Portrait of an attentive listener during a lecture.

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.

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Refugees, belonging, and the law in the British Empire, 1790s–1830s

Common Law Research Seminar
  • Date: Jul 6, 2026
  • Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Jan C. Jansen
  • (University of Tübingen)
  • Location: mpilhlt
  • Room: Z02
  • Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Martin O'Donoghue
  • Contact: odonoghue@lhlt.mpg.de
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Front page of the newspaper “El Día” with a 1939 black-and-white photo from Montevideo showing three women walking along a sunny waterfront promenade. Two wear swimsuits with light cover-ups; the middle figure wears a blouse and skirt and carries small items. A railing, city buildings, and scattered clouds appear in the background, and a Spanish caption refers to Pocitos beach.

Curaduría de género: investigación y prácticas en el Museo Histórico Cabildo de Montevideo

Seminar on Legal History in the Iberian Worlds
  • Date: Jun 23, 2026
  • Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Lic. Rosana Carrete
  • (Museo Histórico Cabildo de Montevideo)
  • Location: mpilhlt
  • Room: Turmcarrée, A601
  • Host: ​Vanessa Massuchetto
  • Contact: massuchetto@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
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Criminology, "scientific" penology and social engineering: India 1889-1925

Common Law Research Seminar
  • Date: Jun 23, 2026
  • Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Radhika Singha
  • (Jawaharlal Nehru University/mpilhlt)
  • Location: mpilhlt
  • Room: Z01
  • Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Martin O'Donoghue
  • Contact: odonoghue@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
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Were there political prisoners in Mandate Palestine? Prisoner classification in a colonial setting

Common Law Research Seminar
  • Date: Jun 15, 2026
  • Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Orna Alyagon-Darr
  • (Sapir College, Scha’ar HaNegev/mpilhlt)
  • Location: mpilhlt
  • Room: Z01
  • Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Martin O'Donoghue
  • Contact: odonoghue@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
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Writing the history of empires

Common Law Research Seminar
  • Date: Jun 8, 2026
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Benedikt Stuchtey
  • (Philipps University Marburg)
  • Location: mpilhlt
  • Room: Z01
  • Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Martin O'Donoghue
  • Contact: odonoghue@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
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Conscientia in der Schule von Salamanca

Salamanca-Kolloquium
  • Date: May 21, 2026
  • Time: 06:15 PM - 07:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Stefan Thönissen
  • (Universität Würzburg)
  • Location: Campus Westend der Goethe-Universität
  • Room: Raum IG 2.501
  • Host: Stefan Schweighöfer
  • Contact: schweighöfer@em.uni-frankfurt.de
[more]
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“To plow the seas and not lie by walls”: the ship as a dynamic form of business organization

Common Law Research Seminar
  • Date: May 18, 2026
  • Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Hunter Harris
  • (University of Oxford)
  • Location: mpilhlt
  • Room: Z01
  • Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Martin O'Donoghue
  • Contact: odonoghue@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
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Colonial heritage legislation in India: examining its influence on the construction of the past

Common Law Research Seminar
  • Date: May 11, 2026
  • Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Debarati Pal
  • (NALSAR University of Law/mpilhlt)
  • Location: mpilhlt
  • Room: Z01
  • Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Martin O'Donoghue
  • Contact: odonoghue@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
Portrait: Luis de Molina

Textbesprechung: Luis de Molina, De bello

Salamanca-Kolloquium
  • Date: May 7, 2026
  • Time: 06:15 PM - 07:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Stefan Schweighöfer
  • (Universität Frankfurt)
  • Location: Campus Westend der Goethe-Universität
  • Room: Raum IG 2.501
  • Host: Stefan Schweighöfer
  • Contact: schweighöfer@em.uni-frankfurt.de
[more]
A collage of various early modern title plates

Necessity, Utility and Profit: Normative Discourses of Kings and Merchants (Continuity, Adaptation and Innovation)

Salamanca Colloquium
  • Date: Apr 30, 2026
  • Time: 06:15 PM c.t. - 07:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: María Díez Yáñez
  • (Universidad Complutense, Madrid)
  • Location: Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main
  • Room: IG 2.501
  • Host: Stefan Schweighöfer
  • Contact: schweighoefer@em.uni-frankfurt.de
[more]
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The end of colonial laissez-faire in Indian company law: the Mundhra scandal and the expansion of penal control

Common Law Research Seminar
  • Date: Apr 27, 2026
  • Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Vishnu T.H
  • (NALSAR University of Law/mpilhlt)
  • Location: mpilhlt
  • Room: Z01
  • Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Martin O'Donoghue
  • Contact: odonoghue@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
Baroque-style oil painting of a richly dressed woman indoors, wearing a jeweled turban, pearl jewelry, and a white satin gown draped with a vibrant red, feather-patterned shawl. She gestures with one hand while another holds pearls. A young attendant in a golden tunic stands beside her, reaching toward her hand. Behind them are heavy gold-patterned curtains; to the left, a tabletop holds a conch shell and string of pearls, with marble statues and a cloudy sky visible through a window.

Liberating Labels. Decolonizing Language Use in Historical Collection Management and Data Contextualization

Legal History Meets Digital Humanities
  • Date: Apr 22, 2026
  • Time: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Juliette Huygen (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)), Manjusha Kuruppath (Huygens Institute), Phạm Thùy Dung (Huygens Institute)
  • Location: Online
  • Host: Polina Solonets
  • Contact: solonets@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
Aula where Vitoria‘s Lectures are said to have taken Place.

Textbesprechung: Francisco de Vitoria, De bello

Salamanca-Kolloquium
  • Date: Apr 16, 2026
  • Time: 06:15 PM - 07:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Stefan Schweighöfer
  • (Universität Frankfurt)
  • Location: Campus Westend der Goethe-Universität
  • Room: Raum IG 2.501
  • Host: Stefan Schweighöfer
  • Contact: schweighöfer@em.uni-frankfurt.de
[more]
Illuminated medieval Spanish manuscript page on aged parchment, with a red rubric heading (“libro primero”), a large ornate blue‑and‑red initial framed by vine-like flourishes, and dense black Gothic script.

Politia: vocabulario moral y político en castellano (1350-1550)

Seminario Permanente
  • Date: Mar 24, 2026
  • Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: María Díez Yáñez
  • (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
  • Location: mpilhlt
  • Room: Turmcarree, A601 & online
  • Host: ​Pilar Mejia
  • Contact: mejia@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
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Capacidad jurídica y estatus personal: un análisis histórico-comparado de la personalidad jurídica (siglo XIX y principios del XX)

Seminario Permanente
  • Date: Mar 17, 2026
  • Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Fernando Liendo Tagle
  • (Käte Hamburger Kolleg ‘Legal Unity and Pluralism’- University of Münster / Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú)
  • Location: mpilhlt
  • Room: Turmcarrée, A601
  • Host: Pilar Mejia
  • Contact: mejia@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
Historical black and white woodcut illustration of a religious scene. A group of people is kneeling in front of a stage with a canopy-covered altar. On the stage, several figures are engaged in a ritual or ceremony, surrounded by trees and architectural elements.

De infieles asiáticos a gentiles americanos: La transición en la conciencia cristiana a propósito de los habitantes de América

Seminario Permanente
  • New date!
  • Date: Mar 10, 2026
  • Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Adrián Tolentino
  • Location: mpilhlt
  • Room: A601
  • Host: Pilar Mejia
  • Contact: mejia@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
A double-page spread from a late antique or early medieval manuscript of the "Digest" (Roman law source), written in Latin uncial script with red rubrication.

From Roman Jurisprudence to Modern Japanese Statutes: Tracing the Reception of Law via LLMs and Generative AI

Legal History Meets Digital Humanities
  • Date: Mar 6, 2026
  • Time: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Yukiko Kawamoto, Naoya Iwata, Tomoya Sano
  • (Center for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences, Nagoya University, Japan)
  • Location: Online
  • Host: Polina Solonets
  • Contact: solonets@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
Historical, hand-drawn illustration of lettering.

Tensões globais, dinâmicas locais: Um olhar de conjunto para as “Juntas de Missões” (1681)

Seminario Permanente
  • Date: Feb 10, 2026
  • Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Ágatha Francesconi Gatti
  • (CHAM - Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
  • Location: mpilhlt
  • Room: Turmcarrée, A601
  • Host: Pilar Mejia
  • Contact: mejia@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
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Between anthropology and law: the world of Sarat Chandra Roy

Common Law Research Seminar
  • Date: Feb 9, 2026
  • Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Sangeeta Dasgupta
  • (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
  • Location: Online
  • Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Martin O'Donoghue
  • Contact: odonoghue@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
old document

Das „unbestimmte Richtmaß“ – Beobachtungen zur aequitas-Lehre in der Spätscholastik.

