Events

Organic social ethics. Universalism without egalitarianism

Max Planck Lecture in Legal History and Legal Theory

Date: Feb 7, 2023
Time: 04:15 PM - 05:45 PM
Speaker: Hans Joas (Humboldt-Universität Berlin)
Organisation: Stefanie Rüther
Location: mpilhlt

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Recht im Anthropozän

Tagung

Start: Nov 3, 2022 10:00 AM
End: Nov 4, 2022 06:00 PM
Speaker: Sigrid Boysen (Helmut Schmidt Universität Hamburg), Jens Kersten (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München), Alain Pottage (SciencePo Paris)
Location: Goethe Universität/MPI für Rechtsgeschichte und Rechtstheorie Frankfurt am Main
Host: Interdisziplinäre Arbeitsgruppe Recht im Anthropozän (RiA); Johan Horst
Contact: horst@lhlt.mpg.de

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Change over time in the Iberian Worlds: stabilising regimes of normativity

Glocalising Normativities Annual Conference

Start: Oct 19, 2022
End: Oct 21, 2022
Organisation: Luisa Stella Coutinho
Location: mpilhlt

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History of property

IberLAND Research Colloquium

Date: Jul 19, 2022
Time: 03:00 PM - 04:30 PM
Location: Online
Room: Infos: iberland@lhlt.mpg.de
Host: Manuel Bastias Saavedra, Camilla de Freitas Macedo, Sarah Limão Papa

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Global Legal History: an Anthropological Approach

Max Planck Lecture in Legal History and Legal Theory

Please note that the date has changed!
Date: Jul 12, 2022
Time: 06:00 PM - 07:30 PM
Speaker: Fernanda Pirie (University of Oxford)
Organisation: Stefanie Rüther
Location: mpilhlt
Room: Lecture hall

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Vergleichende Verfassungsgerichtsbarkeit: Brasilien und Deutschland

Podiumsdiskussion

Date: Jul 7, 2022
Time: 05:00 PM c.t.
Location: Campus Westend, HZ 15 (Hörsaalzentrum)
Host: Ricardo Campos
Contact: campos@jur.uni-frankfurt.de

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

Frankfurter Rechtshistorische Abendgespräche

Date: Jul 6, 2022
Time: 06:15 PM c.t. - 07:45 PM
Speaker: Alessandro Somma
Sapienza Università Roma
Location: via Zoom
Room: For further informationen please contact lehrstuhl.pahlow@jur.uni-frankfurt.de

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Tarifbeziehungen in historischer und gegenwartsbezogener Perspektive

Workshop

Date: Jul 6, 2022
Time: 11:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Location: Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory
Room: Z 02
Host: Peter Collin

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Braucht eine dezentrierte Geschichte von Land und Recht auch einen Eigentumsbegriff?

Symposium

Start: Jun 30, 2022 04:40 PM
End: Jul 1, 2022 06:00 PM
Speaker: Dr. Bastias Saavedra
Location: Campus Essen
Room: Guest house, room Casino
Host: Eva Weiler
Contact: eva.weiler@uni-due.de

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Writing the history of empires

Common Law Research Seminar

Date: Jun 27, 2022
Time: 02:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Speaker: Benedikt Stuchtey (Philipps University Marburg)
Location: mpilhlt, Z01
Room: Für weitere Informationen wenden Sie sich bitte an cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de
Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola

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recht erzählen. Gedenkveranstaltung für Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Michael Stolleis

Gedenkveranstaltung

Date: Jun 24, 2022
Time: 03:00 PM - 07:00 PM
Location: Casino-Gebäude, Campus Westend
Room: Festsaal (Raum 823)
Host: Goethe Universität, Fachbereich Rechtswissenschaft, MPI für Rechtsgeschichte und Rechtstheorie
Contact: pelster@jur.uni-frankfurt.de

Die Teilnehmerzahl ist begrenzt und eine Teilnahme nur nach vorheriger Anmeldung möglich. Für weitere Informationen, auch zur Anmeldung, wenden Sie sich bitte an pelster@jur.uni-frankfurt.de [more]

The Rule of Law in British America: Thinking with Indians While Comparing to Spaniards

Max Planck Lecture in Legal History and Legal Theory

Date: Jun 23, 2022
Time: 04:15 PM
Speaker: Richard Ross (University of Illinois)
Organisation: Stefanie Rüther
Location: mpilhlt

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Visual Legal Iconography

Law, History and Visual Culture Seminar

Date: Jun 23, 2022
Time: 03:00 PM - 06:30 PM
Location: Online
Room: Infos: barnes@lhlt.mpg.de

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Law and Global History

IberLAND Research Colloquium

Please note that date and time have changed!
Date: Jun 23, 2022
Time: 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Location: Online
Room: Infos: iberland@lhlt.mpg.de
Host: Manuel Bastias Saavedra, Camilla de Freitas Macedo, Sarah Limão Papa

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‘Let’s divorce under our Civil Code’: a 19th-century US study

Common Law Research Seminar

Date: Jun 20, 2022
Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM
Speaker: Julie Rocheton (mpilhlt)
Location: mpilhlt, Z01
Room: For further information please contact cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de
Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola

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Visualising Law in Society

Law, History and Visual Culture Seminar

Date: Jun 16, 2022
Time: 03:00 PM - 06:30 PM
Location: Online
Room: Infos: barnes@lhlt.mpg.de

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The German Tradition of Research on the School of Salamanca

Salamanca Colloquium

Date: Jun 15, 2022
Time: 02:30 PM - 04:00 PM
Speaker: Prof. Dr. María Martín Gómez (Faculty of Philosophy, Universidad de Salamanca)
Location: Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory
Room: mpilhtl Z02, video conference
Host: Christiane Birr, José Luis Egío, Andreas Wagner
Contact: birr@lhlt.mpg.de

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Placing the frontier in British India

Common Law Research Seminar

Date: Jun 13, 2022
Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM
Speaker: Reeju Ray (O.P. Jindal Global University)
Location: Zoom
Room: For further information please contact cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de
Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola

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Colonial and indigenous law in the Spanish Empire

“Minorities in Imperial Space” conference

Date: Jun 11, 2022
Time: 11:30 AM - 01:00 PM
Location: Leibniz Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin

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Visual Evidence in Law

Law, History and Visual Culture Seminar

Date: Jun 9, 2022
Time: 03:00 PM - 06:30 PM
Location: Online
Room: Infos: barnes@lhlt.mpg.de

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Tradition und politische Verwendungen der Verfassungsgeschichtsschreibung: ein interdisziplinärer und vergleichender Dialog

Workshop

Start: Jun 9, 2022 02:00 PM
End: Jun 10, 2022 05:00 PM
Organisation: Max-Planck-Institut für Rechtsgeschichte und Rechtstheorie (Forschungsgruppe "Translations and Transitions"); Institut Franco-Allemand de Sciences Historiques et Sociales
Location: mpilhlt
Host: Egas Bender de Moniz Bandeira, Chia-hsin Yuan

