Research Seminars

Research Seminars

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

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

Common Law Research Seminar

Common law transplants and the question of legitimacy

Common Law Research Seminar

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

Common Law Research Seminar

Writing the history of empires

Common Law Research Seminar

Imperial control: unearthing collective punishment statutes in the British colonies

Common Law Research Seminar

The uncommon law in the Privy Council

Common Law Research Seminar

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

Iberian Worlds

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

MPI-TAU Transnational Legal History Workshop

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

MPI-TAU Transnational Legal History Workshop

The legal treatment of labour by the School of Salamanca

Iberian Worlds

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

MPI-TAU Transnational Legal History Workshop

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

MPI-TAU Transnational Legal History Workshop

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

Legal History Meets Digital Humanities

Legal Nationalism and Ancient Indian Public Law

MPI-TAU Transnational Legal History Workshop

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

Iberian Worlds

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

Lecture Series 'Rites Controversy'

Criminal fault in 19th-century England

Common Law Research Seminar

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

Iberian Worlds

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

Iberian Worlds

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

Common Law Research Seminar

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

Iberian Worlds

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

Legal History Meets Digital Humanities. Permanent Seminar on Methods, Resources and Theories

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

Iberian Worlds

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

Iberian Worlds

The 'Assertive Edition'

Legal History Meets Digital Humanities. Permanent Seminar on Methods, Resources and Theories

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

Iberian Worlds

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

Öffentliches Recht und Privatrecht zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts

Colloquium Private Law and Theory

Writing the history of empires

Common Law Research Seminar

Writing the history of empires

Common Law Research Seminar

10 Jahre Kodifikation der Patientenrechte und Selbstbestimmungsaufklärung

Colloquium Private Law and Theory

British judges in the Supreme Court of Siam and beyond

Research Seminar

Rudolf Wiethölter, Zur Regelbildung der Dogmatik des Zivilrechts

Colloquium Private Law and Theory

Niklas Luhmann, Rechtssystem und Rechtsdogmatik (1974)

Colloquium Private Law and Theory

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

Hermann Kantorowicz, Der Kampf um die Rechtswissenschaft (1906)

Colloquium Private Law and Theory

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

Bezoar stones and onion seeds in Early Modern English law

Legal Transfer in the Common Law World : Common Law Research Seminar

Technology and Legal History Research

Legal History Meets Digital Humanities. Permanent Seminar on Methods, Resources and Theories

Pugna racial en la historia del derecho en Chile

Seminario Permanente

Slaves, indigenous, freedmen and the colonial legal culture in São Paulo

Seminario Permanente

Theoretical Perspectives on Legal Change: Luhmann and Latour

Glocalizing Normativities Research Colloquium

Normatividades del diezmo de indios en el arzobispado de México

Seminario Permanente

Limping Marriages: Race, Class, and Divorce Jurisdiction in the British Empire

MPI-TAU Transnational Legal History Workshop

Fray Alonso de la Veracruz and his annotations to Thomas More’s Utopia

Seminario Permanente

What is a historical process?

Glocalizing Normativities Research Colloquium

As many dominia as people and things

IberLAND Research Colloquium

methodica – A New Textbook on European Law

MPI-TAU Transnational Legal History Workshop

Pan-Africanism and the Historiography of International Law in Africa

MPI-TAU Transnational Legal History Workshop

History as a legal argument in 19th century Germany

Glocalizing Normativities Research Colloquium

Doctrinal circulations in criminal law 1764–1914

MPI-TAU Transnational Legal History Workshop

Conviviality and normative practices of everyday life

Seminario Permanente

Mind the step: Standardizing the Mind, Stepping into Positive Law (Egypt, 1897-1949)

MPI-TAU Transnational Legal History Workshop

The space and places of the Council of Trent

Reading seminar "Council of Trent"

Fear of the False in Colonial South Asia

MPI-TAU Transnational Legal History Workshop

The Use of Jewish Legal Sources to Tell Islamic Economic History

MPI-TAU Transnational Legal History Workshop

Travels of contract law: failure of consideration

Common Law Research Seminar

The Modern State and the Rise of the Business Corporation

MPI-TAU Transnational Legal History Workshop

Legal Change and Institutionalism

Glocalizing Normativities Research Colloquium

The Council of Trent and Canon Law

Reading seminar "Council of Trent"

The Council of Trent. A 500-year history

Reading seminar "Council of Trent"

