Home Events Events Location: video conference Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 2021 All 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 From Henry Maine to Tung-tsu Chu: An Early Interpretation of Historical-Sociological Jurisprudence Seminar Methods of Legal History Date: Dec 21, 2021 Time: 03:00 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Hongji Li Location: video conference Room: Registration for the internal event until 26.04. with Nicole Pasakarnis [more] The Society of Comparative Legislation and the Systemization of Legal Circulation MPI-TAU Transnational Legal History Workshop Date: Dec 14, 2021 Time: 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: David Schorr (TAU) Organisation: Thomas Duve, David Schorr (TAU), Stefan Vogenauer Location: video conference Room: For further information please contact mpitauwkshp@gmail.com [more] 'Mucanos is the term given here in Portuguese to crimes of any degree': exploratory notes on Luso-African legal experiences in nineteenth-century West Central Africa African Legal History Seminar Date: Dec 13, 2021 Time: 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Rita Amaral (University of the Free State) Location: video conference Room: For further information please contact the organisers Host: A joint iniative of the Max Planck Research Group 'Legal Connectivities and Colonial Cultures in Africa' and the project 'Global Legal History on the Ground'. [more] Discretion and the rule of law: the dissemination, endurance and significance of vagrancy laws in England and the former British Empire Common Law Research Seminar Date: Dec 13, 2021 Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Christopher Roberts (Chinese University of Hong Kong) Convenors: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola Location: video conference Room: For further information please contact cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de [more] Nationality Across the Mediterranean: Jews, Islamic Law, and Belonging in Tunisia MPI-TAU Transnational Legal History Workshop Date: Dec 7, 2021 Time: 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Jessica Marglin (USC) Convenors: Thomas Duve, David Schorr (TAU), Stefan Vogenauer Location: video conference Room: For further information please contact mpitauwkshp@gmail.com [more] Force and consent in English contract labour Common Law Research Seminar Date: Dec 6, 2021 Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Sonia Tycko (University of Oxford) Convenors: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola Location: video conference Room: For further information please contact cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de [more] Transnational Elements in Colonial Laws: Spain, Portugal and the Netherlands MPI-TAU Transnational Legal History Workshop Date: Nov 30, 2021 Time: 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Heikki Pihlajamäki (Helsinki) Convenors: Thomas Duve, David Schorr (TAU), Stefan Vogenauer Location: video conference Room: For further information please contact mpitauwkshp@gmail.com [more] International Organization through Law? The League of Nations and International Law, 1919-1939 Conference Start: Nov 29, 2021 09:30 AM (Local Time Germany) End: Nov 30, 2021 05:30 PM Conveners: Stefan Vogenauer, Morten Rasmussen (Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen) Location: video conference Room: For further information, please contact Morten Rasmussen, mortenra@hum.ku.dk [more] Rabbinic Responsa and Legal Communication MPI-TAU Transnational Legal History Workshop Date: Nov 23, 2021 Time: 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Tamara Morsel-Eisenberg (Harvard) Organisation: Thomas Duve, David Schorr (TAU), Stefan Vogenauer Location: video conference Room: For further information please contact mpitauwkshp@gmail.com [more] Global History and a Decentered History of Law MPI-TAU Transnational Legal History Workshop Date: Nov 16, 2021 Time: 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Manuel Bastias Saavedra (MPI) Convenors: Thomas Duve, David Schorr (TAU), Stefan Vogenauer Location: video conference Room: For further information please contact mpitauwkshp@gmail.com [more] Global Legal Biography MPI-TAU Transnational Legal History Workshop Date: Nov 9, 2021 Time: 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Philip Bajon, Victoria Barnes & Emily Whewell (MPI) Convenors: Thomas Duve, David Schorr (TAU), Stefan Vogenauer Location: video conference Room: For further information please contact mpitauwkshp@gmail.com [more] Global Legal History on the Ground Seminar Date: Nov 9, 2021 Time: 03:30 PM - 05:30 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Liazzat Bonate (University of the West Indies in Trinidad and Tobago) Organization: Mariana Dias Paes, Maysa Espíndola Souza, Juelma Matos Ngãla, Raquel Sirotti Location: video conference [more] ‘Peopling the country by unpeopling it’: Jeremy Bentham’s silences on indigenous Australia Common Law Research Seminar Date: Nov 8, 2021 Time: 09:30 AM - 10:30 AM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Zoë Laidlaw (University of Melbourne) Convenors: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola Location: video conference Room: For further information please contact cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de [more] Transnational Entanglements in Land Law and Land Registration in the 19th Century MPI-TAU Transnational Legal