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Between Artifice and Experience: Mandingueiro as Farsante in the Legal Theater of the Holy Office

Glocalising Normativities research Colloquium

Date: Jun 8, 2022
Time: 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Speaker: Lexie Cook (Columbia University)
Location: mpilhlt
Room: Online
Host: Luisa Stella Coutinho

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Law and Colonialism

IberLAND Research Colloquium

Please note that date and time have changed!
Date: Jun 8, 2022
Time: 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Location: Online
Room: Infos: iberland@lhlt.mpg.de
Host: Manuel Bastias Saavedra, Camilla de Freitas Macedo, Sarah Limão Papa

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Seminar with Rebecca Scott: 'María Coleta and the Capuchin Friar: Slavery, Salvation, and the Adjudication of Status'

Seminar

Date: Jun 2, 2022
Time: 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Speaker: Rebecca Scott
Location: Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory
Room: Vortragssaal
Host: Dr. Mariana Dias Paes
Contact: diaspaes@lhlt.mpg.de

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Reflections of Law and Legal Prisms

Law, History and Visual Culture Seminar

Date: Jun 2, 2022
Time: 03:00 PM - 06:30 PM
Location: Online
Room: Infos: barnes@lhlt.mpg.de

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Art, Law and Social Justice

Law, History and Visual Culture Seminar

Date: May 26, 2022
Time: 03:00 PM - 06:30 PM
Location: Online
Room: Infos: barnes@lhlt.mpg.de

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The juridical order of the Ancien Régime

IberLAND Research Colloquium

Please note that date and time have changed!
Date: May 25, 2022
Time: 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Location: Online
Room: Infos: iberland@lhlt.mpg.de
Host: Manuel Bastias Saavedra, Camilla de Freitas Macedo, Sarah Limão Papa

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Derechos Indigenas: concreción local del derecho internacional

Seminario Permanente

Date: May 24, 2022
Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Speaker: Armando Guevara Gil
Location: video conference

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Local Histories and colaborative research: A coffee with Cecilia Méndez about her project 'Narra la Independencia desde tu pueblo o ciudad'

Transmedia HistoryTelling Live

Date: May 23, 2022
Time: 06:30 PM
Speaker: Cecilia Méndez, University of California (Santa Barbara)
Location: Live on Facebook and youtube
Room: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJhxhIqGWWXFYk26uAKZgaQ, https://www.facebook.com/TransmediaHistoryTelling
Host: TransmediaHistoryTelling

The interview will be held in Spanish. [more]

Some ways to die in the East Indies or John Briggs’ multiple capital jurisdictions (c.1818-1825)

Common Law Research Seminar

Date: May 23, 2022
Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM
Speaker: Nishant Gokhale (University of Cambridge/mpilhlt)
Location: mpilhlt, Z01
Room: For further information please contact cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de
Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola

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From Empire to Federation: Ideas and Practices of Diversity Management in Eurasia, 1905–1950

Workshop

Start: May 23, 2022 02:00 PM
End: May 24, 2022 06:30 PM
Organisation: Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory (Research group ‘Translations and Transitions’) and Heidelberg University (ERC research project ‘Entangled Parliamentarisms’)
Location: Online
Host: Egas Bender de Moniz Bandeira, Ivan Sablin

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Social Protection, Capitalist Production: Der Sozialstaat und die Entstehung eines koordinierten Kapitalismus in Deutschland, 1880-1960

Initiative Arbeitsrechtsgeschichte

Date: May 20, 2022
Time: 03:00 PM
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Philip Manow (Universität Bremen)
Location: Online. For further information please contact hsi@boeckler.de
Host: Gerd Bender, Thorsten Keiser

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From a Rights-Based to a Procedural Approach: Re-Contextualizing Intellectual Property Rights

Max Planck Lecture in Legal History and Legal Theory

Date: May 19, 2022
Time: 04:15 PM - 05:45 PM
Speaker: Michael Grünberger (Universität Bayreuth)
Organisation: Stefanie Rüther
Location: mpilhlt

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The “Gift” of Martial Law: Military Tribunals in Commonwealth Africa, 1967-1990

African Legal History Seminar

Date: May 17, 2022
Time: 02:30 PM
Speaker: Dr. Samuel Fury Childs Daly (Duke University)
Location: Videokonferenz
Room: For further information please contact the organisers.

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‘Sovereignty of the air’: the Indian princely states, the British Empire and carving out of air-space (1911-1933)

Common Law Research Seminar

Date: May 16, 2022
Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM
Speaker: Priya Mirza (University of Delhi)
Location: Zoom
Room: For further information please contact cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de
Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola

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Luis de Molina on African Slavery

Salamanca Colloquium

Date: May 11, 2022
Time: 02:30 PM
Speaker: Jörg Tellkamp (UAM, Mexico City), Daniel Schwartz (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Anne-Charlotte Martineau (CNRS)
Location: Goethe University, IG-Farbenhaus
Room: Room 2.401 (2nd floor)
Host: Christiane Birr
Contact: birr@lhlt.mpg.de

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Symposium: Das Juristische Buch im Mittelalter. Paläographische und Philologische Aspekte der Überlieferung der juristischen lateinischen Literatur

Symposium

Start: May 10, 2022 03:00 PM
End: May 12, 2022 01:00 PM
Location: Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory
Host: Antonio Ciaralli, Vincenzo Colli, Gero Dolezalek
Contact: colli@lhlt.mpg.de

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Ius commune

IberLAND Research Colloquium

Date: May 10, 2022
Time: 03:00 PM - 04:30 PM
Location: Online
Room: Infos: iberland@lhlt.mpg.de
Host: Manuel Bastias Saavedra, Camilla de Freitas Macedo, Sarah Limão Papa

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'Memory also gives a right': Norman Bentwich and the implementation of the British Mandate for Palestine

Common Law Research Seminar

Date: May 9, 2022
Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM
Speaker: Oscar Weller (University of Zurich)
Location: mpilhlt, Z01
Room: For further information please contact cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de
Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola

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Thomas Vesting: Gentlemen, Manager, Homo Digitalis. Der Wandel der Rechtssubjektivität in der Moderne

Meet the Author

Date: May 5, 2022
Time: 04:15 PM - 08:30 PM
Speaker: Marietta Auer, Nils Goldschmidt, Klaus Günther, Albert Ingold
Location: mpilhlt
Room: Z 01

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Para além da escravidão: Relações de dependência em Benguela de 1850 a 1878

Glocalizing Normativities Research Colloquium

Date: May 4, 2022
Time: 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Speaker: Juelma Matos Ñgala
mpilhlt
Location: mpilhlt
Room: Z01

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Behavioral Perspectives on Legal Theory

Max Planck Lecture in Legal History and Legal Theory

Please note that the start time has changed!
Date: May 3, 2022
Time: 05:00 PM - 07:00 PM
Speaker: Anne van Aaken (Universität Hamburg)
Organisation: Stefanie Rüther
Location: video conference
Room: For the Login please contact ruether@lhlt.mpg.de
Contact: ruether@lhlt.mpg.de

