The Käte Hamburger Kolleg „Einheit und Vielfalt im Recht“ (EViR, ‘Legal Unity and Pluralism‘) at the University of Münster invites applications for fellowships for a period of between 6 and 12 months for the academic year 2025/26, provided to the approval of a second funding phase by the BMBF. Applications are open to researchers from the humanities and social sciences from the postdoctoral phase onwards who are working on the research topics of the Centre. Click here for the call for fellowships.

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.

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.

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.