Salamanca-Kolloquium
  • Date: Jan 29, 2026
  • Time: 06:15 PM - 07:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Tilman Repgen
  • (Universität Hamburg)
  • Location: Campus Westend der Goethe-Universität
  • Room: Raum IG 2.501
  • Host: Stefan Schweighöfer
  • Contact: schweighöfer@em.uni-frankfurt.de
[more]
An open historical manuscript from 1746 written in Spanish. The document features yellowed paper, ornate calligraphic handwriting, an official Spanish colonial stamp ("Sello Quarto"), and a later handwritten note from 1818 from Santiago, Chile. A person wearing white gloves is carefully holding the pages open.

La administración de la salud en Santiago de Chile colonial: normatividades, saberes médicos y gobierno del cuidado (siglos XVII–XVIII)

Seminario Permanente
  • Date: Jan 27, 2026
  • Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Andrea Sanzana Saez
  • (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)
  • Location: mpilhlt & online
  • Room: A601
  • Host: Pilar Mejia
  • Contact: mejia@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
Gemälde eines sehr großen Dampfschiffes, vor dem viele voll besetzte Rettungsboote schwimmen.

Articulating abusive behaviour by intimate partners: evidence from the Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes, 1858-1914

Common Law Research Seminar
  • Date: Jan 26, 2026
  • Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Jennifer Aston
  • (Northumbria University)
  • Location: mpilhlt
  • Room: Z01
  • Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Martin O'Donoghue
  • Contact: odonoghue@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
Black-and-white illustration showing hand-drawn symbols and markings documented as tattoos or body marks. Below the drawing is the heading “Tatuajes y Marcas”.

La construcción jurídica del “ciudadano indígena”: Estado colombiano, piel y tatuaje Wayuu

Seminario Permanente
  • Date: Jan 20, 2026
  • Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Miguel Galindo Perez
  • Location: mpilhlt
  • Room: A 601
  • Host: ​Pilar Mejia
  • Contact: mejia@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
old document

Textbesprechung Luis de Molina: De iustitia et iure, Traktat 1, Disp. 1-5

Salamanca-Kolloquium
  • Date: Jan 15, 2026
  • Time: 06:15 PM - 07:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: ​Stefan Schweighöfer
  • Location: Campus Westend der Goethe-Universität
  • Room: Raum IG 2.501
  • Host: Stefan Schweighöfer
  • Contact: schweighöfer@em.uni-frankfurt.de
[more]
Gemälde eines sehr großen Dampfschiffes, vor dem viele voll besetzte Rettungsboote schwimmen.

Dynamics of legal transfer: tracing the English fraud doctrine in the 19th-century British India

Common Law Research Seminar
  • Date: Jan 12, 2026
  • Time: 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Juma Noah Omollo
  • (mpilhlt)
  • Location: mpilhlt
  • Room: Z02
  • Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Martin O'Donoghue
  • Contact: odonoghue@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
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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
[more]
Large blue banner with white lettering displaying slogans about Mapuche summit, self-determination, Mapuche treaties, and demilitarization; wooden Mapuche sculptures stand behind the banner, surrounded by trees.

Transformaciones normativas de los tratados mapuche (XVI–XIX)

Seminario Permanente
  • Date: Dec 9, 2025
  • Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Lorena Garrido
  • Universität Bielefeld
  • Location: mpilhlt & online
  • Room: A601
  • Host: Pilar Mejia
  • Contact: mejia@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
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Irish lawyers in the colonial legal service

Common Law Research Seminar
  • Date: Dec 8, 2025
  • Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Niamh Howlin
  • (University College Dublin)
  • Location: mpilhlt
  • Room: Z01
  • Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Martin O'Donoghue
  • Contact: odonoghue@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
old latin document

Reception of the regula iuris “sine culpa, nisi subsit causa” by Diego de Covarrubias y Leyva

Salamanca-Kolloquium
  • Date: Dec 4, 2025
  • Time: 06:15 PM - 07:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: José Ignacio Destéfanis
  • Mendoza, Argentinien
  • Location: Campus Westend der Goethe-Universität
  • Room: Raum IG 2.501
  • Host: Stefan Schweighöfer
  • Contact: schweighöfer@em.uni-frankfurt.de
[more]
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Law's dependencies, law's interventions: managing labour through caste and contract in colonial Madras

Common Law Research Seminar
  • Date: Nov 24, 2025
  • Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Vidhya Raveendranathan
  • (Humboldt University, Berlin)
  • Location: mpilhlt
  • Room: Z01
  • Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Martin O'Donoghue
  • Contact: odonoghue@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
old latin document

Domingo de Soto’s Deliberation in the Cause of the Poor

Salamanca-Kolloquium
  • Date: Nov 20, 2025
  • Time: 06:15 PM - 07:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Virpi Mäkinen
  • University of Helsinki
  • Location: Seminarhaus Campus Westend
  • Room: Raum SH 3.103
  • Host: Stefan Schweighöfer
  • Contact: schweighöfer@em.uni-frankfurt.de
[more]
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Mughal legal culture and the people in early-colonial factory strikes in eastern India, 1780-1800

Common Law Research Seminar
  • Date: Nov 10, 2025
  • Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Arighna Gupta
  • (University of Michigan)
  • Location: Online
  • Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Martin O'Donoghue
  • Contact: odonoghue@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
Title page of a Latin work titled "Tractatus Quinque Theologici" by P. Franciscus Suarez, printed in Lyon by Jacobus Cardon.

Law, Freedom of Will, and Moral Entities: On the Foundations of the Legal Philosophy of Francisco Suárez

Salamanca-Kolloquium
  • Date: Nov 6, 2025
  • Time: 06:15 PM - 07:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Location: Campus Westend der Goethe-Universität
  • Room: Raum IG 2.501
  • Host: Stefan Schweighöfer
  • Contact: schweighöfer@em.uni-frankfurt.de
[more]
Historica Universidad de Salamanca

Regula iuris "sine culpa nisi subsit causa". Una aproximación jurídica, histórica y filosófica

Seminario Permanente
  • Date: Nov 4, 2025
  • Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: José Ignacio Destefanis
  • Location: mpihlt and online
  • Room: A 601
  • Host: Dr. María del Pilar Mejía Quiroga
  • Contact: mejia@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
Libro de preceptos de las misiones jesuíticas

Escrituras normativas no mostrables en el Paraguay jesuítico (siglos XVII y XVIII)

Escrituras normativas jesuítas
  • Date: Oct 28, 2025
  • Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Fabian Vega
  • Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) – Escuela Interdisciplinaria de Altos Estudios Sociales de la Universidad Nacional de San Martín
  • Location: mpilhlt & online
  • Host: María del Pilar Mejía Quiroga
  • Contact: mejia@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
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Mandatory Palestine between the Mandates System and the British Empire

Common Law Research Seminar
  • Date: Oct 27, 2025
  • Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Maya Kreiner
  • (Hebrew University of Jerusalem/Dubnow Institute)
  • Location: mpilhlt
  • Room: Z01
  • Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Martin O'Donoghue
  • Contact: odonoghue@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
Porträt eines Mannes aus dem 17. Jahrhundert, der nachdenklich blickt; er trägt einfache Kleidung und hat eine Glatze mit kurzem Bart.

Grundbegriffe der Schule von Salamanca: Luis de Molina: De iustitia et iure, Traktat 1, Disp. 1-5

Salamanca-Kolloquium
  • Date: Oct 23, 2025
  • Time: 06:15 PM - 07:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Stefan Schweighöfer
  • (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)
  • Location: Campus Westend der Goethe-Universität
  • Room: IG 2.501
  • Host: Stefan Schweighöfer
  • Contact: schweighoefer@em.uni-frankfurt.de
[more]
Historical woodcut-style illustration showing a group of seven men in Renaissance clothing engaged in discussion around a richly decorated table, surrounded by ornamental floral borders.

"Correcto in hoc iure communi". Motivación de las sentencias en la Cataluña altomoderna

Seminario Permanente
  • Date: Sep 16, 2025
  • Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: David Irazabal Martinez (Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona)
  • Location: mpihlt and online
  • Room: A 601
  • Host: Dr. María del Pilar Mejía Quiroga
  • Contact: mejia@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
A medallion featuring the portrait of Dom Pedro I, the first Emperor of Brazil.

