Building a Foreign Law Collection: Methods and strategies

2001 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 14-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Holger Knudsen
Keyword(s):  
Max Planck ◽  
German State ◽  
Research Institutes ◽  
Legal Questions ◽  
The Federalist ◽  
Foreign Law ◽  
Max Planck Society ◽  
Collection Methods ◽  
Different Parts ◽  
Superior Level

My Institute is part of, and funded by, the Max Planck Society, which roughly corresponds to an Academy of Science in other countries. The Society runs 80 research institutes today, out of which 12 conduct research in the humanities, including six institutes that deal with legal questions on a superior level, including mine. The different institutes are located in different parts of the country, and this very much corresponds to the federalist foundations of the German state.

Asifa Akhtar is a sign of new things to come at the Max Planck Society

Nature ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 587 (7835) ◽  
pp. S112-S112
Author(s):  
Chris Woolston
Keyword(s):  
Max Planck ◽  
Max Planck Society ◽  
To Come

scholarly journals The Max Planck Society and Pugwash during the Cold War: An Uneasy Relationship

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 170-209
Author(s):  
Carola Sachse
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Scientific Organization ◽  
West Germany ◽  
Max Planck ◽  
The North ◽  
Carl Friedrich Von Weizsäcker ◽  
Max Planck Society ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Cold War

When the Federation of German Scientists (VDW) was founded as the West German section of Pugwash in the late 1950s, several high-profile scientists from the Max Planck Society (MPS), especially nuclear physicists, were involved. Well into the 1980s, institutional links existed between the MPS, the Federal Republic's most distinguished scientific research institution, and Pugwash, the transnational peace activist network that was set up in 1957 in the eponymous Nova Scotia village following the publication of the Russell-Einstein Manifesto. At the beginning, the two organizations’ relationship was maintained primarily by the physicist and philosopher Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker. However, the relationship was difficult from the start, and the distance between them grew during the rise of détente in the 1970s, when the scientific flagship MPS was deployed more and more frequently in matters of foreign cultural policy on behalf of West Germany and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization as a whole. This article explores the resources and risks of transnational political engagement during the Cold War, focusing on the individual strategies of top-ranking researchers as well as the policy deliberations within a leading scientific organization along the chief East-West divide: the front line between the two German states.

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