History Workshop Date: Nov 2, 2021 Time: 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Elisabetta Fiocchi (Zurich) Convenors: Thomas Duve, David Schorr (TAU), Stefan Vogenauer Location: video conference Room: For further information please contact mpitauwkshp@gmail.com [more] Wither the power of disallowance? Common Law Research Seminar Date: Nov 1, 2021 Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Hakeem Yusuf (Open University) Convenors: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola Location: video conference Room: For further information please contact cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de [more] History of International law – General introduction into methods and research tradition Seminar Methods of Legal History Date: Oct 29, 2021 Time: 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Prof. Dr. Thomas Duve Location: video conference [more] The Warfare Origins of the Anti-Slave-Trade Legal Regime in the Atlantic World MPI-TAU Transnational Legal History Workshop Date: Oct 26, 2021 Time: 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Jake Subryan Richards (LSE) Convenors: Thomas Duve, David Schorr (TAU), Stefan Vogenauer Location: video conference Room: For further information please contact mpitauwkshp@gmail.com [more] From Masters of Slaves to Lords of Lands: The Transformation of Ownership in the Western World MPI-TAU Transnational Legal History Workshop Date: Oct 19, 2021 Time: 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: James Q. Whitman (Yale Law School) Convenors: Thomas Duve, David Schorr (TAU), Stefan Vogenauer Location: video conference Room: For further information please contact mpitauwkshp@gmail.com [more] The ship, the slave, the legal person Common Law Research Seminar Date: Oct 18, 2021 Time: 05:00 PM - 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Renisa Mawani (University of British Columbia) Convenors: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola Location: video conference Room: For further information please contact cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de [more] Cornelia Weiss on Post-WWII Occupied Germany: Examining the Effect of a Male Majority Occupation on the Political Power, Legal Rights, and Economic Opportunities of Women in a Female Majority Land Lecture Date: Jul 30, 2021 Time: 12:00 PM c.t. (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Cornelia Weiss Organisation: Victoria Barnes, Amber Rose Maggio, Zeynep Yazici Caglar Location: video conference Room: For further information please contact minervalawnet@lhlt.mpg.de [more] The Early Modern Encounter between European Slavery and Asian Bondage Workshop Start: Jul 13, 2021 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany) End: Jul 14, 2021 06:00 PM Organisation: Rômulo da Silva Ehalt (mpilhlt), Stuart M. McManus (Chinese University of Hong Kong) Location: video conference Room: For further information, please contact ehalt@lhlt.mpg.de [more] Codification as Communication: Criminal Law Reform and the Indian Penal Code of 1861 Common Law Research Seminar Date: Jul 12, 2021 Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Erica Ollikainen-Read (mpilhlt) Conveners: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola Location: video conference Room: For further information please contact cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de [more] Contractus & quasi contractus Salamanca Colloquium Date: Jul 7, 2021 Time: 02:30 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Prof. Dr. Francisco Cuena Boy (Faculty of Law, Universidad de Cantabria) Organisation: Christiane Birr, José Luis Egío, Andreas Wagner Location: video conference Room: For further information please contact salamanca@rg.mpg.de [more] Women and the International Law Commission Seminar Date: Jun 30, 2021 Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Dr Nilüfer Oral, Professor Patrícia Galvão Teles, Professor Concepción Escobar-Hernández, Dr Marja Lehto, Ambassador Marie Jacobsson Organisation: Victoria Barnes, Amber Rose Maggio, Zeynep Yazici Caglar Location: video conference Room: For further information please contact minervalawnet@lhlt.mpg.de [more] Settling Accounts Straight: ‘Indigenous Bankers’ in Search of New Histories in the 20th Century Common Law Research Seminar Date: Jun 21, 2021 Time: 02:15 PM - 02:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Lakshmi Subramanian (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata) Conveners: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola Location: video conference Room: For further information please contact cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de [more] Patents and Invention in Jamaica and the British Atlantic before 1857 Common Law Research Seminar Date: Jun 14, 2021 Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Aaron Graham (University of Oxford) Conveners: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola Location: video conference Room: For further information please contact cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de [more] Seminar Methods of Legal History Seminar Date: Jun 11, 2021 Time: 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Prof. Dr. Thomas Duve Location: video conference Room: Registration for the internal event until 31.05. with Nicole Pasakarnis [more] Global Legal History on the Ground Seminar Date: Jun 10, 2021 Time: 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Juliana Barreto