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.

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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‘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

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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

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'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

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