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Colloquium Methods of Legal History

Date: Feb 4, 2020
Time: 02:15 PM - 04:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Martin Mulsow
Universität Erfurt
Location: Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
Room: Lecture hall of the MPI

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Conference: Pluralistische Rechtsverständnisse? (Pluralistic Concepts of Law?) Diskussionen um den Rechtsbegriff in den juristischen Disziplinen an der Wende vom 19. zum 20. Jahrhundert

Conference

Start: Nov 14, 2019 09:30 AM (Local Time Germany)
End: Nov 15, 2019 04:30 PM
Organisation: Peter Collin, Leonard Wolckenhaar (MPIeR)
Location: Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
Room: Lecture hall of the MPI

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Meet the Author - Bianca Premo: The Enlightenment on Trial: Ordinary Litigants and Colonialism in the Spanish Empire

Meet the Author

Date: Oct 17, 2019
Time: 10:00 AM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Bianca Premo, Florida International University
Organisation: Mariana Dias Paes
Location: Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
Room: Lecture hall of the MPI

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Workshop: Gender and Sexualities in Legal History

Workshop

Date: Oct 7, 2019
Time: 03:00 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Organisation: Luisa Stella Coutinho
Location: Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
Room: Lecture hall of the MPI

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Workshop : Administrative Multinormativity. Normenkonflikte in verwaltungshistorischer Perspektive

Workshop

Start: Sep 27, 2019 09:30 AM (Local Time Germany)
End: Sep 28, 2019 12:45 PM
Organisation: Peter Collin, Peter Becker
Location: Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
Room: Lecture hall of the MPI

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Raymond Cocks: Laws ancient and modern: history and context in the reforms of mid-nineteenth century India

Frankfurter Rechtshistorische Abendgespräche

Date: May 15, 2019
Time: 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Raymond Cocks (Keele University)
Location: Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
Room: Lecture hall of the MPI

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Presentation of the Digital Edition Platform of the Project "The School of Salamanca": Francisco de Vitoria's "Confessionario"

Presentation

Date: May 9, 2018
Time: 06:00 PM - 07:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Organisation: Christiane Birr
Location: Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
Room: Lecture hall of the MPI

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Challenge Diversity - Normative Consequences of Social Differentiation since the 19th Century

Conference

Start: Feb 1, 2018 11:45 AM (Local Time Germany)
End: Feb 2, 2018 04:30 PM
Organisation: Peter Collin & Gerd Bender
Location: Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
Room: Lecture hall of the MPI

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David J. Ibbetson: Unjust(ified) Enrichment

Frankfurter Rechtshistorische Abendgespräche

Date: Nov 1, 2017
Time: 06:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Prof. David J. Ibbetson
University of Cambridge
Location: Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
Room: Lecture hall of the MPI

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Jour Fixe

Date: Apr 25, 2016
Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Prof. Gerardo Caffera
Topic: Anglo American influence on the formation of South American Private Law (1820-1870)
Location: Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
Room: Lecture hall of the MPI

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John Cairns: Regulating Slavery in Europe: A Global Problem of the Eighteenth Century

Frankfurter Rechtshistorische Abendgespräche

Date: Apr 13, 2016
Time: 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Prof. John Cairns
Faculty of Law, Edinburgh University
Topic: Regulating Slavery in Europe: A Global Problem of the Eighteenth Century
Location: Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
Room: Lecture hall of the MPI
Host: Max-Planck-Institut für europäische Rechtsgeschichte und das Institut für Rechtsgeschichte, Fachbereich Rechtswissenschaften der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main

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Jour Fixe

Date: Apr 11, 2016
Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Dr. Verena Steller
Historisches Seminar, FB 08 der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
Topic: Empire’s Law? The “rule of law” in British India , 1858-1950
Location: Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
Room: Lecture hall of the MPI

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Workshop of the Research Field Law and Diversity

Date: Mar 16, 2016
Time: 01:30 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Thomas Duve / Ralf Seinecke / Massimo Meccarelli / Karl Härter / Lorena Ossio Bustillos / Peter Collin / Gerd Bender
Location: Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
Room: Lecture hall of the MPI

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Jour Fixe

Date: Mar 14, 2016
Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Carola Dietze / Iwan Iwanov / Karl Härter
Topic: Die Sicherheit des Staates und die Sicherheit vor dem Staat in Europa, Russland und den USA im 19. Jahrhundert
Location: Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
Room: Lecture hall of the MPI

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Seminar of the focus area Translation: Guest presentation Prof. Masanori Okada

