Events

Events

Location: MPIeR

Workshop: Using Normative Knowledge from the Past

Workshop
  • Date: Mar 4, 2020
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Organisation: Alexandra Woods, Fupeng Li
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Z02

"Collaboration, Control and Conflict in the Administration of Criminal Justice in Comparative Perspective: Buenos Aires and Minas Gerais during the Late Colonial Period"

Research Colloquium on Global Legal History

Research Colloquium: Between Roças and Palhotas: Colonial exploitation in Portuguese Africa, 1850-1930

Colloquium

Guest Lecture: Missing Pieces in the Legal History of the 19th- and 20th-century East Asia

Guest Lecture

The British Empire’s Regulation of Same-Sex Sexualities and Gender Diversity: Developing Analysis through Global Historical Sociology

Common Law Research Seminar

Juan Belda Plans: Presentación de la edición crítica y la traducción al español de la Relectio de Poenitentia de Melchor Cano

Salamanca Colloquium

American States of Nature The Origins of Independence, 1761-1775

Common Law Research Seminar

Research Colloquium: Not Quite Brothers in Arms: Indigenous legal status during the Dutch expansion to the State of Maranhão, 1642

Colloquium

Boris Hogenmüller: Melchor Cano, De locis theologicis – some remarks on concept and reception of the Loci

Salamanca Colloquium

Transferring offer, acceptance and revocation to British Guiana

Common Law Research Seminar

Max Planck Legal History Quaterly Forum: Global Legal History

Colloquium

Salamanca-Colloquium: Bruna Franceschini: Reflections on the Legal Subject in the Context of Latin American Colonialism

Colloquium

Research Colloquium: Seeing Others and Seeing Me: Comparative interpretations of Law throughout legal changes in early 20th century China

Colloquium

Colloquium: Colonial Visual Knowledge: photography as a source to study colonialism in Africa

Colloquium

Conference: The legal history of white-collar work

Conference: The legal history of white-collar work

Norms and Empires Lecture Series: Local normativity and the Portuguese imperial order. The case of Goa in the 16th and 17th centuries

Norms and Empires Lecture Series

The Meaning of Territory in British Empire Border Disputes

Common Law Research Seminar

Workshop: Germany and Japan in the State of Exception and in the Total War of the 20th Century: Comparing Jurisprudences

Workshop: Germany and Japan in the State of Exception and in the Total War of the 20th Century
  • Start: Nov 20, 2019 10:15 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • End: Nov 21, 2019 05:00 PM
  • Organisation: Lena Foljanty, Naoko Matsumoto
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Lecture hall of the MPI

Workshop: The role of images and iconography in legal history

Workshop

Seminar: "Colonial Lives of Property: Law, Land, and Racial Regimes of Ownership"

Seminar
  • Date: Nov 18, 2019
  • Time: 10:00 AM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Organisation: Murat Burak Aydin
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Seminar room of the MPI

Roundtable: Uma rodada de conversação científica em homenagem a António Manuel Hespanha

Roundtable

Across Boundaries: the English Justices of the Peace on the Continent

Common Law Research Seminar

Norms and Empires Lecture Series: The Justification of Concubinage as an Institution of Slavery: The Establishment of Gender Categories and the Stigma of Racial Slavery

Norms and Empires Lecture Series

Colloquium: Anthropology of Law and Legal Pluralism

Colloquium Methods for Legal History

The Use of Bills of Exchange in 18th Century Glasgow

Common Law Research Seminar

Governing diversity: A talk with Tamar Herzog

Seminar
  • Date: Oct 22, 2019
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Organisation: Dr. Benedetta Albani (Max-Planck Research Group "Governance of the Universal Church after the Council of Trent")
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Z01

Bianca Premo: Current doctrines and similar petitions: capitalist legal logic among native and enslaved litigants in Spanish America

Frankfurter Rechtshistorische Abendgespräche

Workshop on Methods and Sources: Glocalising Normativities

Workshop
  • Date: Oct 16, 2019
  • Time: 02:30 PM - 04:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Organisation: Manuel Bastias Saavedra
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Seminar room of the MPI

Seminar: Legal Education as a Tool of Professionalization in England (1850-1900)

Common Law Research Seminar

Research Colloquium: The origins and legacies of the British West Indian Slave Legislation: When periphery becomes the centre

Colloquium

Workshop: RISE-MPIeR: Diálogos entre História e Direito na África

Workshop
  • Date: Oct 9, 2019
  • Time: 10:00 AM - 05:25 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Organisation: Mariana Dias Paes
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Lecture hall of the MPI

Norms and Empires Lecture Series: Between Citizenship and Foreignness. Free People of Color during the Age of Atlantic Revolutions

