Home Events Events Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 2017 All 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 Vertical Empire: The General Resettlement of Indians in the Colonial Andes Meet the Author Date: Dec 12, 2017 Time: 03:00 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Jeremy Mumford, Brown University (USA) Location: MPIeR Room: Z 01 [more] End of Empires – and their Afterlives: The Case of Late Pre-Hispanic and Early Colonial Peru Presentations Date: Dec 11, 2017 Time: 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Location: Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften, Am Wingertsberg 4, 61348 Bad Homburg v.d.H. [more] The Transfer of the Statute of Anne: from England to a New Republic Seminar Date: Dec 11, 2017 Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Organisation: Stefan Vogenauer, Emily Whewell Location: MPIeR Room: Seminar room of the MPI [more] The Concept of „Estado de Derecho“ in the History of Argentinean Constitutionalism (1930-2015) Jour Fixe Date: Dec 11, 2017 Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Agustín Casagrande, Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders” Opponent: Gerd Bender, MPIeR Location: MPIeR Room: Z 01 [more] 3rd annual conference of the Initiative History of Labour Law Conference Date: Dec 8, 2017 Time: 10:00 AM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Location: MPIeR Room: Z 01 [more] Meeting of the Working Group »Initiative History of Labour Law« Internal Meeting Date: Dec 7, 2017 Time: 01:00 PM - 04:30 PM (Local Time Germany) Thematic Focus: NS Labour Law Location: MPIeR Room: Z 01 [more] Research Colloqium - Marco Toste: Ignorantia, infideles Some Fundamental Concepts of the School of Salamanca’s Juridical-Political Language Date: Dec 6, 2017 Time: 03:00 PM - 04:30 PM (Local Time Germany) Organisation: PD Dr. Christiane Birr, Dr. José Luis Egío Location: MPIeR Room: Z 01 [more] Conflict Regulation: The 1624 Tumult of Mexico in Perspective Focus Area Meeting Date: Nov 30, 2017 Time: 11:00 AM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Angela Ballone Location: MPIeR Room: Z 01 [more] „End of Empires?” Legal Historical Perspectives on Latin America and Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries Conference Start: Nov 28, 2017 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany) End: Nov 29, 2017 03:00 PM Location: Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschafen in Bad Homburg [more] Research Colloqium - Massimo Meccarelli: Lex Some Fundamental Concepts of the School of Salamanca’s Juridical-Political Language Date: Nov 15, 2017 Time: 02:30 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Organisation: PD Dr. Christiane Birr, Dr. José Luis Egío Location: MPIeR Room: Z 01 [more] Decolonizing Constitutional Law: the Common Law Mind of Yash Ghai Legal Transfer in the Common Law World Date: Nov 13, 2017 Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Organisation: Stefan Vogenauer, Emily Whewell Location: MPIeR Room: Seminar room of the MPI [more] Jour Fixe: Actio Funeraria: On what it took to get buried in ancient Rome Jour Fixe Date: Nov 13, 2017 Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Oliver Unger, Hamburg Opponent: Victoria Barnes, MPIeR Location: MPIeR Room: Z 01 [more] Comparing Solórzano from Within Comparing Solórzano from Within Date: Nov 9, 2017 Time: 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Angela Ballone (MPIeR) Moderator: José Luis Egio Location: MPIeR Room: Lecture hall of the MPI [more] Undercover Under Scrutiny: A Comparative Look at Covert Policing in the United States, Germany, Italy, and France Guest presentation Date: Nov 7, 2017 Time: 11:00 AM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Prof. Jacqueline Ross Professor of Law, University of Illinois College of Law Location: MPIeR Room: Seminar room of the MPI [more] David J. Ibbetson: Unjust(ified) Enrichment Frankfurter Rechtshistorische Abendgespräche Date: Nov 1, 2017 Time: 06:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Prof. David J. Ibbetson University of Cambridge Location: Max Planck Institute for European Legal History Room: Lecture hall of the MPI [more] Return to sender: Early Modern Irish Appellate Law and the Use of Westminster as a Final Court of Appeal Legal Transfer in the Common Law World Date: Oct 30, 2017 Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Organisation: Stefan Vogenauer, Emily Whewell Location: MPIeR Room: Seminar room of the MPI [more] Guest Workshop: Historia del derecho en América Latina Guest Workshop Date: Oct 24, 2017 Time: 02:00 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Organisation: Thomas Duve Location: MPIeR Room: Lecture hall of the MPI [more] Meet the Author - Kenneth Stow Meet the Author Date: Oct 23, 2017 Time: 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Pr. Kenneth Stow, University of Haifa Presentation: Anna and Tranquillo. Catholic Anxiety and Jewish Protest in the Age of Revolutions, New Haven - London, Yale University Press, 2016 Location: MPIeR Room: Z 01 [more] Legal Transfer in the Common Law World Date: Oct 16, 2017 Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Organisation: Stefan Vogenauer, Emily Whewell Location: MPIeR Room: Seminar room of the MPI [more] Jour Fixe: Strikes, dictatorships and the circulation of ideas: investigating dialogues between Brazil, Portugal and Italy (1930-1945) Jour Fixe Date: Oct 16, 2017 Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Opponent: Massimo Meccarelli, associate Researcher MPIeR Location: MPIeR Room: Z 01 [more] Some Fundamental Concepts of the School of Salamanca’s Juridical-Political Language Date: Oct 11, 2017 Time: 02:30 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Organisation: PD Dr. Christiane Birr, Dr. José Luis Egío Location: MPIeR Room: Z 01 [more] Conciliar Decision Making in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (6th–mid-9th Centuries) International Conference Start: Oct 5, 2017 End: Oct 7, 2017 Organisation: Prof. Dr. Panagiotis Agapitos, Prof. Dr. Wolfram Brandes, Prof. Dr. Hartmut Leppin Location: MPIeR Room: Z 01 [more] Max Planck Study Sessions 2017 Max Planck Study Sessions Start: Sep 27, 2017 End: Sep 29, 2017 Organisation: Benedetta Albani, Massimiliano Valente Location: MPIeR [more] Jour Fixe: The Lived Space: Land Sales, Local Knowledge, and Interethnic Relations on the Chilean Frontier, 1790-1830 Jour Fixe Date: Sep 11, 2017 Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Manuel Bastias Saavedra, Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, MPIeR/University of Bremen Opponent: Mariana Armond Dias Paes, MPIeR Location: MPIeR Room: Z 01 [more] Max Planck Summer Academy for Legal History 2017 Summer Academy 2017 Start: Jul 25, 2017 End: Aug 4, 2017 Special Theme: Conflict Regulation Location: MPIeR Host: MPIeR [more] Guest Workshop: Legal Historiography Guest Workshop Date: Jul 21, 2017 Time: 02:00 PM - 06:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Organisation Victoria Barnes Location: MPIeR Room: Z 01 [more] Jonathan Rose: "Maintenance and Champerty: From Medieval England to the UK and the US Today?" Common Law Research Seminar Date: Jul 17, 2017 Time: 02:15 PM - 03:45 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Jonathan Rose Arizona State University Location: MPIeR Room: Z 02 [more] Jour Fixe: Judicial Development of Law of Maintenance (1377-1485) Jour Fixe Date: Jul 10, 2017 Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Jonathan Rose Arizona State University, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law Opponent: Stefan Vogenauer, MPIeR Location: MPIeR Room: Z 01 [more] Custom as a Source of Law Seminar Date: Jul 5, 2017 Time: 06:00 PM c.t. (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Marie Seong-Hak Kim St. Cloud State University / Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies Location: RuW (Recht und Wirtschaft) Building, Campus Westend, Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main Room: 