Defining childhood in the Cape colony: Children, age and labour between 1820 and 1845

Common Law Research Seminar

  • Date: Dec 15, 2025
  • Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Rebecca Swartz
  • (University of Cape Town)
  • Location: mpilhlt
  • Room: Z01
  • Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Martin O'Donoghue
  • Contact: odonoghue@lhlt.mpg.de
Illustration of a very large ship with many fully occupied lifeboats floating in front of it.

The seminar series 'Legal Transfer in the Common Law World’ provides a platform for the discussion of works in progress concerning the transfer of law across the British Empire. This ‘transfer’ includes the movement of legal ideas, personnel, legislation and practice between and across colonies and the metropole.

Go to Editor View