Research Projects

Here you can find a list of all research projects that are currently being worked on at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg or have been worked on in the past. The projects are organised according to

• their academic discipline
• the region they are focussing on
• the time period they are working on

Discipline

• History

  Coexistence and Competition of Legal Spaces in the Early Modern City (Vera Teske)

  Concepts of Violence in a Plural Legal Order. Controversial Semantics of Maritime Predation in Late Medieval Northern Europe (Gregor Rohmann)

  Concurrence and Competition of Legal Norms as Origin and Characteristic Feature of the ʻAge of Ambiguityʻ (Hillard von Thiessen)

  Crime, Ethnic-Religious Boundaries, and Legal Pluralism in Early Modern Lviv (Yurii Zazuliak)

  Custom and Comparative Legal History (Marie S. Kim)

  Developing Principles of Good Governance: Political Advice during the Carolingian, Macedonian and Seljuk Reforms (Sophia Mösch)

  Forgiving at the Crossroads of Norms: The Power to Pardon in Late Medieval England and France (Quentin Verreycken)

  Herrschaft auf dem Land, 1500-1800 (Benjamin Seebröker)

  Illegitimacy in the Clergy Before the Defectus Natalium – From the Exception to the Rule? (Clara Harder)

  Legal Pluralism and Unity in History Education and Historical Culture (Jan Hoffrogge)

  Legal Plurality and the Establishment of Urban Order under Magdeburg Law in Historical Towns of Ukraine during the Late Medieval and Early Modern Times (Olga Kozubska)

  Legal Plurality in Sixteenth-Century Papal State. A Case-Study on the Inquisition Trial Against the Portuguese Jews of Ancona (1555-1556) (Giacomo Mariani)

  Medical Authority in Criminal Proceedings from the Decree of the Constitutio Criminalis Carolina until the End of the Old Empire (Kay Peter Jankrift)

  Political Orders in Ancient Greece (Hans Beck)

  "Public Enemies!” - Exclusions from the Legal Community. Germany, France, USA, Israel in the 20th and 21st Century (Dieter Gosewinkel)

  Royal Courts and Freedom in Salian Germany (David Bachrach)

  Seeing past Leviathan: Legal Pluralism, Commodity Chains, and Governance in the Making of the Angola – Saint Thomas and Prince Nomoscape (c. 1836 – c. 1878) (João Figueiredo)

  The Deportable and the Not-So-Deportable: Vagrancy and ‘Foreignness’ in Colonial India, 1864-1946 (Radhika Singha)

  The Golden Bull of 1356 – The First Written Constitution of the Holy Roman Empire (Eva Schlotheuber)

  The Right of Reprisal in Practice as Used Against Late Medieval Florentine Merchants (Leslie Carr-Riegel)

  The Role of Law in the Great Divergence and Emergence of the Modern World (Kaveh Yazdani)

  Trust in Justice: Petitions to Party and State Leaders in the ‘Long’ Soviet Century (Alexey Tikhomirov)

  Working under Colonial Rule. Legal Unity and Pluralism in Seventeenth-Century Bolivia (Raquel Gil Montero)

• Legal History

  An Exceptionally Exceptional Exception: Family Litigation in Mandatory Palestine Communal-Informal Tribunals (Eyal Katvan)

  Commercial Portscapes: A Holistic Approach to Roman Trade (Emilia Mataix Ferrándiz)

  Comparing Colonial Laws (Heikki Pihlajamäki)

  Compulsory Composition in the German Bankruptcy Act for the German Empire  (Ulrich Falk)

  Custom and Comparative Legal History (Marie S. Kim)

  Law Application in Roman Egypt: Towards Standardisation of a Plurality (Jakub Urbanik)

  Law as an Iceberg in the Ocean: Legal Pluralism and Everyday Exceptions (Qian Liu)

  Law in the Kingdom of Westphalia (Lena Klos)

  Law in the Middle Ages (Susanne Lepsius)

  Legal Pluralism in Theory and Practice. The Case of the Roman Empire (Eva Jakab)