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Global financial markets and legal convergence: the genesis of insolvency set-off in England, Germany and Switzerland

Common Law Research Seminar

Date: May 2, 2022
Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM
Speaker: Jonathan Silberstein-Loeb (mpilhlt) & Claude Humbel (University of Zurich)
Location: Zoom
Room: For further information please contact cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de
Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola

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Duncan Kennedy: 'Law Distributes I: Ricardo Marx CLS'

Meet the Author

Date: Apr 27, 2022
Time: 06:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Speaker: Duncan Kennedy
Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence at Harvard Law School, Emeritus
Location: video conference
Room: For further information please contact office.auer@lhlt.mpg.de

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The concept of law

IberLAND Research Colloquium

Date: Apr 26, 2022
Time: 03:00 PM - 04:30 PM
Location: Online
Room: Infos: iberland@lhlt.mpg.de
Host: Manuel Bastias Saavedra, Camilla de Freitas Macedo, Sarah Limão Papa

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The laws of ‘an old and settled society’? The law of contract in New South Wales (1815-1850)

Common Law Research Seminar

Date: Apr 25, 2022
Time: 09:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Speaker: Warren Swain (University of Auckland)
Location: Zoom
Room: For further information please contact cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de
Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola

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Speaking about Codifications: Some Remarks from the Perspective of Global Legal History

4th Workshop of Max Planck Law Initiative of China, Law, and Society

Date: Apr 12, 2022
Time: 01:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Speaker: Thomas Duve
mpilhlt
Location: video conference
Host: Li Fupeng

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Warded freedom, meager property. Indians and Land in the Law of the Brazilian Empire (19th century).

Glocalizing Normativities Research Colloquium

Date: Apr 6, 2022
Time: 10:15 AM - 11:45 AM
Speaker: Camilla Freitas
mpilhlt
Location: mpilhlt
Room: Z01

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Confrontando o bem comum: Saúde pública, reformas urbanas e direito no Brasil moderno

Seminario Permanente

Date: Apr 5, 2022
Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Speaker: Pedro Cantisano
Location: video conference

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'Studying Land and Colonialism in Mozambique – Evidence from the region of Manica and Sofala under the rule of the Mozambique Company, c.1890s-c.1940s'

African Legal History Seminar

Date: Mar 16, 2022
Time: 04:00 PM
Speaker: Barbara Direito
(NOVA University, Lisbon)
Location: video conference
Room: For further information please contact the organisers

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Prensa e conhecimento normativo no Brasil do século XIX: o caso da Gazeta dos Tribunais (1843-1846)

Seminario Permanente

Date: Mar 8, 2022
Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Speaker: Rodrigo Camargo Godoy
Location: video conference

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'State Law and Legal Positivism The Global Rise of a New Paradigm' (Eds. Badouin Dupret and Jean-Louis Halpérin).

Reading Seminar

Date: Feb 25, 2022
Time: 09:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Location: video conference
Room: For further information please contact aydin@lhlt.mpg.de

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Pensando la esclavitud y el proceso de abolición en Argentina de la historia del derecho

Seminario Permanente

Date: Feb 22, 2022
Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Speaker: Madgalena Candiotti
Location: video conference

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Schule von Salamanca: Rechtshistorische Fragen und Methoden - postponed!

Seminar Methods of Legal History

The event has been postponed until further notice.
Date: Feb 16, 2022
Time: 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Thomas Duve
Location: video conference

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'An end to their days': The Use and Perceptions of the Red Water Ordeal in Early Sierra Leone

African Legal History Seminar

Date: Feb 15, 2022
Time: 04:00 PM
Speaker: Tim Soriano
(University of Illinois and Newberry Library Fellow)
Location: video conference
Room: For further information please contact the organisers

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La justicia episcopal en la antigua diócesis del Tucumán (1704-1740)

Seminario Permanente

Date: Feb 8, 2022
Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Speaker: Alejandro Chiliguay
Location: video conference

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Writing the history of Empires - postponed

Common Law Research Seminar

The event has been postponed until further notice.
Date: Jan 31, 2022
Time: 02:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Speaker: Benedikt Stuchtey (Philipps University Marburg)
Convenors: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola
Location: video conference
Room: For further information please contact cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de

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Avi Rubin's Ottoman Rule of Law and the Modern Political Trial

Reading Seminar

Date: Jan 31, 2022
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Location: video conference
Room: For further information please contact aydin@lhlt.mpg.de
Host: Translations and Transitions Research Group

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Regulation of working hours in the factories of Madras Presidency, 1881-1947

Common Law Research Seminar

Date: Jan 24, 2022
Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM
Speaker: Suramya Thekke Kalathil (Indian Institute of Technology, Madras)
Convenors: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola
Location: video conference
Room: For further information please contact cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de

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Truncated Allegiances? Chiefly Jurisdiction and Colonial Law on the Ghana-Togo Borderlands

African Legal History Seminar

Date: Jan 18, 2022
Time: 03:00 PM
Speaker: Edem Adotey
(University of Ghana)
Location: video conference
Room: For further information please contact the organisers
Host: Joint initiative of the Max Planck Research Group 'Legal Connectivities and Colonial Cultures in Africa' and the project 'Global Legal History on the Ground'

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Working Group Conference: Legal Books and Beyond in the Iberian Worlds. Normative Knowledge Production in the Age of the Printing Press

Internal Meeting

Start: Jan 17, 2022 01:45 PM
End: Jan 21, 2022 04:10 PM
Organisation: Manuela Bragagnolo
Location: video conference
Host: Contact: Manuela Bragagnolo

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Change and Transformation: the legal modernization of China seen in Zhili Jiao An

Glocalizing Normativities Research Colloquium

Date: Jan 17, 2022
Time: 10:00 AM
Speaker: MA Zizheng (Tsinghua University/mpilhlt)
Organisation: Luisa Stella Coutinho

[more]

Stand und Perspektiven einer Geschichte der gerichtlichen und außergerichtlichen Konfliktlösung – Vorstellung eines Handbuchs

Book presentation

Date: Jan 14, 2022
Time: 03:00 PM - 07:00 PM
Location: video conference

[more]

The Limits of Legal History

MPI-TAU Transnational Legal History Workshop

Date: Jan 11, 2022
Time: 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM
Speaker: Paul du Plessis (Edinburgh)
Convenors: Thomas Duve, David Schorr (TAU), Stefan Vogenauer
Location: video conference
Room: For further information please contact mpitauwkshp@gmail.com

[more]

Nuisance law and the Committee of Buildings in late 18th-century Bombay

Common Law Research Seminar

Date: Jan 10, 2022
Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM
Speaker: Sukriti Issar (OSC, Sciences Po Paris)
Convenors: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola
Location: video conference
Room: For further information please contact cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de

[more]

Decolonization by Codification: The Making of the 1958 Penal Code in Late Colonial Nigeria