Legal Change and Sociology of Law Theory

Glocalizing Normativities Research Colloquium

La reducción del riesgo de incendio en el mundo hispano-americano

Seminario Permanente

History of property

IberLAND Research Colloquium

Criminal in body and soul. Penal histories in 19th Century Cuba

Seminario Permanente

Law and Global History

IberLAND Research Colloquium

Placing the frontier in British India

Common Law Research Seminar

Between Artifice and Experience: Mandingueiro as Farsante in the Legal Theater of the Holy Office

Glocalising Normativities research Colloquium

Law and Colonialism

IberLAND Research Colloquium

The juridical order of the Ancien Régime

IberLAND Research Colloquium

Derechos Indigenas: concreción local del derecho internacional

Seminario Permanente

Ius commune

IberLAND Research Colloquium

Para além da escravidão: Relações de dependência em Benguela de 1850 a 1878

Glocalizing Normativities Research Colloquium

The concept of law

IberLAND Research Colloquium

Warded freedom, meager property. Indians and Land in the Law of the Brazilian Empire (19th century).

Glocalizing Normativities Research Colloquium
  • Date: Apr 6, 2022
  • Time: 10:15 AM - 11:45 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Camilla Freitas
  • mpilhlt
  • Location: mpilhlt
  • Room: Z01

Confrontando o bem comum: Saúde pública, reformas urbanas e direito no Brasil moderno

Seminario Permanente

Prensa e conhecimento normativo no Brasil do século XIX: o caso da Gazeta dos Tribunais (1843-1846)

Seminario Permanente

Pensando la esclavitud y el proceso de abolición en Argentina de la historia del derecho

Seminario Permanente

'An end to their days': The Use and Perceptions of the Red Water Ordeal in Early Sierra Leone

African Legal History Seminar

La justicia episcopal en la antigua diócesis del Tucumán (1704-1740)

Seminario Permanente

Regulation of working hours in the factories of Madras Presidency, 1881-1947

Common Law Research Seminar

Change and Transformation: the legal modernization of China seen in Zhili Jiao An

Glocalizing Normativities Research Colloquium

The Limits of Legal History

MPI-TAU Transnational Legal History Workshop

Nuisance law and the Committee of Buildings in late 18th-century Bombay

Common Law Research Seminar

Decolonization by Codification: The Making of the 1958 Penal Code in Late Colonial Nigeria

MPI-TAU Transnational Legal History Workshop

The Society of Comparative Legislation and the Systemization of Legal Circulation

MPI-TAU Transnational Legal History Workshop

The production of diversity in the Portuguese Empire

Glocalizing Normativities Research Colloquium

Nationality Across the Mediterranean: Jews, Islamic Law, and Belonging in Tunisia

MPI-TAU Transnational Legal History Workshop

Force and consent in English contract labour

Common Law Research Seminar

Transnational Elements in Colonial Laws: Spain, Portugal and the Netherlands

MPI-TAU Transnational Legal History Workshop

Rabbinic Responsa and Legal Communication

MPI-TAU Transnational Legal History Workshop

Global History and a Decentered History of Law

MPI-TAU Transnational Legal History Workshop

Global Legal Biography

MPI-TAU Transnational Legal History Workshop

‘Peopling the country by unpeopling it’: Jeremy Bentham’s silences on indigenous Australia

Common Law Research Seminar

Transnational Entanglements in Land Law and Land Registration in the 19th Century

MPI-TAU Transnational Legal History Workshop

Wither the power of disallowance?

Common Law Research Seminar

"Good Correspondence" and "Friendship" with "Heretics": Catholic Missionaries and the English East India Company

Glocalizing Normativities Research Colloquium

The Warfare Origins of the Anti-Slave-Trade Legal Regime in the Atlantic World

MPI-TAU Transnational Legal History Workshop

From Masters of Slaves to Lords of Lands: The Transformation of Ownership in the Western World

MPI-TAU Transnational Legal History Workshop

The ship, the slave, the legal person

Common Law Research Seminar

The Fabric of the Ordinary: The Council of Trent and the governance of the Catholic Church in the Empire of Brazil (1840-1889)

Glocalizing Normativities Research Colloquium

Codification as Communication: Criminal Law Reform and the Indian Penal Code of 1861

Common Law Research Seminar

Contractus & quasi contractus

Salamanca Colloquium

Settling Accounts Straight: ‘Indigenous Bankers’ in Search of New Histories in the 20th Century

Common Law Research Seminar

Patents and Invention in Jamaica and the British Atlantic before 1857

Common Law Research Seminar

Shifting Sands: British Imperial Politics of Land Reclamation in the mid-20th Century

Common Law Research Seminar

Commentaries De iustitia et iure in early modern New Kingdom of Granada

Salamanca Colloquium

Empire Ltd.: Law and the Rise of Multinationals in the First Era of Globalization.

