The "Münster Glossary on Legal Unity and Pluralism" has been published in a third edition, once again significantly expanded and available in open access. New contributions cover topics like social norms, the concept of citizenship, and privileges in ancient law.
In the winter semester 2023/24, the Käte Hamburger Kolleg welcomes Prof. Dr. Nora Markard as Research Professor. The professor of public law at the University of Münster takes over the research professorship for one semester from Dr Gregor Albers, who is currently taking on a substitute professorship at the Chair of Ancient Legal History at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main.
Three international workshops in November will focus on antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the early modern period. An overview of all events in the winter term is now available in the Kolleg’s new programme flyer, which can be downloaded here.
As part of the “Conceptual Forum” workshops, the Käte Hamburger Kolleg invites researchers at irregular intervals to interdisciplinary discussions of current methodological and theoretical ideas relevant to work in history and legal history. Fractality and concurrence of norms are on the programme in autumn.
The second annual conference of the Käte Hamburger Kolleg will take place from 25 to 27 September at the LWL Museum für Kunst und Kultur in Münster. This year, the focus will be on modes of legal standardisation – from antiquity to the present. The international conference will bring together researchers from the fields of history, law and anthropology.
The conference series on legal exception and plurality will continue from 7 to 9 September. After last year’s focus was on Roman law in antiquity, this time the focus is on the Middle Ages and the early modern period.
The first EViR Summer School from 24 to 28 July 2023 will deal with the complex relationship between law and social diversity in the early modern period.
How stable is peace? How can it be maintained after years of war? Next week, researchers invited by the Käte Hamburger Kolleg “Legal Unity and Pluralism” (EViR) and the Cluster of Excellence “Religion and Politics” at the University of Münster will discuss the long-term consequences of the Peace of Westphalia 375 years ago, and implications that the historical events have for today.
The jurist and legal historian Susanne Lepsius was awarded the Brüder Grimm-Preis by the Philipps-Universität Marburg last year. She will receive the prize in Marburg on 5 May 2023.
This workshop calls for original contributions to the restitution debate by framing the expropriation, acquisition, and return of material culture as historical and contemporary epistemic processes that create and erase local, regional, and global (normative) knowledge.
The international workshop "Cultures, Sources and Ideas in the Traditions of Political Advice" on 20 and 21 April 2023, organised by Dr Sophia Mösch, will be devoted to recent developments in the history of political thought.
The conference “Variety of Legal Spaces in Ruthenian Lands of Poland-Lithuania during the Medieval and Early-Modern Times” (21-22 November 2023) is organized by the Humanities Faculty of the Ukrainian Catholic University (UCU) in Lviv and the Käte Hamburger Kolleg “Legal Unity and Pluralism” (EViR) at the University of Münster (WWU).
The series of EViR Working Papers is expanding: Paper No. 3 is an article by Peter Oestmann, which provides an overview of basic questions of legal pluralism in various epochs of European and German history from a legal-historical perspective. Paper No. 4 by Sebastian M. Spitra documents his key note on the archaeology of European legal pluralism, which he gave during last year’s workshop "Narrating Europe's Pluralities. Unity, Diversity and Exceptionality" at the Kolleg.
On 23 and 24 February 2023, an international symposium will trace the dynamics between local law and legal coherence. The conference “Ancient Greek Law. Vectors of Local Idiosyncrasy and Unity“, organised by Professor Hans Beck (University of Münster/EViR Fellow) and Professor Kaja Harter-Uibopuu (University of Hamburg), brings together a diverse group of international experts in the fields of Ancient Greek History and the History of Law in Antiquity.
The beginning of the new year also marks the start of two more fellowships at the Kolleg. Historian Radhika Singha (Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi) is an expert on the social history of crime and criminal law. Legal anthropologist Armando Guevara Gil (Universidad para el Desarrollo Andino, Lircay, Peru) is studying legal pluralism in the Andean region.