Norms and Empires Lecture Series

Workshop: Synoptic Legal Knowledge. Visualizing and Analysing Textual Variants Across Languages

Workshop
  • Date: Sep 25, 2019
  • Time: 10:00 AM - 07:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Organisation: Manuela Bragagnolo, Andreas Wagner
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Z01

Seminar: Transformation of Legal Thinking and Legal Practice in 19th and early 20th Century Japan

Seminar
  • Date: Sep 24, 2019
  • Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Organisation: Lena Foljanty
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Seminar room of the MPI

Colloquium: The Emergence of Scholastic Probabilism in a Global Perspective

Colloquium

Max Planck Legal History Quarterly Forum: Herramientas metodológicas y preguntas histórico-jurídicas

Max Planck Legal History Quarterly Forum

Workshop on Methods and Sources: Glocalising Normativities

Workshop
  • Date: Aug 21, 2019
  • Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Organisation: Manuel Bastias Saavedra
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Seminar room of the MPI

Workshop: "The Global Face of the School of Salamanca: Asian and American perspectives"

Workshop

Max Planck Summer Academy for Legal History 2019

Summer Academy 2019
  • Start: Aug 5, 2019
  • End: Aug 16, 2019
  • This year’s theme: Law in text and context
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Host: MPIeR

The Mandatory Sentence of Death in Barbados

Common Law Research Seminar

Workshop Law and Textuality: Crossing Perspectives between Book History and Legal History

Workshop

Jour Fixe: Illegal under the laws of all nations? The courts of Haiti and the suppression of the Atlantic trade in African captives

Jour Fixe

Legal Biography Workshop

Workshop
  • Start: Jul 2, 2019 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • End: Jul 3, 2019 04:00 PM
  • Organisation: Victoria Barnes, Catharine MacMillan, Stefan Vogenauer
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Z01

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

Conference
  • Start: Jun 24, 2019 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • End: Jun 25, 2019 03:15 PM
  • Organisation: Peter Collin, Agustín Casagrande
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Z01

The Wild West: Detention without Trial in West Africa 1880-1900

Common Law Research Seminar

Annual Conference: The Contribution of the Legal Services of the European Institutions to European Union Law

Conference
  • Start: Jun 18, 2019 09:30 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • End: Jun 19, 2019 04:00 PM
  • Organisation: Stefan Vogenauer, Sigfrido Ramirez Perez
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Z01

Salamanca Colloquium: Simona Langella: „Una edición y traducción del tratato De Lege de Juan Gil Fernández de Nava“

Colloquium
  • Date: Jun 12, 2019
  • Time: 02:30 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Simona Langella (Genova)
  • Organisation: Christiane Birr, José Luis Egío (MPIeR)
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Z02

The Past and Present in Judicial Independence and Disciplining in the Common Law World

Common Law Research Seminar

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

Conference
  • Start: Jun 6, 2019 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • End: Jun 7, 2019 03:00 PM
  • Organisation: Peter Collin, Agustín Casagrande
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Lecture hall of the MPI

Seminar: "Law and Textuality": Law as Text – a 'Barbarian' Perspective

Seminar
  • Date: Jun 4, 2019
  • Time: 02:30 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Christoph Meyer
  • Organisation: Manuela Bragagnolo
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Z01

The Interpretation of Commonwealth Caribbean Constitutions: Does Text Matter?

Common Law Research Seminar

Plenum: Lena Foljanty: Presentation of the edition 'Fritz Bauer: Kleine Schriften 1921-1969'

Plenum

Discussion: Translating Early Modern Books

Discussion

Workshop: Transnational Criminal Law in Transatlantic Perspective (1870-1945): Towards a dialogue between the Global North and the Global South

Workshop
  • Start: May 23, 2019 09:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • End: May 24, 2019 05:00 PM
  • Organisation: Karl Härter / Valeria Vegh Weis
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Seminar room of the MPI

Seminar: "Law and Textuality": Encyclopaedism and law between the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Seminar

Salamanca Colloquium: Joost Possemiers: „Business ethics, contract law and moral theology in Conrad Summenhart’s monumental 'Opus de contractibus' (1500)“

Colloquium
  • Date: May 21, 2019
  • Time: 03:00 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Joost Possemiers (Leuven)
  • Organisation: Christiane Birr (MPIeR)
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Z01

Practice, Legislation and Courts - Pitfalls of Formalising English Commercial Law, 1691-1925

Common Law Research Seminar

Seminar: La enseñanza del Concilio de Trento en las universidades hispánicas (siglos XVI-XVII)

Seminar

Reading group "Law and Textuality"

Reading group

Legal Transplantation within Amelioration and Manumission Laws in the British West Indies 1700s-1830s