MPI-TAU Transnational Legal History Workshop

Date: Jan 4, 2022
Time: 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM
Speaker: Rabiat Akande (Osgoode)
Convenors: Thomas Duve, David Schorr (TAU), Stefan Vogenauer
Location: video conference
Room: For further information please contact mpitauwkshp@gmail.com

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From Henry Maine to Tung-tsu Chu: An Early Interpretation of Historical-Sociological Jurisprudence

Seminar Methods of Legal History

Date: Dec 21, 2021
Time: 03:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Speaker: Hongji Li
Location: video conference
Room: Registration for the internal event until 26.04. with Nicole Pasakarnis

[more]

Theoriesitzung: Herrschaft durch Normativitätsregime

Internal meeting

Date: Dec 17, 2021
Time: 01:00 PM - 02:30 PM
Speaker: Gunnar Folke Schuppert
Organisation: Christian Pogies, Peter Collin

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The Society of Comparative Legislation and the Systemization of Legal Circulation

MPI-TAU Transnational Legal History Workshop

Date: Dec 14, 2021
Time: 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM
Speaker: David Schorr (TAU)
Organisation: Thomas Duve, David Schorr (TAU), Stefan Vogenauer
Location: video conference
Room: For further information please contact mpitauwkshp@gmail.com

[more]

'Mucanos is the term given here in Portuguese to crimes of any degree': exploratory notes on Luso-African legal experiences in nineteenth-century West Central Africa

African Legal History Seminar

Date: Dec 13, 2021
Time: 03:00 PM
Speaker: Rita Amaral
(University of the Free State)
Location: video conference
Room: For further information please contact the organisers
Host: A joint iniative of the Max Planck Research Group 'Legal Connectivities and Colonial Cultures in Africa' and the project 'Global Legal History on the Ground'.

[more]

Discretion and the rule of law: the dissemination, endurance and significance of vagrancy laws in England and the former British Empire

Common Law Research Seminar

Date: Dec 13, 2021
Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM
Speaker: Christopher Roberts (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Convenors: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola
Location: video conference
Room: For further information please contact cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de

[more]

The printing press and the making of law: Angola and Brazil (19th and 20th centuries)

Conference

Start: Dec 9, 2021 03:00 PM
End: Dec 10, 2021 09:30 PM
Organisation: Mariana Armond Dias Paes
Location: Online
Room: registration per e-mail diaspaes@lhlt.mpg.de

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The production of diversity in the Portuguese Empire

Glocalizing Normativities Research Colloquium

Date: Dec 8, 2021
Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Speaker: Francisco Bethencourt (King’s College London)
Organisation: Luisa Stella Coutinho
Location: mpilhlt
Room: Lecuture Hall of the MPI and Zoom

[more]

Nationality Across the Mediterranean: Jews, Islamic Law, and Belonging in Tunisia

MPI-TAU Transnational Legal History Workshop

Date: Dec 7, 2021
Time: 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM
Speaker: Jessica Marglin (USC)
Convenors: Thomas Duve, David Schorr (TAU), Stefan Vogenauer
Location: video conference
Room: For further information please contact mpitauwkshp@gmail.com

[more]

Force and consent in English contract labour

Common Law Research Seminar

Date: Dec 6, 2021
Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM
Speaker: Sonia Tycko (University of Oxford)
Convenors: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola
Location: video conference
Room: For further information please contact cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de

[more]

Conference: Law and Diversity - European and Latin American Experiences from a Legal Historical Perspective –Private Law II–

Conference

Start: Dec 2, 2021
End: Dec 3, 2021
Organisation: Peter Collin, Manuel Bastias Saavedra
Location: Online. Contact: collin@rg.mpg.de

[more]

Transnational Elements in Colonial Laws: Spain, Portugal and the Netherlands

MPI-TAU Transnational Legal History Workshop

Date: Nov 30, 2021
Time: 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM
Speaker: Heikki Pihlajamäki (Helsinki)
Convenors: Thomas Duve, David Schorr (TAU), Stefan Vogenauer
Location: video conference
Room: For further information please contact mpitauwkshp@gmail.com

[more]

International Organization through Law? The League of Nations and International Law, 1919-1939

Conference

Start: Nov 29, 2021 09:30 AM
End: Nov 30, 2021 05:30 PM
Conveners: Stefan Vogenauer, Morten Rasmussen (Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen)
Location: video conference
Room: For further information, please contact Morten Rasmussen, mortenra@hum.ku.dk

[more]

Law and Diversity - European and Latin American Experiences from a Legal Historical Perspective –Private Law I–

Conference

Start: Nov 25, 2021
End: Nov 26, 2021
Organisation: Peter Collin, Manuel Bastias Saavedra
Location: Online. Contact: collin@rg.mpg.de

[more]

Rabbinic Responsa and Legal Communication

MPI-TAU Transnational Legal History Workshop

Date: Nov 23, 2021
Time: 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM
Speaker: Tamara Morsel-Eisenberg (Harvard)
Organisation: Thomas Duve, David Schorr (TAU), Stefan Vogenauer
Location: video conference
Room: For further information please contact mpitauwkshp@gmail.com

[more]

Global History and a Decentered History of Law

MPI-TAU Transnational Legal History Workshop

Date: Nov 16, 2021
Time: 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM
Speaker: Manuel Bastias Saavedra (MPI)
Convenors: Thomas Duve, David Schorr (TAU), Stefan Vogenauer
Location: video conference
Room: For further information please contact mpitauwkshp@gmail.com

[more]

Global Legal Biography

MPI-TAU Transnational Legal History Workshop

Date: Nov 9, 2021
Time: 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM
Speaker: Philip Bajon, Victoria Barnes & Emily Whewell (MPI)
Convenors: Thomas Duve, David Schorr (TAU), Stefan Vogenauer
Location: video conference
Room: For further information please contact mpitauwkshp@gmail.com

[more]

Global Legal History on the Ground

Seminar

Date: Nov 9, 2021
Time: 03:30 PM - 05:30 PM
Speaker: Liazzat Bonate (University of the West Indies in Trinidad and Tobago)
Organization: Mariana Dias Paes, Maysa Espíndola Souza, Juelma Matos Ngãla, Raquel Sirotti
Location: video conference

[more]

‘Peopling the country by unpeopling it’: Jeremy Bentham’s silences on indigenous Australia

Common Law Research Seminar

Date: Nov 8, 2021
Time: 09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Speaker: Zoë Laidlaw (University of Melbourne)
Convenors: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola
Location: video conference
Room: For further information please contact cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de

[more]

Transnational Entanglements in Land Law and Land Registration in the 19th Century

MPI-TAU Transnational Legal History Workshop

Date: Nov 2, 2021
Time: 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM
Speaker: Elisabetta Fiocchi (Zurich)
Convenors: Thomas Duve, David Schorr (TAU), Stefan Vogenauer
Location: video conference
Room: For further information please contact mpitauwkshp@gmail.com

[more]

Wither the power of disallowance?