Farias (Universidade do Estado da Bahia- UNILAB) Organisation: Mariana Dias Paes, Raquel Sirotti, Maysa Espíndola Souza, Juelma de Matos Ngãla Location: video conference Room: To receive the Zoom link, contact diaspaes@lhlt.mpg.de [more] From archives to the cloud. Perspectives on sources and descriptions mpilhlt Colloquium: Archives Date: Jun 8, 2021 Time: 02:15 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Andreas Wagner Organisation: Stefanie Rüther Location: video conference Room: For further information please contact ruether@lhlt.mpg.de [more] Conference: 4th Annual Conference: Law and Policy in European Integration (1960s-1990s) Conference Start: Jun 1, 2021 09:30 AM (Local Time Germany) End: Jun 2, 2021 04:00 PM Conveners: Stefan Vogenauer, Jan-Henrik Meyer Location: video conference Room: For further information please contact jmeyer@lhlt.mpg.de [more] Non-state Law of the Economy. The Normative Order of Industrial Relations in the Metal Industry from the Empire to the Early Years of the Federal Republic of Germany Expert workshop Date: May 28, 2021 Time: 01:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Organisation: Peter Collin, Johanna Wolf Location: video conference Room: For further information please contact collin@lhlt.mpg.de [more] Ulla Weber on Gender Equality Monitoring, Diverse Work and Research Culture Seminar Date: May 28, 2021 Time: 12:30 PM - 01:30 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Ulla Weber(MPG) Organisation: Victoria Barnes, Amber Rose Maggio, Zeynep Yazici Caglar Location: video conference Room: For further information please contact minervalawnet@rg.mpg.de [more] Jürgen Osterhammel's ‘The Transformation of the World. A Global History of the Nineteenth Century’ Reading Seminar Date: May 27, 2021 Time: 01:30 PM - 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Organisation: Lena Foljanty Location: video conference Room: For further information please contact hk-translations-transitions@lhlt.mpg.de [more] Shifting Sands: British Imperial Politics of Land Reclamation in the mid-20th Century Common Law Research Seminar Date: May 25, 2021 Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Nurfadzilah Yahaya (National University Singapore) Conveners: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola Location: video conference Room: For further information please contact cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de [more] Seminar Methods of Legal History Seminar Date: May 7, 2021 Time: 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Prof. Dr. Thomas Duve Location: video conference Room: Registration for the internal event until 26.04. with Nicole Pasakarnis [more] Erste Juristinnen und letzte Rechtsagenten: unbekannte Akteure auf dem juristischen Feld des späten 19. Jahrhunderts Frankfurter Rechtshistorische Abendgespräche Date: May 5, 2021 Time: 06:00 PM c.t. (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Michele Luminati, University of Luzern Location: video conference Room: For further information please contact ruether@rg.mpg.de [more] Commentaries De iustitia et iure in early modern New Kingdom of Granada Salamanca Colloquium Date: May 5, 2021 Time: 02:30 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Organisation: Christiane Birr, José Luis Egío Location: video conference Room: For further information please contact salamanca@rg.mpg.de [more] What's Special About Archives in Germany? Some Observations What's Special About Archives in Germany? Date: May 4, 2021 Time: 02:15 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Dr. Marcus Stumpf (LWL Archivamt für Westfalen) Organisation: Stefanie Rüther Location: video conference Room: For further information please contact ruether@rg.mpg.de [more] Empire Ltd.: Law and the Rise of Multinationals in the First Era of Globalization. Common Law Research Seminar Date: May 3, 2021 Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Ron Harris (Tel Aviv University) Conveners: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola Location: video conference Room: For further information please contact cazzola@rg.mpg.de [more] Hélène Ruiz Fabri on Women and International Law Seminar Date: Apr 29, 2021 Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Hélène Ruiz Fabri Organisation: Victoria Barnes, Amber Rose Maggio, Zeynep Yazici Caglar Location: video conference Room: For further information please contact minervalawnet@rg.mpg.de [more] Law and Commerce: The Fortunate Crisis of the 18th Century Common Law Research Seminar Date: Apr 26, 2021 Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Aleksi Ollikainen-Read (mpilhlt) Conveners: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola Location: video conference Room: For further information please contact cazzola@rg.mpg.de [more] Jürgen Osterhammel's ‘The Transformation of the World. A Global History of the Nineteenth Century’ Reading Seminar Date: Apr 23, 2021 Time: 09:30 AM - 11:00 AM (Local Time Germany) Organisation: Lena Foljanty Location: video conference Room: For further information please contact hk-translations-transitions@rg.mpg.de [more] Maleficium Salamanca Colloquium Date: Apr 21, 2021 Time: 02:30 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Organisation: Christiane Birr, José Luis Egío, Andreas Wagner Location: video conference Room: For further information please contact salamanca@rg.mpg.de [more] A History of Privileged Inventing in Bengal: A Study of the Patenting System in India, 