Events

Second Max Planck Law Conference for Young European Scholars 2023

Max Planck Law Conference

Start: Oct 12, 2023
End: Oct 13, 2023
Organisation: The Max Planck European Law Group
Location: mpilhlt
Host: The Max Planck European Law Group
Contact: europe@law.mpg.de

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Oral History meets European Studies. Sources, tools and methods in the digital age.

Summer School

Start: Jul 3, 2023
End: Jul 6, 2023
Location: Maison Schuman, Luxembourg City
Host: Andreas Fickers (The Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH), Stefan Vogenauer (mpilhlt), European University Institute (EUI)
Contact: valerie.schafer@uni.lu

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Konflikte um Wahrheit - Nachwuchstagung Rechtsgeschichte

Tagung des jungen Netzwerks Rechtsgeschichte

Start: Jun 26, 2023
End: Jun 28, 2023
Location: Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory
Host: Luca von Bogdandy, Christoph Resch, Julius Schumann
Contact: nachwuchstagung@lhlt.mpg.de

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Colonial Legal Biography

Workshop

Start: Apr 27, 2023
End: Apr 28, 2023
Organisation: Stefan Vogenauer, Victoria Hooton, Victoria Barnes
Location: mpilhlt
Room: Lecture hall
Host: Stefan Vogenauer (mpilhlt)
Contact: hooton@lhlt.mpg.de

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

Glocalising Normativities Annual Conference

Please note that the date has changed.
Start: Mar 20, 2023
End: Mar 24, 2023
Organisation: Luisa Stella Coutinho
Location: mpilhlt

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Relational Justice: A Theory of Private Law

Max Planck Lecture in Legal History and Legal Theory

Date: Feb 14, 2023
Time: 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Hanoch Dagan (Tel-Aviv University), Marietta Auer (mpilhlt)
Organisation: Stefanie Rüther
Location: mpilhlt
Room: Online
Host: Marietta Auer
Contact: ruether@lhlt.mpg.de

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Pugna racial en la historia del derecho en Chile

Seminario Permanente

Date: Feb 14, 2023
Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Fernando Perez Godoy
Location: video conference
Host: Dr. María del Pilar Mejía Quiroga
Contact: mejia@lhlt.mpg.de

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Slaves, indigenous, freedmen and the colonial legal culture in São Paulo

Seminario Permanente

Date: Feb 7, 2023
Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Felipe Garcia de Oliveira
Location: video conference
Host: Dr. María del Pilar Mejía Quiroga
Contact: mejia@lhlt.mpg.de

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Theoretical Perspectives on Legal Change: Luhmann and Latour

Glocalizing Normativities Research Colloquium

Date: Feb 6, 2023
Time: 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Manuel Bastias Saavedra (Leibniz Universität Hannover) and João Paulo Bachur (mpilhlt)
Location: mpilhlt
Room: G503
Host: Luisa Stella Coutinho

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Die Historiker und die Verfassung

Workshop

Date: Feb 3, 2023
Time: 02:00 PM - 07:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Dieter Grimm
Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
Organisation: Stefan Vogenauer
Location: mpilhlt
Room: Conference Room (Z01)
Contact: vogenauer.office@lhlt.mpg.de

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Normatividades del diezmo de indios en el arzobispado de México

Seminario Permanente

Date: Jan 31, 2023
Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Leopoldo Martínez Ávalos
Location: video conference
Host: Dr. María del Pilar Mejía Quiroga
Contact: mejia@lhlt.mpg.de

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Mercantile bodies and expansion of British legal institutions: the Royal Niger Company case

Common Law Research Seminar

Date: Jan 30, 2023
Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Winner Ijeoma (mpilhlt)
Location: mpilhlt, Z01
Room: For further information please contact cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de
Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola

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Limping Marriages: Race, Class, and Divorce Jurisdiction in the British Empire

MPI-TAU Transnational Legal History Workshop

Date: Jan 24, 2023
Time: 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Priyasha Saksena (University of Leeds)
Location: Zoom
Host: Thomas Duve (MPI), Ron Harris (TAU), Assaf Likhovski (TAU), Stefan Vogenauer (MPI)

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Fray Alonso de la Veracruz and his annotations to Thomas More’s Utopia

Seminario Permanente

Date: Jan 24, 2023
Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Víctor Lillo Castañ
Location: video conference
Host: Dr. María del Pilar Mejía Quiroga
Contact: mejia@lhlt.mpg.de

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What is a historical process?