We, the Commodity People: Constitutions and Slavery in the Age of Revolutions (c. 1770-c.1830)

Seminario Permanente
  • Date: Sep 9, 2025
  • Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Tâmis Parron (Fluminense Federal University, Rio de Janeiro)
  • Location: mpihlt and online
  • Room: A 601
  • Host: Dr. María del Pilar Mejía Quiroga
  • Contact: mejia@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
Peticao de Esperança, sec. XVIII

Petitions, rights, people: Portuguese America, 18th century

Seminario Permanente
  • Date: Sep 2, 2025
  • Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Andrea Slemian
  • (Federal University of São Paulo)
  • Location: mpilhlt & online
  • Room: A 601
  • Host: Dr. María del Pilar Mejía Quiroga
  • Contact: mejia@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
El Derecho Real, Pontificio y Theo-Jurídico

El “derecho municipal de los indios”, visto desde California a mediados del siglo XVIII

Seminario Permanente
  • Date: Aug 26, 2025
  • Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Carlos Garriga
  • (Universidad del País Vasco)
  • Location: mpihlt and online
  • Room: A 601
  • Host: Dr. María del Pilar Mejía Quiroga
  • Contact: mejia@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
Old handwritten legal document with two postage stamps affixed in the upper left corner.

The use of Normative Knowledge by local actors in the Proceedings of "Información ad Perpetuam” in Nuevo León, Mexico (1878-1950)

Seminario Permanente
  • Date: Aug 19, 2025
  • Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Pamela Alejandra Cacciavillani (Universidad de Monterrey)
  • Location: mpihlt and online
  • Room: A 601
  • Host: Dr. María del Pilar Mejía Quiroga
  • Contact: mejia@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
Detail of a painting showing a man writing with a quill.

Mit den Augen des anderen? Las Casas' Verteidigung der Völker der Neuen Welt gegen den Humanisten Sepúlveda

Salamanca-Kolloquium
  • Date: Jul 17, 2025
  • Time: 06:15 PM - 07:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Mariano Delgado
  • Location: Campus Westend der Goethe-Universität
  • Room: Eisenhower Saal / IG 1.314
  • Host: Stefan Schweighöfer
  • Contact: schweighoefer@em.uni-frankfurt.de
[more]
Illustration of a very large ship with many fully occupied lifeboats floating in front of it.

Through the looking glass: Locating litigation privilege under the Indian Evidence Code

Common Law Research Seminar
  • Other room
  • Date: Jul 7, 2025
  • Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Shaurya Upadhyay
  • Location: mpilhlt
  • Room: Z02
  • Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Martin O'Donoghue
  • Contact: odonoghue@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
A ruler receives a letter.

Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der päpstlichen Macht: papa/pontifex bei der Schule von Salamanca

Grundbegriffe der Schule von Salamanca
  • Date: Jul 3, 2025
  • Time: 06:15 PM - 07:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Marie-Astrid Hugel
  • Location: Campus Westend der Goethe-Universität
  • Room: IG 2.501
  • Contact: schweighoefer@em.uni-frankfurt.de
[more]
Historical document.

Reasoning of judicial decisions in Catalonia in the context of early modern Iberian jurisdictional cultures

Grundbegriffe der Schule von Salamanca
  • Date: Jun 26, 2025
  • Time: 06:15 PM - 07:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: David Nestor Irazabal Martinez (Barcelona)
  • Location: Campus Westend der Goethe-Universität
  • Room: IG 2.501
  • Contact: schweighoefer@em.uni-frankfurt.de
[more]
Historical document.

The Use of Force in the Conversion and Control of Heresies in the Formation and Dismantling of Christian Communities in Japan at the Turn of the 17th Century

  • New date!
  • Date: Jun 24, 2025
  • Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Victor Laubenstein
  • (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
  • Location: mpilhlt & online
  • Room: A 601
  • Host: ​Pilar Mejia
  • Contact: mejia@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
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Jeremy Bentham and the communication of legal authority: The Indian Penal Code of 1861

Common Law Research Seminar
  • Date: Jun 23, 2025
  • Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Erica Ollikainen-Read
  • Location: mpilhlt
  • Room: Z01
  • Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Martin O'Donoghue
  • Contact: odonoghue@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
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Writing the history of empires

Common Law Research Seminar
  • Other Location
  • Date: Jun 16, 2025
  • Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Benedikt Stuchtey
  • Location: Marburg
  • Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Martin O'Donoghue
  • Contact: odonoghue@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
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Rediscovering Antonio de Cordoba’s (1485-1578) Moral Theology via his Reception of Jean Gerson (1363-1429)

Grundbegriffe der Schule von Salamanca
  • Date: Jun 12, 2025
  • Time: 06:15 PM - 07:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Yelena Mazour-Matusevich (Fairbanks, USA)
  • Location: Campus Westend der Goethe-Universität
  • Room: IG 2.501
  • Contact: schweighoefer@em.uni-frankfurt.de
[more]
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Los pleitos de Remigio Márquez

  • Date: Jun 10, 2025
  • Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Muriel Laurent
  • (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia)
  • Location: mpilhlt & online
  • Room: A 601
  • Host: ​Pilar Mejia
  • Contact: mejia@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
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Departure and decree: The HMT Empire Windrush and the 1948 British Nationality Act in the Jamaican perspective

Common Law Research Seminar
  • Date: May 26, 2025
  • Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Holly French
  • Room: Z01
  • Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Martin O'Donoghue
  • Contact: odonoghue@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
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For another May 13: violence, freedom and subjectivity in the insurrection of the enslaved people of Carrancas

  • Date: May 20, 2025
  • Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Thaisa Maria Rocha Lemos
  • Location: mpilhlt & online
  • Room: A601
  • Host: Pilar Mejia
  • Contact: mejia@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
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Form and content of dissenting judgments and the doctrine of precedent in the Cape of Good Hope (1828-1890)

Common Law Research Seminar
  • Date: May 19, 2025
  • Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Alexandra Wielandt
  • Room: Z01
  • Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Martin O'Donoghue
  • Contact: odonoghue@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
Collage of historical figures and old manuscript pages with intricate designs.

Grundbegriffe der Schule von Salamanca: 1. Ius naturale bei Vitoria, Soto, Vásquez und Suárez.

Salamanca-Kolloquium
  • Date: May 15, 2025
  • Time: 06:15 PM - 07:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Matthias Lutz-Bachmann und Stefan Schweighöfer (Frankfurt a. M.)
  • Location: Campus Westend der Goethe-Universität
  • Room: IG 2.501
  • Host: Stefan Schweighöfer
  • Contact: schweighoefer@em.uni-frankfurt.de
[more]
Book cover

La Nación Traducida: Traducción como ecología en un siglo XVIII largo

  • Date: May 13, 2025
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Laura Beck Varela (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid), Saúl Martínez Bermejo (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid), José María Iñurritegui Rodríguez (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia)
  • Location: Turmcarée and online
  • Room: A 601
  • Host: Vanessa Massuchetto
  • Contact: massuchetto@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
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The punitive origins of 'welfare' legislation

Common Law Research Seminar
  • Date: May 12, 2025
  • Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Prakhar Ganguly
  • Room: Z01
  • Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Martin O'Donoghue
  • Contact: odonoghue@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
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Grundbegriffe der Schule von Salamanca: Säkularisierung im frühneuzeitlichen Naturrecht? Das Beispiel Hugo Grotius.

Salamanca-Kolloquium
  • Date: May 8, 2025
  • Time: 06:15 PM - 07:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Rudolf Schüßler (Bayreuth)
  • Location: Campus Westend der Goethe-Universität
  • Room: IG 2.501
  • Host: Stefan Schweighöfer
  • Contact: schweighoefer@em.uni-frankfurt.de
[more]
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Las pasiones como saber normativo

Seminario Permanente
  • Date: May 6, 2025
  • Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Agustin Casagrande
  • Location: mpihlt and online
  • Room: A 601
  • Host: Dr. María del Pilar Mejía Quiroga
  • Contact: mejia@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
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English law in India: The introduction and codification of the law of restitution for unjust enrichment in India

Common Law Research Seminar
  • Date: Apr 28, 2025
  • Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Ragini Surana
  • Room: Z01
  • Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Martin O'Donoghue
  • Contact: odonoghue@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
Historical engraving featuring figures, text, and decorative elements.

A Cúria Romana e o processo de ereção de dioceses no império português: prerrogativas, normas, agentes e dinâmicas institucionais (Séc. XVI e XVII)

Iberian Worlds
  • Date: Feb 25, 2025
  • Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Ellen Marquez Luz
  • Location: mpilhlt, Turmcarree
  • Room: A 601
  • Host: Pilar Mejia
  • Contact: mejia@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
Two book pages: one with text and one with decorative cover text for the "Programa de los Examenes".

To study law in Santiago de Chile reading a Gaditano and a Caraqueño. The literary legacy of José Joaquín de Mora and Andrés Bello in the legal curriculum at the National Institute and the University of Chile (1829–1890)

Iberian Worlds
  • Date: Feb 11, 2025
  • Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Fernando Muñoz León
  • Location: mpilhlt, Turmcarree
  • Room: A 601
  • Host: Pilar Mejia
  • Contact: mejia@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
Historical black-and-white illustration of people performing various tasks in a landscape.

