Home Events Events Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec All All 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 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] De-missionise education? The legal framework for Protestant missionaries’ provision of education in South Africa and Zambia (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] Hindu law in the age of codification: A comparison of the Sanskrit Digest in colonial Eastern India (1789-94) and the Nepali Ain (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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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 [more] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] Writing the history of empires Common Law Research Seminar Date: Jun 27, 2022 Time: 02:00 PM - 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Benedikt Stuchtey (Philipps University Marburg) Location: mpilhlt, Z01 Room: Für weitere Informationen wenden Sie sich bitte an cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola [more] ‘Let’s divorce under our Civil Code’: a 19th-century US study Common Law Research Seminar Date: Jun 20, 2022 Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Julie Rocheton (mpilhlt) Location: mpilhlt, Z01 Room: For further information please contact cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola [more] Placing the frontier in British India Common Law Research Seminar Date: Jun 13, 2022 Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Reeju Ray (O.P. Jindal Global University) Location: Zoom Room: For further information please contact cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola [more] Some ways to die in the East Indies or John Briggs’ multiple capital jurisdictions (c.1818-1825) Common Law Research Seminar Date: May 23, 2022 Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Nishant Gokhale (University of Cambridge/mpilhlt) Location: mpilhlt, Z01 Room: For further information please contact cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola [more] ‘Sovereignty of the air’: the Indian princely states, the British Empire and carving out of air-space (1911-1933) Common Law Research Seminar Date: May 16, 2022 Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Priya Mirza (University of Delhi) Location: Zoom Room: For further information please contact cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola [more] 'Memory also gives a right': Norman Bentwich and the implementation of the British Mandate for Palestine Common Law Research Seminar Date: May 9, 2022 Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Oscar Weller (University of Zurich) Location: mpilhlt, Z01 Room: For further information please contact cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola [more] Global financial markets and legal convergence: the genesis of insolvency set-off in England, Germany and Switzerland Common Law Research Seminar Date: May 2, 2022 Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Jonathan Silberstein-Loeb (mpilhlt) & Claude Humbel (University of Zurich) Location: Zoom Room: For further information please contact cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola [more] The laws of ‘an old and settled society’? The law of contract in New South Wales (1815-1850) Common Law Research Seminar Date: Apr 25, 2022 Time: 09:00 AM - 10:00 AM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Warren Swain (University of Auckland) Location: Zoom Room: For further information please contact cazzola@lhlt.mpg.de Host: Stefan Vogenauer, Matilde Cazzola [more]