1856-1888 Common Law Research Seminar Date: Apr 19, 2021 Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Subhadeep Chowdhury (Ambedkar University) Conveners: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola Location: video conference Room: For further information please contact cazzola@rg.mpg.de [more] British imperial administration and the 'thin crust of order': Society, constitution, and diplomacy in the political thought of Lord Elgin Common Law Research Seminar Date: Apr 12, 2021 Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Matilde Cazzola Conveners: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola Location: video conference Room: For further information please contact cazzola@rg.mpg.de [more] Special Legal Orders. Normative Diversity in the 19th and 20th Centuries Discussion group „Special Legal Orders” Date: Apr 7, 2021 Time: 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Marcelo Neves (University of Brasilia) Organisation: Peter Collin Location: video conference Room: For further information please contact collin@rg.mpg.de [more] Global Legal History on the Ground Research Seminar Date: Apr 1, 2021 Time: 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Fodé Abulai Mané (Bissau Law School) Organisation: Mariana Dias Paes, Raquel Sirotti, Maysa Espíndola Souza, Juelma Matos Location: video conference Room: For further information please contact diaspaes@rg.mpg.de [more] Anke Hübenthal on mentoring, role models and opening doors Seminar Date: Mar 26, 2021 Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Anke Hübenthal Organisation: Victoria Barnes, Amber Rose Maggio, Zeynep Yazici Caglar Location: video conference Room: For further information please contact minervalawnet@rg.mpg.de [more] Working Group: Using Normative Knowledge from the Past Workshop Date: Mar 10, 2021 Time: 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Organisation: Alexandra Woods Location: video conference Room: For further information, please contact woods@rg.mpg.de [more] The School of Salamanca on Slavery: from ius gentium to ius civile Salamanca Colloquium Date: Mar 10, 2021 Time: 02:30 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Organisation: Christiane Birr, José Luis Egío, Andreas Wagner Location: video conference Room: For further information please contact salamanca@rg.mpg.de [more] Seminar Methods of Legal History Seminar Date: Mar 5, 2021 Time: 01:15 PM - 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Prof. Dr. Thomas Duve Location: video conference Room: Registration for the internal event until 01.03. with Nicole Pasakarnis. [more] Digital Methods and Resources in Legal History Conference Start: Mar 1, 2021 End: Mar 5, 2021 Organisation: Sigrid Amedick, Andreas Wagner Location: video conference Room: For further information please contact dlh@rg.mpg.de [more] First women lawyers: A pan-European struggle Lecture Date: Feb 26, 2021 Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Lena Foljanty Organisation: Victoria Barnes, Amber Rose Maggio, Zeynep Yazici Caglar Location: video conference Room: For further information please contact minervalawnet@rg.mpg.de [more] Jürgen Osterhammel's ‘The Transformation of the World. A Global History of the Nineteenth Century’ Reading Seminar Date: Feb 24, 2021 Time: 09:30 AM - 11:00 AM (Local Time Germany) Organisation: Lena Foljanty Location: video conference Room: For further information please contact hk-translations-transitions@rg.mpg.de [more] Jürgen Osterhammel's ‘The Transformation of the World. A Global History of the Nineteenth Century’ Reading Seminar Date: Feb 17, 2021 Time: 09:30 AM - 11:00 AM (Local Time Germany) Organisation: Lena Foljanty Location: video conference Room: For further information please contact hk-translations-transitions@rg.mpg.de [more] Regionalización y traducción cultural del derecho Canónico en Indias? DCH Workshop Start: Feb 3, 2021 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany) End: Feb 5, 2021 05:00 PM Organisation: Pilar Mejía Location: video conference Room: For further information please contact mejia@lhlt.mpg.de [more] The Archival Epistemology of Political Economy in the Early Modern British Atlantic World mpilhlt Colloquium: Archives Date: Feb 2, 2021 Time: 02:15 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Asheesh Kapur Siddique, University of Massachusetts-Amherst Comment by Francesco Giuliani Organisation: Stefanie Rüther Location: video conference Room: For further information please contact ruether@rg.mpg.de [more] Legal Books and Beyond in the Iberian Worlds. Normative Knowledge Production in the Age of the Printing Press Working Group Meeting Start: Jan 28, 2021 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany) End: Jan 29, 2021 12:00 PM Organisation: Manuela Bragagnolo Location: video conference Room: Internal working group meeting [more] Jürgen Osterhammel's ‘The Transformation of the World. A Global History of the Nineteenth Century’ Reading Seminar Date: Jan 27, 2021 Time: 09:30 AM - 11:00 AM (Local Time Germany) Organisation: Lena Foljanty Location: video conference Room: For further information please contact hk-translations-transitions@rg.mpg.de [more] What is the history of archives, and why bother? mpilhlt Colloquium: Archives Date: Jan 12, 2021 Time: 02:15 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Organisation: Stefanie Rüther Location: video conference Room: For further information please contact ruether@rg.mpg.de [more]
