Due to the high level of interest, we unfortunately cannot accept any further applications for research stays at the mpilhlt in 2022.
The call for applications for stays in 2023 will be published in the summer via our newsletter and twitter.

Welcome to the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory

Welcome to the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory

(formerly Max Planck Institute for European Legal History)
The researchers of the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory (mpilhlt), located in Frankfurt am Main, engage in research on the history and theory of law. Established in 1964, the Institute, with its three departments, the specialist library with 490,000 printed media units as well as numerous international visitors, has become a worldwide hub for those working on past and present national and transnational legal orders.
Multidisciplinary Theory of Law

Multidisciplinary Theory of Law

Department Marietta Auer
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Historical Regimes of Normativity

Historical Regimes of Normativity

Department Thomas Duve
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European and Comparative Legal History

European and Comparative Legal History

Department Stefan Vogenauer
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Global Legal History on the Ground

Global Legal History on the Ground

Max Planck Research Group
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Translations and Transitions

Translations and Transitions

Max Planck Research Group
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Legal Connectivities and Colonial Cultures in Africa

Legal Connectivities and Colonial Cultures in Africa

Max Planck Research Group
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Beyond Property: Law and Land in the Iberian World, 1510–1850

Beyond Property: Law and Land in the Iberian World, 1510–1850

ERC Research Group
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News

Stefan Vogenauer has been admitted to the British Academy

May 20, 2022

"Making Ricardo and Marx matter”: a lively discussion in the “Meet the Author” with Duncan Kennedy

May 05, 2022

CfP zum Symposium "Legal orders under pressure: Non-Western experiences of legal transformations in the 19th and early 20th centuries"

April 27, 2022

‘Comparative Law as a Method of Knowledge Production‘

April 07, 2022

European colonialism and citizenship in Africa – a comparative legal history

April 05, 2022

Codification and property law in 19th century Argentina

 

March 25, 2022

Events

Reflections of Law and Legal Prisms

Jun 2, 2022 15:00 - 18:30
Online, Room: Infos: barnes@lhlt.mpg.de

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

Jun 2, 2022 16:00 - 18:00
Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory, Room: Vortragssaal

Law and Colonialism

Please note that date and time have changed!
Jun 8, 2022 14:00 - 15:30
Online, Room: Infos: iberland@lhlt.mpg.de

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

Jun 9, 2022 14:00 - Jun 10, 2022 17:00
mpilhlt

Visual Evidence in Law

Jun 9, 2022 15:00 - 18:30
Online, Room: Infos: barnes@lhlt.mpg.de

Placing the frontier in British India

Jun 13, 2022 14:15 - 15:15
Zoom, Room: For further information please contact cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de
A basic bibliography on the history of Ibero-America and the Spanish Caribbean in the colonial period
Luthers Vermächtnis: Der Dreißigjährige Krieg und das moderne Verständnis vom ›Staat‹ im Alten Reich, 1530er bis 1790er Jahre
http://rg.rg.mpg.de/en/Rg29
Austria inventa? Zu den Anfängen der österreichischen Staatsrechtslehre
Edited by Karl Härter, Tina Hannappel and Conrad TyrichterStudien zu Policey, Kriminalitätsgeschichte und Konfliktregulierung
Juristische Wahrheit. Eine Studie zum richterlichen Tatsachenwissen im 19. Jahrhundert
Open Access
Nem teúdas, nem manteúdas: História das Mulheres e Direito na capitania da Paraíba (Brasil, 1661−1822)
Max Planck Studies in Global Legal History of the Iberian Worlds
A Global History of Ideas in the Language of Law
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