Common Law Research Seminar

Date: Nov 1, 2021
Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM
Speaker: Hakeem Yusuf (Open University)
Convenors: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola
Location: video conference
Room: For further information please contact cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de

[more]

"Good Correspondence" and "Friendship" with "Heretics": Catholic Missionaries and the English East India Company

Glocalizing Normativities Research Colloquium

Date: Nov 1, 2021
Time: 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Speaker: Christian Windler (Universität Bern)
Organisation: Luisa Stella Coutinho
Location: mpilhlt
Room: Lecuture Hall of the MPI and Zoom

[more]

History of International law – General introduction into methods and research tradition

Seminar Methods of Legal History

Date: Oct 29, 2021
Time: 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Thomas Duve
Location: video conference

[more]

Theoriesitzung: Wandel in Normativitätsregimen: Theorieangebote der Internationalen Beziehungen (IB) und Völkerrechtswissenschaft

Internal meeting

Date: Oct 29, 2021
Time: 01:00 PM - 02:30 PM
Speaker: Christian Pogies
Organisation: Christian Pogies, Peter Collin

[more]

The Warfare Origins of the Anti-Slave-Trade Legal Regime in the Atlantic World

MPI-TAU Transnational Legal History Workshop

Date: Oct 26, 2021
Time: 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM
Speaker: Jake Subryan Richards (LSE)
Convenors: Thomas Duve, David Schorr (TAU), Stefan Vogenauer
Location: video conference
Room: For further information please contact mpitauwkshp@gmail.com

[more]

From Masters of Slaves to Lords of Lands: The Transformation of Ownership in the Western World

MPI-TAU Transnational Legal History Workshop

Date: Oct 19, 2021
Time: 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM
Speaker: James Q. Whitman (Yale Law School)
Convenors: Thomas Duve, David Schorr (TAU), Stefan Vogenauer
Location: video conference
Room: For further information please contact mpitauwkshp@gmail.com

[more]

The ship, the slave, the legal person

Common Law Research Seminar

Date: Oct 18, 2021
Time: 05:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Speaker: Renisa Mawani (University of British Columbia)
Convenors: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola
Location: video conference
Room: For further information please contact cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de

[more]

Global Legal History on the Ground

Seminar

Date: Oct 7, 2021
Time: 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Speaker: Adriana Chira
Organisation: Mariana Dias Paes, Maysa Espíndola Souza, Juelma Matos Ngãla, Raquel Sirotti
Location: Videokonferenz

[more]

The Fabric of the Ordinary: The Council of Trent and the governance of the Catholic Church in the Empire of Brazil (1840-1889)

Glocalizing Normativities Research Colloquium

Date: Oct 6, 2021
Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Speaker: Anna Clara Martins (MPILHLT)
Organisation: Luisa Stella Coutinho
Location: mpilhlt
Room: Lecuture Hall of the MPI and Zoom

[more]

Forschungsfeldsitzung: Normativitätsregime im ersten Jahrtausend. Eine methodische Annäherung

Internal meeting

Date: Sep 13, 2021
Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Speaker: Caspar Ehlers
Organisation: Christian Pogies, Peter Collin

[more]

Third Comparative Workshop on Legal Transformations in 19th and early 20th Century Japan, China, and the Ottoman Empire

Workshop

Start: Sep 9, 2021 01:00 PM
End: Sep 10, 2021 04:00 PM
Organisation: Lena Foljanty
Location: Online

[more]

Cornelia Weiss on Post-WWII Occupied Germany: Examining the Effect of a Male Majority Occupation on the Political Power, Legal Rights, and Economic Opportunities of Women in a Female Majority Land

Lecture

Date: Jul 30, 2021
Time: 12:00 PM c.t.
Speaker: Cornelia Weiss
Organisation: Victoria Barnes, Amber Rose Maggio, Zeynep Yazici Caglar
Location: video conference
Room: For further information please contact minervalawnet@lhlt.mpg.de

[more]

The Early Modern Encounter between European Slavery and Asian Bondage

Workshop

Start: Jul 13, 2021 04:00 PM
End: Jul 14, 2021 06:00 PM
Organisation: Rômulo da Silva Ehalt (mpilhlt), Stuart M. McManus (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Location: video conference
Room: For further information, please contact ehalt@lhlt.mpg.de

[more]

Codification as Communication: Criminal Law Reform and the Indian Penal Code of 1861

Common Law Research Seminar

Date: Jul 12, 2021
Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM
Speaker: Erica Ollikainen-Read (mpilhlt)
Conveners: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola
Location: video conference
Room: For further information please contact cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de

[more]

Contractus & quasi contractus

Salamanca Colloquium

Date: Jul 7, 2021
Time: 02:30 PM - 04:00 PM
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Francisco Cuena Boy (Faculty of Law, Universidad de Cantabria)
Organisation: Christiane Birr, José Luis Egío, Andreas Wagner
Location: video conference
Room: For further information please contact salamanca@rg.mpg.de

[more]

Women and the International Law Commission

Seminar

Date: Jun 30, 2021
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Speaker: Dr Nilüfer Oral, Professor Patrícia Galvão Teles, Professor Concepción Escobar-Hernández, Dr Marja Lehto, Ambassador Marie Jacobsson
Organisation: Victoria Barnes, Amber Rose Maggio, Zeynep Yazici Caglar
Location: video conference
Room: For further information please contact minervalawnet@lhlt.mpg.de

[more]

Theoriesitzung: Die Relevanz von Otto von Gierkes Genossenschaftstheorie für regimetheoretische Überlegungen

Internal meeting

Date: Jun 28, 2021
Time: 01:00 PM - 02:30 PM
Speaker: Peter Collin
Organisation: Christian Pogies, Peter Collin

[more]

Settling Accounts Straight: ‘Indigenous Bankers’ in Search of New Histories in the 20^th Century

Common Law Research Seminar

Date: Jun 21, 2021
Time: 02:15 PM - 02:15 PM
Speaker: Lakshmi Subramanian (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata)
Conveners: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola
Location: video conference
Room: For further information please contact cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de

[more]

Arbeitsrechtshistorische Jahrestagung 2021: Geschichte der Betriebsverfassung

Initiative Arbeitsrechtsgeschichte

Date: Jun 18, 2021
Time: 09:30 AM
Location: Videokonferenz
Room: Für weitere Informationen wenden Sie sich bitte an bender@lhlt.mpg.de

[more]

Patents and Invention in Jamaica and the British Atlantic before 1857

Common Law Research Seminar

Date: Jun 14, 2021
Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM
Speaker: Aaron Graham (University of Oxford)
Conveners: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola
Location: video conference
Room: For further information please contact cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de

[more]

Seminar Methods of Legal History

Seminar

Date: Jun 11, 2021
Time: 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Thomas Duve
Location: video conference
Room: Registration for the internal event until 31.05. with Nicole Pasakarnis

[more]

