Home Events Events Room: For further information please contact cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec All All 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 Irish Lumpers: land in Ireland before the Great Famine Common Law Research Seminar Date: Jun 26, 2023 Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Padraic X. Scanlan (University of Toronto) Location: mpilhlt, Z02 Room: For further information please contact cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola [more] Humanitarian intervention and the Eastern question: establishing international practice as a legal doctrine Common Law Research Seminar Date: Jun 19, 2023 Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Fabian Klose (University of Cologne) Location: mpilhlt, Z02 Room: For further information please contact cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola [more] Writing the history of empires Common Law Research Seminar Date: Jun 12, 2023 Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Benedikt Stuchtey (Philipps University Marburg) Location: Marburg Room: For further information please contact cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola [more] Writing the history of empires Common Law Research Seminar Date: Jun 12, 2023 Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Benedikt Stuchtey (Philipps University Marburg) Location: Marburg Room: For further information please contact cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola [more] Legal transfer in the common law world: the case of Siam’s legal reform Common Law Research Seminar Date: Jun 5, 2023 Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Adam Reekie (Thammasat University) and Surutchada Reekie (Chulalongkorn University) Location: online Room: For further information please contact cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola [more] Prison labour and the law: Britain and its Empire (1750-1840) Common Law Research Seminar Date: May 30, 2023 Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Kiran Mehta (University of Oxford) Location: mpilhlt, Z02 Room: For further information please contact cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola [more] Towards a theory of 'cartojuridism': British East India Company and the cartographic precursor of English common law Common Law Research Seminar Date: May 22, 2023 Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Sabarish Suresh (Cardozo School of Law) Location: mpilhlt, Z02 Room: For further information please contact cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola [more] Bezoar stones and onion seeds in Early Modern English law Legal Transfer in the Common Law World : Common Law Research Seminar Date: Apr 24, 2023 Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Emily Kadens (Northwestern University) Location: mpilhlt, Z01 Room: For further information please contact cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola [more] Mercantile bodies and expansion of British legal institutions: the Royal Niger Company case Common Law Research Seminar Date: Jan 30, 2023 Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Winner Ijeoma (mpilhlt) Location: mpilhlt, Z01 Room: For further information please contact cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola [more] From colonial to vocational models: legislative thinking and the Irish senate before and after independence Common Law Research Seminar Date: Jan 16, 2023 Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Martin O’Donoghue (University of Sheffield) Location: mpilhlt, Z01 Room: For further information please contact cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola [more] Acts for the relief of the poor: examining the transfer of the Elizabethan Poor Law system to maritime Canada Common Law Research Seminar Date: Dec 19, 2022 Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Victoria Hooton (mpilhlt) Location: mpilhlt, Z01 Room: For further information please contact cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola [more] The problem of legal pluralism in the 18th-century British Empire Common Law Research Seminar Date: Dec 5, 2022 Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Hunter Harris (University of Oxford) Location: mpilhlt, Z01 Room: For further information please contact cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola [more] The rise and fall of Philadelphia’s Quaker court (1682-1772) Common Law Research Seminar Date: Nov 28, 2022 Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Esther Sahle (Freie Universität Berlin) Location: mpilhlt, Z01 Room: For further information please contact cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola [more] Policing beyond surveillance: crime, prosecution and detection in a common law jurisdiction (British India, 1868-1920) Common Law Research Seminar Date: Nov 21, 2022 Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Uponita Mukherjee (mpilhlt) Location: mpilhlt, Z01 Room: For further information please contact cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola [more] Travels of contract law: failure of consideration Common Law Research Seminar Date: Nov 14, 2022 Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Ragini Surana (mpilhlt) Location: mpilhlt, Z01 Room: For further information please contact cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola [more] Inventive Indians: technological imaginaries and patenting activity in late colonial India (1911-1948) Common Law Research Seminar Date: Nov 7, 2022 Time: 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Priya Mirza (Zakir Husain Delhi College) Location: Zoom (online seminar) Room: For further information please contact cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola [more] ‘Let’s divorce under our Civil Code’: a 19th-century US study Common Law Research Seminar Date: Jun 20, 2022 Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Julie Rocheton (mpilhlt) Location: mpilhlt, Z01 Room: For further information please contact cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola [more] Placing the frontier in British India Common Law Research Seminar Date: Jun 13, 2022 Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Reeju Ray (O.P. Jindal Global University) Location: Zoom Room: For further information please contact cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola [more] Some ways to die in the East Indies or John Briggs’ multiple capital jurisdictions (c.1818-1825) Common Law Research Seminar Date: May 23, 2022 Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Nishant Gokhale (University of Cambridge/mpilhlt) Location: mpilhlt, Z01 Room: For further information please contact cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola [more] ‘Sovereignty of the air’: the Indian princely states, the British Empire and carving out of air-space (1911-1933) Common Law Research Seminar Date: May 16, 2022 Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Priya Mirza (University of Delhi) Location: Zoom Room: For further information please contact cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola [more] 'Memory also gives a right': Norman Bentwich and the implementation of the British Mandate for Palestine Common Law Research Seminar Date: May 9, 2022 Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Oscar Weller (University of Zurich) Location: mpilhlt, Z01 Room: For further information please contact cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola [more] Global financial markets and legal convergence: the genesis of insolvency set-off in England, Germany and Switzerland Common Law Research Seminar Date: May 2, 2022 Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Jonathan Silberstein-Loeb (mpilhlt) & Claude Humbel (University of Zurich) Location: Zoom Room: For further information please contact cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola [more] The laws of ‘an old and settled society’? The law of contract in New South Wales (1815-1850) Common Law Research Seminar Date: Apr 25, 2022 Time: 09:00 AM - 10:00 AM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Warren Swain (University of Auckland) Location: Zoom Room: For further information please contact cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola [more] Regulation of working hours in the factories of Madras Presidency, 1881-1947 Common Law Research Seminar Date: Jan 24, 2022 Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Suramya Thekke Kalathil (Indian Institute of Technology, Madras) Convenors: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola Location: video conference Room: For further information please contact cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de [more] Nuisance law and the Committee of Buildings in late 18th-century Bombay Common Law Research Seminar Date: Jan 10, 2022 Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Sukriti Issar (OSC, Sciences Po Paris) Convenors: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola Location: video conference Room: For further information please contact cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de [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] 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] ‘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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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]
