The Käte Hamburger Kolleg "Legal Unity and Pluralism" (EViR) at the University of Münster will enter its second funding phase from June 2025. The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) is funding the Kolleg and its Fellow Programme for a further four years with around 7.7 million euros. The maximum possible funding period is twelve years.

The programme of events of the Käte Hamburger Kolleg for the summer semester 2025 has been published. In addition to the Kolleg's annual conference, the programme includes two workshops dealing with legal developments in the Iberian world and the Islamic world as well as India.

A volume on marriages in the early modern period has been published in the Käte Hamburger Kolleg's publication series. Using the county of Lippe as an example, Iris Fleßenkämper examines how people dealt with the variety of regulatory options in an area of life that was fundamental to the maintenance of family and social order.

The Academic Advisory Board of the Käte Hamburger Kolleg ‘Legal Unity and Pluralism’ has welcomed Prof Dr Michael Riegner as a new member. Riegner is Professor of International Administrative Law and Public International Law at the University of Erfurt and specialises in research on law in the Global South.