Glocalizing Normativities Research Colloquium

Date: Jan 23, 2023
Time: 12:00 PM - 01:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Thomas Duve (mpilhlt)
Location: mpilhlt
Room: Online
Host: Luisa Stella Coutinho

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Soziale Inklusion. Überlegungen zur Demokratiegeschichte des 19. Jahrhunderts

Initiative Arbeitsrechtsgeschichte

Date: Jan 20, 2023
Time: 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Hedwig Richter (Universität der Bundeswehr München)
Location: Zoom
Room: Wir bitten um Anmeldung bis 19.01 bei hsi@boeckler.de
Host: Dr. Martin Otto
Contact: hsi@boeckler.de

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Behindert das (deutsche) Recht die zeithistorische Forschung?

Max Planck Lecture in Legal History and Legal Theory

Date: Jan 17, 2023
Time: 04:15 PM - 05:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Jan Thiessen (Humboldt-Universität Berlin)
Organisation: Stefanie Rüther
Location: mpilhlt
Room: Conference Room (Z01)
Host: Stefan Vogenauer (mpilhlt)

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From colonial to vocational models: legislative thinking and the Irish senate before and after independence

Common Law Research Seminar

Date: Jan 16, 2023
Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Martin O’Donoghue (University of Sheffield)
Location: mpilhlt, Z01
Room: For further information please contact cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de
Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola

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Sabines Flugschein. Rechtshistorische Annäherungen an das Zivilrecht der DDR

Frankfurter Rechtshistorische Abendgespräche

Date: Jan 11, 2023
Time: 06:00 PM - 07:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Adrian Schmidt-Recla
(Universität Jena)
Location: Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main
Room: Hörsaalzentrum HZ 11
Host: Goethe Universität, Fachbereich Rechtswissenschaft, MPI für Rechtsgeschichte und Rechtstheorie

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As many dominia as people and things

IberLAND Research Colloquium

Date: Jan 11, 2023
Time: 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Sarah Limão Papa
Location: Contact: iberland@lhlt.mpg.de
Host: Research Group IberLAND
Contact: iberland@lhlt.mpg.de

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methodica – A New Textbook on European Law

MPI-TAU Transnational Legal History Workshop

Date: Jan 10, 2023
Time: 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Philip Bajon (mpilhlt)
Location: Zoom
Host: Thomas Duve (MPI), Ron Harris (TAU), Assaf Likhovski (TAU), Stefan Vogenauer (MPI)

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Pan-Africanism and the Historiography of International Law in Africa

MPI-TAU Transnational Legal History Workshop

Date: Dec 20, 2022
Time: 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Inge Van Hulle
(KU Leuven)
Location: Zoom
Host: Thomas Duve (MPI), Ron Harris (TAU), Assaf Likhovski (TAU), Stefan Vogenauer (MPI)

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Acts for the relief of the poor: examining the transfer of the Elizabethan Poor Law system to maritime Canada

Common Law Research Seminar

Date: Dec 19, 2022
Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Victoria Hooton (mpilhlt)
Location: mpilhlt, Z01
Room: For further information please contact cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de
Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola

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Organise, classify, decide. The Council of Trent and the construction and use of legal knowledge in the modern world

Reading seminar "Council of Trent"

Date: Dec 14, 2022
Time: 06:00 PM - 07:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Location: Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory
Room: Room G503
Host: Benedetta Albani, Anna Clara Lehmann Martins
Contact: albani@lhlt.mpg.de

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A map of an infinite field: a historiographical review on land tenure in colonial Mexico

IberLAND Research Colloquium

Date: Dec 14, 2022
Time: 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Alina Rodríguez
Location: For further information please contact: iberland@hist.uni-hannover.de or iberland@lhlt.mpg.de
Host: Research Group IberLAND
Contact: iberland@lhlt.mpg.de

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History as a legal argument in 19th century Germany

Glocalizing Normativities Research Colloquium

The event has had to be cancelled.
Date: Dec 14, 2022
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Hans-Peter Haferkamp (University of Cologne)
Location: mpilhlt
Room: Lecture hall and online
Host: Luisa Stella Coutinho
Contact: coutinho@lhlt.mpg.de

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Doctrinal circulations in criminal law 1764–1914

MPI-TAU Transnational Legal History Workshop

Date: Dec 13, 2022
Time: 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Jean-Louis Halpérin (EHESS)
Location: Zoom
Host: Thomas Duve (MPI), Ron Harris (TAU), Assaf Likhovski (TAU), Stefan Vogenauer (MPI)

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Conviviality and normative practices of everyday life

Seminario Permanente

Date: Dec 13, 2022
Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Samuel Barbosa
Location: video conference
Host: Dr. María del Pilar Mejía Quiroga
Contact: mejia@lhlt.mpg.de

