Käte Hamburger Kolleg Münster
"Legal Unity and Pluralism"

The Käte Hamburger Kolleg „Legal Unity and Pluralism” (EViR) at the University of Münster has been funded by the Federal Ministry for Education and Research since 2021. Fellows from all over the world, together with scholars from Münster, examine the dynamic tension between legal unity and pluralism from antiquity to the present. This is the first attempt to systematically investigate the phenomenon in its entire historical depth and across disciplinary boundaries.

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New map of places of law in Münster

We invite you to dive into Münster's legal history with us. A new virtual city map (www.orte-des-rechts.de) documents almost one hundred places of law in Münster from the Middle Ages to the present day and allows for discovery tours through the city. It will be presented to the public on October 21.

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New fellows in autumn / Welcome Day

The Käte Hamburger Kolleg at the University of Münster is starting its winter semester and welcomes a new cohort of fellows. Six scholars from the fields of history, legal history and Islamic studies will conduct research on projects in the field of legal unity and pluralism, enriching the Kolleg with their different perspectives. On 16 October everybody interested will have the opportunity to get to know the Kolleg and its fellows during Welcome Day.

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Workshop programme in the winter semester

In the winter semester 2024/25, four academic workshops and conferences with international participation will take place at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg. They will deal with questions of Roman inheritance law in antiquity as well as early modern canon law, rules of exception in modern European law and indigenous cultural inheritance law.

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Working paper on legal pluralism and religion published

A new volume has been published in the open access series of EViR Working Papers, in which Matthias Bähr analyses the coexistence of legal traditions in early modern Ireland in order to understand the effects of legal pluralism on religion and of religion on legal pluralism.