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Frankfurter Rechtshistorische Abendgespräche

The Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory and the Institute for Legal History at the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt jointly organise four evening lectures a year, which take place at the beginning and end of each semester. Since the winter semester of 2014/15, the MPI and the university’s Institute for Legal History have taken turns hosting the event, at which a public talk by an external speaker is followed by the opportunity for conversation and exchange between the two institute’s researchers.
Illustration from the Sachsenspiegel: The king on the throne clasps the hands of a man, symbolically transferring the fiefdom to him.

Mitteis, Ganshof, Reynolds & Co. – Das „Lehnswesen“ und kein Ende?

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Dynamics in the creation and consolidation of Commercial Law in Western Europe: Examples from Italy and the Low Countries (15th-17th centuries)

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The Age of Ambiguity. Concurrence and Competition of Norms ('Normenkonkurrenz') in Early Modern Europe

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Aus der Zeitgeschichte des Zivilrechts: Als der europarechtliche Verbraucher entstand

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Marriage and Madness: The Origins of the Marriage of Lunatics Act (1742)

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Legal Theory in Colonial India and Mandatory Palestine

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Hansische Handelsstraßen 2.0: Eine rechtshistorische Perspektive.

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Der Stufenbau der Rechtsordnung – Von den Tücken einer Metapher

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  • Date: Nov 8, 2023
  • Time: 06:15 PM - 07:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Matthias Jestaedt
  • (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg im Breisgau)
  • Location: mpilhlt
  • Room: Z01
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Erbrechtliche Konsequenzen der Abkehr vom christlichen Glauben: spätantike Apostasiegesetzgebung am Beispiel von C.Th. 16.7.2 (383)

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Swindlers and Suckers in Early Modern England

Frankfurter Rechtshistorische Abendgespräche
  • Date: Apr 26, 2023
  • Time: 06:15 PM - 07:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Emily Kadens
  • Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law
  • Location: mpilhlt
  • Room: Z01
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Sabines Flugschein. Rechtshistorische Annäherungen an das Zivilrecht der DDR

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The Law of the Sea: Oceans, Ships, and the Anthropocene

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Ein Markt der Reformen. Eine kritische Geschichte über die Entstehung und Entwicklung des vereinten Europa

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Erste Juristinnen und letzte Rechtsagenten: unbekannte Akteure auf dem juristischen Feld des späten 19. Jahrhunderts

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Heikki Pihlajamäki: Einige vergleichende Bemerkungen zum frühneuzeitlichen Kolonialrecht: England, Portugal, Spanien (Some comparative remarks on early modern colonial law: England, Portugal, Spain)

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Bianca Premo: Current doctrines and similar petitions: capitalist legal logic among native and enslaved litigants in Spanish America

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Raymond Cocks: Laws ancient and modern: history and context in the reforms of mid-nineteenth century India

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Medieval map with an illustration of travelers on horseback and historical details.

Sheilagh Ogilvie: How Did Pre-Modern Merchants Solve Conflicts? Public-Order versus Private Order Institutions

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Christopher Clark: 1848 - eine gescheiterte Revolution? (1848 - a failed revolution?)

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Matthias Armgardt: Die Judengesetzgebung der christlichen römischen Kaiser von Konstantin bis Justinian vor dem Hintergrund der theologischen Entwicklung der Kirche (The legislation on Jews and Judaism legislation of the Christian Roman emperors..)

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David J. Ibbetson: Unjust(ified) Enrichment

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Stephan Dusil: Kanonistische Marginalien? (Canonistic marginalia?)

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Jan Schröder: Gibt es zeitlose Theorien in der Rechtswissenschaft? (Are there timeless theories in jurisprudence?)

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  • Date: Apr 26, 2017
  • Time: 06:00 PM c.t. (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Prof. Dr. Jan Schröder
  • Eberhard Karls Universität, Tübingen
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Z 01
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Simon Teuscher: Schwächediskurse in der Schweizer Eidgenossenschaft (Discourses of weakness in the Swiss Confederation)

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Catharine MacMillan: The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council

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  • Date: Nov 2, 2016
  • Time: 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Catharine MacMillan
  • King’s College London
  • Topic: The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council: Law and the British Empire
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Z 01
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Hannes Siegrist: Verleger und Komponisten (Publishers and composers)

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John Cairns: Regulating Slavery in Europe: A Global Problem of the Eighteenth Century

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Gerd Althoff: Streitschlichtung in der Krise: Der Fall König Heinrichs IV. (Dispute settlement at a time of crisis: the case of King Henry IV)

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Zhang Renshan: Nationalism and Legal Modernization in China

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Ulrich Berges: Der Richter der ganzen Welt, sollte der nicht Recht üben? (Gen 18, 25) Zur Einhegung der göttlichen Gewalt durch das Recht (Should not the judge of all the earth do what is just? (Gen 18:25) On the containment of divine power by law)

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