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Zwischen Zunft und Obrigkeit - Rechtsfragen vormoderner Arbeitsverhältnisse

Initiative Arbeitsrechtsgeschichte

Date: Dec 9, 2022
Time: 09:30 AM - 04:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Location: video conference
Room: For further informationen please contact hsi@boeckler.de
Host: Initiative Arbeitsrechtsgeschichte
Contact: hsi@boeckler.de

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Kulturen des Nichtentscheidens

Max Planck Lecture in Legal History and Legal Theory

Date: Dec 8, 2022
Time: 04:15 PM - 05:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger
(Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin)
Organisation: Stefanie Rüther
Location: mpilhlt
Room: Z01
Host: Marietta Auer

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Legal Orders under Pressure: Non-Western Experiences of Legal Transformations in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries

Symposium

Start: Dec 7, 2022 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
End: Dec 9, 2022 05:00 PM
Location: Online
Room: We kindly ask for registration until 1st December 2022
Host: Research group "Translations & Transitions"
Contact: hk-translations-transitions@lhlt.mpg.de

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Mind the step: Standardizing the Mind, Stepping into Positive Law (Egypt, 1897-1949)

MPI-TAU Transnational Legal History Workshop

Date: Dec 6, 2022
Time: 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Baudouin Dupret (CNRS)
Location: Zoom
Host: Thomas Duve (MPI), Ron Harris (TAU), Assaf Likhovski (TAU), Stefan Vogenauer (MPI)

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Japanese Legal History Workshop: Thinking Law in Medieval Japan

Japanese Legal History Workshop

Date: Dec 6, 2022
Time: 10:00 AM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Location: Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory
Room: G503
Host: Glocalising Normativities
Contact: ehalt@lhtl.mpg.de

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The problem of legal pluralism in the 18th-century British Empire

Common Law Research Seminar

Date: Dec 5, 2022
Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Hunter Harris (University of Oxford)
Location: mpilhlt, Z01
Room: For further information please contact cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de
Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola

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The space and places of the Council of Trent

Reading seminar "Council of Trent"

Date: Nov 30, 2022
Time: 06:00 PM - 07:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Location: Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory
Room: Room G503
Host: Benedetta Albani, Anna Clara Lehmann Martins
Contact: albani@lhlt.mpg.de

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O Regime de propriedade da terra: um “parente pobre” na historiografia cabo-verdiana.

IberLAND Research Colloquium

Date: Nov 30, 2022
Time: 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Edson Edy Brito
Location: For further information please contact: iberland@hist.uni-hannover.de or iberland@lhlt.mpg.de
Host: Research Group IberLAND
Contact: iberland@lhlt.mpg.de

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Illusion of equal opportunities? (In-)Equality and participation in legal academia

Forum

Date: Nov 29, 2022
Time: 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Dr. Anja Böning, FernUniversität Hagen
Location: mpilhlt
Room: Online
Host: mpilhlt
Contact: ruether@lhlt.mpg.de

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El problema sexual en las cárceles argentinas durante los años peronistas: circulación de ideas y humanización del castigo (1946-1955)

Seminario Permanente

Date: Nov 29, 2022
Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Jorge Núñez
Location: video conference
Host: Dr. María del Pilar Mejía Quiroga
Contact: mejia@lhlt.mpg.de

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Japanese Legal History Workshop: The Concept of Law in Pre-Modern Japan

Japanese Legal History Workshop

Date: Nov 29, 2022
Time: 10:00 AM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Location: Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory
Room: G503
Host: Glocalising Normativities
Contact: ehalt@lhtl.mpg.de

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The rise and fall of Philadelphia’s Quaker court (1682-1772)

Common Law Research Seminar

Date: Nov 28, 2022
Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Esther Sahle (Freie Universität Berlin)
Location: mpilhlt, Z01
Room: For further information please contact cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de
Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola

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Fear of the False in Colonial South Asia

MPI-TAU Transnational Legal History Workshop

Date: Nov 22, 2022
Time: 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Mitra Sharafi (University of Wisconsin)
Location: Zoom
Host: Thomas Duve (MPI), Ron Harris (TAU), Assaf Likhovski (TAU), Stefan Vogenauer (MPI)

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Policing beyond surveillance: crime, prosecution and detection in a common law jurisdiction (British India, 1868-1920)

Common Law Research Seminar

Date: Nov 21, 2022
Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Uponita Mukherjee (mpilhlt)
Location: mpilhlt, Z01
Room: For further information please contact cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de
Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola

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Tierra, derecho e historiografía. Las relaciones con la tierra en la historia del derecho español.