Jesuiten, Kapuziner und die Kritik am transatlantischen Sklavenhandel

Salamanca-Kolloquium
  • Date: Feb 6, 2025
  • Time: 06:15 PM - 07:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Prof. Matthias Kaufmann
  • (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg)
  • Location: Campus Westend der Goethe-Universität
  • Room: IG 2.501
  • Host: Stefan Schweighöfer
  • Contact: schweighoefer@em.uni-frankfurt.de
[more]
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John Wheeler’s Treatise of Commerce and the meaning of ‘police’ in the early modern English-speaking world

Common Law Research Seminar
  • Date: Feb 3, 2025
  • Time: 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Gustavo Zatelli Correa (University of Helsinki)
  • Room: Z02
  • Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola
  • Contact: cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
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The colonial education mould and its consequences: Comparative case studies of the Cape Colony and Northern Rhodesia (c. 1880-1930)

Common Law Research Seminar
  • Date: Jan 27, 2025
  • Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Alicia Haripershad (mpilhlt)
  • Room: Z01
  • Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola
  • Contact: cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
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Slavery and the School of Salamanca. Presentation and debate on the lemma servus/servitus.

Salamanca-Kolloquium
  • Date: Jan 23, 2025
  • Time: 06:15 PM - 07:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Dr. Daniel Allemann
  • (Luzern)
  • Location: Campus Westend der Goethe-Universität
  • Room: IG 2.501
  • Host: Stefan Schweighöfer
  • Contact: schweighoefer@em.uni-frankfurt.de
[more]
Illustrated genealogical tree with names depicted on branches and circles.

“Que he o Codigo Civil?”: Knowledge and Practices of Civil Codification in Brazil (1822-1917)

Iberian Worlds
  • Date: Jan 21, 2025
  • Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Gabriela Back Lombardi
  • Location: mpilhlt, Turmcarree
  • Room: A 601
  • Host: Pilar Mejia
  • Contact: mejia@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
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Kirchliche Rechtsgeschichte in der Frühen Neuzeit und Globalgeschichte

Salamanca-Kolloquium
  • Date: Jan 16, 2025
  • Time: 06:15 PM - 07:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Thomas Duve
  • (mpilhlt)
  • Location: Campus Westend der Goethe-Universität
  • Room: IG 2.501
  • Host: Stefan Schweighöfer
  • Contact: schweighoefer@em.uni-frankfurt.de
[more]
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The code of tribute: Law and political economy in the Ain of 1854

Common Law Research Seminar
  • Date: Jan 13, 2025
  • Time: 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Simon Cubelic (Heidelberg University)
  • Room: Z02
  • Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola
  • Contact: cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
Gray logo featuring a stylized profile of a figure and the text "SALAMANCA Kolloquium".

Seelsorge in der Schule von Salamanca. Ein Werkstattsbericht

Salamanca-Kolloquium
  • Date: Jan 9, 2025
  • Time: 06:15 PM - 07:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Prof. Dr. Christoph Nebgen (Goethe Universität Frankfurt)
  • Location: Campus Westend der Goethe-Universität
  • Room: IG 2.501
  • Host: Stefan Schweighöfer
  • Contact: schweighoefer@em.uni-frankfurt.de
[more]
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The Satsuma Mutiny and the inter-colonial origins of the Fugitive Offenders Act 1881

Common Law Research Seminar
  • Date: Dec 16, 2024
  • Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Ivan Lee (National University of Singapore)
  • Room: Z01
  • Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola
  • Contact: cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
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Robert Bellarmine on the Exchange Contract: The Louvain Lectures (1570–1576) and the Transmission of the Spanish Scholastic Thought

Salamanca-Kolloquium
  • Date: Dec 12, 2024
  • Time: 06:15 PM - 07:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Shiri Roelofs (KU Leuven)
  • Location: Campus Westend der Goethe-Universität
  • Room: IG 2.501
  • Host: Stefan Schweighöfer
  • Contact: schweighoefer@em.uni-frankfurt.de
[more]
Logo with vertical colored bars and the word "WIKIDATA" underneath.

Wikidata for legal historians

Legal History meets Digital Humanities: Legal History Meets Digital Humanities
  • Date: Dec 10, 2024
  • Time: 03:00 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Bärbel Kröger, Dr. Jörg Wettlaufer
  • (Göttingen Academy of Science and Humanities in Lower Saxony)
  • Location: mpilhlt & online
  • Room: Z01
  • Host: Polina Solonets, Christian Boulanger
  • Contact: dhseminar@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
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Maud Lipshut and the death of private Frederik Short: Intoxication, sex and race in colonial Singapore

Common Law Research Seminar
  • Date: Dec 9, 2024
  • Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Zhi Qing Denise Lim (ETH Zurich)
  • Room: Z01
  • Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola
  • Contact: cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
Black and white photograph of individuals working in a computer room with vintage IBM technology.

How does Digitality Change History? Digital History Methods in an Institutional Context

Legal History Meets Digital Humanities
  • Date: Dec 3, 2024
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Silke Schwandt (Universität Bielefeld)
  • Location: mpilhlt & online
  • Room: Z01
  • Host: Polina Solonets
  • Contact: dhseminar@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
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Beyond the British Empire: Stocks, bonds and common law in the 19th-century Magdalena River (1810-1928)

Common Law Research Seminar
  • online
  • Date: Nov 25, 2024
  • Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Cristina Hernández (University of Kent)
  • Location: online
  • Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola
  • Contact: cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
Baroque painting of a mythological scene featuring clouds and figures.

From one epistemic community to another: conceptual similarities between the School of Salamanca and the usus modernus Pandectarum on topics of economic dominance (16th-18th centuries)

Salamanca-Kolloquium
  • New time!
  • Date: Nov 21, 2024
  • Time: 06:15 PM - 07:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Wout Vandermeulen
  • Location: Campus Westend der Goethe-Universität
  • Room: Raum IG 2.501
  • Host: Stefan Schweighöfer
  • Contact: schweighoefer@em.uni-frankfurt.de
[more]
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Haileybury College: Invading India ‘with little Grotiuses and Puffendorfs’

Common Law Research Seminar
  • Date: Nov 18, 2024
  • Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Victoria Lacis (University of Münster)
  • Room: Z01
  • Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola
  • Contact: cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
Collage with historical book cover and two ornate portraits on a map background.

The Chinese Rites Controversy & its Antecedents: The Acta Pekinensia of Kilian Stumpf, S.J. (1655–1720) in its Glocal Context

Lecture Series 'Rites Controversy'
  • Date: Nov 14, 2024
  • Time: 05:00 PM - 07:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Location: mpihlt and online
  • Room: Conference Room (Z01)
  • Host: Luisa Stella Coutinho (MPILHLT) and Rômulo Ehalt (MPILHLT)
  • Contact: coutinho@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
Diagram illustrating a machine learning architecture with BiLSTM layers and linear prediction components.

Mining Legal Arguments: Proportionality in German Constitutional Court Judgments

Legal History Meets Digital Humanities
  • Date: Nov 14, 2024
  • Time: 03:00 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Location: mpilhlt & online
  • Room: Z01
  • Host: Polina Solonets, Anselm Küsters
  • Contact: dhseminar@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
Projection mapping on a historic building at night, creating geometric visual effects.

Colonization through Her Eyes: The Lives and Labor of Maya and Spanish Women in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula

Iberian Worlds
  • Date: Nov 12, 2024
  • Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Hannah Abrahamson
  • Location: mpilhlt, Turmcarree
  • Room: A 601
  • Host: Mariá del Pilar Mejía Quiroga
  • Contact: mejia@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
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Constitutional panic in British India: The Ilbert Bill controversy and racial discrimination

Common Law Research Seminar
  • Date: Nov 11, 2024
  • Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Gwinyai Machona (Humboldt University Berlin)
  • Room: Z01
  • Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola
  • Contact: cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
Engraving depicting an ornate nativity scene with adoring figures and intricate borders.

African Slavery in the Theological-Political Discourse of Portuguese America, 16th to 18th Centuries

Iberian Worlds
  • Date: Oct 29, 2024
  • Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Renato Franco
  • Location: mpilhlt, Turmcarree
  • Room: A 601
  • Host: Mariá del Pilar Mejía Quiroga
  • Contact: mejia@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
Title page of "Monumenta Germaniae Historica" featuring historical publication details.