Guest presentation

Date: Feb 25, 2016
Time: 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Prof. Masanori Okada
Location: Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
Room: Lecture hall of the MPI

Topic: Globalisierung und Gestaltung des Nationalstaats: Translation des Verwaltungsgerichtssystems im Japan des späten 19. Jahrhunderts [more]

Jour Fixe

Date: Feb 8, 2016
Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Lena Foljanty
Topic: Translations and Transitions: Legal Practice in 19th Century Japan, China & the Ottoman Empire
Location: Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
Room: Lecture hall of the MPI

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Jour Fixe

Date: Jan 18, 2016
Time: 11:30 AM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Gerd Bender / Caspar Ehlers / Helen McKee / Lena Foljanty
Topic: Presentation of the Research Focus Areas
Location: Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
Room: Lecture hall of the MPI

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Jour Fixe

Date: Dec 14, 2015
Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Sigrid Amedick / Thomas Duve / u.a.
Topic: Akademisches Publizieren in der Rechtsgeschichte
Location: Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
Room: Lecture hall of the MPI

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Jour Fixe

Date: Nov 9, 2015
Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Jasper Kunstreich
Location: Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
Room: Lecture hall of the MPI

Bankruptcy in Hamburg, Bremen, and Lubeck 1815-1870: A Club Good (in Disarray) [more]

Workshop ”Violent political conflicts and legal responses: a transatlantic perspective (18th to early 19th century)“

Workshop

Start: Oct 21, 2015
End: Oct 23, 2015
Location: Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
Room: Lecture hall of the MPI

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Workshop: Argumentación jurídica en el Derecho Constitucional. Diálogos metodológicos con la Historia del Derecho

Workshop

Date: Oct 16, 2015
Time: 02:00 PM - 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Location: Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
Room: Lecture hall of the MPI
Host: Max Planck Institute for European Legal History

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Zhang Renshan: Nationalism and Legal Modernization in China

Frankfurter Rechtshistorische Abendgespräche

Date: Oct 14, 2015
Time: 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Zhang Renshan
Nanjing University / Hopkins-Nanjing Center for Chinese and American Studies
Location: Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
Room: Lecture hall of the MPI
Host: Max-Planck-Institut für europäische Rechtsgeschichte und das Institut für Rechtsgeschichte, Fachbereich Rechtswissenschaften der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main

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Jour Fixe

Date: Oct 12, 2015
Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Philip Bajon, Jean-Philippe Dequen, Helen McKee
Location: Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
Room: Lecture hall of the MPI

Presentation of the research projects [more]

Jour Fixe

Date: Sep 28, 2015
Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Gian Luca D'Errico
Location: Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
Room: Lecture hall of the MPI

Topic: The Roman Inquisition in the Early Modern Age. The Decreta Sancti Officii as a "new" source [more]

Jour Fixe

Date: Sep 21, 2015
Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Manuel Herrero Sánchez
Location: Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
Room: Lecture hall of the MPI

Topic: The vitality of the polycentric model of shared sovereignty in Early Modern Europe [more]

Legal spaces - International Conference

International Conference

Start: Sep 17, 2015
End: Sep 19, 2015
Location: Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
Room: Lecture hall of the MPI

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Jour Fixe

Date: Sep 14, 2015
Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Benedetta Albani / Alfonso Alibrandi / Claudia Curcuruto / Constanza López Lamerain / Brendan Röder
Location: Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
Room: Lecture hall of the MPI

Topic: Die Regierung der Universalkirche nach dem Konzil von Trient (MP-Forschungsgruppe) [more]

Jour Fixe

Date: Sep 7, 2015
Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Federica Furfaro
Location: Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
Room: Lecture hall of the MPI

Topic: Die italienischen Anmerkungen zur Übersetzung von Windscheids Lehrbuch des Pandektenrechts: zwischen pandektistichem Paradigma und vergleichender Rechtswissenschaft [more]

Jour Fixe: Moriscos and Indios in the Christian Kingdoms of Spain: Autonomy, Assimilation, and Law in the Sixteenth Century

Jour Fixe

Date: Jul 20, 2015
Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Max Deardorff
Location: Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
Room: Lecture hall of the MPI

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Jour Fixe: Die Geschichte des Hl. Röm. Reichs als Völkerrechtsgeschichte. Die Frage religiöser Völkerrechtssubjektivität als Fallbeispiel

Jour Fixe

Date: Jun 29, 2015
Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Stephan Wendehorst
Location: Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
Room: Lecture hall of the MPI

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Jour Fixe

Date: Jun 22, 2015
Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Laura Beck Varela / Joël Graf
Location: Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
Room: Lecture hall of the MPI