IberLAND Research Colloquium

Date: Nov 16, 2022
Time: 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Camilla de Freitas Macedo
Location: For further information please contact: iberland@hist.uni-hannover.de or iberland@lhlt.mpg.de
Host: Research Group IberLAND
Contact: iberland@lhlt.mpg.de

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The Use of Jewish Legal Sources to Tell Islamic Economic History

MPI-TAU Transnational Legal History Workshop

Date: Nov 15, 2022
Time: 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Phillip I. Lieberman (Vanderbilt University)
Location: Zoom
Host: Thomas Duve (MPI), Ron Harris (TAU), Assaf Likhovski (TAU), Stefan Vogenauer (MPI)

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Nociones de archivo a contrapunto: Antesala del análisis del manejo de la diversidad de saberes normativos en Bolivia

Seminario Permanente

Date: Nov 15, 2022
Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Paola Revilla Orias
Location: video conference
Host: Dr. María del Pilar Mejía Quiroga
Contact: mejia@lhlt.mpg.de

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Travels of contract law: failure of consideration

Common Law Research Seminar

Date: Nov 14, 2022
Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Ragini Surana (mpilhlt)
Location: mpilhlt, Z01
Room: For further information please contact cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de
Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola

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The Evolution of Court Procedure 1100-1700 and the Judicial Use of Torture

Seminar series with Jorge E. Traslosheros: "Ecclesiastical Justice"

Date: Nov 10, 2022
Time: 06:00 PM - 07:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Kenneth Pennington (The Catholic University of America)
Location: Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory
Room: G503
Host: Benedetta Albani, Anna Clara Lehmann Martins
Contact: martins@lhlt.mpg.de

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Actors developing procedures, procedures shaping actors. The Council of Trent in practice

Reading seminar "Council of Trent"

Date: Nov 9, 2022
Time: 06:00 PM - 07:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Location: Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory
Room: Room G503
Host: Benedetta Albani, Anna Clara Lehmann Martins
Contact: albani@lhlt.mpg.de

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Towards a Transnational Legal History of the Administrative State in Latin America

MPI-TAU Transnational Legal History Workshop

Date: Nov 8, 2022
Time: 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Eduardo Zimmermann (Universidad de San Andrés, Buenos Aires)
Location: Zoom
Host: Thomas Duve (MPI), Ron Harris (TAU), Assaf Likhovski (TAU), Stefan Vogenauer (MPI)

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Inventive Indians: technological imaginaries and patenting activity in late colonial India (1911-1948)

Common Law Research Seminar

Date: Nov 7, 2022
Time: 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Priya Mirza (Zakir Husain Delhi College)
Location: Zoom (online seminar)
Room: For further information please contact cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de
Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola

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Temporal regimes of legal change: transition and innovation in legal history | The Change-Not Change Dichotomy and the Case 19th Century Legal Reform in the Ottoman Empire

Glocalizing Normativities Research Colloquium

Date: Nov 7, 2022
Time: 01:00 PM - 02:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Massimo Meccarelli (University of Macerata) | Burak Aydin (mpilhlt)
Location: mpilhlt
Room: Lecture hall of the MPI
Host: Luisa Stella Coutinho

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El sistema en movimiento: el derecho canónico, la justicia y la reforma de las costumbres

Seminar series with Jorge E. Traslosheros: "Ecclesiastical Justice"

Date: Nov 3, 2022
Time: 06:00 PM - 07:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Jorge E. Traslosheros
Location: Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory
Room: G503
Host: Benedetta Albani, Anna Clara Lehmann Martins
Contact: martins@lhlt.mpg.de

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Recht im Anthropozän

Tagung

Start: Nov 3, 2022 10:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
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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Beyond Private and Common. Ownership Regimes in the Iberian World (1500-1850)

IberLAND Research Colloquium

Date: Nov 2, 2022
Time: 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Manuel Bastias Saavedra
Location: For further information please contact: iberland@hist.uni-hannover.de or iberland@lhlt.mpg.de
Host: Research Group IberLAND
Contact: iberland@lhlt.mpg.de

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The Modern State and the Rise of the Business Corporation

MPI-TAU Transnational Legal History Workshop

Date: Nov 1, 2022
Time: 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Taisu Zhang (Yale University)
Location: Zoom
Host: Thomas Duve (MPI), Ron Harris (TAU), Assaf Likhovski (TAU), Stefan Vogenauer (MPI)

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

Frankfurter Rechtshistorische Abendgespräche

Date: Oct 31, 2022
Time: 06:00 PM - 07:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Prof. Renisa Mawani
University of British Columbia
Location: mpilhlt
Room: Vortragssaal des MPI