Digital Editing at the Monumenta Germaniae Historica (MGH) - yesterday, today, tomorrow

  • Date: Oct 22, 2024
  • Time: 03:00 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Dr. Bernd Posselt (Monumenta Germaniae Historica)
  • Location: mpilhlt or online
  • Room: Conference Room (Z01)
  • Host: Polina Solonets, Christiane Birr
  • Contact: dhseminar@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
Historical painting depicting a lively plaza scene with figures and animals in front of a grand building.

La formación de encuestas y expedientes en el Virreinato del Perú (1580-1690): Un análisis comparado sobre recursos de defensa y amparo de comunidades indígenas

Iberian Worlds
  • Date: Oct 15, 2024
  • Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Carlos Emilio Ruvituso
  • Location: mpilhlt, Turmcarree
  • Room: A 601
  • Host: Mariá del Pilar Mejía Quiroga
  • Contact: mejia@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
Map depicting the Spanish Colonial Empire during the Age of Exploration with trade routes and territories marked.

Administrative law in a network: a study of the translation and circulation of the concepts of centralisation and decentralisation in the discourses of administrators from Iberian and American nations in the second half of the 19th century

  • Date: Oct 1, 2024
  • Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Livia Pfuetzenreiter de Lima Teixeira
  • Location: mpilhlt, Turmcarree
  • Room: A 601
  • Host: André Bezerra Ferreira
  • Contact: ferreira@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
Colorful design featuring the text "Mandinga Sea! África en Antioquía" with decorative elements.

“¡Mandinga Sea! Africa in Antioquia”: Post-Slavery and Postcolonial Museology in Colombia. An Exercise in Public History

Iberian Worlds
  • Date: Sep 24, 2024
  • Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Luz Adriana Maya
  • Location: mpilhlt, Turmcarree
  • Room: A 601
  • Host: Mariá del Pilar Mejía Quiroga
  • Contact: mejia@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
Illustration of a group of riders on horseback traversing a scenic landscape.

Experiencias coloniales alemanas en Venezuela (siglos XVI, XIX y XX): Un despliegue histórico del derecho en una sociedad poscolonial.

  • Date: Jul 9, 2024
  • Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: María Julia Ochoa
  • Location: mpilhlt, Turmcarree
  • Room: A601
  • Host: Pilar Mejia
  • Contact: mejia@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
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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]
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Common law transplants and the question of legitimacy

Common Law Research Seminar
  • different place than usual
  • 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]
Illustration of a tall, intricately designed tower with surrounding landscape.

Balancing protection and spoliation in the contemporary age: Looting and Restitution of African cultural Heritage

  • Date: Jun 25, 2024
  • Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Michele Di Giuseppe
  • Location: mpilhlt
  • Room: A601
  • Host: Romulo da Silva Ehalt and Maria del Pilar Mejía Quiroga
  • Contact: mejia@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
Illustration of a very large ship with many fully occupied lifeboats floating in front of it.

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: Z01
  • Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola
  • Contact: cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
Illustration of a large steamship with multiple masts and paddle wheels, surrounded by small boats on the water.

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: Z01
  • Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola
  • Contact: cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
Woodcut illustration depicting scholars at work, including a central figure in a lectern.

John Mair on natural law and the conquest of the Americas

  • Date: Jun 6, 2024
  • Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Marcos Paredes-Sadler
  • Location: mpilhlt, Turmcarree
  • Room: A 601
  • Host: Romulo da Silva Ehalt and Maria del Pilar Mejía Quiroga
  • Contact: mejia@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
Woodcut illustration depicting scholars at work, including a central figure in a lectern.

John Mair and the justification of the conquest of the Americas

  • Postponed! New date will be announced.
  • Date: May 28, 2024
  • Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Marcos Paredes-Sadler
  • Location: mpilhlt, Turmcarree
  • Room: A 601
  • Host: Romulo da Silva Ehalt and Maria del Pilar Mejía Quiroga
  • Contact: mejia@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
Illustration of a large steamship with multiple masts and paddle wheels, surrounded by small boats on the water.

Writing the history of empires

Common Law Research Seminar
  • Date: May 27, 2024
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Benedikt Stuchtey (Philipps University Marburg)
  • Room: Z01
  • Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola
  • Contact: cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
Diagram showing interconnected databases with various colored circles.

Modelling Social and Legal Facts in the Context of the Semantic Data for Humanities and Social Sciences (SDHSS) Ontology Ecosystem

  • Date: May 16, 2024
  • Time: 03:00 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Francesco Beretta
  • (CNRS/University of Lyon, France)
  • Location: mpilhlt & online
  • Room: Z01
  • Host: Polina Solonets
  • Contact: dhseminar@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
Illustration of a large steamship with multiple masts and paddle wheels, surrounded by small boats on the water.

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: Z01
  • Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola
  • Contact: cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
Historical drawing of a town with surrounding hills and fields.

Collective ownership: a historical perspective

  • Date: Apr 30, 2024
  • Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Maddalena Fileni and Pietro Niccolò Petrelli
  • Location: mpilhlt, Turmcarree
  • Room: A601
  • Host: Romulo da Silva Ehalt and Maria del Pilar Mejía
  • Contact: mejia@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
Illustration of a large steamship with multiple masts and paddle wheels, surrounded by small boats on the water.

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: Z01
  • Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola
  • Contact: cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
Illustration of a large steamship with multiple masts and paddle wheels, surrounded by small boats on the water.

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: Z01
  • Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola
  • Contact: cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
Historical map illustrating the boundary between Portuguese and Dutch territories on the island of Timor.

The line that never was: local knowledge and the demarcation of a colonial border

Iberian Worlds
  • Date: Mar 19, 2024
  • Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Ricardo Roque
  • Location: mpilhlt, Turmcarree
  • Room: A 601
  • Host: Mariá del Pilar Mejía Quiroga
  • Contact: mejia@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
Antique world map featuring detailed illustrations and decorative elements.

Whatever God Gives: Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic Rizq and Latin Resicum in Commercial Vocabulary, 1154-1164 CE

MPI-TAU Transnational Legal History Workshop
  • Date: Feb 21, 2024
  • Time: 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Sarina Kuersteiner
  • (Union College)
  • Location: Zoom
  • Host: Leora Bilsky (TAU), Thomas Duve (MPI), Rachel Friedman (TAU), David Schorr (TAU), Stefan Vogenauer (MPI)
[more]
Religious painting showing a crowned figure in ornate robes, holding a child with two figures praying below.

Un buen servidor de ambas majestades: el mecenazgo de Juan José Fernández Campero de Herrera (activo entre 1680 y 1718)

Iberian Worlds
  • Date: Feb 20, 2024
  • Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Ana Plaza Roig
  • Location: mpilhlt, Turmcarree
  • Room: A601
  • Host: Mariá del Pilar Mejía Quiroga
  • Contact: mejia@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
Antique world map featuring detailed illustrations and decorative elements.

Harmonizing the Family? International Law, Cultural Norms and Marriage at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

MPI-TAU Transnational Legal History Workshop
  • Date: Feb 14, 2024
  • Time: 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Julia Moses
  • (University of Sheffield)
  • Location: Zoom
  • Host: Leora Bilsky (TAU), Thomas Duve (MPI), Rachel Friedman (TAU), David Schorr (TAU), Stefan Vogenauer (MPI)
[more]
Antique world map featuring detailed illustrations and decorative elements.

Transnational legal mobilization: repressive structures and networks of resistance in S. American dictatorships (1964-1988)

MPI-TAU Transnational Legal History Workshop
  • Date: Feb 7, 2024
  • Time: 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Cristiano Paixão
  • (University of Brasília)
  • Location: Zoom
  • Host: Leora Bilsky (TAU), Thomas Duve (MPI), Rachel Friedman (TAU), David Schorr (TAU), Stefan Vogenauer (MPI)
[more]
Antique world map featuring detailed illustrations and decorative elements.

Religion, Law and Urban Governance: Subaltern Christians as Legal Subjects in Early Colonial South India

MPI-TAU Transnational Legal History Workshop
  • Date: Jan 31, 2024
  • Time: 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Aparna Balachandran
  • (Delhi University)
  • Location: Zoom
  • Host: Leora Bilsky (TAU), Thomas Duve (MPI), Rachel Friedman (TAU), David Schorr (TAU), Stefan Vogenauer (MPI)
[more]
Antique world map featuring detailed illustrations and decorative elements.

Changing Legal Professions in China, Japan, and the Ottoman Empire in the long 19th century: Towards a Historical Comparison

MPI-TAU Transnational Legal History Workshop
  • Date: Jan 24, 2024
  • Time: 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Egas Moniz Bandeira
  • (FAU)
  • Location: Zoom
  • Host: Leora Bilsky (TAU), Thomas Duve (MPI), Rachel Friedman (TAU), David Schorr (TAU), Stefan Vogenauer (MPI)
[more]
Historical painting of a bustling port with numerous ships and a city in the background.

