Monday, 7 April, to Wednesday, 9 April 2025
Venue:
Universität Münster Professional School
Königsstr. 47
48143 Münster
Organisation:
Prof. Dr. Ulrike Ludwig
Käte Hamburger Kolleg/Universität Münster
ulrike.ludwig@uni-muenster.de
Prof. Dr. Peter Oestmann
Käte Hamburger Kolleg/Universität Münster
oestmann@uni-muenster.de
by 31 March 2025
via Indico
The third annual conference of the Käte Hamburger Kolleg “Legal Unity and Pluralism” examines the causes of legal plurality. What reasons can be identified for the fragmentation of law in spatial, personal and temporal terms? Do social and cultural factors play a role? And why do attempts to unify law so often fail?
Monday, 7 April 2025
14.00–14.30
Ulrike Ludwig & Peter Oestmann (Münster)
Welcome and introduction
Section 1: Social Diversity and Legal Pluralism
Chair: Susanne Lepsius (München)
14.30–15.30
Éva Jakab (Budapest)
Diversität, Vielfalt und vereinheitlichende Tendenzen: Das Imperium Romanum
15.30–16.00
Coffee break
16.00–17.00
Cecilia Cristellon (Münster)
‘Frequent Conflict and Domestic Discord’: Negotiating Mixed Marriages and Legal Plurality in Early Modern Europe
17.00–18.00
Armando Guevera Gil (Lircay)
Between Church and State Law: The Secularization Process of Nuns in XIXth Century Peru
18.00
Joint dinner
Tuesday, 8 April 2025
9.00–10.00
Iveta Leitane (Yale)
Max M. Lasersons Umgang mit nationaler und religiöser Diversität während seiner Tätigkeit im Parlament Lettlands
10.00–10.30
Coffee break
Section 2: Political and Religious Demarcation as a Factor for Legal Pluralism
Chair: Matthias Bähr (Münster)
10.30–11.30
Clara Harder (Köln)
Struggling for Faith or Struggling for Power? The Plurality of Illegitimacy in Medieval Europe before the 13th Century
11.30–12.30
Ido Shahar (Haifa)
An Outline for a Comparative Study of Legal Plurality in Democratic States: The Accommodation of Islamic Family Law as a Case Study
12.30–14.00
Lunch
14.00–15.00
Ferdinando Mazzarella (Palermo)
The Asymmetric Axis. Politics and Law around the Italian-German Legal Committee
15.00–16.00
Olaf Zenker (Halle-Wittenberg)
Decolonising Constitutionalism in South Africa: On the Politics of Postcolonial Legal Pluralities
16.00–16.30
Coffee break
Section 3: Legal Pluralism in Empires
Chair: Jakub Urbanik (Warsaw)
16.30–17.30
Heikki Pihlajamäki (Helsinki)
Managing Legal Plurality at its Height: European Overseas Empires and Law in the Early Modern Period
17.30–18.30
Hesi Siimets-Gross (Tartu)
Der persönliche Faktor bei den Ursachen der Vielfalt – Beispiel der Ostseegouvernements des Russländischen Imperiums
18.30
Joint dinner
Wednesday, 9 April 2025
9.00–10.00
Raquel Gil Montero (Mendoza)
The Diffuse Limits Between Custom and Abuse: Legal Diversity in the Spanish Empire
10.00–11.00
Kevin Lenk (Münster)
„Henry II would, I think, have been surprised to hear that if his tenant went to China, the King was bound to follow and protect him“. Imperial Cooperation and Legal Pluralism in Coastal Areas, c. 1870-1935
11.00–11.30
Coffee break
11.30–12.30
Commentary and discussion
12.30–14.00
Lunch
14.00–15.00
Concluding discussion