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Jour Fixe: Der apokryphe Nietzsche. Auf den Spuren der Rezeption von Friedrich Nietzsche in Rechtsphilosophie und –theorie

Jour Fixe

Date: Jun 15, 2015
Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Sophia Gluth
Location: Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
Room: Lecture hall of the MPI

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Jour Fixe

Date: Jun 8, 2015
Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Simon Groth / Dennis Majewski
Location: Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
Room: Lecture hall of the MPI

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Jour Fixe: The Politics of Enforcement: State and Informal Regulation of the Market for Counterfeit Garment in Argentina

Jour Fixe

Date: May 18, 2015
Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Matias Dewey
Location: Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
Room: Lecture hall of the MPI

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Jour Fixe: In the quest for "legal space"

Jour Fixe

Date: May 11, 2015
Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Katja Skrubej
Location: Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
Room: Lecture hall of the MPI

In the quest for "legal space". Two cases from the Alps-Adriatic Area around 1800 – The Agents of Institutionalisation, Disappearance, Resistance and Transformation (Towards a possible typology? Problems and Questions) [more]

Jour Fixe: The Legal Doctrine of locatio conductio and its Practice (12th -16th Century)

Jour Fixe

Date: Apr 27, 2015
Time: 12:00 PM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Audrey Dauchy
Location: Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
Room: Lecture hall of the MPI

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Jour Fixe: Die Macht des Hofpredigers. Zum Einfluss des Hoftheologen Basilius Sattler auf Politik, Verwaltung und Justiz im Fürstentum Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel um 1600

Jour Fixe

Date: Apr 20, 2015
Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Matthias Meinhard
Location: Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
Room: Lecture hall of the MPI

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Jour Fixe: Die Sicherheit des Staates und die Sicherheit vor dem Staat in Europa, Russland und den USA im 19. Jahrhundert

Jour Fixe

Cancelled due to illness!
Date: Mar 30, 2015
Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Carola Dietze / Ivan Iwanov
Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen
Location: Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
Room: Lecture hall of the MPI

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Jour Fixe: Die Blogs der Max-Weber-Stiftung

Jour Fixe

Date: Mar 23, 2015
Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Sascha Foerster / Gesche Schifferdecker
Max Weber Stiftung
Location: Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
Room: Lecture hall of the MPI

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Jour Fixe: Von der Pluralität der Normenordnungen zur Pluralität der Normproduzenten

Jour Fixe

Date: Mar 16, 2015
Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Gunnar Folke Schuppert
WZB Berlin
Location: Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
Room: Lecture hall of the MPI

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Jour Fixe: Continental models of commercial jurisdiction in the mirror of British Parliamentary Inquires in the second half of 19th century

Jour Fixe

Date: Mar 9, 2015
Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Cristina Ciancio
University of Sannio
Location: Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
Room: Lecture hall of the MPI

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Jour Fixe: Die Ringvorlesung ‘Translating Normativity’ – Eine Nachlese

Jour Fixe

Date: Feb 23, 2015
Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Lena Foljanty
Location: Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
Room: Lecture hall of the MPI

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Jour Fixe: Richtig Publizieren im Netz

Jour Fixe

Date: Feb 16, 2015
Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Olaf Berg
Location: Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
Room: Lecture hall of the MPI

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Jour Fixe: Das Forschungszentrum Historische Geisteswissenschaften

Jour Fixe

Date: Feb 9, 2015
Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Steffen Bruendel
Location: Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
Room: Lecture hall of the MPI

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Jour Fixe: A short presentation of the research projects

Date: Dec 15, 2014
Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Augustín Casagrande / Fu Tong / Li Fupeng / Letitia Vita
Location: Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
Room: Lecture hall of the MPI

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Jour Fixe: Die Schule von Salamanca

Cancelled!
Date: Dec 8, 2014
Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Christiane Birr
Location: Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
Room: Lecture hall of the MPI

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John Witte, Jr.: Sharia in the West? What Place for Faith-Based Familiy Laws in Western Democracies?

