Dr. Mark Somos

Profile

Academic positionLecturer, Assistant Professor, Researcher
Research fieldsInternational Public Law,History of Law, Constitutional History,Other Areas of History
Keywordsstate of nature, imperialism, law and science, Legal history, secularisation

Current contact address

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Anne PetersInstitut für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerecht, Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht, Heidelberg
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Anne PetersMax-Planck-Institut für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht, Heidelberg
Start of initial sponsorship01/04/2017

Programme(s)

2016Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Experienced Researchers

Publications (partial selection)

2019Mark Somos: American States of Nature: The Origins of Independence, 1761-1775. Oxford University Press, 2019
2019Mark Somos and Morgan Gostwyck-Lewis: The New Architecture of Justice: Dan Kiley's Design for the Nuremberg Trials. In: Journal of the History of International Law, 2019, 104-138
2019Dániel Margócsy, Mark Somos, Stephen N. Joffe: Vesalius Annotations and the Rise of Early Modern Medicine. In: The Lancet, 2019, 738-739
2018Dániel Margócsy, Mark Somos, Stephen N. Joffe: A pécsi Fabrica. In: Per Aspera Ad Astra, 2018, 124-131
2018Mark Somos: Boston in the State of Nature, 1761-1765: The Birth of an American Constitutional Trope. In: Jus Gentium: Journal of International Legal History, 2018, 63-114
2018Dániel Margócsy, Mark Somos and Stephen N. Joffe: How Eager Pre-20th-Century Readers Mined Anatomical Texts for Information About Sex. In: Slate, 2018,
2018Dániel Margócsy, Mark Somos and Stephen N. Joffe: Sex, Religion and a Towering Treatise on Anatomy. In: Nature, 2018, 304-305
2018Mark Somos: Synecdochic Representation: How the History of Political Thought can Fill Gaps in Political Theory. In: Politics. Rivista di Studi Politici , 2018, 1-16
2018Dániel Margócsy, Mark Somos and Stephen N. Joffe: The Fabrica of Andreas Vesalius: A Worldwide Descriptive Census, Ownership, and Annotations of the 1543 and 1555 Editions. Brill, 2018
2017Mark Somos: George Ticknor’s Progress of Politicks (1816): An American Reception of German Comparative Constitutional Thought. In: Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law Research Papers, 2017,
2017Mark Somos: Harrington’s Project: The Balance of Money, a Republican Constitution for Europe, and England’s Patronage of the World. In: eds. Béla Kapossy, Isaac Nakhimovsky and Richard Whatmore, Commerce and Peace in the Enlightenment. Cambridge University Press, 2017. 20-43
2017Laszlo Kontler and Mark Somos: Introduction: Trust, Happiness, and the History of European Political Thought. In: Laszlo Kontler and Mark Somos, Trust and Happiness in the History of European Political Thought. Brill, 2017. 1-15
2017Mark Somos: John Warren's Lectures on Anatomy, 1783-1812. In: History of Universities, 2017, 125-156
2017Mark Somos and Dániel Margócsy: Pirating Mare liberum (1609). In: Grotiana, 2017, 176-210
2017Mark Somos: The Roman Census and Reception of Vesalius's De humani corporis fabrica. In: Papers of the British School at Rome, 2017, 335-336
2017Laszlo Kontler and Mark Somos (ed.): Trust and Happiness in the History of European Political Thought. Brill, 2017