Archive of events in 2011
PhD student retreat of the project-clusters Jewish Holy Roman Empire
December 15/16, 2011
On December 15 and 16, 2011 the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History hosts a PhD student retreat of the project-cluster Jewish Holy Roman Empire on the topic "aspects and problems of legal history".
program [237 KB]
Workshop: The inquisitorial justice: general rules and local practices. A view on the new world.
December 5, 2011
The workshop discusses methodological problems of the analysis of the iberoamerican inquisitorial lawsuites between the 16th and 19th century. A special focus lies on the difference between the regularities in the inquisitorial handbooks and their local application by the responsible tribunals.
Prof. Torquemada will adress the different facets of inquisitorial justice (lawsuit, censorship, tribunal personell) from the viewpoint of gender studies and focus on the figure of the women in the inquisition. Fernanda Molina will discuss methodological problems in relation to the research field of sexual offences.
18 h c.t. Fernanda Molina (Universidad de Buenos Aires/CONICET - MPIeR), “Entre pecado y delito. La administración de justicia y los límites documentales para el estudio de la sodomía en el Virreinato del Perú (Siglos XVI-XVII)”
20 h c.t. Prof. María Jesús Torquemada (Dept. de Historia del Derecho, Universidad Complutense de Madrid) “La justicia inquisitorial y la figura femenina: de las normativas generales a las prácticas locales”
Venue: Hörsaal of the MPIeR. The exposition will be held in Spanish, guests are welcome!
Invitation to the workshop [56 KB]
More information on the research field Latinamerican Legal History
Lecture: The Reconquest of 'Heretic' Lands:
Roman Strategies of Conversion in Switzerland and the Holy Roman Empire in the Seventeenth Century.
October 31, 2011
Irene Fosi, Università di Chieti-Pescara
From the late sixteenth century on, the Catholic reconquest of 'heretic' European lands, especially in the Holy Roman Empire and in Switzerland, was the prominent aim of the papal politics. This goal is fully evident in the Instructions (Istruzioni) for papal nuncios at imperial courts and for missionaries as Jesuits and Capucins, but it also appears in the rich correspondence between nuncios and Roman congregations as the Holy Office and the Propaganda Fide. This rich documentation allows to underline the gap between the Roman instructions and the local realities nuncios and missionaries had to face, and to analyse the different conversion strategies related with imperial and local politics, privileges of nobility, resistence of the local clergy, and other difficulties.
Time and place: 18 h c.t. at the Auditorium of the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
The exposition will be held in English. Guests are welcome!
More information about the series of lectures: Rome and the World
Commemoration and book presentation: Friedrich Carl von Savigny in contemporary portraits
October 24, 2011
Joachim Rückert, Goethe Universität Frankfurt
Within the context of a conference on "Savigny international?" hosted by the IMPRS for Comparative Legal History, a collection of 50 contemporary portraits of Savigny compiled by Joachim Rückert and a small Savigny biography will be presented at the Frankfurt Goethe Haus on October 24th. The biography as well as the portraits are part of the "Savignyana" book series published by the MPI for European Legal History as is an edition of collected writings on Savigny by Rückert.
October 25th, 2011 will be the 150th anniversary of Savigny's death. Friedrich Carl von Savigny, 1779–1861, was one of the founding legal scholars of juridical modernity.
Place and time: 19h at the Goethe Haus, Arkadensaal, Großer Hirschgraben 23-25, 60311 Frankfurt/M.
Conference: Savigny International?
October 24-25, 2011
The October 25, 2011 marks the 150th anniversary of Friedrich Carl von Savigny's death. Savigny is known as the founding father of the "historical school" and the legal modernity. Internationally he is conceived as the epitome of German scholarly Law Studies in the 19th Century. The International Max Planck Research School for Comparative Legal History invites on this occasion to a conference on the global dimension of communication about law and law studies by addressing the different translations of Savigny's work, the adaption and development of key-words from Savigny's thinking, and by looking at different images of Savigny that were created in different legal cultures.
The conference language will be German.
Please register until October 19, 2011 by mail to Ms. Nicole Pasakarnis:
Conference Program [341 KB]
Studientage 2011: The sources of the central institutions of the Roman Church
September 28. – 30, 2011
As in previous years, the Max-Planck-Institut für europäische Rechtsgeschichte invites doctoral students and young researchers to participate in the seminar “Studientage”. This year the focus will be on “The sources of the central institutions of the Roman Church in the Early Modern and Contemporary eras. Research tools for History and History of Law”. The seminar will take place in Frankfurt am Main from 28th to 30th September 2011.