Date: Dec 4, 2014
Time: 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: John Witte, Jr.
Location: Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
Room: Lecture hall of the MPI

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Jour Fixe: Methodica – Die neue Buchreihe

Date: Nov 10, 2014
Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Thomas Duve / Caspar Ehlers / Christoph Meyer
Location: Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
Room: Lecture hall of the MPI

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Jour Fixe: Korruption, politische Konflikte und Reformen in Deutschland um 1800

Date: Oct 27, 2014
Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Robert Bernsee
Darmstadt
Location: Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
Room: Lecture hall of the MPI

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Jour Fixe: Re-writing the Counter-Reformation as a global story for the 21st century

Date: Oct 20, 2014
Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Simon Ditchfield
York
Location: Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
Room: Lecture hall of the MPI

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Workshop: International Security, Political Crime, and Resistance: The Transnationalisation of Normative Orders and the Formation of Criminal Law Regimes in the 19th and 20th Century

Start: Oct 16, 2014
End: Oct 17, 2014
Location: Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
Room: Lecture hall of the MPI

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Jour Fixe: Jus commune in East Asia

Date: Oct 13, 2014
Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Jérôme Bourgon
Lyon
Location: Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
Room: Lecture hall of the MPI

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Jour Fixe: Der 50. Deutsche Historikertag

Date: Sep 29, 2014
Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Claudia Curcuruto / Philipp Höhn / Brendan Röder
Location: Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
Room: Lecture hall of the MPI

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Jour Fixe: Geschichte der Konfliktlösung in Europa: Ein Handbuch

Date: Sep 22, 2014
Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: David von Mayenburg
Location: Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
Room: Lecture hall of the MPI

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Jour Fixe: Der 40. Deutsche Rechtshistorikertag

Date: Sep 16, 2014
Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Thomas Duve
Location: Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
Room: Lecture hall of the MPI

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Jour Fixe: European Virtues, American Republics: An intellectual history of social difference in the making of the Gran Colombian republics (1770-1870)

Date: Aug 25, 2014
Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Francisco A. Ortega
Location: Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
Room: Lecture hall of the MPI

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Jour Fixe: Das Erbe des Korporativismus in der politisch-rechtlichen Kultur der italienischen Nachkriegszeit

Date: Jun 30, 2014
Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Maurizio Cau
Location: Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
Room: Lecture hall of the MPI

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Jour Fixe: EuroAmerican Nineteenth Century Writers of International Legal History: A View of the Works of Carlos Calvo (1824-1906) and Rafael M. de Labra Cadrana (1840-1918)

Date: Jun 23, 2014
Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Liliana Obregón
Location: Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
Room: Lecture hall of the MPI

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Max Planck Study Sessions

Start: Jun 16, 2014
End: Jun 18, 2014
Location: Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
Room: Lecture hall of the MPI

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Jour Fixe: Der Forschungsschwerpunkt „Translation“ des MPIeR

Date: May 26, 2014
Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Lena Foljanty
Location: Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
Room: Lecture hall of the MPI

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Jour Fixe: Der Forschungsschwerpunkt „Multinormativität“ des MPIeR

Date: May 19, 2014
Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Gerd Bender
Location: Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
Room: Lecture hall of the MPI

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Jour Fixe: Der Forschungsschwerpunkt „Konfliktregulierung“ des MPIeR

Date: May 12, 2014
Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Karl Härter
Location: Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
Room: Lecture hall of the MPI

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Jour Fixe: Translating legal rationality: books and slavery in 19th century Brazil

Date: Apr 14, 2014
Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Samuel Barbosa
University of São Paulo
Location: Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
Room: Lecture hall of the MPI

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Jour Fixe: Glaube, Recht, Governance – Governancestrukturen von Religionsgemeinschaften aus religionssoziologischer Perspektive

Date: Mar 31, 2014
Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Gunnar Folke Schuppert
Location: Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
Room: Lecture hall of the MPI

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Jour Fixe: Die Max-Planck-Forschungsgruppe „Die Regierung der Universalkirche nach dem Konzil von Trient“

Date: Mar 17, 2014
Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Benedetta Albani
Location: Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
Room: Lecture hall of the MPI

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Jour Fixe: Der Forschungsschwerpunkt „Rechtsräume“ des MPIeR

Date: Mar 10, 2014
Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Caspar Ehlers
Location: Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
Room: Lecture hall of the MPI

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Jour Fixe: State-Law and Non-state Law: Legal Pluralism and Governance in South Asia and in the Diasporas

Start: Feb 24, 2014 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
End: Apr 24, 2014 01:00 PM
Speaker: Livia Holden
Karakoram International University, LOEWE-Schwerpunkt „Außergerichtliche und gerichtliche Konfliktlösung“
Location: Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
Room: Lecture hall of the MPI

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Jour Fixe: Legal History, History of Law: Considerations on the Functioning of Late Medieval Church Courts

Date: Feb 17, 2014
Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Tyler Lange
University of Berkley, derzeit Fellow des LOEWE-Schwerpunkts "Außergerichtliche und gerichtliche Konfliktlösung"
Location: Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
Room: Lecture hall of the MPI