Research report 2025 - Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory
Listening, seeing and co-creating law’s past
Authors
Escobar Hernández, Karla Luzmer; Sirotti, Raquel R.
Departments
Max-Planck-Institut für Rechtsgeschichte und Rechtstheorie, Abteilung Historische Normativitätsregime
Summary
Transmedia HistoryTelling is a multimodal approach that expands legal history beyond written archives and state-centred narratives. Drawing on projects in Latin America and Africa, it combines comics, murals, workshops and podcasting to trace how law is created, contested and remembered. We argue that collaborative, multimodal legal history can surface silenced normativities and inform contemporary debates on justice and reparative futures.