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El largo brazo de la justicia episcopal: los jueces eclesiásticos regionales y los jueces comisionados

Seminar series with Jorge E. Traslosheros: "Ecclesiastical Justice"

Date: Oct 27, 2022
Time: 06:00 PM - 07:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Jorge E. Traslosheros
Location: Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory
Room: G503
Host: Benedetta Albani, Anna Clara Lehmann Martins
Contact: martins@lhlt.mpg.de

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The Legal Vocabulary of Land Ownership and Land Rights in Early Modernity

Congress 'The Dynamics of Early Modern Colonial Law and Legal Literature'

Date: Oct 27, 2022
Time: 02:30 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Sarah Limão Papa and Alina Rodríguez Sánchez
Location: Faculty of Law, University of Helsinki, Finland
Contact: iberland@lhlt.mpg.de

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Violence and the law in the British empire

Max Planck Lecture in Legal History and Legal Theory

The event has had to be cancelled.
Date: Oct 26, 2022
Time: 04:15 PM - 05:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Lisa Ford
(UNSW Sydney)
Location: mpilhlt
Room: Z 01

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El archivo Orlando Fals Borda del Banco de la República de Colombia: Una mirada desde la gestión del conocimiento

Seminario Permanente

Date: Oct 25, 2022
Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Diana Carmona
Location: video conference
Host: Dr. María del Pilar Mejía Quiroga
Contact: mejia@lhlt.mpg.de

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Legal Change and Institutionalism

Glocalizing Normativities Research Colloquium

Date: Oct 24, 2022
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Luca von Bogdandy (mpilhlt)
Location: mpilhlt
Room: Lecture hall of the MPI
Host: Luisa Stella Coutinho

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Luisa Stella Coutinho on Gendering the Portuguese Empire

Lecture

Date: Oct 21, 2022
Time: 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Luisa Stella Coutinho
Location: video conference
Host: Minerva LAW Network
Contact: minervalawnet@law.mpg.de

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El tribunal contencioso del obispo: La audiencia episcopal

Seminar series with Jorge E. Traslosheros: "Ecclesiastical Justice"

Date: Oct 20, 2022
Time: 06:00 PM - 07:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Jorge E. Traslosheros
Location: Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory
Room: G503
Host: Benedetta Albani, Anna Clara Lehmann Martins
Contact: martins@lhlt.mpg.de

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The Council of Trent and Canon Law

Reading seminar "Council of Trent"

Date: Oct 19, 2022
Time: 06:00 PM - 07:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Location: Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory
Room: Room G503
Host: Benedetta Albani, Anna Clara Lehmann Martins
Contact: albani@lhlt.mpg.de

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Solidität in turbulenten Zeiten? Zum Zustand der deutsch-chinesischen Wissenschaftsbeziehungen

Lecture

Date: Oct 10, 2022
Time: 08:00 PM - 10:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Dr. Anna Lisa Ahlers, Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Location: Werner Reimers Stiftung, Bad Homburg
Host: Werner Reimers Stiftung, Max Weber Stiftung, mpilhlt
Contact: info@reimers-stiftung.de

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Como investigar la administración de justicia en el contexto eclesiástico

Seminar series with Jorge E. Traslosheros: "Ecclesiastical Justice"

Date: Oct 6, 2022
Time: 06:00 PM - 07:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Jorge E. Traslosheros
Location: Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory
Room: Conference Room (Z01)
Host: Benedetta Albani, Anna Clara Lehmann Martins
Contact: martins@lhlt.mpg.de

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Meet the Author: Daniel Bonilla (Universidad de los Andes)

Legal Barbarians, Identity, Modern Comparative Law and the Global South

Date: Oct 5, 2022
Time: 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Daniel Bonilla (Universidad de los Andes)
Organisation: Thomas Duve
Location: Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory
Room: Z01
Host: Thomas Duve
Contact: sekduve@lhlt.mpg.de

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The Council of Trent. A 500-year history

Reading seminar "Council of Trent"

Date: Sep 29, 2022
Time: 06:00 PM - 07:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Location: Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory
Room: Room G503
Host: Benedetta Albani, Anna Clara Lehmann Martins
Contact: albani@lhlt.mpg.de

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Tagung anlässlich des 100. Todestages von Eugen Ehrlich

Tagung

Start: Sep 29, 2022 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
End: Sep 30, 2022 12:30 PM
Location: Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory
Room: Lecture hall of the MPI
Host: Ralf Seinecke, Marietta Auer
Contact: seinecke@lhlt.mpg.de

[more]

The judicial dimension of the pastoral mission of the bishops in viceregal Spanish America. A research agenda in progress