Common Law Research Seminar
  • Date: May 6, 2019
  • Time: 02:15 PM - 03:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Justine Collins (MPIeR)
  • Organisation: Stefan Vogenauer, Emily Whewell
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Z02

Seminar: The History of Constitutionalism in Canada and the Canadian Constitutional Settlement of 1849

Seminar

“Just dominion: whatever may have been the right and justice in the beginning”

Reading Course
  • Start: Apr 10, 2019 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • End: Apr 12, 2019 01:00 PM
  • Organisation: Christiane Birr, José Luis Egío (Goethe Universität), Andreas Wagner (MPIeR)
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Z01

Guest Lecture: The Horizon of A Chinese Legal History

Guest Lecture

Second Comparative Workshop on Legal Transformations in 19th and early 20th Century Japan, China, and the Ottoman Empire

Workshop
  • Start: Mar 27, 2019 10:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • End: Mar 29, 2019 01:00 PM
  • Organisation: Lena Foljanty
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Lecture hall of the MPI

Salamanca-Colloquium: Observaciones sobre edición crítica de Melchor Cano (métodos y subsidios para el trabajo)

Colloquium

Max Planck Legal History Quarterly Forum: Transformaciones históricas y respuestas legales

Max Planck Legal History Quarterly Forum

Colloquium on the History of Criminal Procedure and Conspiracy

Colloquium
  • Date: Mar 14, 2019
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Organisation: Clara Borges, Victor Saucedo, Karl Härter
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Z02

Presentation of the project “Resistance” (MSCA- RISE- Horizon 2020)

Jour Fixe

Meet the Author – Lauren Benton: The British Imperial Constitution and Global Legal Order

Meet the Author
  • Date: Mar 1, 2019
  • Time: 03:00 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Prof. Lauren Benton
  • Organisation: Thomas Duve
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Z01

Workshop: Translating Weimar

Workshop
  • Date: Feb 18, 2019
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Organisation: Thomas Duve, Fupeng Li, Donal Coffey
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Z02

Jour Fixe: Theory of the state from a legal-historical perspective: a discussion with Thomas Vesting

Jour Fixe

Introductory Lecture to the Historiography of the Portuguese Empire: the cases of Angola and Japan

Lecture
  • Date: Feb 7, 2019
  • Time: 10:00 AM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Organisation: Luisa Stella Coutinho (MPIeR) / Mariana Armond Dias Paes (MPIeR)
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Z01

Colloquium: Project "The School of Salamanca": Epitomizing and 'Tridentinizing' Vitoria: Tomás de Chaves’s Summa sacramentorum (1560)

Colloquium
  • Date: Feb 6, 2019
  • Time: 02:30 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: José Luis Egío (MPIeR)
  • Organisation: Christiane Birr (MPIeR)
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Z01

Seminar: Manufactured States: Sovereignty and International Law in the Decolonization of South Asia

Seminar
  • Date: Feb 4, 2019
  • Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Priyasha Saksena (MPIeR)
  • Organisation: Stefan Vogenauer, Emily Whewell
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Z02

Workshop - Law and Text

Workshop
  • Date: Jan 23, 2019
  • Time: 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Organisation: Christoph Meyer (MPIeR), Manuela Bragagnolo (MPIeR)
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Seminarraum des MPI

Seminar: The Changing Patterns of Anglo-African International Relations (1807-1840)

Seminar

Guest Lecture: Lawyers, the Writing of History, and Public Uses of the Past (Brazil, 1900-1943)

Guest lecture

Workshop - Discussing "Glocalization"

Workshop
  • Date: Jan 15, 2019
  • Time: 03:00 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Organisation: Mariana Dias Paes
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Z02

'Damenwahl' - 'Ladies' choice'

Jour Fixe

Guest lecture: Local arbitration as practised multinormativity? Case studies from a Waldeck Peace Court of 1850.

Guest lecture

Seminar: ‘In Which We Are Not Singular in Our Notions’: William Blackstone as Interpreter of the European Legal Tradition

Seminar

Colloquium: „Staatstheorie im 21. Jahrhundert“

Colloquium
  • Date: Dec 13, 2018
  • Time: 04:00 PM - 08:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Organisation: Prof. Dr. Dr. Ino Augsberg, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel / Ricardo Campos, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt a.M.
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Z01

Jour Fixe: Roland Freisler (1893-1945) and the National Socialist vision of a European legal space

Jour Fixe

Conference: Initiative Arbeitsrechtsgeschichte - Historizität des Richterrechts

International Conference

Colloquium: Project The School of Salamanca: La vida es mas preciosa, que la libertad. Beobachtungen bei der Textkorrektur von Martin de Azpilcuetas Manual de Confessores (Salamanca 1556)

