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
Department Marietta Auer
Historical Regimes of Normativity
Department Thomas Duve
European and Comparative Legal History
Department Stefan Vogenauer

Events

Niklas Luhmann, Rechtssystem und Rechtsdogmatik (1974)

May 30, 2023 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
mpilhlt, Room: Vortragssaal

Prison labour and the law: Britain and its Empire (1750-1840)

May 30, 2023 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
mpilhlt, Z02, Room: For further information please contact cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de

¿Derecho natural o derecho positivo? La acción del cardenal protector de Castilla Francisco Pacheco a mediados del siglo XVI en la curia romana

Jun 1, 2023 05:00 PM - 07:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
mpilhlt and online, Room: G503 and online

Pleitos de indios. Tradición católica y orden colonial en la América hispana

Jun 2, 2023 10:00 AM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Campus Westend der Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Room: RuW 3.102

Legal transfer in the common law world: the case of Siam’s legal reform

Jun 5, 2023 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
online, Room: For further information please contact cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de

Friedrich Julius Stahl - at the crossroads between legal scholarship and politics

Jun 5, 2023 04:15 PM - 05:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
mpilhlt, Room: Seminar room (Z01)
A basic bibliography on the history of Ibero-America and the Spanish Caribbean in the colonial period
Rechtsvergleichung als Erkenntnismethode. Historische Perspektiven vom Spätmittelalter bis ins 19. Jahrhundert
Cover Rechtsgeschichte – Legal History 30 (2022)
Emanzipation und Recht. Zur Geschichte der Rechtswissenschaft und der jüdischen Gleichberechtigung
Open Access
Edited by Karl Härter, Tina Hannappel and Conrad TyrichterStudien zu Policey, Kriminalitätsgeschichte und Konfliktregulierung
Celebrar lo imposible. El Código Civil en el régimen jurídico de la propiedad: Córdoba entre fines del siglo XIX y comienzos del XX
„recht erzählen“. Regionale Studien 1650–1850
Norms beyond Empire: Law-Making and Local Normativities in Iberian Asia, 1500-1800
Staatsangehörigkeit und Rassismus. Rechtsdiskurse und Verwaltungspraxis in den Kolonien Eritrea und Deutsch-Ostafrika (1882–1919)
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