3.101 [more] Stephan Dusil: Kanonistische Marginalien? (Canonistic marginalia?) Frankfurter Rechtshistorische Abendgespräche Date: Jul 5, 2017 Time: 06:00 PM c.t. (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Stephan Dusil (Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies), KU Leuven, Belgien Location: Campus Westend der Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main Room: Hörsaalzentrum HZ 10 [more] Meet the Author – Karen Graubart Meet the Author Date: Jun 23, 2017 Time: 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Dr. Karen Graubart University of Notre Dame Presentation: Containing Law within the Walls: The Protection of Customary Law in Santiago del Cercado, Peru Location: RuW (Recht und Wirtschaft) Building, Campus Westend, Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main Room: 3.101 [more] Treaties as travaux préparatoires: Conference on the 60th Anniversary of the Treaties of Rome Conference Start: Jun 22, 2017 End: Jun 23, 2017 Organisation: Stefan Vogenauer, Philip Bajon, Sigfrido Ramírez Pérez Location: MPIeR [more] Jour Fixe: Constructing legal spaces – byrsa, bourse, Börse, or exchange Jour Fixe Date: Jun 19, 2017 Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Johannes W. Flume, Universität Tübingen Opponent: Jasper Kunstreich Location: MPIeR Room: Z 01 [more] Workshop: Work and Family in a Society of Orders Workshop Start: Jun 8, 2017 End: Jun 9, 2017 Organisation: Laila Scheuch, Audrey Dauchy Location: MPIeR [more] Lecture: John F. Schwaller: Mexico in 1585: The Backdrop of the Tercer Concilio Provincial Lecture Date: Jun 1, 2017 Time: 06:00 PM - 07:30 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: John F. Schwaller Location: MPIeR Room: Z 01 [more] Meet the Author – Tamar Herzog Tamar Herzog Date: May 31, 2017 Time: 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Location: MPIeR Room: Z 01 [more] Sitzung des Arbeitskreises der Initiative Arbeitsrechtsgeschichte Initiative Arbeitsrechtsgeschichte Date: May 19, 2017 Time: 11:00 AM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Location: Bundesvorstandsverwaltung der IG Metall, Frankfurt am Main [more] Workshop: Philology and Digital Humanities: Old Questions and New Approaches for Working with Texts Workshop Date: May 15, 2017 Time: 02:30 PM - 07:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Organisation: Manuela Bragagnolo, Andreas Wagner Location: MPIeR Room: Z 01 [more] Jour Fixe: HyperMachiavel. First results of a comparison tool between the first edition of The Prince and its French translations of the XVIth century Jour Fixe Date: May 15, 2017 Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Séverine Gedzelman (CNRS, UMR Triangle), Jean-Claude Zancarini (ENS de Lyon, UMR Triangle) Location: MPIeR Room: Z 01 [more] Guest Workshop: Law and Diversity – Legal Categories and Identity Guest Workshop Date: May 5, 2017 Time: 02:30 PM - 05:30 PM (Local Time Germany) Organisation: Lorena Ossio Bustillos Location: MPIeR Room: Z 01 [more] PhD@maxlaw Workshop 2017 Workshop Start: May 3, 2017 End: May 5, 2017 Organisation: Justine Collins, Niels Pepels, Philipp Schmitt Location: MPIeR 3rd Max Planck Young Legal Scholars‘ Meeting, Frankfurt am Main 2017 [more] Jan Schröder: Gibt es zeitlose Theorien in der Rechtswissenschaft? (Are there timeless theories in jurisprudence?) Frankfurter Rechtshistorische Abendgespräche Date: Apr 26, 2017 Time: 06:00 PM c.t. (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Prof. Dr. Jan Schröder Eberhard Karls Universität, Tübingen Location: MPIeR Room: Z 01 [more] Treat as a vagrant every man who acts as a vagrant: ”Vagrancy and the Courts in Jamaica, 1865 - 1900 Common Law Research Seminar Date: Apr 24, 2017 Time: 02:15 PM - 03:45 PM (Local Time Germany) Organisation: Stefan Vogenauer, Emily Whewell Location: MPIeR Room: Z 02 [more] Jour Fixe: Kaala Paani and the Archive: South Asian Indenture to Jamaica Jour Fixe Date: Apr 10, 2017 Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Eddie Bruce-Jones (University of London) Opponent: Otto Danwerth Location: MPIeR Room: Z 01 [more] “The Pope is not lord of the world": Reading Course: Francisco de Vitoria's „Erste Relectio über die kirchliche Gewalt“ Reading Course Start: Mar 27, 2017 End: Mar 30, 2017 Organisation: Christiane Birr, José Luis Egío, Andreas Wagner Location: MPIeR [more] Workshop: Historische Argumentation und die Zuerkennung von indigenen Sonderrechten in Lateinamerika Workshop Start: Mar 19, 2017 End: Mar 21, 2017 Speaker: vom MPIeR: Thomas Duve, Lorena Ossio B. Organisation: Lorena Ossio Bustillos Location: Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Sucre u.a. [more] Jour Fixe: Italian Judges and Judicial Practice in Libya Jour Fixe Date: Mar 13, 2017 Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Alessia Maria Di Stefano Opponent: Peter Collin Location: MPIeR Room: Z 01 [more] Taller exploratorio: Regulación de conflicto, Derecho y Diversidad Workshop Start: Mar 13, 2017 End: Mar 14, 2017 Organización: Lorena Ossio Bustillos, Vasco Torres de León Location: Universidad de Panamá [more] Guest Workshop: Property Law and Legal History in Latin America Guest Workshop Date: Feb 21, 2017 Time: 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Organizers: Pamela Cacciavillani and Mariana Armond Dias Paes Location: MPIeR [more] Workshop: Land Ownership and Conflict in a Global Context: Transfer, Adaptation and Translation of Normative Systems Workshop Start: Feb 20, 2017 End: Feb 22, 2017 Registration deadline: Feb 13, 2017 Location: MPIeR Room: Z 01 Contact: mckee@rg.mpg.de [more] Jour Fixe: Multinormativity in Western Arguments Regarding Punishment of the Boxers and their Patrons, 1900-1901 Jour Fixe Date: Feb 13, 2017 Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Timothy L. Schroer University of West Georgia Opponent: Donal Coffey Location: MPIeR Room: Z 01 [more] Guest Presentation at the Seminar on Legal History of Ibero-America Guest Presentation at the Seminar on Legal History of Ibero-America Date: Feb 6, 2017 Time: 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Carlos Ramos Núñez Topic: Realidad y quimera: el jurado en el Perú Location: MPIeR Room: Z 02 [more] International Workshop: Convivencias Today: Reflections on a Historiographical Concept International Workshop Date: Feb 3, 2017 Location: MPIeR Room: Z 01 [more] Opening Lecture of the Theme for 2017, ‘The End of Empires’ of the History Programme of the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften Theme for 2017 Date: Jan 30, 2017 Time: 07:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Thomas Maissen Paris Lecture Topic: Das Ende der Imperien: epochenübergreifende Überlegungen Location: Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften Room: Vortragsraum [more] Workshop: The History of EU Law in Transnational and National Perspective Workshop Start: Jan 26, 2017 End: Jan 27, 2017 Location: MPIeR [more] Colloquium: Rechts- und Justizvorstellungen der indigenen interpersonellen Konfliktfälle und Konfliktlösungen - Faktoren des Wandels der Rechtskulturen (Bolivien, Peru und Ekuador) Colloquium Date: Jan 16, 2017 Time: 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Dr. Hans-Jürgen Brandt Topical Introduction: Dr. Lorena Ossio Bustillos Location: Deutsche Universität für Verwaltungswissenschaften, Speyer [more] Jour Fixe: The Federal Evolution of Imperial Germany and the Creation of the German Civil Code Jour Fixe Date: Jan 16, 2017 Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Oliver F. R. Haardt University of Cambridge Opponents: Philip Bajon / Philipp Schmitt, MPIeR Location: MPIeR Room: Z 01 [more] Guest presentation at the Seminar on legal history of Ibero-America Guest presentation at the Seminar on legal history of Ibero-America Date: Jan 9, 2017 Time: 07:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Nicolás Beraldi Topic: ¿Trasplantes Legales en el Río de la Plata? El caso de la justicia de paz en la provincia de Buenos Aires (1821-1824) Location: MPIeR Room: Z 02 [more]