Colloquium
  • Date: Dec 5, 2018
  • Time: 02:30 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Christiane Birr (MPIeR)
  • Organisation: Christiane Birr (MPIeR); José Luis Egío (MPIeR)
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: G104

Guest lecture: Das Private vor Gericht. Verhandlungen des Eigenen im Zivil- und Strafrecht 1933-1945

Guest lecture
  • Date: Dec 4, 2018
  • Time: 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Annemone Christians
  • Organisation: Peter Collin
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Z01

Guest lecture: Visualisierte Evidenz. Inaugenscheinnahmen und ihre Dokumentation durch Augenscheinkarten am Reichskammergericht (1495-1806)

Guest lecture

Colloquium: Königsherrschaft in the 10th-11thcenturies: Italian and German Approaches in Dialogue

Colloquium

Max-Planck Legal History Quarterly Forum: Legal Transitions and Comparison in the Long 19th Century

Max-Planck Legal History Quaterly Forum

Seminar: Judicial Iconography in the Bombay High Court: From the Colonial to the Post-Colonial

Seminar

Jour Fixe: The Many Meanings of Divisible Sovereignty: Princes, British Officials, and the Indian States Committee, 1928-1929

Jour Fixe

Seminar: Legal Transplantation of the West Indian Comprehensive Slave Codes

Seminar
  • Date: Nov 5, 2018
  • Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Justine Collins (MPIeR)
  • Organisation: Stefan Vogenauer, Emily Whewell
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Z02

Seminar: Aspects of Electoral Reform in the Bahamas

Seminar
  • Date: Oct 22, 2018
  • Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Stephen Aranha (MPIeR)
  • Organisation: Stefan Vogenauer, Emily Whewell
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Z02

Doctoral seminar : "Rechtsstaat und Unrechtsstaat"

Doctoral Seminar
  • Date: Oct 17, 2018
  • Time: 05:00 PM - 07:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Christopher Clark
  • Attendees: Thomas Clausen (Cambridge), Marcus Colla (Cambridge), Oliver Haardt (Cambridge), Thorben Klünder (MPIeR), Christoph Resch (MPIeR), Eirik Roesvik(Cambridge), Phillip Schmitt (MPIeR) Anika Seemann(Cambridge), Leonard Wolckenhaar (MPIeR)
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Z02

Colloquium: Slavery in Spanish scholastic thought

Colloquium

Max-Planck Legal History Quarterly Forum: Slavery and Control Over One´s Own Body

Max-Planck Legal History Quaterly Forum

Seminar: The Beginnings of English Contract Law in Australia and New Zealand: ‘The Narrow Ways of English Folk’?

Seminar

Jour Fixe: Security Interests and Consistency in Commercial Law: the Example of Roman-Dutch Scholarship (17th c.)

Jour Fixe

Max Planck Legal History Quarterly Forum - History of Private Law in East Asia

Guest Workshop
  • Date: Sep 3, 2018
  • Time: 03:00 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Organisation: Stefan Vogenauer, Emily Whewell
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Z 01

Meet the Author - Michele Graziadei

Meet the Author

Colloquium on the History of Transnational Criminal Law and Political Violence

Colloquium
  • Date: Aug 23, 2018
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Organisation: Valeria Vegh Weis, Karl Härter
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Z02

Max Planck Summer Academy for Legal History 2018

Summer Academy 2018
  • Start: Jul 16, 2018
  • End: Jul 27, 2018
  • This year’s theme: The World and the Village. The Global and the Local in Legal History
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Host: MPIeR

Guest lecture - On the divisio obligationum in res cottidianae

Guest lecture

Seminar - »Africa needs many lawyers ... trained for the needs of their people«: Struggles over Legal Education in Nkrumah’s Ghana

Seminar

Conference - Key Biographies in the Legal History of European Union, 1950-1993

Conference
  • Start: Jun 21, 2018
  • End: Jun 22, 2018
  • Organisation: Stefan Vogenauer, Philip Bajon
  • Location: MPIeR

Guest Workshop - Legal Transfers, Transplantations and Translations

Guest Workshop
  • Date: Jun 20, 2018
  • Time: 03:45 PM - 05:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Organisation: Stefan Vogenauer, Victoria Barnes
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Z 01

Seminar - Aspects of Electoral Reform in the 20th century Bahamas: Women's Suffrage

Seminar
  • Date: Jun 18, 2018
  • Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Stephen Aranha (MPIeR)
  • Organisation: Stefan Vogenauer, Emily Whewell
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Z 02

Colloquium - “Perspectivas historiográficas y nuevos desafíos en la investigación sobre la Escuela de Salamanca“

