News and Notices

Our upcoming Max Planck Lecture in Legal History and Legal Theory is titled ,The Butcher's Wife: Race Relations and Death by Hanging in Cuba and the Spanish Atlantic, 1830s-1930s’. The lecture will take place at our Institute on 29 June at 17:00 and will be delivered by Victor M. Uribe-Uran of Florida International University, who is also a member of our Advisory Board. more

With the mass availability of historical and contemporary digitized texts, the task of computer-assisted extraction of scholarly references has become increasingly important in many research disciplines. The key challenge in reference extraction is to identify and extract cluttered and fragmented bibliographic information encoded in multiple ways from a mass of noise. more

Our upcoming Max Planck Lecture in Legal History and Legal Theory is about an intriguing figure situated at the intersection of legal scholarship and politics: Friedrich Julius Stahl. The lecture will take place at our Institute on 5 June at 16:15 and will be delivered by Marie Sandström of Stockholm University, who is also a member of the mpilhlt’s Advisory Board. more

Anselm Küsters, an associate researcher at our Institute and currently a postdoc working in the area of Digital History at the Humboldt University of Berlin, has been awarded the prestigious Roman Herzog Research Prize. As the first-place finisher, he receives 20,000 Euros for his dissertation which he wrote here at the mpilhlt. more

Recently, the Brazilian government revoked a human rights medal instituted by the former far-right President Bolsonaro. The medal, named after the daughter of the country's last monarch, was replaced by a new human rights award, now in recognition of Luiz Gama (1830–1882), a former slave, self-taught lawyer, and leader of the abolitionist movement in 19th-century Brazil. more

The connection between German administrative law and historical colonial law has so far received little scholarly attention, despite the fact that both fields developed during the same period and many issues to be regulated differed only in geographical details. Indeed, in many cases, the conceptual solutions to the issues arising originated from the same pen. These parallels are now being explored by Gwinyai Machona. more

Volume 336 of the Studien zur europäischen Rechtsgeschichte out now more

Volume 333 of the Studien zur europäischen Rechtsgeschichte out now more

Volume 20 of the Global Perspectives on Legal History out now more

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Volume 339 of the Studien zur europäischen Rechtsgeschichte out now more

Volume 338 of the Studien zur europäischen Rechtsgeschichte out now more

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