Heikki Pihlajamäki (Doctor of Laws, 1996) is a Professor of Comparative Legal History, and as of September 2021 he is an Academy Professor and the leader of the CoCoLaw research project. In addition to the history of colonial law, his research interests include commercial law and procedural law.
Nathaly Mancilla-Órdenes is a post-doctoral researcher at the CoCoLaw project. She holds a bachelor degree (LL.B.) from the University of Chile (2013) and a degree of Master in Law (LLM) from the University of Brasilia (2016). She earned a PhD at the University of Brasilia. In 2020-2022, she was a Visiting Researcher at the Institut für Rechts- und Verfassungsgeschichte, Universität Wien.
Nathaly's post-doctoral research project "The relevance of ‘Policey’ law to the emergence of the modern legal system: the comparative case of the Portuguese colonial administrations of Goa, Macau and Diamond District intends to observe the importance of colonial institutions to the process of modernization and globalization of law during the early modernity in a comparative field. In the project, she focus on the transformation of legal regimes and the utilization and changes of the Policey law and ordinances in the administration of places of economic interest to the Portuguese empire, specifically: Goa, Macau, and the Diamond District in Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Gustavo Zatelli Correa – (LLM, University of Rio de Janeiro), earned his PhD University of Brasília. He has been visiting scholar at the Institut für Rechts- und Verfassungsgeschichte, Wien Universität (2020-2022). His research interests include histories of public law and of administrative law, legal biographies and recently history of early modern legislation, especially, the Portuguese and British cases. In the project, he is focusing on the British colonial legal history in comparative perspective.
Adriana Luna-Fabritius is a Docent in Intellecual History at the University of Helsinki. She studies early-modern languages of republicanism, natural law and political economy in the Spanish monarchy: Naples, Crown of Aragon and New Spain. Her research is grounded on the transformation of Spanish imperialism through scientific, legal and political practices of the communication networks of the Atlantic monarchy.
Special fields of interests: Languages of Natural Law; the Rule of Law; Political Economy; Republicanism; Love of Country and Patriotism; Social History of the Body and Politics; Equality and the Republican Virtues of Women in Early-Modern Period.
Luna-Fabritius is currently working on her project Narratives of Crisis in the Early-Modern Period.
Joana Freitas is a PhD student in the CoCoLaw project.
Airton Ribeiro Jr.
Airton Ribeiro da Silva Jr. holds a doctorate in Legal History from the Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy (2018) and received his Master's in Law from the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil (2015). He had been a postdoc researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory, Germany (2020), and had worked as a lecturer in Legal History and Legal Theory at Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil (2021). His research topics are history of colonial law, history of legal literature, book history, history of legal education, and history of international law. In the CoCoLaw Project, he will investigated the global circulation of legal books within Iberian Empires how this literature was applied at the local level.
Henri Hannula
Henri Hannula (MA, University of Helsinki) finished his PhD thesis at the University of Helsinki Faculty of Humanities on the Dutch-Scandinavian commercial relations in the late 17th century. Hannula's research interests cover the early modern Dutch overseas empire, diplomacy and legal disputes related to trade and commerce. In the CoCoLaw project, he will focused on the Dutch overseas empire in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries with the emphasis of dispute resolution within and between the colonizing empires.