Colloquium

Colloquium - Project „The School of Salamanca“

Colloquium
  • Date: Jun 6, 2018
  • Time: 02:30 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Organisation: Christiane Birr
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Lecture hall of the MPI

Colloquium - "History of Police and Criminal Justice"

Colloquium
  • Date: Jun 4, 2018
  • Time: 10:45 AM - 02:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Organisation: Karl Härter, Osvaldo Barreneche
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Lecture hall of the MPI

Seminar - The Court of Wards and Property Rights in Britain and the North American Colonies, 1485-1660

Seminar

Seminar - Copying Informal Institutions: The Role of British Colonial Officers during the Decolonization of British Africa

Seminar

Guest Workshop: Derecho e Historia en Latinoamérica

Guest Workshop

Otto Hahn Award Winners to Present at the Jour Fixe

Jour Fixe

Debates on ignorantia iuris in baroque scholasticism – what had changed from the Middle Ages?

Frankfurt Legal History Evening Lecture

Transplantation and the Origins of Slave Laws within the British West Indies

Seminar
  • Date: Apr 23, 2018
  • Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Justine Collins
  • Organisation: Stefan Vogenauer, Emily Whewell
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Z 02

Jour Fixe: Tontines and the History of Insurance Law

Jour Fixe

The English Perception of the Role of Jurisprudence in a System of Codified Law

Seminar

Workshop - Naturrechtsgeschichte und Wissensorganisation

Workshop

Initial Comparative Workshop on Legal Transformations in 19th and 20th Century Japan, China, and the Ottoman Empire

Workshop
  • Start: Mar 8, 2018 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • End: Mar 10, 2018 03:00 PM
  • Organisation: Lena Foljanty
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Lecture hall of the MPI

Research Colloqium - Francisco Cuena Boy: Contractus

Research Colloqium
  • Date: Feb 28, 2018
  • Time: 02:30 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Organisation: PD Dr. Christiane Birr, Dr. José Luis Egío
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Z 01

Workshop - Oral History of the European Court of Justice

Workshop
  • Start: Feb 19, 2018 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • End: Feb 20, 2018 01:00 PM
  • Organisation: Stefan Vogenauer & Sigfrido Ramírez Pérez
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Z 01

Police Legal Frameworks and Practices in XX Century Latin America

Jour Fixe

Workshop: Circulation and Organization of Normative Knowledge in Early Modern Times

Workshop

Guest Workshop: Historia del Derecho Colonial

Guest Workshop
  • Date: Jan 26, 2018
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Organisation: Pamela Cacciavillani
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Lecture hall of the MPI

Research Colloqium - Martin Schlag: The Economic Dimension of the School of Salamanca

Research Colloqium
  • Date: Jan 24, 2018
  • Time: 02:30 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Organisation: PD Dr. Christiane Birr, Dr. José Luis Egío
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Z 01

Law Reform Commissions in the Common Law World

Seminar
  • Date: Jan 22, 2018
  • Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Organisation: Stefan Vogenauer, Emily Whewell
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Seminar room of the MPI

Between Legal Pluralism and International Law in the Early Modern Mediterranean

Guest presentation
  • Date: Jan 11, 2018
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Claire Gilbert
  • Assistant Professor, Department of History, Saint Louis University (US)
  • Organisation: Jean-Philippe Dequen
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Seminar room of the MPI

Financial Crime in the Global Context: A Reference Point for Comparative Dimensions of Research into Legal History

Seminar
  • Date: Jan 8, 2018
  • Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Organisation: Stefan Vogenauer, Emily Whewell
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Seminar room of the MPI

Vertical Empire: The General Resettlement of Indians in the Colonial Andes

Meet the Author

The Transfer of the Statute of Anne: from England to a New Republic

Seminar
  • Date: Dec 11, 2017
  • Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Organisation: Stefan Vogenauer, Emily Whewell
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Seminar room of the MPI

The Concept of „Estado de Derecho“ in the History of Argentinean Constitutionalism (1930-2015)

Jour Fixe

3rd annual conference of the Initiative History of Labour Law

Conference
  • Date: Dec 8, 2017
  • Time: 10:00 AM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Z 01

Meeting of the Working Group »Initiative History of Labour Law«

Internal Meeting
  • Date: Dec 7, 2017
  • Time: 01:00 PM - 04:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Thematic Focus: NS Labour Law
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Z 01

Research Colloqium - Marco Toste: Ignorantia, infideles

Some Fundamental Concepts of the School of Salamanca’s Juridical-Political Language
  • Date: Dec 6, 2017
  • Time: 03:00 PM - 04:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Organisation: PD Dr. Christiane Birr, Dr. José Luis Egío
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Z 01