Changes in the selfregulation of lawyers and corporate lawyers in times of state-socialism and postsocialism — Poland and Russia in contrast
September 12th, 2011
Dr. Rafael Mrowczynski from the Higher School of Economics (Moskau) will talk about the paths of evolution of regimes of (self-)regulation for juridical representation in two former state-socialist countries — Poland and Russia. His comparative reconstruction of these paths will analyse the interdependent changes of regulating laws and professional selforganisation during the state-socialist and post-socialist period. A special regard will be given to the specific division in two juridical representations — lawyer and corporate lawyer — in the two countries.
Time and Place: 18 h c.t. in the auditorium of the institute.
Guests are welcome, the presentation will be held in German.
Journal Presentation: No. 19 of the journal Rechtgeschichte about history of public law
September 9, 2011
On the occasion of the release of number 19 of the journal Rechtsgeschichte, a special issue about the history of public law, the MPI for European Legal History invites you to two presentations:
The photographer Jan Banning talks about his series "Bureaucratics"
Michael Stolleis talks about: "Vergnügungsreise auf der Galeere? 25 Jahre 'Geschichte des öffentlichen Rechts'"
Time and Place: 17 h c.t. in the auditorium of the institute.
Guests are welcome, the presentations will be held in German.
Workshop: Coexisting Normative Orders: Natural and Positive Law, from the Classical Tradition to Modern Global Law
August 16, 2011
From August 15 to 19, 2011 in Frankfurt will be held the XXV. World Congress of Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy. The Max Planck Institute for European Legal History will present at the congress on August 16, 2011 at 2.30 pm an special workshop on “Coexisting Normative Orders: Natural and Positive Law, from the Classical Tradition to Modern Global Law”. Participants to the workshop will be: John Finnis (Notre Dame/Oxford), Roberto Hofmeister-Pich (Porto Alegre), Santiago Legarre (Buenos Aires), Mathias Lutz-Bachmann (Frankfurt), Merio Scattola (Padua) and Paul Yowell (Oxford). A special emphasis of the workshop will be to connect the philosophical thinking on Natural Law with historical articulations of Natural Law.
More Information about the congress and the possibility to register on the official congress-site
Lecture: The Making of Constitution and Constitutional Amendment in South Korea
August 8, 2011
In cooperation with the Interdisciplinary Center for East-Asia-Studies of the Goethe University of Frankfurt the MPI for European Legal History invites to a lecture of Prof. Dr. Seog-Yun Song (Seoul National University). Given the "eternal" discussion on Amendments of the Constitution in South Korea the lecture concentrates on the first Amendment from 1987. The presentation will include a depiction of the dynamic development of the modern history of the constitution in South Korea and discuss the theoretical difference between making a constitution and amendment of a constitution as well as the form of government.
Time and place: 18 h c.t. at the Hörsaal of the MPI for European Legal History.
The exposure will be held in German, guests are welcome.
event announcement [84 KB]
Workshop: Law, Image and Space: Visual and Juridical Interpretations
July 11th-12th, 2011
Together with the MPI for Art History in Florence (Prof. Dr. Alessandro Nova) the MPI for European Legal History hosts in Frankfurt/M a workshop on law, image and space. Its focus is on reciprocal perceptions. On the one hand the law is present in art and human designed reality in general. On the other hand forms of human design are present in law and law deals with images.
For more information please contact Barbara Dölemeyer .
Programme of the Workshop [40 KB]
Summer School 2011
July 3rd – 7th, 2011
This year the Summer School will take place from July 3rd – 7th and will be lead by Prof. Dr. Dietmar Willoweit (Würzburg) and PD Dr. Christiane Birr (MPIeR). To promote international exchange the institute invites about 20 international Ph. d. students and post-docs.
Lecture: To govern with certificates in Late Middle Age: papal and profane chambers
June 17, 2011,
With:Prof. Dr. Andreas Meyer, Philipps-Universität Marburg.
The exposition will be in German language. Guests are welcome!
Place and time: 16 h c.t. Hörsaal at the MPIeR
More information on the series of lectures about "Rom and the World"
Lecture: To govern with certificates in Late Middle Age: papal and profane chambers
June 17, 2011,
With:Prof. Dr. Andreas Meyer, Philipps-Universität Marburg.
The exposition will be in German language. Guests are welcome!
Place and time: 16 h c.t. Hörsaal at the MPIeR
More information on the series of lectures about "Rom and the World"
Conference: Regulated self-regulation in the Western civilization in the late 19th and the early 20th century
June 16.-18., 2011
Conference programme [18 KB]
Lecture: On plagiarism in science
June 16, 2011
With: Prof. Dr. Volker Rieble (LMU München). The exposition will be in German language. Guests are welcome!
Place and time:18 h c.t. Hörsaal at the MPIeR
Workshop: Venues where juridical and economic rationalities of regulation interact in the 19th and early 20th century
9.-10. June 2011
The workshop on "Venues where juridical and economic rationalities of regulation interact in the 19th and early 20th century" is organized by Peter Collin within the context of the research focus area "regulated selfregulation".