Common Law Research Seminar

Law and Commerce: The Fortunate Crisis of the 18th Century

Common Law Research Seminar

Maleficium

Salamanca Colloquium

A History of Privileged Inventing in Bengal: A Study of the Patenting System in India, 1856-1888

Common Law Research Seminar

British imperial administration and the 'thin crust of order': Society, constitution, and diplomacy in the political thought of Lord Elgin

Common Law Research Seminar

The School of Salamanca on Slavery: from ius gentium to ius civile

Salamanca Colloquium

Law Reporting in Mandatory Palestine

Common Law Research Seminar

Law, Custom and the Merchants: Legal Culture of the Mayor’s Court of Madras

Common Law Research Seminar

Merchants and Law: Early Modern England and North America

Common Law Research Seminar

Interpretation of Contracts and Control of Unfair Terms in Asia

Common Law Research Seminar

The Development of the Parol Evidence Rule in the United States

Common Law Research Seminar

Re-assessing the Impact of the Empire Marketing Board during the Interwar Period

Common Law Research Seminar

¿Dominga Gutiérrez o Beatriz del Corazón de Jesús? Una disputa interforal en el Perú decimonónico.

Seminar on Legal History in the Iberian Worlds

The invention of Custom and the School of Salamanca

Salamanca Colloquium
  • Date: Sep 2, 2020
  • Time: 02:30 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Organisation: Christiane Birr, José Luis Egío, Andreas Wagner
  • Location: video conference

Transformaciones jurídicas e identidades políticas de indios y esclavos durante la era de las revolucionesSeminar on Legal History in the Iberian Worlds

Seminar on Legal History in the Iberian Worlds

Research Colloquium on Global Legal History

Research Colloquium

Research Colloquium on Global Legal History

Research Colloquium

Gens Lucifuga. Como las ejecuciones de deudas en la Audiencia Eclesiástica de México permiten analizar la Historia del Clero Secular (Siglo XVII)

Seminar on Legal History in the Iberian Worlds

"Collaboration, Control and Conflict in the Administration of Criminal Justice in Comparative Perspective: Buenos Aires and Minas Gerais during the Late Colonial Period"

Research Colloquium on Global Legal History

Research Colloquium: Between Roças and Palhotas: Colonial exploitation in Portuguese Africa, 1850-1930

Colloquium

The British Empire’s Regulation of Same-Sex Sexualities and Gender Diversity: Developing Analysis through Global Historical Sociology

Common Law Research Seminar

Juan Belda Plans: Presentación de la edición crítica y la traducción al español de la Relectio de Poenitentia de Melchor Cano

Salamanca Colloquium

Regímenes de migración en Hispanoamérica, siglo XVIII

Seminar on Legal History in the Iberian Worlds
  • Date: Feb 3, 2020
  • Time: 06:00 PM - 07:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Martin Biersack
  • Organisation: Pilar Mejía
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Z01

American States of Nature The Origins of Independence, 1761-1775

Common Law Research Seminar

Research Colloquium: Not Quite Brothers in Arms: Indigenous legal status during the Dutch expansion to the State of Maranhão, 1642

Colloquium

Boris Hogenmüller: Melchor Cano, De locis theologicis – some remarks on concept and reception of the Loci

Salamanca Colloquium

Empírica histórica y epistemología sociológica

Seminar on Legal History in the Iberian Worlds
  • Date: Jan 13, 2020
  • Time: 06:00 PM - 07:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Organisation: Pilar Mejía
  • Location: MPIeR
  • Room: Z01

Master and Servant Regulations and Labour Laws in the Post-Emancipation British West Indies

Common Law Research Seminar

Transferring offer, acceptance and revocation to British Guiana

Common Law Research Seminar

Max Planck Legal History Quaterly Forum: Global Legal History

Colloquium

Research Colloquium: Seeing Others and Seeing Me: Comparative interpretations of Law throughout legal changes in early 20th century China

Colloquium
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