Conflict Regulation: The 1624 Tumult of Mexico in Perspective

Focus Area Meeting
  • Date: Nov 30, 2017
  • Time: 11:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Angela Ballone
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Z 01

Research Colloqium - Massimo Meccarelli: Lex

Some Fundamental Concepts of the School of Salamanca’s Juridical-Political Language
  • Date: Nov 15, 2017
  • Time: 02:30 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Organisation: PD Dr. Christiane Birr, Dr. José Luis Egío
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Z 01

Decolonizing Constitutional Law: the Common Law Mind of Yash Ghai

Legal Transfer in the Common Law World
  • Date: Nov 13, 2017
  • Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Organisation: Stefan Vogenauer, Emily Whewell
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Seminar room of the MPI

Jour Fixe: Actio Funeraria: On what it took to get buried in ancient Rome

Jour Fixe
  • Date: Nov 13, 2017
  • Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Oliver Unger, Hamburg
  • Opponent: Victoria Barnes, MPIeR
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Z 01

Comparing Solórzano from Within

Comparing Solórzano from Within

Undercover Under Scrutiny: A Comparative Look at Covert Policing in the United States, Germany, Italy, and France

Guest presentation

Return to sender: Early Modern Irish Appellate Law and the Use of Westminster as a Final Court of Appeal

Legal Transfer in the Common Law World
  • Date: Oct 30, 2017
  • Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Organisation: Stefan Vogenauer, Emily Whewell
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Seminar room of the MPI

Guest Workshop: Historia del derecho en América Latina

Guest Workshop

Meet the Author - Kenneth Stow

Meet the Author
  • Date: Oct 23, 2017
  • Time: 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Pr. Kenneth Stow, University of Haifa
  • Presentation: Anna and Tranquillo. Catholic Anxiety and Jewish Protest in the Age of Revolutions, New Haven - London, Yale University Press, 2016
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Z 01

Legal Transfer in the Common Law World

  • Date: Oct 16, 2017
  • Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Organisation: Stefan Vogenauer, Emily Whewell
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Seminar room of the MPI

Jour Fixe: Strikes, dictatorships and the circulation of ideas: investigating dialogues between Brazil, Portugal and Italy (1930-1945)

Jour Fixe
  • Date: Oct 16, 2017
  • Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Opponent: Massimo Meccarelli, associate Researcher MPIeR
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Z 01

Some Fundamental Concepts of the School of Salamanca’s Juridical-Political Language

  • Date: Oct 11, 2017
  • Time: 02:30 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Organisation: PD Dr. Christiane Birr, Dr. José Luis Egío
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Z 01

Conciliar Decision Making in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (6th–mid-9th Centuries)

International Conference
  • Start: Oct 5, 2017
  • End: Oct 7, 2017
  • Organisation: Prof. Dr. Panagiotis Agapitos, Prof. Dr. Wolfram Brandes, Prof. Dr. Hartmut Leppin
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Z 01

Max Planck Study Sessions 2017

Max Planck Study Sessions
  • Start: Sep 27, 2017
  • End: Sep 29, 2017
  • Organisation: Benedetta Albani, Massimiliano Valente
  • Location: MPIeR

Jour Fixe: The Lived Space: Land Sales, Local Knowledge, and Interethnic Relations on the Chilean Frontier, 1790-1830

Jour Fixe

Max Planck Summer Academy for Legal History 2017

Summer Academy 2017
  • Start: Jul 25, 2017
  • End: Aug 4, 2017
  • Special Theme: Conflict Regulation
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Host: MPIeR

Guest Workshop: Legal Historiography

Guest Workshop
  • Date: Jul 21, 2017
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 06:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Organisation
  • Victoria Barnes
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Z 01

Jonathan Rose: "Maintenance and Champerty: From Medieval England to the UK and the US Today?"

Common Law Research Seminar
  • Date: Jul 17, 2017
  • Time: 02:15 PM - 03:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Jonathan Rose
  • Arizona State University
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Z 02

Jour Fixe: Judicial Development of Law of Maintenance (1377-1485)

Jour Fixe
  • Date: Jul 10, 2017
  • Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Jonathan Rose
  • Arizona State University, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law
  • Opponent: Stefan Vogenauer, MPIeR
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Z 01

Treaties as travaux préparatoires: Conference on the 60th Anniversary of the Treaties of Rome

Conference
  • Start: Jun 22, 2017
  • End: Jun 23, 2017
  • Organisation: Stefan Vogenauer, Philip Bajon, Sigfrido Ramírez Pérez
  • Location: MPIeR

Jour Fixe: Constructing legal spaces – byrsa, bourse, Börse, or exchange

Jour Fixe

Workshop: Work and Family in a Society of Orders

Workshop
  • Start: Jun 8, 2017
  • End: Jun 9, 2017
  • Organisation: Laila Scheuch, Audrey Dauchy
  • Location: MPIeR

