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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
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Historical Regimes of Normativity
Department Thomas Duve
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European and Comparative Legal History
Department Stefan Vogenauer
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Governance of the Universal Church after the Council of Trent
Research Group
Translations and Transitions
Research Group
Legal Connectivities and Colonial Cultures in Africa
Research Group
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News
Stefan Vogenauer elected a member of the British Academy
July 23, 2021
New publication on the "The Body of the Priest (Der Körper des Priesters)" in the early modern period
July 09, 2021
legalhistoryinsights.com –
the new blog on legal history
July 06, 2021
Concepts, Conflicts, Central bankers – Recent SSRN Research Papers
July 02, 2021
Legal studies as a promise of equality
June 28, 2021
Two new publications on the history of the nuclear controversy
June 02, 2021
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Events
TBC (Renisa Mawani)
Oct 18, 2021 17:00 - 18:00
video conference, Room: For further information please contact cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de
Wither the power of disallowance?
Nov 1, 2021 14:15 - 15:15
video conference, Room: For further information please contact cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de
‘Peopling the country by unpeopling it’: Jeremy Bentham’s silences on indigenous Australia
Nov 8, 2021 09:30 - 10:30
video conference, Room: For further information please contact cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de
The problem of free choice and consent in early modern England
Dec 6, 2021 14:15 - 15:15
video conference, Room: For further information please contact cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de
TBC (Christopher Roberts)
Dec 13, 2021 14:15 - 15:15
video conference, Room: For further information please contact cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de
Nuisance law and the Committee of Buildings in late eighteenth-century Bombay
Jan 10, 2022 14:15 - 15:15
video conference, Room: For further information please contact cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de
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