  Negotiating Pluralism Transnationally: The Concept of Exception in the Justification of Private International Law (Sebastian Spitra)

  Political Unity, Legal Variety? Codification and Contract Law in Fascism and National Socialism (Ferdinando Mazzarella)

  "Public Enemies!” - Exclusions from the Legal Community. Germany, France, USA, Israel in the 20th and 21st Century (Dieter Gosewinkel)

  The Dialectic of Privilege. A Manifold Exception becomes a Dynamic Ordering Factor (Salvatore Marino)

  The Long Way from Legal Plurality to the Unified Private Law in the Estonian Territory (Hesi Siimets-Gross)

  The Reception of the Ius Commune and Foreign Law in Sweden, ca. 1520-1620 (Mia Korpiola)

• Anthropology

  Ecclesiastical Courts in the Holy Land: Church and State, Autonomy and Anarchy in a Pluri-Legal Environment (Ido Shahar)

  Global Rights, Local Applications: Negotiating Rights to (Mental) Health in Bulgaria (Kostadin Karavasilev)

  Land Restitution and the Moral Modernity of the New South African State (Olaf Zenker)

  Law-Making, and the New Democracies: Legal ‘Translatio’ in African (Oromo) (Neo-)Traditional Legislative and Juridical Procedures (Andrea Nicolas)

  Living Religious Plurality in Uganda (Dorothea Schulz)

  Monjas Cimarronas: Conflicting Normative Frameworks and Human Dramas in Early Republican Peru (Armando Guevara Gil)

  Seeing past Leviathan: Legal Pluralism, Commodity Chains, and Governance in the Making of the Angola – Saint Thomas and Prince Nomoscape (c. 1836 – c. 1878) (João Figueiredo)

  States of Uncertainty: Coordination, Legal Experimentation & Possible Futures in Colombia (Sandra Brunnegger)

• Sociology/Political Science

  Legal Pluralism in the Post-Colony (Miriam Künkler)

  Normative Challenges at the Boundaries of Law: Critique of Law, Justification Strategies and Struggles for Legitimacy in the “Reichsbürger” Movement and Climate Activism (Daniel Witte)

• Literary Studies

  Creating Unity in Plural Legal Systems: Practices of Collecting, Organising, Categorising, and Hierarchising Data from the Early Modern Period to the 19th Century (Claudia Lieb)

Region

• Europe

  Coexistence and Competition of Legal Spaces in the Early Modern City (Vera Teske)

  Commercial Portscapes: A Holistic Approach to Roman Trade (Emilia Mataix-Ferrándiz)

  Comparing Colonial Laws (Heikki Pihlajamäki)

  Compulsory Composition in the German Bankruptcy Act for the German Empire (Ulrich Falk)

  Concepts of Violence in a Plural Legal Order. Controversial Semantics of Maritime Predation in Late Medieval Northern Europe (Gregor Rohmann)

  Concurrence and Competition of Legal Norms as Origin and Characteristic Feature of the ʻAge of Ambiguityʻ (Hillard von Thiessen)

  Creating Unity in Plural Legal Systems: Practices of Collecting, Organising, Categorising, and Hierarchising Data from the Early Modern Period to the 19th Century (Claudia Lieb)

  Crime, Ethnic-Religious Boundaries, and Legal Pluralism in Early Modern Lviv (Yurii Zazuliak)

  Custom and Comparative Legal History  (Marie S. Kim)

  Developing Principles of Good Governance: Political Advice during the Carolingian, Macedonian and Seljuk Reforms (Sophia Mösch)

  Forgiving at the Crossroads of Norms: The Power to Pardon in Late Medieval England and France (Quentin Verreycken)

  Global Rights, Local Applications: Negotiating Rights to (Mental) Health in Bulgaria (Kostadin Karavasilev)

  Herrschaft auf dem Land, 1500-1800 (Benjamin Seebröker)

  Illegitimacy in the Clergy before the Defectus Natalium – From the Exception to the Rule? (Clara Harder)

  Law in the Kingdom of Westphalia (Lena Klos)