The legal treatment of labour by the School of Salamanca

Iberian Worlds
  • Date: Jan 23, 2024
  • Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Alexis Audemar
  • Location: mpilhlt
  • Room: A509
  • Contact: mejia@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
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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]
Antique world map featuring detailed illustrations and decorative elements.

State-like powers? Charter Companies and the production of knowledge of normativity in Mozambique (1891-1942)

MPI-TAU Transnational Legal History Workshop
  • Date: Jan 17, 2024
  • Time: 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Raquel Sirotti (mpilhlt)
  • Location: Zoom
  • Host: Leora Bilsky (TAU), Thomas Duve (MPI), Rachel Friedman (TAU), David Schorr (TAU), Stefan Vogenauer (MPI)
[more]
Antique world map featuring detailed illustrations and decorative elements.

Transforming a Polity into an Economy: The Five Nations and the Railroads, 1855-1894

MPI-TAU Transnational Legal History Workshop
  • Date: Jan 10, 2024
  • Time: 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Alon Jasper
  • (TAU)
  • Location: Zoom
  • Host: Leora Bilsky (TAU), Thomas Duve (MPI), Rachel Friedman (TAU), David Schorr (TAU), Stefan Vogenauer (MPI)
[more]
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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]
Antique world map featuring detailed illustrations and decorative elements.

England’s Missing Boards of Health: The Medieval Beginnings of an Anglo-Continental Divergence

MPI-TAU Transnational Legal History Workshop
  • Date: Dec 20, 2023
  • Time: 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Noga Morag-Levine
  • (Michigan State University)
  • Location: Zoom
  • Host: Leora Bilsky (TAU), Thomas Duve (MPI), Rachel Friedman (TAU), David Schorr (TAU), Stefan Vogenauer (MPI)
[more]
Illustration of a large steamship with multiple masts and paddle wheels, surrounded by small boats on the water.

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]
Antique world map featuring detailed illustrations and decorative elements.

European Community Environmental Law in the 1970s: Combatting Water Pollution

MPI-TAU Transnational Legal History Workshop
  • Date: Dec 13, 2023
  • Time: 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Jan-Henrik Meyer (mpilhlt)
  • Location: Zoom
  • Host: Leora Bilsky (TAU), Thomas Duve (MPI), Rachel Friedman (TAU), David Schorr (TAU), Stefan Vogenauer (MPI)
[more]
Illustration of a bustling town square with figures, buildings, and a fountain.

Digital Longevity: Learnings from the (Digital) History Project Stadt.Geschichte.Basel

Legal History Meets Digital Humanities
  • Date: Dec 12, 2023
  • Time: 03:00 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Moritz Mähr (University of Basel)
  • Location: mpilhlt and online
  • Room: Z01
  • Host: Polina Solonets
  • Contact: dhseminar@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]

Legal Nationalism and Ancient Indian Public Law

MPI-TAU Transnational Legal History Workshop
  • Date: Dec 6, 2023
  • Time: 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Assaf Likhovski (TAU)
  • Location: Zoom
  • Host: Leora Bilsky (TAU), Thomas Duve (MPI), Rachel Friedman (TAU), David Schorr (TAU), Stefan Vogenauer (MPI)
[more]
Illustration of a historical pharmacy with ornate shelves and glass bottles.

Contratando liberdade: a composição da regulação jurídica do trabalho no Brasil do século XIX

Iberian Worlds
  • Date: Dec 5, 2023
  • Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Marjorie Carvalho de Souza
  • Location: mpilhlt
  • Room: A509
  • Contact: mejia@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
Illustration of a large steamship with multiple masts and paddle wheels, surrounded by small boats on the water.

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]
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Social Network Analysis for Historians: Origins, Uses and Challenges

Legal History Meets Digital Humanities
  • Date: Nov 29, 2023
  • Time: 03:00 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Natalia Maillard Álvarez (Pablo de Olavide University)
  • Location: University of Trento (Palazzo Paolo Prodi) and online
  • Room: aula Targetti
  • Host: Polina Solonets, Manuela Bagagnolo
  • Contact: dhseminar@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
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The debate over Native Americans’ rationality and its influence on the bull Sublimis Deus (1537) and the Laws of the Indies (1530-1542)

Iberian Worlds
  • Date: Nov 28, 2023
  • Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Victor Lillo Castañ
  • Location: mpilhlt
  • Room: A509
  • Contact: mejia@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
Historical illustration of two men in traditional attire before a cross.

Chinese Voices in the Rites Controversy: The Legal Dialogue Related to the Mondialisation of a Local Problem 1701-1704

Lecture Series 'Rites Controversy'
  • Date: Nov 28, 2023
  • Time: 01:00 PM - 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Nicolas Standaert (University of Leuven)
  • Location: Online
  • Host: Fupeng Li, Benedetta Albani, Manuela Bragagnolo
  • Contact: roeseler@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
Illustration featuring two figures in different traditional costumes from Montevideo.

Women, knowledge of normativity and conflicts: study of cases of esponsais/esponsales, palabras de casamiento and crime of consensual rape in the Río de la Plata (18th century)

Iberian Worlds
  • Date: Nov 21, 2023
  • Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Vanessa Massuchetto
  • Location: mpilhlt
  • Room: A509
  • Contact: mejia@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
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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]
Oil painting featuring a series of adorned heads and a lion in profile.

Crooked Lines – Iberian casuistry in early modern Asia (16th-17th centuries)

Lecture Series 'Rites Controversy'
  • Date: Nov 8, 2023
  • Time: 01:00 PM - 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Rômulo da Silva Ehalt
  • Location: Online
  • Host: Fupeng Li, Benedetta Albani, Manuela Bragagnolo
  • Contact: roeseler@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
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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]
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El Poder del Chamán y el Ritual del Yagé en la Construcción de Saberes Normativos en el Putumayo (Colombia siglos XIX-XX)

Iberian Worlds
  • Date: Oct 31, 2023
  • Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Marcelo Londoño
  • Location: mpilhlt
  • Room: A509
  • Contact: mejia@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
Radiant diagram featuring intertwined lines and notes on a dark background.

El Poder del Chamán y el Ritual del Yagé en la Construcción de Saberes Normativos en el Putumayo (Colombia siglos XIX-XX)

Iberian Worlds
  • Date: Oct 31, 2023
  • Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Marcelo Londoño
  • Location: mpilhlt
  • Room: A509
  • Contact: mejia@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
Historical map of southern India featuring detailed labels and a decorative frame.

Conflicting Normativities in the Malabar Rites Controversy: Jurisdictional Assertions and the Determination of ‘Factum’

Lecture Series 'Rites Controversy'
  • Date: Oct 25, 2023
  • Time: 01:00 PM - 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Paolo Aranha
  • Location: Online
  • Host: Fupeng Li, Benedetta Albani, Manuela Bragagnolo
  • Contact: roeseler@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
Historical portrait of a man with a hat and decorative oval frame.

Em meio à Reforma Católica nos Países Baixos espanhóis: As obras de Petrus Peckius (1529-1589) sobre as relações entre clérigos e mulheres

Iberian Worlds
  • Date: Oct 24, 2023
  • Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Ana Luiza Silva
  • Location: mpilhlt
  • Room: A509
  • Contact: mejia@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
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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]
Collage of black-and-white photographs depicting traditional clothing and gatherings with handwritten notes.

Igreja Metodista Unida e conhecimento normativo no processo da Libertação de Moçambique (1968 à 1975)

Iberian Worlds
  • Date: Oct 17, 2023
  • Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Simão Jaime
  • Location: mpilhlt
  • Room: A509
  • Contact: mejia@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
Event poster for a seminar on digital narratives and plurivocity regarding the commemoration of October 12, 1492.

Digital Narratives and Plurivocity: Regarding the Commemoration of October 12, 1492

Legal History Meets Digital Humanities. Permanent Seminar on Methods, Resources and Theories
  • Date: Oct 12, 2023
  • Time: 07:00 PM - 09:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Andrés Burbano, Sebastián Vargas, Luis Tumiñá
  • Location: online
  • Host: Karla Escobar, Polina Solonets
  • Contact: dhseminar@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
Painting of monks in a library studying at a table.

Missionary Canon Law: The Propaganda Fide Congregation and the Challenge of Daily Life Moral Cases in China, 18th-20th centuries

Lecture Series 'Rites Controversy'
  • Date: Sep 27, 2023
  • Time: 01:30 PM - 03:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Eugenio Menegon (Boston University)
  • Location: Online
  • Host: Fupeng Li, Benedetta Albani, Manuela Bragagnolo
  • Contact: roeseler@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
Close-up of an old book page featuring Latin text.

