Home Events Events Room: Z01 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 2025 All 2026 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 Mis-uses of comparative law in international development Max Planck Lecture in Legal History and Legal Theory Date: Jul 2, 2025 Time: 04:15 PM - 05:45 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Fernanda G Nicola (American University) Location: mpilhlt Room: Z01 Host: Stefan Vogenauer Contact: ruether@lhlt.mpg.de [more] Jeremy Bentham and the communication of legal authority: The Indian Penal Code of 1861 Common Law Research Seminar Date: Jun 23, 2025 Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Erica Ollikainen-Read Location: mpilhlt Room: Z01 Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Martin O'Donoghue Contact: odonoghue@lhlt.mpg.de [more] Meet the Author: J. J. Moreso (Barcelona) Meet the Author Date: Jun 10, 2025 Time: 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: J. J. Moreso (Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain) Location: mpilhlt Room: Z01 Host: Dr. Melanie Merlin, Prof. Marietta Auer Contact: merlin@lhlt.mpg.de [more] Departure and decree: The HMT Empire Windrush and the 1948 British Nationality Act in the Jamaican perspective Common Law Research Seminar Date: May 26, 2025 Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Holly French Room: Z01 Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Martin O'Donoghue Contact: odonoghue@lhlt.mpg.de [more] Form and content of dissenting judgments and the doctrine of precedent in the Cape of Good Hope (1828-1890) Common Law Research Seminar Date: May 19, 2025 Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Alexandra Wielandt Room: Z01 Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Martin O'Donoghue Contact: odonoghue@lhlt.mpg.de [more] “…with these books women will be able to know laws”: Women, Law, and Legal Literacies in the Iberian Worlds (18th-19th centuries) Wonder Colloquia Series 2025 Date: May 14, 2025 Time: 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Laura Beck Varela (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) Location: mpilhlt & online Room: Z01 Host: Vanessa Massuchetto Contact: massuchetto@lhlt.mpg.de [more] The punitive origins of 'welfare' legislation Common Law Research Seminar Date: May 12, 2025 Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Prakhar Ganguly Room: Z01 Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Martin O'Donoghue Contact: odonoghue@lhlt.mpg.de [more] English law in India: The introduction and codification of the law of restitution for unjust enrichment in India Common Law Research Seminar Date: Apr 28, 2025 Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Ragini Surana Room: Z01 Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Martin O'Donoghue Contact: odonoghue@lhlt.mpg.de [more] The Age of Ambiguity. Concurrence and Competition of Norms ('Normenkonkurrenz') in Early Modern Europe Frankfurter Rechtshistorische Abendgespräche Date: Apr 23, 2025 Time: 06:15 PM - 07:45 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Hillard von Thiessen (Universität Rostock) Location: mpilhlt Room: Z01 Host: Stefanie Rüther Contact: ruether@lhlt.mpg.de [more] Knowledge Production, Epistemic Communities, and Epistemic Justice. A View from Global Legal History Date: Feb 25, 2025 Time: 03:00 PM - 04:30 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Thomas Duve Location: mpilhlt Room: Z01 [more] The colonial education mould and its consequences: Comparative case studies of the Cape Colony and Northern Rhodesia (c. 1880-1930) Common Law Research Seminar Date: Jan 27, 2025 Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Alicia Haripershad (mpilhlt) Room: Z01 Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola Contact: cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de [more] Legal infrastructures and democracy. Deciphering contemporary battles for the control of law jointly with the 7th Annual Conference on the Legal History of the European Union Start: Jan 20, 2025 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany) End: Jan 21, 2025 04:00 PM Location: mpilhlt Room: Z01 Host: Basak Cali, Mikael Rask Madsen, Antoine Vauchez, Department Vogenauer Contact: vogenauer.office@lhlt.mpg.de [more] Meet the author: Yanna Yannakakis Date: Jan 16, 2025 Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Yanna Yannakakis (Emory University) Location: mpilhlt Room: Z01 Host: Luisa Stella Coutinho Contact: coutinho@lhlt.mpg.de [more] Future-making and Custom in Indigenous Land Claims in Colonial Mexico Max Planck Lecture in Legal History and Legal Theory Date: Jan 15, 2025 Time: 04:15 PM - 05:45 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Yanna Yannakakis (Emory University) Location: mpilhlt Room: Z01 Host: Thomas Duve Contact: ruether@lhlt.mpg.de [more]