  Law in the Middle Ages (Susanne Lepsius)

  Legal Pluralism and Unity in History Education and Historical Culture (Jan Hoffrogge)

  Legal Pluralism in Theory and Practice. The Case of the Roman Empire (Éva Jakab)

  Legal Plurality and the Establishment of Urban Order under Magdeburg Law in Historical Towns of Ukraine during the Late Medieval and Early Modern Times (Olga Kozubska)

  Legal Plurality in Sixteenth-Century Papal State. A Case-Study on the Inquisition Trial Against the Portuguese Jews of Ancona (1555-1556) (Giacomo Mariani)

  Medical Authority in Criminal Proceedings from the Decree of the Constitutio Criminalis Carolina until the End of the Old Empire (Kay Peter Jankrift)

  Negotiating Pluralism Transnationally: The Concept of Exception in the Justification of Private International Law (Sebastian Spitra)

  Normative Challenges at the Boundaries of Law: Critique of Law, Justification Strategies and Struggles for Legitimacy in the “Reichsbürger” Movement and Climate Activism (Daniel Witte)

  Political Orders in Ancient Greece (Hans Beck)

  Political Unity, Legal Variety? Codification and Contract Law in Fascism and National Socialism (Ferdinando Mazzarella)

  "Public Enemies!” - Exclusions from the Legal Community. Germany, France, USA, Israel in the 20th and 21st Century (Dieter Gosewinkel)

  Royal Courts and Freedom in Salian Germany (David Bachrach)

  The Dialectic of Privilege. A Manifold Exception becomes a Dynamic Ordering Factor (Salvatore Marino)

  The Golden Bull of 1356 – The First Written Constitution of the Holy Roman Empire (Eva Schlotheuber)

  The Long Way from Legal Plurality to the Unified Private Law in the Estonian Territory (Hesi Siimets-Gross)

  The Reception of the Ius Commune and Foreign Law in Sweden, ca. 1520-1620 (Mia Korpiola)

  The Right of Reprisal in Practice as Used Against Late Medieval Florentine Merchants (Leslie Carr-Riegel)

  Trust in Justice: Petitions to Party and State Leaders in the ‘Long’ Soviet Century (Alexey Tikhomirov)

• Africa

  Comparing Colonial Laws (Heikki Pihlajamäki)

  Land Restitution and the Moral Modernity of the New South African State (Olaf Zenker)

  Law Application in Roman Egypt: Towards Standardisation of a Plurality (Jakub Urbanik)

  Law-Making, and the New Democracies: Legal ‘Translatio’ in African (Oromo) (Neo-)Traditional Legislative and Juridical Procedures (Andrea Nicolas)

  Legal Pluralism in the Post-Colony (Miriam Künkler)

  Living Religious Plurality in Uganda (Dorothea Schulz)

  Negotiating Pluralism Transnationally: The Concept of Exception in the Justification of Private International Law (Sebastian Spitra)

  Seeing past Leviathan: Legal Pluralism, Commodity Chains, and Governance in the Making of the Angola – Saint Thomas and Prince Nomoscape (c. 1836 – c. 1878) (João Figueiredo)

• Asia

  An Exceptionally Exceptional Exception: Family Litigation in Mandatory Palestine Communal-Informal Tribunals (Eyal Katvan)

  Comparing Colonial Laws (Heikki Pihlajamäki)

  Custom and Comparative Legal History (Marie S. Kim)

  Developing Principles of Good Governance: Political Advice during the Carolingian, Macedonian and Seljuk Reforms (Sophia Mösch)

  Ecclesiastical Courts in the Holy Land: Church and State, Autonomy and Anarchy in a Pluri-Legal Environment  (Ido Shahar)

  Law as an Iceberg in the Ocean: Legal Pluralism and Everyday Exceptions (Qian Liu)

  Legal Pluralism in the Post-Colony (Miriam Künkler)

  Negotiating Pluralism Transnationally: The Concept of Exception in the Justification of Private International Law (Sebastian Spitra)

