Max Planck Lecture in Legal History and Legal Theory

Max Planck Lecture in Legal History and Legal Theory

To mark the extension of the mpilhlt’s disciplinary profile, the Institute has created a new lecture series, the Max Planck Lectures in Legal History and Legal Theory.

Six times a year, renowned scholars in the fields of legal history and legal theory are invited to present their current research.

The lectures are open to the public and will be held at 4.15 pm (on changing weekdays) at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory.

From protection to jurisdiction: extraterritoriality and legal change in the nineteenth-century mediterranean

Max Planck Lecture in Legal History and Legal Theory
  • Date: Dec 3, 2024
  • Time: 04:15 PM - 05:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Jessica Marglin
  • (USC Dornsife)
  • Location: mpilhlt
  • Room: Z01
  • Host: Thomas Duve
  • Contact: ruether@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]

The Property/ License Interface

Max Planck Lecture in Legal History and Legal Theory
  • Date: Jul 4, 2024
  • Time: 04:15 PM - 05:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Larissa Katz
  • (University of Toronto)
  • Location: mpilhlt
  • Room: Z01
  • Host: Marietta Auer
  • Contact: ruether@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]

Legacies of Empire and the Study of Law

Max Planck Lecture in Legal History and Legal Theory
  • Date: May 28, 2024
  • Time: 04:15 PM - 05:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Philipp Dann (Humboldt Universität)
  • Location: mpilhlt
  • Room: Z01
  • Host: ​Stefan Vogenauer
  • Contact: ​ruether@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]

Slaves as Outsiders, Slaves as Property: Understanding Enslavement in a Global and Early Modern Context

Max Planck Lecture in Legal History and Legal Theory
  • Date: Apr 30, 2024
  • Time: 04:15 PM - 05:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Tamar Herzog (Harvard University)
  • Location: mpilhlt
  • Room: Z01
  • Host: Thomas Duve
  • Contact: ruether@lhlt.mpg.de
This talk seeks to de-center existing narratives regarding enslavement, which traditionally focus on how it was practiced in North America and instead observe it both in the long durée and more globally. It asks about the various roles enslaved persons played in different times and geographical locations, as well as questions the assumption that slaves were property by setting enslavement on a larger canvas and by observing early modern debates regarding both the household and labor relations. [more]

Theory, Method, and the Common Law Mind

Max Planck Lecture in Legal History and Legal Theory
  • Date: Feb 15, 2024
  • Time: 04:15 PM - 05:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Shivprasad Swaminathan
  • (Dean-Designate, Shiv Nadar School of Law)
  • Location: mpilhlt
  • Room: Z01
  • Host: Stefan Vogenauer
[more]

Histories of the Law of Political Economy

Max Planck Lecture in Legal History and Legal Theory
  • Date: Jan 24, 2024
  • Time: 04:15 PM - 05:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Poul F. Kjaer
  • (Copenhagen Business School)
  • Location: mpilhlt
  • Room: Conference Room (Z01)
  • Host: Marietta Auer
[more]

What comes after the Secularization Thesis? Religious and Secular Sources of Moral Universalism

Max Planck Lecture in Legal History and Legal Theory
  • Date: Dec 5, 2023
  • Time: 04:15 PM - 05:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Hans Joas
  • (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
  • Location: mpilht
  • Room: Z01
  • Host: Thomas Duve
[more]

The Butcher's Wife, Race Relations and Death by Hanging in Cuba and the Spanish Atlantic, 1830s-1930s.

Max Planck Lecture in Legal History and Legal Theory
  • Date: Jun 29, 2023
  • Time: 05:00 PM - 07:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Victor M. Uribe-Uran
  • (Florida International University)
  • Location: mpilhlt
  • Room: Z01
  • Host: Thomas Duve
  • Contact: sekduve@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]

Friedrich Julius Stahl - at the crossroads between legal scholarship and politics

Max Planck Lecture in Legal History and Legal Theory
  • Date: Jun 5, 2023
  • Time: 04:15 PM - 05:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Marie Sandström
  • Stockholms universitet
  • Organisation: Stefanie Rüther
  • Location: mpilhlt
  • Room: Seminar room (Z01)
  • Host: Stefan Vogenauer
  • Contact: vogenauer.office@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]

Max Weber und der „umgekehrte“ Werturteilsstreit in den Rechtswissenschaften Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts

Max Planck Lecture in Legal History and Legal Theory
  • Date: May 24, 2023
  • Time: 04:15 PM - 05:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Doris Schweitzer
  • Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
  • Location: mpilhlt
  • Room: Z01
[more]

Relational Justice: A Theory of Private Law

Max Planck Lecture in Legal History and Legal Theory
  • Date: Feb 14, 2023
  • Time: 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Hanoch Dagan (Tel-Aviv University), Marietta Auer (mpilhlt)
  • Organisation: Stefanie Rüther
  • Location: mpilhlt
  • Room: Online
  • Host: Marietta Auer
  • Contact: ruether@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]

Behindert das (deutsche) Recht die zeithistorische Forschung?

Max Planck Lecture in Legal History and Legal Theory
  • Date: Jan 17, 2023
  • Time: 04:15 PM - 05:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Jan Thiessen (Humboldt-Universität Berlin)
  • Organisation: Stefanie Rüther
  • Location: mpilhlt
  • Room: Conference Room (Z01)
  • Host: Stefan Vogenauer (mpilhlt)
[more]

Kulturen des Nichtentscheidens

Max Planck Lecture in Legal History and Legal Theory
  • Date: Dec 8, 2022
  • Time: 04:15 PM - 05:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger
  • (Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin)
  • Organisation: Stefanie Rüther
  • Location: mpilhlt
  • Room: Z01
  • Host: Marietta Auer
[more]

Violence and the law in the British empire

Max Planck Lecture in Legal History and Legal Theory
  • The event has had to be cancelled.
  • Date: Oct 26, 2022
  • Time: 04:15 PM - 05:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Lisa Ford
  • (UNSW Sydney)
  • Location: mpilhlt
  • Room: Z 01
[more]

Global Legal History: an Anthropological Approach

Max Planck Lecture in Legal History and Legal Theory
  • Please note that the date has changed!
  • Date: Jul 12, 2022
  • Time: 06:00 PM - 07:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Fernanda Pirie (University of Oxford)
  • Organisation: Stefanie Rüther
  • Location: mpilhlt
  • Room: Lecture hall
[more]

The Rule of Law in British America: Thinking with Indians While Comparing to Spaniards

Max Planck Lecture in Legal History and Legal Theory
  • Date: Jun 23, 2022
  • Time: 04:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Richard Ross (University of Illinois)
  • Organisation: Stefanie Rüther
  • Location: mpilhlt
[more]

From a Rights-Based to a Procedural Approach: Re-Contextualizing Intellectual Property Rights

Max Planck Lecture in Legal History and Legal Theory
  • Date: May 19, 2022
  • Time: 04:15 PM - 05:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Michael Grünberger (Universität Bayreuth)
  • Organisation: Stefanie Rüther
  • Location: mpilhlt
[more]

Behavioral Perspectives on Legal Theory

Max Planck Lecture in Legal History and Legal Theory
  • Please note that the start time has changed!
  • Date: May 3, 2022
  • Time: 05:00 PM - 07:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Anne van Aaken (Universität Hamburg)
  • Organisation: Stefanie Rüther
  • Location: video conference
  • Room: For the Login please contact ruether@lhlt.mpg.de
  • Contact: ruether@lhlt.mpg.de
[more]
Web-View
Print Page
Open in new window
Estimated DIN-A4 page-width
Go to Editor View