Workshop: Digitization and manuscript database projects
2011 May, 30.-31.
The workshop offers the opportunity for an interchange of experiences and facts in the field of digitization projects and manuscript databases with a special attention to juridical texts. For more information on the workshop please contact Vincenzo Colli
Workshop programme [46 KB]
Lecture: Recht im Frühmittelalter: Forschungsschwerpunkte und –defizite
Mai 23rd, 2011
Prof. Dr. Harald Siems (München)
The consideration of law and society in the four centuries lasting period of change from antiquity to medieval times is determined in research by different preferences.
The lecture will be held in German Place and time:18 h c.t. in the Hörsaal of the MPIeR
Workshop: The history of ecclesiastical institutions and canon law in Nueva España (16th to 19th century)
16. – 18. Mai 2011
The Max Planck Institute organizes from 16th to 18th of May a workshop on the history of ecclesiastical institutions and canon law in Nueva España (16th to 19th century) in Mexico City that is primarily aimed at young scholars.
Lecture: Rom als das impulsgebende Zentrum?
Zur Homogenisierung der lateinischen Kirche im Hochmittelalter
2. Mai 2011
PD Dr. Jochen Johrendt (LMU München) trace the homogenization of the latin church between mid 11th century and the beginning of the 13th century.
18h c.t. at the Hörsaal of the MPIeR The lecture will be given in German language
more information on the series of lectures "Rome and the world"
German Argentinian Brasilian Graduate School
25.-28. April 2011
The Max Planck Institute for Euroean Legal History, the Instituto de Investigaciones de Historia del Derecho (Buenos Aires) and the Instituto Brasileiro de História do Direito organize from April, 25th to 28th 2011 in Buenos Aires the first German Argentinian Brasilian Graduate School.
Workshop: The Collectio Thessalonicensis and the right of the bishop of Rome
Goethe-Universität, Campus Westend, R.1.418 bzw. 210
The research focus "Law in the first millenium" of the MPIeR organize in cooperation with the department for ancient history of the Goethe University (Prof. Leppin) an workshop on the Collectio Thessalonicensis, a collection of documents (6th century) concerning the rights of the popes in the eastern Illyricum.
Agenda of the Workshop [129 KB]
International Conference: Revolts and political Crime between the 12th and 19th Century: Responses of Legal Systems and the juridical-political discourse
7th – 8th April 2011
7th – 8th April 2011
The conference deals with pre-modern revolts considered as political crime and the responses of the legal systems and the juridical-political discourse to different forms of rural, urban and aristocratic revolts.
conference program [38 KB]
Lecture: The New Global Law: Gaius, Vattel, and the global paradigm
4. April 2011
Prof. Dr. Rafael Domingo Oslé, Universidad de Navarra
The transformation of the law that governs our international community (international law) into a law that is capable of properly ordering the new global human community (global law) demands the creation of a new paradigm.
Lecture: China and the Making of Modern International Law: From the Jesuit Mission to the Opium War.
28th February 2011
International law is a foundational element in the political ontology of the modern world. However, studies of international law approach it almost exclusively from the vantage point of Europe, with China figuring only minimally--often merely as an illustration of a larger point or a counter-example of a general principle.
Time and Place: 18 Uhr c.t. at the Hörsaal of the MPIeR
The presentation will be held in English. Guests are welcome!
Lecture: Domesticating Modernities: Transfer of Ideologies and Institutions in Southeastern Europe
3. Februar 2011
Prof. Dr. Diana Mishkova, Director of Centre for Advanced Study Sofia (CAS) gives a lecture on the process of transfer of ideologies and institutions during the foundational period of state-building and modernity import in South-Eastern Europe.
Time and Place: 18 Uhr c.t. at the Hörsaal of the MPIeR
The exposition will be held in English. Guests are welcome!
Lecture: Englische und norwegische Römerrechtsideologie des 19. Jahrhunderts
January 26, 2011
On January 26 Prof. Dr. Dag Michalsen from the institute for public law (faculty of law Oslo) talks about "Englische und norwegische Römerrechtsideologie des 19. Jahrhunderts: Wie ist vergleichende Rechtswissenschaftsgeschichte möglich?" The lecture is part of the program of the IMPRS on comparative legal history.
The exposition will be held in German. Guests are welcome!
Date: 26.1.2011, 18h c.t.
Place: Uni-Campus Westend, RuW 4.101
Invitation [62 KB]
Lecture: Wo bleibt der Dritte im Rechtspluralismus?
13th January 2011
Within the series of lectures on "Law in a Transnational Context. Historical and Theoretical Perspectives" Klaus Günther talks about pluralism of law.
Place and Time: Hörsaal at the MPIeR, 18h c.t.
The exposition will be held in German. Guests are welcome!
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