Home Events Events Room: Z02 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 Common law transplants and the question of legitimacy Common Law Research Seminar different place than usual Date: Jul 1, 2024 Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Amber Darr (University of Manchester) Room: Z02 Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola Contact: cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de [more] Building Legal Knowledge: Reflections on the History of Law in Angola Date: May 21, 2024 Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Lukamba, Paulino and Agostinho, Adlézio Faculty of Law of the University katyavala Buíla- Angola and Humboldt University-Berlin Location: mpilhlt Room: Z02 Host: Priscíla Lussinga, Pedro Catimba Contact: catimba@lhlt.mpd.de [more] Writing the History of Law in the South Atlantic Date: May 3, 2024 Time: 02:00 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Espíndola, Maysa Genebra University Location: mpilhlt Room: Z02 Host: Global History on the Ground Contact: catimba@lhlt.mpg.de [more] The Six Widows’ Case and the diffusion of common law in the Straits Settlements Common Law Research Seminar Date: Jan 22, 2024 Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Andrew Harding (National University of Singapore / mpilhlt) Room: Z02 Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola Contact: cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de [more] Shapes, forms and identity: Quebec’s civil procedure and judicial law in the 19th century Common Law Research Seminar Date: Jan 8, 2024 Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Jacinthe Plamondon (Laval University / mpilhlt) Room: Z02 Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola Contact: cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de [more] Laws of exclusion: the evolution of minority governance and differentiated legal spaces in colonial and post-colonial India Common Law Research Seminar Date: Dec 18, 2023 Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Reeju Ray (Jindal Global University / mpilhlt) Room: Z02 Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola Contact: cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de [more] Who moved my code? Indian contract law and the limits of common law codification Common Law Research Seminar Date: Dec 4, 2023 Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Shivprasad Swaminathan (Jindal Global University / mpilhlt) Room: Z02 Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola Contact: cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de [more] Deporting foreigners, deporting subjects: Foreigners Act III of 1864 in colonial India Common Law Research Seminar Date: Nov 20, 2023 Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Radhika Singha (Jawaharlal Nehru University / University of Münster) Room: Z02 Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola Contact: cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de [more] Criminal fault in 19th-century England Common Law Research Seminar Date: Nov 6, 2023 Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Philip Handler (University of Manchester) Room: Z02 Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola Contact: cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de [more] 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 [more] The Mandatory Sentence of Death in Barbados Common Law Research Seminar Date: Jul 15, 2019 Time: 02:15 PM - 03:45 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Lynsey Black (Maynooth University) Organisation: Stefan Vogenauer, Emily Whewell Location: MPIeR Room: Z02 [more] The Wild West: Detention without Trial in West Africa 1880-1900 Common Law Research Seminar Date: Jun 24, 2019 Time: 02:15 PM - 03:45 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Michael Lobban (London School of Economics) Organisation: Stefan Vogenauer, Emily Whewell Location: MPIeR Room: Z02 [more] 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 [more] The Interpretation of Commonwealth Caribbean Constitutions: Does Text Matter? Common Law Research Seminar Date: Jun 3, 2019 Time: 02:15 PM - 03:45 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Derek O’Brien (Oxford Brookes) Organisation: Stefan Vogenauer, Emily Whewell Location: MPIeR Room: Z02 [more] Discussion: Translating Early Modern Books Discussion Date: May 29, 2019 Time: 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Natalie Cobo / Simona Langella Organisation: Christiane Birr, Manuela Bragagnolo Location: MPIeR Room: Z02 [more] Practice, Legislation and Courts - Pitfalls of Formalising English Commercial Law, 1691-1925 Common Law Research Seminar Date: May 20, 2019 Time: 02:15 PM - 03:45 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Aleksi Ollikainen-Read (MPIeR) Organisation: Stefan Vogenauer, Emily Whewell Location: MPIeR Room: Z02 [more] Seminar: La enseñanza del Concilio de Trento en las universidades hispánicas (siglos XVI-XVII) Seminar Date: May 15, 2019 Time: 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Prof. Dr. Rafael Ramis Barceló (Universitat de les Illes Balears) Organisation: Max Planck Research Group "Governance of the Universal Church after the Council of Trent" (MPIeR) Location: MPIeR Room: Z02 [more] Reading group "Law and Textuality" Reading group Date: May 7, 2019 Time: 02:30 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Dr. Mauricio Gonzalez Rozo Organisation: Manuela Bragagnolo (MPIeR) Location: MPIeR Room: Z02 [more] 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 [more] Seminar: The History of Constitutionalism in Canada and the Canadian Constitutional Settlement of 1849 Seminar Date: Apr 15, 2019 Time: 02:15 PM - 03:45 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Ryan Alford (Lakehead University) Organisation: Stefan Vogenauer, Emily Whewell Location: MPIeR Room: Z02 [more] Guest Lecture: The Horizon of A Chinese Legal History Guest Lecture Date: Apr 3, 2019 Time: 10:00 AM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Zhiping Liang (Institute for Advanced Study of Arts and Humanities, Beijing) Organisation: Fupeng Li, Yu Wang Location: MPIeR Room: Z02 [more] 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 [more] 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 [more] 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 [more] Seminar: The Changing Patterns of Anglo-African International Relations (1807-1840) Seminar Date: Jan 21, 2019 Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Inge Van Hulle (University of Tilburg) Organisation: Stefan Vogenauer, Emily Whewell Location: MPIeR Room: Z02 [more] Guest Lecture: Lawyers, the Writing of History, and Public Uses of the Past (Brazil, 1900-1943) Guest lecture Date: Jan 18, 2019 Time: 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Mariana De Moraes Silveira (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil) Organisation: Fupeng Li, Manuela Bragagnolo Location: MPIeR Room: Z02 [more] 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 [more] Seminar: ‘In Which We Are Not Singular in Our Notions’: William Blackstone as Interpreter of the European Legal Tradition Seminar Date: Dec 17, 2018 Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Andrew Cecchinato (University of St Andrews) Organisation: Stefan Vogenauer, Emily Whewell Location: MPIeR Room: Z02 [more] Seminar: Judicial Iconography in the Bombay High Court: From the Colonial to the Post-Colonial Seminar Date: Nov 19, 2018 Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Rahela Khorakiwala (Jawaharlal Nehru University) Organisation: Stefan Vogenauer, Emily Whewell Location: MPIeR Room: Z02 [more] 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 [more] 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 [more] 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 [more] Seminar: The Beginnings of English Contract Law in Australia and New Zealand: ‘The Narrow Ways of English Folk’? Seminar Date: Oct 15, 2018 Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Warren Swain (University of Auckland) Organisation: Stefan Vogenauer, Emily Whewell Location: MPIeR Room: Z02 [more] 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 [more] Guest lecture - On the divisio obligationum in res cottidianae Guest lecture Date: Jun 27, 2018 Time: 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Prof. Dr. Adolfo Wegmann Stockebrand (Pontifical Catholic University of Chile) Location: MPIeR Room: Z02 [more] Seminar - »Africa needs many lawyers ... trained for the needs of their people«: Struggles over Legal Education in Nkrumah’s Ghana Seminar Date: Jun 25, 2018 Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: John Harrington (Cardiff University) Organisation: Stefan Vogenauer, Emily Whewell Location: MPIeR Room: Z02 [more]