Lecture: John F. Schwaller: Mexico in 1585: The Backdrop of the Tercer Concilio Provincial

Lecture

Meet the Author – Tamar Herzog

Tamar Herzog
  • Date: May 31, 2017
  • Time: 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Z 01

Workshop: Philology and Digital Humanities: Old Questions and New Approaches for Working with Texts

Workshop
  • Date: May 15, 2017
  • Time: 02:30 PM - 07:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Organisation: Manuela Bragagnolo, Andreas Wagner
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Z 01

Guest Workshop: Law and Diversity – Legal Categories and Identity

Guest Workshop
  • Date: May 5, 2017
  • Time: 02:30 PM - 05:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Organisation: Lorena Ossio Bustillos
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Z 01

PhD@maxlaw Workshop 2017

Workshop
  • Start: May 3, 2017
  • End: May 5, 2017
  • Organisation: Justine Collins, Niels Pepels, Philipp Schmitt
  • Location: MPIeR
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Jan Schröder: Gibt es zeitlose Theorien in der Rechtswissenschaft? (Are there timeless theories in jurisprudence?)

Frankfurter Rechtshistorische Abendgespräche
  • Date: Apr 26, 2017
  • Time: 06:00 PM c.t. (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Prof. Dr. Jan Schröder
  • Eberhard Karls Universität, Tübingen
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Z 01

Treat as a vagrant every man who acts as a vagrant: ”Vagrancy and the Courts in Jamaica, 1865 - 1900

Common Law Research Seminar
  • Date: Apr 24, 2017
  • Time: 02:15 PM - 03:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Organisation: Stefan Vogenauer, Emily Whewell
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Z 02

Jour Fixe: Kaala Paani and the Archive: South Asian Indenture to Jamaica

Jour Fixe

“The Pope is not lord of the world": Reading Course: Francisco de Vitoria's „Erste Relectio über die kirchliche Gewalt“

Reading Course
  • Start: Mar 27, 2017
  • End: Mar 30, 2017
  • Organisation: Christiane Birr, José Luis Egío, Andreas Wagner
  • Location: MPIeR

Jour Fixe: Italian Judges and Judicial Practice in Libya

Jour Fixe

Guest Workshop: Property Law and Legal History in Latin America

Guest Workshop
  • Date: Feb 21, 2017
  • Time: 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Organizers: Pamela Cacciavillani and Mariana Armond Dias Paes
  • Location: MPIeR

Workshop: Land Ownership and Conflict in a Global Context: Transfer, Adaptation and Translation of Normative Systems

Workshop
  • Start: Feb 20, 2017
  • End: Feb 22, 2017
  • Registration deadline: Feb 13, 2017
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Z 01
  • Contact: mckee@rg.mpg.de

Jour Fixe: Multinormativity in Western Arguments Regarding Punishment of the Boxers and their Patrons, 1900-1901

Jour Fixe
  • Date: Feb 13, 2017
  • Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Timothy L. Schroer
  • University of West Georgia
  • Opponent: Donal Coffey
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Z 01

Guest Presentation at the Seminar on Legal History of Ibero-America

Guest Presentation at the Seminar on Legal History of Ibero-America
  • Date: Feb 6, 2017
  • Time: 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Carlos Ramos Núñez
  • Topic: Realidad y quimera: el jurado en el Perú
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Z 02

Workshop: The History of EU Law in Transnational and National Perspective

Workshop
  • Start: Jan 26, 2017
  • End: Jan 27, 2017
  • Location: MPIeR

Jour Fixe: The Federal Evolution of Imperial Germany and the Creation of the German Civil Code

Jour Fixe
  • Date: Jan 16, 2017
  • Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Oliver F. R. Haardt
  • University of Cambridge
  • Opponents: Philip Bajon / Philipp Schmitt, MPIeR
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Z 01

Guest presentation at the Seminar on legal history of Ibero-America

Guest presentation at the Seminar on legal history of Ibero-America
  • Date: Jan 9, 2017
  • Time: 07:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Nicolás Beraldi
  • Topic: ¿Trasplantes Legales en el Río de la Plata? El caso de la justicia de paz en la provincia de Buenos Aires (1821-1824)
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Z 02

Seminar: "Una nueva mirada sobre el Patronato Regio. La Curia Romana y el gobierno de la Iglesia Ibero-Americana en la edad moderna"

Seminar
  • Start: Dec 15, 2016
  • End: Dec 16, 2016
  • Organisation: Benedetta Albani and Giovanni Pizzorusso
  • Location: MPIeR