Pactos, acuerdos y consentimientos: el derecho canónico y el manejo cotidianos de los conflictos en Hispanoamérica

Iberian Worlds
  • Date: Sep 26, 2023
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Pol Moutin
  • Location: mpilhlt
  • Room: A509
  • Contact: mejia@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
Detailed handwritten page with seal, dated to the year 1669.

Resistiendo el control de la monarquía. Crimen y corrupción en las fronteras del imperio español. Chile, 1670-1690

Iberian Worlds
  • Date: Sep 12, 2023
  • Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Elisa Cerón Sandoval
  • Location: mpilhlt
  • Room: A509
  • Contact: mejia@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
Screenshot of a software interface for editing and managing annotations and text fragments.

The 'Assertive Edition'

Legal History Meets Digital Humanities. Permanent Seminar on Methods, Resources and Theories
  • Date: Jul 25, 2023
  • Time: 03:00 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Georg Vogeler
  • Location: mpilhlt and online
  • Room: Z01
  • Host: Polina Solonets
  • Contact: dhseminar@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
Book with a red cover titled "Direito: Lições de História do Direito em África".

Archival Heritage and Cultural Rights in Mozambique (1948-1975)

Iberian Worlds
  • Date: Jul 18, 2023
  • Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Daniel Inoque
  • Location: mpilhlt
  • Room: A509
  • Contact: mejia@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
Illustration of a large steamship with multiple masts and paddle wheels on the water.

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]
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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]
Diagram categorizing labor relations with various categories and subcategories.

Development of an Interoperable Taxonomy: the Global Collaboratory on the History of Labour Relations, 1500-2000

  • Date: Jun 20, 2023
  • Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Karin Hofmeester
  • (International Institute of Social History)
  • Location: mpilhlt
  • Room: Z01
  • Host: Polina Solonets
  • Contact: dhseminar@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
Illustration of a large steamship with multiple masts and paddle wheels on the water.

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]
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Öffentliches Recht und Privatrecht zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts

Colloquium Private Law and Theory
  • Date: Jun 19, 2023
  • Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Dorothea Keiter (mpilhlt)
  • Location: Zoom
  • Host: Marietta Auer
  • Contact: office.auer@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
Historical map with detailed geographical and decorative elements.

Unraveling the Orinoco’s “Labyrinth of Languages”: Linguistic Knowledge and Jesuit Missions in the Margins of the Spanish Empire, 1660-1784

Seminario Permanente
  • Date: Jun 13, 2023
  • Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Maria del Pilar Ramirez Restrepo
  • Location: mpilhlt
  • Room: A509
  • Host: Dr. María del Pilar Mejía Quiroga
  • Contact: mejia@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
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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]
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10 Jahre Kodifikation der Patientenrechte und Selbstbestimmungsaufklärung

Colloquium Private Law and Theory
  • Date: Jun 12, 2023
  • Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Jann Maatz (mpilhlt)
  • Location: Zoom
  • Room: Link per Mail ca. 1-2 Wochen vorher
  • Host: Marietta Auer
  • Contact: office.auer@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
Historical courtroom scene depicting several people standing and sitting in a court setting.

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]
Historical scene with a fortified structure, horsemen, and people by the water.

Capacities to Work: Normativities of Labor and Colonial Development in Brazil and Maranhao, 1530-1700

Seminario Permanente
  • Date: Jun 6, 2023
  • Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Maria B. Almeida Reis
  • Host: Dr. María del Pilar Mejía Quiroga
  • Contact: mejia@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
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Rudolf Wiethölter, Zur Regelbildung der Dogmatik des Zivilrechts

Colloquium Private Law and Theory
  • Date: Jun 6, 2023
  • Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Moritz Reichenbach (BVerfG)
  • Location: Zoom
  • Host: Marietta Auer
  • Contact: office.auer@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
Illustration of a large steamship with multiple masts and paddle wheels on the water.

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]
Illustration of a large steamship with multiple masts and paddle wheels on the water.

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]
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Niklas Luhmann, Rechtssystem und Rechtsdogmatik (1974)

Colloquium Private Law and Theory
  • Date: May 30, 2023
  • Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Jannik Ostmann
  • Location: mpilhlt
  • Room: Vortragssaal
  • Host: Marietta Auer
  • Contact: office.auer@lhlt.mpg.de
[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]
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Becoming aware of the future: the enactment of Colbert's trade Ordonnances in France (1673- 1685) from a systems theory perspective

Colloquium Private Law and Theory
  • Date: May 22, 2023
  • Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Filippo Contarini (Uni St. Gallen)
  • Location: Zoom
  • Host: Marietta Auer
  • Contact: office.auer@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
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Hermann Kantorowicz, Der Kampf um die Rechtswissenschaft (1906)

Colloquium Private Law and Theory
  • Date: May 15, 2023
  • Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Milena Pfaffe
  • Location: mpilhlt
  • Room: Vortragssaal
  • Host: Marietta Auer
  • Contact: office.auer@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
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Beyond prosopography: using Digital Humanities to study the early-modern Portuguese colonial judiciary

Legal History Meets Digital Humanities. Permanent Seminar on Methods, Resources and Theories
  • Date: Apr 25, 2023
  • Time: 03:00 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Nuno Camarinhas
  • Location: mpilhlt and online
  • Room: Z01
  • Host: Polina Solonets
  • Contact: dhseminar@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
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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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Technology and Legal History Research

Legal History Meets Digital Humanities. Permanent Seminar on Methods, Resources and Theories
  • Date: Feb 28, 2023
  • Time: 03:00 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Andreas Wagner
  • Location: mpilhlt
  • Room: Z01
  • Host: Polina Solonets
[more]
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Pugna racial en la historia del derecho en Chile

Seminario Permanente
  • Date: Feb 14, 2023
  • Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Fernando Perez Godoy
  • Location: video conference
  • Host: Dr. María del Pilar Mejía Quiroga
  • Contact: mejia@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
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Slaves, indigenous, freedmen and the colonial legal culture in São Paulo

Seminario Permanente
  • Date: Feb 7, 2023
  • Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Felipe Garcia de Oliveira
  • Location: video conference
  • Host: Dr. María del Pilar Mejía Quiroga
  • Contact: mejia@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]

Theoretical Perspectives on Legal Change: Luhmann and Latour

Glocalizing Normativities Research Colloquium
  • Date: Feb 6, 2023
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Manuel Bastias Saavedra (Leibniz Universität Hannover) and João Paulo Bachur (mpilhlt)
  • Location: mpilhlt
  • Room: G503
  • Host: Luisa Stella Coutinho
[more]
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Normatividades del diezmo de indios en el arzobispado de México

Seminario Permanente
  • Date: Jan 31, 2023
  • Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Leopoldo Martínez Ávalos
  • Location: video conference
  • Host: Dr. María del Pilar Mejía Quiroga
  • Contact: mejia@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
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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
[more]
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Limping Marriages: Race, Class, and Divorce Jurisdiction in the British Empire

MPI-TAU Transnational Legal History Workshop
  • Date: Jan 24, 2023
  • Time: 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Priyasha Saksena (University of Leeds)
  • Location: Zoom
  • Host: Thomas Duve (MPI), Ron Harris (TAU), Assaf Likhovski (TAU), Stefan Vogenauer (MPI)
[more]
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Fray Alonso de la Veracruz and his annotations to Thomas More’s Utopia

Seminario Permanente
  • Date: Jan 24, 2023
  • Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Víctor Lillo Castañ
  • Location: video conference
  • Host: Dr. María del Pilar Mejía Quiroga
  • Contact: mejia@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
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What is a historical process?

