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 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] 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]