Jour Fixe: ‘Obstructive Collaboration’ – Rulers, Printers, and the Publication of Ordinances in the 16th Century

Jour Fixe
  • Date: Dec 12, 2016
  • Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Saskia Limbach
  • University of St Andrews
  • Opponent: Manuela Bragagnolo, MPIeR
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Z 01

SvSal colloquium: „Digital Editions as a Task for Research Libraries"

Colloquium
  • Date: Dec 7, 2016
  • Time: 02:30 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Dr. Thomas Stäcker
  • Herzog-August-Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Z 01

2. Annual Meeting of the Initiative History of Labour Law

Conference

Guest Lecture: 500 Years of the Reinheitsgebot

Guest Lecture
  • Date: Dec 1, 2016
  • Time: 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Barbara Sturm
  • Universität Kassel
  • Topic: 500 Years of the Reinheitsgebot: The Development of Beermaking and its Associated Regulations
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Z 01

Meeting of the Working Group »Initiative History of Labour Law«

Meeting
  • Date: Dec 1, 2016
  • Time: 01:00 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Topic: Discussion of a new publication
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Z 01

Introduction to « Prezi »

Workshop
  • Date: Nov 15, 2016
  • Time: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Topic: Introduction to the « Prezi » software
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Z 02

Jour Fixe: Christopher Thornhill: The Sociology of Law and the Global Transformation of Democracy

Jour Fixe
  • Date: Nov 14, 2016
  • Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Christopher Thornhill
  • University of Manchester
  • Opponent: Gerd Bender, MPIeR
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Z 01

History of the Law-related Max Planck Institutes since 1945

Workshop
  • Date: Nov 11, 2016
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Z 01

Guest Presentation at the Seminar on Legal History of Ibero-America

Guest presentation at the Seminar on legal history of Ibero-America
  • Date: Nov 7, 2016
  • Time: 07:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Jesús Jimeno Borrero
  • Topic: Socios y sociedades mercantiles en Sevilla (1747- 1848)
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Z 02

Catharine MacMillan: The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council

Frankfurter Rechtshistorische Abendgespräche
  • Date: Nov 2, 2016
  • Time: 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Catharine MacMillan
  • King’s College London
  • Topic: The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council: Law and the British Empire
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Z 01

Common Law Research Seminar - Semester I

Common Law Research Seminar
  • Date: Oct 31, 2016
  • Time: 02:15 PM - 04:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Organisation: Emily Whewell
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Z 02

Jour Fixe extraordinaire: Jean-Louis Halpérin: History of the "Juristenstand" in Germany during the 19th and 20th Centuries

Jour Fixe extraordinaire
  • Date: Oct 31, 2016
  • Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Jean-Louis Halpérin
  • École Normale Supérieure Paris
  • Topic: History of the "Juristenstand" in Germany during the 19th and 20th Centuries
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Z 01

Research Colloquium: Knowledge and Information Regimes in Early Modern Times

Research Colloquium
  • Date: Oct 18, 2016
  • Time: 02:30 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Organisation: Manuela Bragagnolo, Otto Danwerth, David Rex Galindo
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Z 01

Jour Fixe: Tatiana Borisova: Power Politics and the Problem of the Originality of Russian Law in Late Imperial Russia

Jour Fixe
  • Date: Oct 17, 2016
  • Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Tatiana Borisova
  • National Research University Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg
  • Topic: Power Politics and the Problem of the Originality of Russian Law in Late Imperial Russia
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Z 01

Guest Presentation at the Seminar on Legal History of Ibero-America

Guest Presentation at the Seminar on Legal History of Ibero-America
  • Date: Oct 10, 2016
  • Time: 07:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Francisco Ortega
  • Topic: Lenguaje político-moral de la diferencia en la primera mitad del siglo XIX colombiano
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Z 02

Max Planck Summer Academy for Legal History

Summer Academy

Jour Fixe: Felix Lange: Between Foreign Policy Advice and Systematization

Jour Fixe
  • Date: Jul 11, 2016
  • Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Felix Lange
  • Topic: Between Foreign Policy Advice and Systematization – Hermann Mosler and Western German International Legal Scholarship after 1945
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Z 01

Guest Presentation at the Seminar on Legal History of Ibero-America

Guest Presentation at the Seminar on Legal History of Ibero-America
  • Date: Jul 4, 2016
  • Time: 07:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Gustavo Silveira Siqueira
  • Topic: História do Direito de greve no Brasil: 1890-1946
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Z 02

Jour Fixe: Gauri Parasher (Heidelberg): Notes on the Administration of Justice to the Indians by the French (ca. 1765-1827)

Jour Fixe
  • Date: Jun 13, 2016
  • Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Gauri Parasher
  • PhD Candidate, Heidelberg University
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Z 01
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