Seminar series with Jorge E. Traslosheros: "Ecclesiastical Justice"

Date: Sep 28, 2022
Time: 06:00 PM - 07:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Jorge E. Traslosheros
Location: Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory
Room: Conference Room (Z01)
Host: Benedetta Albani, Anna Clara Lehmann Martins
Contact: martins@lhlt.mpg.de

[more]

Legal Change and Sociology of Law Theory

Glocalizing Normativities Research Colloquium

Date: Sep 26, 2022
Time: 01:00 PM - 02:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Christian Boulanger (mpilhlt)
Location: mpilhlt
Room: Lecture hall of the MPI and online
Host: Luisa Stella Coutinho

[more]

La reducción del riesgo de incendio en el mundo hispano-americano

Seminario Permanente

Date: Sep 20, 2022
Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Loris de Nardi
Location: video conference
Host: Dr. María del Pilar Mejía Quiroga
Contact: mejia@lhlt.mpg.de

[more]

Producing Religious Normative Knowledge: Colonial Life and Canon Law

DCH Workshop

Date: Sep 19, 2022
Time: 05:00 PM - 07:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Organisation: Pilar Mejía
Location: video conference
Room: For further information please contact mejia@lhlt.mpg.de
Host: Dr. María del Pilar Mejía Quiroga
Contact: mejia@lhlt.mpg.de

[more]

Los viajes globales de los saberes acerca de la cuestión criminal: Norte-Sur, Sur-Norte y Sur-Sur, 1850s-1950s

Tagung

Start: Sep 8, 2022 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
End: Sep 10, 2022 12:00 PM
Location: Santa Fé Argentinien | Zoom
Host: Universidad Nacional del Litoral y mpilhlt
Contact: jornadaviajesgloables@gmail.com

[more]

¿Por qué en España las llamamos supervivencias feudales?

Keynote

Date: Sep 1, 2022
Time: 06:40 PM - 08:10 PM (Local Time Germany)
Location: Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory
Room: Lecture hall and online
Host: Research Group IberLAND
Contact: iberland@lhlt.mpg.de

[more]

Ownership Regimes in the Iberian World, 1500-1850

Workshop

Start: Aug 31, 2022
End: Sep 2, 2022
Location: Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory
Host: Research group IberLAND in cooperation with the research project "Glocalizing Normativities"
Contact: iberland@lhlt.mpg.de

[more]

Divorcio e adultério face às distintas formas jurídicas no norte de Moçambique durante a primeira metade do século XX

Seminario Permanente

Date: Jul 26, 2022
Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Fernanda Thomaz
Location: video conference
Host: Dr. María del Pilar Mejía Quiroga
Contact: mejia@lhlt.mpg.de

[more]

History of property

IberLAND Research Colloquium

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

[more]

Criminal in body and soul. Penal histories in 19th Century Cuba

Seminario Permanente

Date: Jul 19, 2022
Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Adrian J. Cabrera Bibilonia
Location: video conference
Contact: mejia@lhlt.mpg.de

[more]

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 (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Fernanda Pirie (University of Oxford)
Organisation: Stefanie Rüther
Location: mpilhlt
Room: Lecture hall

[more]

Vergleichende Verfassungsgerichtsbarkeit: Brasilien und Deutschland

Podiumsdiskussion

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

[more]

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 (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Alessandro Somma
Sapienza Università Roma
Location: via Zoom
Room: For further informationen please contact lehrstuhl.pahlow@jur.uni-frankfurt.de

[more]

Tarifbeziehungen in historischer und gegenwartsbezogener Perspektive

Workshop

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

[more]

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

Symposium

Start: Jun 30, 2022 04:40 PM (Local Time Germany)
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

[more]

Writing the history of empires

Common Law Research Seminar

Date: Jun 27, 2022
Time: 02:00 PM - 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
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

[more]

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

Gedenkveranstaltung

Date: Jun 24, 2022
Time: 03:00 PM - 07:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
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 (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Richard Ross (University of Illinois)
Organisation: Stefanie Rüther
Location: mpilhlt

[more]

Visual Legal Iconography

Law, History and Visual Culture Seminar

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

[more]

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 (Local Time Germany)
Location: Online
Room: Infos: iberland@lhlt.mpg.de
Host: Manuel Bastias Saavedra, Camilla de Freitas Macedo, Sarah Limão Papa

[more]

‘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 (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Julie Rocheton (mpilhlt)
Location: mpilhlt, Z01
Room: For further information please contact cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de
Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola

[more]

Visualising Law in Society

Law, History and Visual Culture Seminar

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

[more]