Global Legal History on the Ground

Seminar

Date: Jun 10, 2021
Time: 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Speaker: Juliana Barreto Farias (Universidade do Estado da Bahia- UNILAB)
Organisation: Mariana Dias Paes, Raquel Sirotti, Maysa Espíndola Souza, Juelma de Matos Ngãla
Location: video conference
Room: To receive the Zoom link, contact diaspaes@lhlt.mpg.de

[more]

Second FA Mann Project Workshop

Workshop

Start: Jun 10, 2021
End: Jun 11, 2021
Organisation: Jason G. Allen and Gerhard Dannemann (Centre for British Studies, Humboldt University), Prof. Stefan Vogenauer
Location: Online
Room: For further information please contact jason.allen@hu-berlin.de

[more]

From archives to the cloud. Perspectives on sources and descriptions

mpilhlt Colloquium: Archives

Date: Jun 8, 2021
Time: 02:15 PM - 04:00 PM
Speaker: Andreas Wagner
Organisation: Stefanie Rüther
Location: video conference
Room: For further information please contact ruether@lhlt.mpg.de

[more]

Conference: 4th Annual Conference: Law and Policy in European Integration (1960s-1990s)

Conference

Start: Jun 1, 2021 09:30 AM
End: Jun 2, 2021 04:00 PM
Conveners: Stefan Vogenauer, Jan-Henrik Meyer
Location: video conference
Room: For further information please contact jmeyer@lhlt.mpg.de

[more]

Non-state Law of the Economy. The Normative Order of Industrial Relations in the Metal Industry from the Empire to the Early Years of the Federal Republic of Germany

Expert workshop

Date: May 28, 2021
Time: 01:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Organisation: Peter Collin, Johanna Wolf
Location: video conference
Room: For further information please contact collin@lhlt.mpg.de

[more]

Ulla Weber on Gender Equality Monitoring, Diverse Work and Research Culture

Seminar

Date: May 28, 2021
Time: 12:30 PM - 01:30 PM
Speaker: Ulla Weber(MPG)
Organisation: Victoria Barnes, Amber Rose Maggio, Zeynep Yazici Caglar
Location: video conference
Room: For further information please contact minervalawnet@rg.mpg.de

[more]

Jürgen Osterhammel's ‘The Transformation of the World. A Global History of the Nineteenth Century’

Reading Seminar

Date: May 27, 2021
Time: 01:30 PM - 03:00 PM
Organisation: Lena Foljanty
Location: video conference
Room: For further information please contact hk-translations-transitions@lhlt.mpg.de

[more]

Shifting Sands: British Imperial Politics of Land Reclamation in the mid-20th Century

Common Law Research Seminar

Date: May 25, 2021
Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM
Speaker: Nurfadzilah Yahaya (National University Singapore)
Conveners: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola
Location: video conference
Room: For further information please contact cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de

[more]

Forschungsfeldsitzung: Nutzung von Regime-Konzepten in der Strafrechtsgeschichte und der historischen Kriminalitätsforschung

Internal meeting

Date: May 21, 2021
Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Speaker: Karl Härter
Organisation: Christian Pogies, Peter Collin

[more]

Seminar Methods of Legal History

Seminar

Date: May 7, 2021
Time: 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Thomas Duve
Location: video conference
Room: Registration for the internal event until 26.04. with Nicole Pasakarnis

[more]

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

Frankfurter Rechtshistorische Abendgespräche

Date: May 5, 2021
Time: 06:00 PM c.t.
Speaker: Michele Luminati, University of Luzern
Location: video conference
Room: For further information please contact ruether@rg.mpg.de

[more]

Commentaries De iustitia et iure in early modern New Kingdom of Granada

Salamanca Colloquium

Date: May 5, 2021
Time: 02:30 PM - 04:00 PM
Organisation: Christiane Birr, José Luis Egío
Location: video conference
Room: For further information please contact salamanca@rg.mpg.de

[more]

What's Special About Archives in Germany? Some Observations

What's Special About Archives in Germany?

Date: May 4, 2021
Time: 02:15 PM - 04:00 PM
Speaker: Dr. Marcus Stumpf (LWL Archivamt für Westfalen)
Organisation: Stefanie Rüther
Location: video conference
Room: For further information please contact ruether@rg.mpg.de

[more]

Empire Ltd.: Law and the Rise of Multinationals in the First Era of Globalization.

Common Law Research Seminar

Date: May 3, 2021
Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM
Speaker: Ron Harris (Tel Aviv University)
Conveners: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola
Location: video conference
Room: For further information please contact cazzola@rg.mpg.de

[more]

Hélène Ruiz Fabri on Women and International Law

Seminar

Date: Apr 29, 2021
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Speaker: Hélène Ruiz Fabri
Organisation: Victoria Barnes, Amber Rose Maggio, Zeynep Yazici Caglar
Location: video conference
Room: For further information please contact minervalawnet@rg.mpg.de

[more]

Law and Commerce: The Fortunate Crisis of the 18th Century

Common Law Research Seminar

Date: Apr 26, 2021
Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM
Speaker: Aleksi Ollikainen-Read (mpilhlt)
Conveners: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola
Location: video conference
Room: For further information please contact cazzola@rg.mpg.de

[more]

Jürgen Osterhammel's ‘The Transformation of the World. A Global History of the Nineteenth Century’

Reading Seminar

Date: Apr 23, 2021
Time: 09:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Organisation: Lena Foljanty
Location: video conference
Room: For further information please contact hk-translations-transitions@rg.mpg.de

[more]

Maleficium

Salamanca Colloquium

Date: Apr 21, 2021
Time: 02:30 PM - 04:00 PM
Organisation: Christiane Birr, José Luis Egío, Andreas Wagner
Location: video conference
Room: For further information please contact salamanca@rg.mpg.de

[more]

A History of Privileged Inventing in Bengal: A Study of the Patenting System in India, 1856-1888

Common Law Research Seminar

Date: Apr 19, 2021
Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM
Speaker: Subhadeep Chowdhury (Ambedkar University)
Conveners: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola
Location: video conference
Room: For further information please contact cazzola@rg.mpg.de

[more]

British imperial administration and the 'thin crust of order': Society, constitution, and diplomacy in the political thought of Lord Elgin

Common Law Research Seminar

Date: Apr 12, 2021
Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM
Speaker: Matilde Cazzola
Conveners: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola
Location: video conference
Room: For further information please contact cazzola@rg.mpg.de

[more]

Special Legal Orders. Normative Diversity in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Discussion group „Special Legal Orders”

Date: Apr 7, 2021
Time: 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Speaker: Marcelo Neves (University of Brasilia)
Organisation: Peter Collin
Location: video conference
Room: For further information please contact collin@rg.mpg.de

[more]

Global Legal History on the Ground

Research Seminar

Date: Apr 1, 2021
Time: 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Speaker: Fodé Abulai Mané (Bissau Law School)
Organisation: Mariana Dias Paes, Raquel Sirotti, Maysa Espíndola Souza, Juelma Matos
Location: video conference
Room: For further information please contact diaspaes@rg.mpg.de

[more]

Anke Hübenthal on mentoring, role models and opening doors

Seminar

Date: Mar 26, 2021
Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Speaker: Anke Hübenthal
Organisation: Victoria Barnes, Amber Rose Maggio, Zeynep Yazici Caglar
Location: video conference
Room: For further information please contact minervalawnet@rg.mpg.de

[more]

Working Group: Using Normative Knowledge from the Past

Workshop

Date: Mar 10, 2021
Time: 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Organisation: Alexandra Woods
Location: video conference
Room: For further information, please contact woods@rg.mpg.de

[more]

The School of Salamanca on Slavery: from ius gentium to ius civile

Salamanca Colloquium

Date: Mar 10, 2021
Time: 02:30 PM - 04:00 PM
Organisation: Christiane Birr, José Luis Egío, Andreas Wagner
Location: video conference
Room: For further information please contact salamanca@rg.mpg.de

[more]

Una aproximación a las corporaciones en el pensamiento económico español del siglo XVIII.