  "Public Enemies!” - Exclusions from the Legal Community. Germany, France, USA, Israel in the 20th and 21st Century (Dieter Gosewinkel)

  The Deportable and the Not-So-Deportable: Vagrancy and ‘Foreignness’ in Colonial India, 1864-1946 (Radhika Singha)

  The Role of Law in the Great Divergence and Emergence of the Modern World (Kaveh Yazdani)

• North America

  Comparing Colonial Laws (Heikki Pihlajamäki)

  Negotiating Pluralism Transnationally: The Concept of Exception in the Justification of Private International Law (Sebastian Spitra)

  Normative Challenges at the Boundaries of Law: Critique of Law, Justification Strategies and Struggles for Legitimacy in the “Reichsbürger” Movement and Climate Activism (Daniel Witte)

  "Public Enemies!” - Exclusions from the Legal Community. Germany, France, USA, Israel in the 20th and 21st Century (Dieter Gosewinkel)

• South America

  Monjas Cimarronas: Conflicting Normative Frameworks and Human Dramas in Early Republican Peru (Armando Guevara Gil)

  Negotiating Pluralism Transnationally: The Concept of Exception in the Justification of Private International Law (Sebastian Spitra)

  States of Uncertainty: Coordination, Legal Experimentation & Possible Futures in Colombia (Sandra Brunnegger)

  Working under Colonial Rule. Legal Unity and Pluralism in Seventeenth-Century Bolivia (Raquel Gil Montero)

Time period

• Antiquity

  Commercial Portscapes: A Holistic Approach to Roman Trade (Emilia Mataix-Ferrándiz)

  Law Application in Roman Egypt: Towards Standardisation of a Plurality (Jakub Urbanik)

  Legal Pluralism in Theory and Practice. The Case of the Roman Empire (Éva Jakab)

  Political Orders in Ancient Greece (Hans Beck)

  The Dialectic of Privilege. A Manifold Exception becomes a Dynamic Ordering Factor (Salvatore Marino)

• Middle Ages

  Comparing Colonial Laws (Heikki Pihlajamäki)

  Concepts of Violence in a Plural Legal Order. Controversial Semantics of Maritime Predation in Late Medieval Northern Europe (Gregor Rohmann)

  Concurrence and Competition of Legal Norms as Origin and Characteristic Feature of the ʻAge of Ambiguityʻ (Hillard von Thiessen)

  Developing Principles of Good Governance: Political Advice during the Carolingian, Macedonian and Seljuk Reforms (Sophia Mösch)

  Forgiving at the Crossroads of Norms: The Power to Pardon in Late Medieval England and France (Quentin Verreycken)

  Illegitimacy in the Clergy before the Defectus Natalium – From the Exception to the Rule? (Clara Harder)

  Law in the Middle Ages (Susanne Lepsius)

  Legal Plurality and the Establishment of Urban Order under Magdeburg Law in Historical Towns of Ukraine during the Late Medieval and Early Modern Times (Olga Kozubska)

  Royal Courts and Freedom in Salian Germany (David Bachrach)

  The Dialectic of Privilege. A Manifold Exception becomes a Dynamic Ordering Factor (Salvatore Marino)

  The Golden Bull of 1356 – The First Written Constitution of the Holy Roman Empire (Eva Schlotheuber)

  The Right of Reprisal in Practice as Used Against Late Medieval Florentine Merchants (Leslie Carr-Riegel)

• Early Modern Period

  Coexistence and Competition of Legal Spaces in the Early Modern City (Vera Teske)

  Comparing Colonial Laws (Heikki Pihlajamäki)

  Concurrence and Competition of Legal Norms as Origin and Characteristic Feature of the ʻAge of Ambiguityʻ (Hillard von Thiessen)

  Creating Unity in Plural Legal Systems: Practices of Collecting, Organising, Categorising, and Hierarchising Data from the Early Modern Period to the 19th Century (Claudia Lieb)

  Crime, Ethnic-Religious Boundaries, and Legal Pluralism in Early Modern Lviv (Yurii Zazuliak)