The German Tradition of Research on the School of Salamanca

Salamanca Colloquium

Date: Jun 15, 2022
Time: 02:30 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
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

[more]

Placing the frontier in British India

Common Law Research Seminar

Date: Jun 13, 2022
Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
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

[more]

Colonial and indigenous law in the Spanish Empire

“Minorities in Imperial Space” conference

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

[more]

Visual Evidence in Law

Law, History and Visual Culture Seminar

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

[more]

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

Workshop

Start: Jun 9, 2022 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
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

[more]

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 (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Lexie Cook (Columbia University)
Location: mpilhlt
Room: Online
Host: Luisa Stella Coutinho

[more]

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 (Local Time Germany)
Location: Online
Room: Infos: iberland@lhlt.mpg.de
Host: Manuel Bastias Saavedra, Camilla de Freitas Macedo, Sarah Limão Papa

[more]

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 (Local Time Germany)
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

[more]

Reflections of Law and Legal Prisms

Law, History and Visual Culture Seminar

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

[more]

Art, Law and Social Justice

Law, History and Visual Culture Seminar

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

[more]

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 (Local Time Germany)
Location: Online
Room: Infos: iberland@lhlt.mpg.de
Host: Manuel Bastias Saavedra, Camilla de Freitas Macedo, Sarah Limão Papa

[more]

Derechos Indigenas: concreción local del derecho internacional

Seminario Permanente

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

[more]

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 (Local Time Germany)
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 (Local Time Germany)
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

[more]

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

Workshop

Start: May 23, 2022 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
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

[more]

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 (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Philip Manow (Universität Bremen)
Location: Online. For further information please contact hsi@boeckler.de
Host: Gerd Bender, Thorsten Keiser

[more]

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 (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Michael Grünberger (Universität Bayreuth)
Organisation: Stefanie Rüther
Location: mpilhlt

[more]

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

African Legal History Seminar

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

[more]

‘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 (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Priya Mirza (University of Delhi)
Location: Zoom
Room: For further information please contact cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de
Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola

[more]

Luis de Molina on African Slavery

Salamanca Colloquium

Date: May 11, 2022
Time: 02:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
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

[more]

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

Symposium

Start: May 10, 2022 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
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

[more]

Ius commune

IberLAND Research Colloquium

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

[more]

'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 (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Oscar Weller (University of Zurich)
Location: mpilhlt, Z01
Room: For further information please contact cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de
Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola

[more]

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 (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Marietta Auer, Nils Goldschmidt, Klaus Günther, Albert Ingold
Location: mpilhlt
Room: Z 01

[more]

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 (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Juelma Matos Ñgala
mpilhlt
Location: mpilhlt
Room: Z01

[more]

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 (Local Time Germany)
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

[more]

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 (Local Time Germany)
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

[more]

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

Meet the Author

Date: Apr 27, 2022
Time: 06:00 PM - 09:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
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

[more]

The concept of law

IberLAND Research Colloquium

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

[more]

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 (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Warren Swain (University of Auckland)
Location: Zoom
Room: For further information please contact cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de
Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola

[more]

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 (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Thomas Duve
mpilhlt
Location: video conference
Host: Li Fupeng

[more]

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 (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Camilla Freitas
mpilhlt
Location: mpilhlt
Room: Z01

[more]

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 (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Pedro Cantisano
Location: video conference

[more]

'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 (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Barbara Direito
(NOVA University, Lisbon)
Location: video conference
Room: For further information please contact the organisers

[more]

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 (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Rodrigo Camargo Godoy
Location: video conference

[more]

'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 (Local Time Germany)
Location: video conference
Room: For further information please contact aydin@lhlt.mpg.de

[more]

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 (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Madgalena Candiotti
Location: video conference

[more]

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 (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Thomas Duve
Location: video conference

[more]

'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 (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Tim Soriano
(University of Illinois and Newberry Library Fellow)
Location: video conference
Room: For further information please contact the organisers

[more]

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

Seminario Permanente

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

[more]

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 (Local Time Germany)
Location: video conference
Room: For further information please contact aydin@lhlt.mpg.de
Host: Translations and Transitions Research Group

[more]

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 (Local Time Germany)
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

[more]

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

African Legal History Seminar

Date: Jan 18, 2022
Time: 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
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'

[more]

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 (Local Time Germany)
End: Jan 21, 2022 04:10 PM
Organisation: Manuela Bragagnolo
Location: video conference
Host: Contact: Manuela Bragagnolo

[more]

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 (Local Time Germany)
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 (Local Time Germany)
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 (Local Time Germany)
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 (Local Time Germany)
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 (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Rabiat Akande (Osgoode)
Convenors: Thomas Duve, David Schorr (TAU), Stefan Vogenauer
Location: video conference
Room: For further information please contact mpitauwkshp@gmail.com

[more]

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 (Local Time Germany)
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 (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Gunnar Folke Schuppert
Organisation: Christian Pogies, Peter Collin

[more]

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 (Local Time Germany)
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 (Local Time Germany)
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'.