Seminar on Legal History in the Iberian Worlds

Date: Mar 8, 2021
Time: 01:00 PM - 02:30 PM
Speaker: Edward Jones Corredera
Organisation: Pilar Mejía
Room: Videoconferencia

[more]

Seminar Methods of Legal History

Seminar

Date: Mar 5, 2021
Time: 01:15 PM - 03:00 PM
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Thomas Duve
Location: video conference
Room: Registration for the internal event until 01.03. with Nicole Pasakarnis.

[more]

Book Launch: Studies in the Contract Laws of Asia; Volume III: Contents of Contracts and Unfair Terms

Book Launch

Date: Mar 5, 2021
Time: 12:00 PM - 01:45 PM
Speaker: Mindy Chen-Wishart (Dean of the Faculty of Law) and Stefan Vogenauer (Director at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory)
Location: online event
Room: Futher information and registration at www.law.ox.ac.uk

[more]

Digital Methods and Resources in Legal History

Conference

Start: Mar 1, 2021
End: Mar 5, 2021
Organisation: Sigrid Amedick, Andreas Wagner
Location: video conference
Room: For further information please contact dlh@rg.mpg.de

[more]

First women lawyers: A pan-European struggle

Lecture

Date: Feb 26, 2021
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Speaker: Lena Foljanty
Organisation: Victoria Barnes, Amber Rose Maggio, Zeynep Yazici Caglar
Location: video conference
Room: For further information please contact minervalawnet@rg.mpg.de

[more]

Jürgen Osterhammel's ‘The Transformation of the World. A Global History of the Nineteenth Century’

Reading Seminar

Date: Feb 24, 2021
Time: 09:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Organisation: Lena Foljanty
Location: video conference
Room: For further information please contact hk-translations-transitions@rg.mpg.de

[more]

Jürgen Osterhammel's ‘The Transformation of the World. A Global History of the Nineteenth Century’

Reading Seminar

Date: Feb 17, 2021
Time: 09:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Organisation: Lena Foljanty
Location: video conference
Room: For further information please contact hk-translations-transitions@rg.mpg.de

[more]

Transdemocracia: um projeto em andamento

Seminar on Legal History in the Iberian Worlds

Date: Feb 15, 2021
Time: 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Speaker: Marcelo Neves
Organisation: Pilar Mejía
Room: Videoconferencia

[more]

Law Reporting in Mandatory Palestine

Common Law Research Seminar

Date: Feb 8, 2021
Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM
Speaker: Yair Sagy
(University of Haifa)
Location: online. For further information please contact whewell@rg.mpg.de

[more]

Regionalización y traducción cultural del derecho Canónico en Indias?

DCH Workshop

Start: Feb 3, 2021 03:00 PM
End: Feb 5, 2021 05:00 PM
Organisation: Pilar Mejía
Location: video conference
Room: For further information please contact mejia@rg.mpg.de

[more]

The Archival Epistemology of Political Economy in the Early Modern British Atlantic World

mpilhlt Colloquium: Archives

Date: Feb 2, 2021
Time: 02:15 PM - 04:00 PM
Speaker: Asheesh Kapur Siddique, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Comment by Francesco Giuliani
Organisation: Stefanie Rüther
Location: video conference
Room: For further information please contact ruether@rg.mpg.de

[more]

Legal Books and Beyond in the Iberian Worlds. Normative Knowledge Production in the Age of the Printing Press

Working Group Meeting

Start: Jan 28, 2021 04:00 PM
End: Jan 29, 2021 12:00 PM
Organisation: Manuela Bragagnolo
Location: video conference
Room: Internal working group meeting

[more]

Jürgen Osterhammel's ‘The Transformation of the World. A Global History of the Nineteenth Century’

Reading Seminar

Date: Jan 27, 2021
Time: 09:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Organisation: Lena Foljanty
Location: video conference
Room: For further information please contact hk-translations-transitions@rg.mpg.de

[more]

Law, Custom and the Merchants: Legal Culture of the Mayor’s Court of Madras

Common Law Research Seminar

Date: Jan 25, 2021
Time: 02:15 PM
Speaker: Santanu Sengupta
(Jadavpur University/Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta)
Location: online. For further information please contact whewell@rg.mpg.de

[more]

What is the history of archives, and why bother?

mpilhlt Colloquium: Archives

Date: Jan 12, 2021
Time: 02:15 PM - 04:00 PM
Organisation: Stefanie Rüther
Location: video conference
Room: For further information please contact ruether@rg.mpg.de

[more]

Merchants and Law: Early Modern England and North America

Common Law Research Seminar

Date: Jan 11, 2021
Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM
Speaker: Pierre Gervais
(Université Sorbonne Nouvelle)
Location: online. For further information please contact whewell@rg.mpg.de

[more]

Corporations, normative pluralism, and jurisdictions in early modern Iberian polities. Potential and limits of an interpretive framework

Colloquium Methods for Legal History

Date: Dec 15, 2020
Time: 02:15 PM - 04:00 PM
Speaker: Pedro Cardim, CHAM-Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Organisation: Stefanie Rüther
Room: For further information please contact ruether@rg.mpg.de

[more]

Interpretation of Contracts and Control of Unfair Terms in Asia

Common Law Research Seminar

Date: Dec 14, 2020
Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM
Speaker: Stefan Vogenauer
Location: online. For further information please contact whewell@rg.mpg.de

[more]

Conference: Law and Diversity - European and Latin American Experiences from a Legal Historical Perspective –Public Law II–

Conference

Start: Dec 10, 2020 01:00 PM
End: Dec 11, 2020 04:00 PM
Organisation: Peter Collin, Manuel Bastias Saavedra
Location: Online. Contact: collin@rg.mpg.de

[more]

Auslegung und Inhaltskontrolle von Verträgen in Asien: Vorstellung eines Forschungsprojekts

Conference

Date: Dec 8, 2020
Time: 05:00 PM - 06:30 PM
Location: Online

[more]

A Separate Head of Judicial Review: Divergent Paths in Common Law Rights Review

Common Law Research Seminar

Date: Dec 7, 2020
Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM
Speaker: Kevin Gray (York University - Osgoode Hall Law School)
Location: online. For further information please contact whewell@rg.mpg.de

