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Sharing ideas in monastic seclusion
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Retreat of the Käte Hamburger Kolleg at Frenswegen Monastery, 13/14 June 2024 Academic work at the Kolleg thrives on the dynamic between the freedom to conduct one’s own research and the exchange of ideas. The…
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“Society was torn back and forth between modern and conservative tendencies”
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Interview with Hesi Siimets-Gross on how private law developed in Estonia during the interwar period The modern era is considered the age of legal standardisation. Not only were the emerging nation states the result of…
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| FocusDeath by ordeal: a historical topic that remains a pressing matter today
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Early morning on March 16, 2024, I received an urgent phone call from the producers of the debate show “Causa e Efeito,” broadcast by RTP África, the TV channel of the public service broadcasting organisation of…
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“Standardisation was never a goal of the Peruvian liberal legislator”
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Interview with Armando Guevara Gil on the legal history of Peru and the potential of micro-historical analyses In 1821, Peru gained independence from the Spanish colonial empire. Despite the new legal codes issued in the…
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Exploring processes of legal standardization
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Report on the second annual conference, 25-27 September 2023 For a second time, the Kolleg invited scholars from different disciplines and from all over the world to an annual conference in Münster. The conference aimed…
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| FocusPluralism of what? On Laws, and on Rights – in Translation
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European legal terminology is often organised in dichotomies. In the continental languages, this holds true for the concept of law itself, which can be ius or lex, droit or loi, diritto or legge, Recht or Gesetz. These dichotomies cannot easily be translated into English. The problem does…
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“Following one norm meant violating the other”
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Interview with Hillard von Thiessen on early modern competitions of norms and the role of law Nowadays, a person who tried to excuse himself after a bar fight and the subsequent charge of assault by…
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| FocusReprisal, Annexation, and Guano… oh my!
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While perusing my research at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg I ran across a footnote mentioning a case involving the right of reprisal set before the U.S. Congress in 1857. As a medievalist studying the topic…
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“A period of great importance for state-building”
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Interview with Mia Korpiola about the legal reforms under the Vasa kings Legal historian Mia Korpiola has researched a turbulent phase of Swedish history at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg. It begins with a bloodbath in…
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| FocusIdeas of justice in “The Jews’ Beech”. Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, on the 175th anniversary of her death
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Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, one of the great German authors of the 19th century, died 175 years ago. She is regarded today as a master of eco-sensitive literature. Her birthplace, Münster in Westphalia, is associated with…