Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory

Events

The “Gift” of Martial Law: Military Tribunals in Commonwealth Africa, 1967-1990

African Legal History Seminar

Date: May 17, 2022
Time: 02:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Dr. Samuel Fury Childs Daly (Duke University)
Location: Videokonferenz
Room: For further information please contact the organisers.

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'Studying Land and Colonialism in Mozambique – Evidence from the region of Manica and Sofala under the rule of the Mozambique Company, c.1890s-c.1940s'

African Legal History Seminar

Date: Mar 16, 2022
Time: 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Barbara Direito
(NOVA University, Lisbon)
Location: video conference
Room: For further information please contact the organisers

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

African Legal History Seminar

Date: Feb 15, 2022
Time: 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Tim Soriano
(University of Illinois and Newberry Library Fellow)
Location: video conference
Room: For further information please contact the organisers

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Truncated Allegiances? Chiefly Jurisdiction and Colonial Law on the Ghana-Togo Borderlands

African Legal History Seminar

Date: Jan 18, 2022
Time: 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Edem Adotey
(University of Ghana)
Location: video conference
Room: For further information please contact the organisers
Host: Joint initiative of the Max Planck Research Group 'Legal Connectivities and Colonial Cultures in Africa' and the project 'Global Legal History on the Ground'

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'Mucanos is the term given here in Portuguese to crimes of any degree': exploratory notes on Luso-African legal experiences in nineteenth-century West Central Africa

African Legal History Seminar

Date: Dec 13, 2021
Time: 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Rita Amaral
(University of the Free State)
Location: video conference
Room: For further information please contact the organisers
Host: A joint iniative of the Max Planck Research Group 'Legal Connectivities and Colonial Cultures in Africa' and the project 'Global Legal History on the Ground'.

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