[more]

Conference: Law and Diversity - European and Latin American Experiences from a Legal Historical Perspective –Public Law I–

Conference

Start: Nov 26, 2020 01:00 PM
End: Nov 27, 2020 04:20 PM
Organisation: Peter Collin, Manuel Bastias Saavedra
Location: Online. Contact: collin@rg.mpg.de

[more]

Separate but Together: Subjecthood and Justice in the (Post-)Ottoman World

Workshop

Date: Nov 25, 2020
Time: 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Speaker: Ninja Bumann (MPIeR Guest), Mariusz Kaczka (MPIeR Guest), Murat Burak Aydin (MPIeR)
Organisation: Ninja Bumann, Mariusz Kaczka, Murat Burak Aydin
Location: Online. For further information please contact aydin@rg.mpg.de

[more]

The Development of the Parol Evidence Rule in the United States

Common Law Research Seminar

Date: Nov 23, 2020
Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM
Speaker: Christoph Resch
MPIeR
Location: Online. For further information please contact whewell@rg.mpg.de

[more]

Effects of Gender and Origin in Grading State Exams in Law in Germany?

Forum

Date: Nov 10, 2020
Time: 05:00 PM - 06:30 PM
Speaker: Emanuel V. Towfigh (EBS Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht, Wiesbaden/Oestrich-Winkel)
Location: Online – for further information please contact ruether@rg.mpg.de

[more]

Re-assessing the Impact of the Empire Marketing Board during the Interwar Period

Common Law Research Seminar

Date: Nov 9, 2020
Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM
Speaker: David Higgins
University of Newcastle
Location: online. For further information please contact whewell@rg.mpg.de

[more]

Online launch: Court Cases in African Archives

Global Legal History on the Ground

Date: Nov 5, 2020
Time: 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Organisation: Mariana Armond Dias Paes, Maysa Espindola, Juelma Matos, Raquel R. Sirotti (MPIeR)
Location: Online. For further information please contact diaspaes@rg.mpg.de

[more]

'The Rise of Fiscal Capacity'

Colloquium Methods for Legal History

Date: Nov 3, 2020
Time: 02:15 PM - 04:00 PM
Speaker: David Cantoni, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich
Location: video conference
Room: For further information please contact ruether@rg.mpg.de

[more]

¿Dominga Gutiérrez o Beatriz del Corazón de Jesús? Una disputa interforal en el Perú decimonónico.

Seminar on Legal History in the Iberian Worlds

Date: Nov 2, 2020
Time: 06:00 PM - 07:30 PM
Speaker: Armando Guevara Gil
Organisation: Pilar Mejía
Room: Videoconferencia

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Juana de Godínez

Colloquium Methods for Legal History

Date: Oct 6, 2020
Time: 04:30 PM - 06:00 PM
Speaker: Michelle McKinley (University of Oregon)
Location: video conference
Room: For further information please contact ruether@rg.mpg.de

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Workshop: Using Normative Knowledge from the Past

Workshop

Date: Sep 10, 2020
Time: 03:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Organisation: Alexandra Woods, Fupeng Li
Location: video conference

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Crossing boundaries. Legal History between Methodological Approaches and new Challenges and Identities

Colloquium Methods for Legal History

Date: Sep 8, 2020
Time: 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Speaker: Luigi Lacchè (University of Macerata / LUISS ‘G. Carli’ Rome)
Location: Online. For further information please contact ruether@rg.mpg.de

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The invention of Custom and the School of Salamanca

Salamanca Colloquium

Date: Sep 2, 2020
Time: 02:30 PM - 04:00 PM
Organisation: Christiane Birr, José Luis Egío, Andreas Wagner
Location: video conference

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Transformaciones jurídicas e identidades políticas de indios y esclavos durante la era de las revolucionesSeminar on Legal History in the Iberian Worlds

Seminar on Legal History in the Iberian Worlds

Date: Jul 2, 2020
Time: 04:30 PM - 06:00 PM
Speaker: Marcela Echeverri Muñoz
Organisation: Pilar Mejía
Location: MPIeR
Room: Online. (GMT +2, local Frankfurt time, via DFNConf)

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Research Colloquium on Global Legal History

Research Colloquium

Date: Jun 30, 2020
Time: 02:30 PM - 04:00 PM
Speakers: Murat Burak Aydin (MPIeR); Luca von Bogdandy (MPIeR)
Organisation: Thomas Duve, Manuel Bastias Saavedra (MPIeR)
Location: Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
Room: Online. For more information bastias@rg.mpg.de

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Research Colloquium on Global Legal History

Research Colloquium

Date: Jun 23, 2020
Time: 02:30 PM - 04:00 PM
Speakers: Juelma Matos (MPIeR); Damián Gonzales (MPIeR)
Organisation: Thomas Duve, Manuel Bastias Saavedra (MPIeR)
Location: Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
Room: Online. For more information bastias@rg.mpg.de

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Workshop: Current topic in legal history: What is a legal book? Crossing perspectives between legal history and book history

Workshop

Date: Jun 18, 2020
Time: 03:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Speakers: Maria Idalia García Aguilar (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México & MPIeR Guest Researcher), Natalia Maillard Álvarez (Universidad de Pablo Olavide), Airton Ribeiro da Silva (MPIeR Guest Researcher), Pedro Rueda Ramírez (Universidad de Barcelona)
Location: MPIeR
Room: Online Meeting

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'Virtual' Meet the Author - Ann Blair

Meet the Author

Date: Jun 8, 2020
Time: 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Speaker: Prof. Ann Blair
Organisation: Manuela Bragagnolo
Location: MPIeR
Room: Online Meeting

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Workshop: Using Normative Knowledge from the Past

Workshop

Date: Apr 30, 2020
Time: 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Organisation: Alexandra Woods, Fupeng Li
Location: video conference

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Guest lecture: "Fakes in the House of Osman: The Domestication of Forgery Cases in the 19th-Century Ottoman Empire" - cancelled!

Guest lecture

Date: Mar 25, 2020
Time: 04:30 PM
Speaker: Dr. Marc Aymes is Chair of the Centre for Turkish, Ottoman, Balkan and Central Asian Studies (CETOBaC) / Research Professor (Directeur de recherche) at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris, France
Organisation: Zülâl Muslu
Location: MPIeR
Room: Lecture hall of the MPI

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Conference: Digital Methods and Resources in Legal History - cancelled!

Conference

Start: Mar 19, 2020
End: Mar 20, 2020
Organisation: Sigrid Amedick, Andreas Wagner
Location: Max-Planck-Institut für europäische Rechtsgeschichte
Room: Lecture hall of the MPI

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Conference: „Alles falsch!“ Comments on Wolfram Brandes - cancelled

Conference

Date: Mar 17, 2020
Time: 02:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Organisation: Dr. Carola Föller, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen / Dr. des. Daniel Föller, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt / Prof. Dr. Hartmut Leppin, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt

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