Digital Humanities (m/f/d) for the research project 'Normative knowledge in the praxis of the Congregation of the Council. The production of normative categories and models for the post-Tridentine world' headed by Prof. Dr. Benedetta Albani. Over the course of a decade, the digital humanities have grown to play a key role in the Institute's research activities. We are involved in the development of extensive digitisation projects aimed at building digital source corpora and collections of legal-historical images, as well as working on digital source editions. We wish to expand these activities in the future.