History has often not been kind to Friedrich Stahl, seeing him as a rather obscure character on the margins of the Historische Rechtsschule and overshadowed by Savigny and Puchta. Our upcoming Max Planck Lecture in Legal History and Legal Theory is about this intriguing figure situated at the intersection of legal scholarship and politics.

The lecture will take place at our Institute on 5 June at 16:15 and will be delivered by Marie Sandström of Stockholm University, who is also a member of our Advisory Board.

Anselm Küsters, an associate researcher at our Institute and currently a postdoc working in the area of Digital History at the Humboldt University of Berlin, has been awarded the prestigious Roman Herzog Research Prize.
As the first-place finisher, he receives 20,000 Euros for his dissertation, ‘The Making and Unmaking of Ordoliberal Language’, which he wrote here at the mpilhlt. He used digital methods of natural language processing to investigate the development of EU competition law.

We are looking to recruit for 1 October 2023, or as soon as possible thereafter a Doctoral Student (m/f/div) for the Fellowship project ‘The History of European Union Employment Law’ under the supervision of Thorsten Keiser and Stefan Vogenauer, dealing with the following topic:
Equal pay in the Benelux countries in light of European law (1952-1973)

You will develop, co-ordinate and pursue a doctoral project turning the topic mentioned above. You will publish your findings and actively participate in the research activities of the Institute under the guidance of Keiser and Vogenauer.