Glocalizing Normativities Research Colloquium
  • Date: Jan 23, 2023
  • Time: 12:00 PM - 01:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Thomas Duve (mpilhlt)
  • Location: mpilhlt
  • Room: Online
  • Host: Luisa Stella Coutinho
[more]
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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
[more]
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As many dominia as people and things

IberLAND Research Colloquium
  • Date: Jan 11, 2023
  • Time: 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Sarah Limão Papa
  • Location: Contact: iberland@lhlt.mpg.de
  • Host: Research Group IberLAND
  • Contact: iberland@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
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methodica – A New Textbook on European Law

MPI-TAU Transnational Legal History Workshop
  • Date: Jan 10, 2023
  • Time: 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Philip Bajon (mpilhlt)
  • Location: Zoom
  • Host: Thomas Duve (MPI), Ron Harris (TAU), Assaf Likhovski (TAU), Stefan Vogenauer (MPI)
[more]
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Pan-Africanism and the Historiography of International Law in Africa

MPI-TAU Transnational Legal History Workshop
  • Date: Dec 20, 2022
  • Time: 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Inge Van Hulle
  • (KU Leuven)
  • Location: Zoom
  • Host: Thomas Duve (MPI), Ron Harris (TAU), Assaf Likhovski (TAU), Stefan Vogenauer (MPI)
[more]
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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
[more]
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Organise, classify, decide. The Council of Trent and the construction and use of legal knowledge in the modern world

Reading seminar "Council of Trent"
  • Date: Dec 14, 2022
  • Time: 06:00 PM - 07:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Location: Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory
  • Room: Room G503
  • Host: Benedetta Albani, Anna Clara Lehmann Martins
  • Contact: albani@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
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A map of an infinite field: a historiographical review on land tenure in colonial Mexico

IberLAND Research Colloquium
  • Date: Dec 14, 2022
  • Time: 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Alina Rodríguez
  • Location: For further information please contact: iberland@hist.uni-hannover.de or iberland@lhlt.mpg.de
  • Host: Research Group IberLAND
  • Contact: iberland@lhlt.mpg.de
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History as a legal argument in 19th century Germany

Glocalizing Normativities Research Colloquium
  • The event has had to be cancelled.
  • Date: Dec 14, 2022
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Hans-Peter Haferkamp (University of Cologne)
  • Location: mpilhlt
  • Room: Lecture hall and online
  • Host: Luisa Stella Coutinho
  • Contact: coutinho@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
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Doctrinal circulations in criminal law 1764–1914

MPI-TAU Transnational Legal History Workshop
  • Date: Dec 13, 2022
  • Time: 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Jean-Louis Halpérin (EHESS)
  • Location: Zoom
  • Host: Thomas Duve (MPI), Ron Harris (TAU), Assaf Likhovski (TAU), Stefan Vogenauer (MPI)
[more]
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Conviviality and normative practices of everyday life

Seminario Permanente
  • Date: Dec 13, 2022
  • Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Samuel Barbosa
  • Location: video conference
  • Host: Dr. María del Pilar Mejía Quiroga
  • Contact: mejia@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
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Mind the step: Standardizing the Mind, Stepping into Positive Law (Egypt, 1897-1949)

MPI-TAU Transnational Legal History Workshop
  • Date: Dec 6, 2022
  • Time: 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Baudouin Dupret (CNRS)
  • Location: Zoom
  • Host: Thomas Duve (MPI), Ron Harris (TAU), Assaf Likhovski (TAU), Stefan Vogenauer (MPI)
[more]
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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
[more]
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The space and places of the Council of Trent

Reading seminar "Council of Trent"
  • Date: Nov 30, 2022
  • Time: 06:00 PM - 07:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Location: Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory
  • Room: Room G503
  • Host: Benedetta Albani, Anna Clara Lehmann Martins
  • Contact: albani@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
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O Regime de propriedade da terra: um “parente pobre” na historiografia cabo-verdiana.

IberLAND Research Colloquium
  • Date: Nov 30, 2022
  • Time: 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Edson Edy Brito
  • Location: For further information please contact: iberland@hist.uni-hannover.de or iberland@lhlt.mpg.de
  • Host: Research Group IberLAND
  • Contact: iberland@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
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El problema sexual en las cárceles argentinas durante los años peronistas: circulación de ideas y humanización del castigo (1946-1955)

Seminario Permanente
  • Date: Nov 29, 2022
  • Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Jorge Núñez
  • Location: video conference
  • Host: Dr. María del Pilar Mejía Quiroga
  • Contact: mejia@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
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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
[more]
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Fear of the False in Colonial South Asia

MPI-TAU Transnational Legal History Workshop
  • Date: Nov 22, 2022
  • Time: 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Mitra Sharafi (University of Wisconsin)
  • Location: Zoom
  • Host: Thomas Duve (MPI), Ron Harris (TAU), Assaf Likhovski (TAU), Stefan Vogenauer (MPI)
[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]

Tierra, derecho e historiografía. Las relaciones con la tierra en la historia del derecho español.

IberLAND Research Colloquium
  • Date: Nov 16, 2022
  • Time: 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Camilla de Freitas Macedo
  • Location: For further information please contact: iberland@hist.uni-hannover.de or iberland@lhlt.mpg.de
  • Host: Research Group IberLAND
  • Contact: iberland@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]

The Use of Jewish Legal Sources to Tell Islamic Economic History

MPI-TAU Transnational Legal History Workshop
  • Date: Nov 15, 2022
  • Time: 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Phillip I. Lieberman (Vanderbilt University)
  • Location: Zoom
  • Host: Thomas Duve (MPI), Ron Harris (TAU), Assaf Likhovski (TAU), Stefan Vogenauer (MPI)
[more]
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Nociones de archivo a contrapunto: Antesala del análisis del manejo de la diversidad de saberes normativos en Bolivia

Seminario Permanente
  • Date: Nov 15, 2022
  • Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Paola Revilla Orias
  • Location: video conference
  • Host: Dr. María del Pilar Mejía Quiroga
  • Contact: mejia@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
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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
[more]
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Actors developing procedures, procedures shaping actors. The Council of Trent in practice

Reading seminar "Council of Trent"
  • Date: Nov 9, 2022
  • Time: 06:00 PM - 07:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Location: Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory
  • Room: Room G503
  • Host: Benedetta Albani, Anna Clara Lehmann Martins
  • Contact: albani@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
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Towards a Transnational Legal History of the Administrative State in Latin America

MPI-TAU Transnational Legal History Workshop
  • Date: Nov 8, 2022
  • Time: 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Eduardo Zimmermann (Universidad de San Andrés, Buenos Aires)
  • Location: Zoom
  • Host: Thomas Duve (MPI), Ron Harris (TAU), Assaf Likhovski (TAU), Stefan Vogenauer (MPI)
[more]
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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]
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Temporal regimes of legal change: transition and innovation in legal history | The Change-Not Change Dichotomy and the Case 19th Century Legal Reform in the Ottoman Empire

Glocalizing Normativities Research Colloquium
  • Date: Nov 7, 2022
  • Time: 01:00 PM - 02:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Massimo Meccarelli (University of Macerata) | Burak Aydin (mpilhlt)
  • Location: mpilhlt
  • Room: Lecture hall of the MPI
  • Host: Luisa Stella Coutinho
[more]
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Beyond Private and Common. Ownership Regimes in the Iberian World (1500-1850)

IberLAND Research Colloquium
  • Date: Nov 2, 2022
  • Time: 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Manuel Bastias Saavedra
  • Location: For further information please contact: iberland@hist.uni-hannover.de or iberland@lhlt.mpg.de
  • Host: Research Group IberLAND
  • Contact: iberland@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
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The Modern State and the Rise of the Business Corporation

MPI-TAU Transnational Legal History Workshop
  • Date: Nov 1, 2022
  • Time: 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Taisu Zhang (Yale University)
  • Location: Zoom
  • Host: Thomas Duve (MPI), Ron Harris (TAU), Assaf Likhovski (TAU), Stefan Vogenauer (MPI)
[more]
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El archivo Orlando Fals Borda del Banco de la República de Colombia: Una mirada desde la gestión del conocimiento

Seminario Permanente
  • Date: Oct 25, 2022
  • Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Diana Carmona
  • Location: video conference
  • Host: Dr. María del Pilar Mejía Quiroga
  • Contact: mejia@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
Logo depicting a stylized boat on waves with the text "GLONO – Glocalising Normativities".

Legal Change and Institutionalism

Glocalizing Normativities Research Colloquium
  • Date: Oct 24, 2022
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Luca von Bogdandy (mpilhlt)
  • Location: mpilhlt
  • Room: Lecture hall of the MPI
  • Host: Luisa Stella Coutinho
[more]
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The Council of Trent and Canon Law

Reading seminar "Council of Trent"
  • Date: Oct 19, 2022
  • Time: 06:00 PM - 07:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Location: Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory
  • Room: Room G503
  • Host: Benedetta Albani, Anna Clara Lehmann Martins
  • Contact: albani@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
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The Council of Trent. A 500-year history

Reading seminar "Council of Trent"
  • Date: Sep 29, 2022
  • Time: 06:00 PM - 07:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Location: Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory
  • Room: Room G503
  • Host: Benedetta Albani, Anna Clara Lehmann Martins
  • Contact: albani@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
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Legal Change and Sociology of Law Theory

Glocalizing Normativities Research Colloquium
  • Date: Sep 26, 2022
  • Time: 01:00 PM - 02:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Christian Boulanger (mpilhlt)
  • Location: mpilhlt
  • Room: Lecture hall of the MPI and online
  • Host: Luisa Stella Coutinho
[more]
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