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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 (Local Time Germany)
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

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

Conference

Start: Dec 9, 2021 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
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 (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Francisco Bethencourt (King’s College London)
Organisation: Luisa Stella Coutinho
Location: mpilhlt
Room: Lecuture Hall of the MPI and Zoom

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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 (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Jessica Marglin (USC)
Convenors: Thomas Duve, David Schorr (TAU), Stefan Vogenauer
Location: video conference
Room: For further information please contact mpitauwkshp@gmail.com

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Force and consent in English contract labour

Common Law Research Seminar

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

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

Conference

Start: Dec 2, 2021 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
End: Dec 3, 2021 04:30 PM
Organisation: Peter Collin, Manuel Bastias Saavedra
Location: Online. Contact: collin@lhlt.mpg.de

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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 (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Heikki Pihlajamäki (Helsinki)
Convenors: Thomas Duve, David Schorr (TAU), Stefan Vogenauer
Location: video conference
Room: For further information please contact mpitauwkshp@gmail.com

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

Conference

Start: Nov 29, 2021 09:30 AM (Local Time Germany)
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

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

Conference

Start: Nov 25, 2021 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
End: Nov 27, 2021 04:15 PM
Organisation: Peter Collin, Manuel Bastias Saavedra
Location: Online. Contact: collin@lhlt.mpg.de

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Rabbinic Responsa and Legal Communication

MPI-TAU Transnational Legal History Workshop

Date: Nov 23, 2021
Time: 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
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

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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 (Local Time Germany)
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

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Global Legal Biography

MPI-TAU Transnational Legal History Workshop

Date: Nov 9, 2021
Time: 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
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

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Global Legal History on the Ground

Seminar

Date: Nov 9, 2021
Time: 03:30 PM - 05:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
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

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‘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 (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Zoë Laidlaw (University of Melbourne)
Convenors: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola
Location: video conference
Room: For further information please contact cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de

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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 (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Elisabetta Fiocchi (Zurich)
Convenors: Thomas Duve, David Schorr (TAU), Stefan Vogenauer
Location: video conference
Room: For further information please contact mpitauwkshp@gmail.com

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Wither the power of disallowance?

Common Law Research Seminar

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

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"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 (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Christian Windler (Universität Bern)
Organisation: Luisa Stella Coutinho
Location: mpilhlt
Room: Lecuture Hall of the MPI and Zoom

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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 (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Thomas Duve
Location: video conference

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

Internal meeting

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

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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 (Local Time Germany)
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

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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 (Local Time Germany)
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

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The ship, the slave, the legal person

Common Law Research Seminar

Date: Oct 18, 2021
Time: 05:00 PM - 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
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

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Global Legal History on the Ground

Seminar

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

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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 (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Anna Clara Martins (MPILHLT)
Organisation: Luisa Stella Coutinho
Location: mpilhlt
Room: Lecuture Hall of the MPI and Zoom

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Forschungsfeldsitzung: Normativitätsregime im ersten Jahrtausend. Eine methodische Annäherung

Internal meeting

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

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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 (Local Time Germany)
End: Sep 10, 2021 04:00 PM
Organisation: Lena Foljanty
Location: Online

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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. (Local Time Germany)
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

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The Early Modern Encounter between European Slavery and Asian Bondage

Workshop

Start: Jul 13, 2021 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
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

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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 (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Erica Ollikainen-Read (mpilhlt)
Conveners: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola
Location: video conference
Room: For further information please contact cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de

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Contractus & quasi contractus

Salamanca Colloquium

Date: Jul 7, 2021
Time: 02:30 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
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

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Women and the International Law Commission

Seminar

Date: Jun 30, 2021
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
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

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

Internal meeting

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

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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 (Local Time Germany)
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

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Arbeitsrechtshistorische Jahrestagung 2021: Geschichte der Betriebsverfassung

Initiative Arbeitsrechtsgeschichte

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

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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 (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Aaron Graham (University of Oxford)
Conveners: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola
Location: video conference
Room: For further information please contact cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de

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Seminar Methods of Legal History

Seminar

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

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Global Legal History on the Ground

Seminar

Date: Jun 10, 2021
Time: 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
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

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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