  Custom and Comparative Legal History  (Marie S. Kim)

  Herrschaft auf dem Land, 1500-1800 (Benjamin Seebröker)

  Legal Plurality and the Establishment of Urban Order under Magdeburg Law in Historical Towns of Ukraine during the Late Medieval and Early Modern Times (Olga Kozubska)

  Legal Plurality in Sixteenth-Century Papal State. A Case-Study on the Inquisition Trial Against the Portuguese Jews of Ancona (1555-1556) (Giacomo Mariani)

  Medical Authority in Criminal Proceedings from the Decree of the Constitutio Criminalis Carolina until the End of the Old Empire (Kay Peter Jankrift)

  The Reception of the Ius Commune and Foreign Law in Sweden, ca. 1520-1620 (Mia Korpiola)

  The Role of Law in the Great Divergence and Emergence of the Modern World (Kaveh Yazdani)

  Working under Colonial Rule. Legal Unity and Pluralism in Seventeenth-Century Bolivia (Raquel Gil Montero)

• 19th Century

  Compulsory Composition in the German Bankruptcy Act for the German Empire  (Ulrich Falk)

  Creating Unity in Plural Legal Systems: Practices of Collecting, Organising, Categorising, and Hierarchising Data from the Early Modern Period to the 19th Century (Claudia Lieb)

  Law in the Kingdom of Westphalia (Lena Klos)

  Monjas Cimarronas: Conflicting Normative Frameworks and Human Dramas in Early Republican Peru (Armando Guevara Gil)

  Negotiating Pluralism Transnationally: The Concept of Exception in the Justification of Private International Law (Sebastian Spitra)

  Seeing past Leviathan: Legal Pluralism, Commodity Chains, and Governance in the Making of the Angola – Saint Thomas and Prince Nomoscape (c. 1836 – c. 1878) (João Figueiredo)

  The Deportable and the Not-So-Deportable: Vagrancy and ‘Foreignness’ in Colonial India, 1864-1946 (Radhika Singha)

• 20th Century

  An Exceptionally Exceptional Exception: Family Litigation in Mandatory Palestine Communal-Informal Tribunals (Eyal Katvan)

  Political Unity, Legal Variety? Codification and Contract Law in Fascism and National Socialism (Ferdinando Mazzarella)

  "Public Enemies!” - Exclusions from the Legal Community. Germany, France, USA, Israel in the 20th and 21st Century (Dieter Gosewinkel)

  The Long Way from Legal Plurality to the Unified Private Law in the Estonian Territory (Hesi Siimets-Gross)

  Trust in Justice: Petitions to Party and State Leaders in the ‘Long’ Soviet Century (Alexey Tikhomirov)

• Contemporary History and Present

  Ecclesiastical Courts in the Holy Land: Church and State, Autonomy and Anarchy in a Pluri-Legal Environment (Ido Shahar)

  Global Rights, Local Applications: Negotiating Rights to (Mental) Health in Bulgaria (Kostadin Karavasilev)

  Land Restitution and the Moral Modernity of the New South African State (Olaf Zenker)

  Law as an Iceberg in the Ocean: Legal Pluralism and Everyday Exceptions (Qian Liu)

  Law-Making, and the New Democracies: Legal ‘Translatio’ in African (Oromo) (Neo-)Traditional Legislative and Juridical Procedures (Andrea Nicolas)

  Legal Pluralism and Unity in History Education and Historical Culture (Jan Hoffrogge)

  Legal Pluralism in the Post-Colony (Miriam Künkler)

  Living Religious Plurality in Uganda (Dorothea Schulz)

  Normative Challenges at the Boundaries of Law: Critique of Law, Justification Strategies and Struggles for Legitimacy in the “Reichsbürger” Movement and Climate Activism (Daniel Witte)

  "Public Enemies!” - Exclusions from the Legal Community. Germany, France, USA, Israel in the 20th and 21st Century (Dieter Gosewinkel)

  States of Uncertainty: Coordination, Legal Experimentation & Possible Futures in Colombia (Sandra Brunnegger)