Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory

Research Seminars

Research Seminars

The three Departments run series of research seminars devoted to their specific research themes. The seminars provide the opportunity for both external and internal researchers to report on their current projects and to discuss them with the Institute’s members. Most of the seminars are open to students of the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt or the Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen after prior registration.

Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola

Robert Wilmot-Horton between the ‘Malthus effect’ and the ‘miracle of emigration’

Common Law Research Seminar

different place than usual
Date: Jul 8, 2024
Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Jacopo Bonasera (Filippo Burzio Foundation / mpilhlt)
Room: G503
Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola
Contact: cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de

[more]

Common law transplants and the question of legitimacy

Common Law Research Seminar

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]

Colonial legislatures and legal transfers in the British Empire: the case of Mandatory Palestine

Common Law Research Seminar

Date: Jun 24, 2024
Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Maya Kreiner (Hebrew University of Jerusalem / Dubnow Institute)
Room: Z02
Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola
Contact: cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de

[more]

An unlikely catalyst: occupiers, trespassers and the end of the imperial deference in Australia

Common Law Research Seminar

Date: Jun 10, 2024
Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Mark Lunney (King’s College London)
Room: Z02
Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola
Contact: cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de

[more]

Writing the history of empires

Common Law Research Seminar

different place than usual
Date: May 27, 2024
Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Benedikt Stuchtey (Philipps University Marburg)
Room: Z 01
Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola
Contact: cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de

[more]

Imperial control: unearthing collective punishment statutes in the British colonies

Common Law Research Seminar

Date: May 13, 2024
Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Wyatt Constantine (Leipzig University / mpilhlt)
Room: Z02
Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola
Contact: cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de

[more]

A ‘distressed class of people’: French refugees and mobility control in Philadelphia (1790s-1810)

Common Law Research Seminar

Date: Apr 29, 2024
Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Megan Maruschke (Leipzig University)
Room: Z02
Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola
Contact: cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de

[more]

The uncommon law in the Privy Council

Common Law Research Seminar

Date: Apr 15, 2024
Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: David Schorr (Tel Aviv University)
Room: Z02
Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola
Contact: cazzola@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]

18th-century judicial imperialism: English judges and the making of British India

Common Law Research Seminar

Date: Oct 23, 2023
Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Robert Travers (Cornell University)
Room: Z01
Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola
Contact: cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de

[more]

A comparison of legal transfer in the common law world: the case of Canada and Cameroon

Common Law Research Seminar

Date: Jul 10, 2023
Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Mafo Ndibe Mankah (University of Montreal)
Location: mpilhlt, Z02
Room: Für weitere Informationen wenden Sie sich bitte an cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de
Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola

[more]

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]

British judges in the Supreme Court of Siam and beyond

Research Seminar

Date: Jun 7, 2023
Time: 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Surutchada Reekie (Chulalongkorn University)
Location: mpilhlt, Z02
Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola
Contact: cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de

[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]

Writing the history of empires

Common Law Research Seminar

Date: Jun 27, 2022
Time: 02:00 PM - 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Benedikt Stuchtey (Philipps University Marburg)
Location: mpilhlt, Z01
Room: Für weitere Informationen wenden Sie sich bitte an 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]