Category: EViR Insights
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Struggle for freedom or wild act?
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Zum Bauernkriegsjubiläum diskutierte das Kolleg im Januar 2025 mit Gerd Schwerhoff und Lyndal Roper Im Jahr 1525 erhoben sich die Bauern in vielen Regionen des Heiligen Römischen Reiches Deutscher Nation gegen die Obrigkeit. Aus Anlass…
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The ancient Roman law of codicils
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Testamentary dispositions in the Imperium Romanum Report on the conference on 13–15 November 2024 The ancient Roman law of codicils responded to a demand in society for more flexibility in forming testamentary dispositions. In doing…
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We have moved
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Dear Readers, The EViR blog has moved and can now be found at https://www.evir.uni-muenster.blog/. Not only does this relocation go hand in hand with a new, more appealing design, but also with an expansion of…
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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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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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A Kolleg moves
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The new rooms in the Iduna building offer plenty of space and a magnificent view Shouts echo through the long corridors, the two lifts are in constant use, and there is hustle and bustle everywhere.…
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From exception to plurality?
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Report on the Käte Hamburger Kolleg annual conference, 15-17 September 2022 Is the relationship between unity and plurality similar to that between rule and exception? And do exceptions lead to legal pluralism? Or is it…
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Legal unity and pluralism at the 2022 Conference of Legal Historians
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Probably the most important such conference in the German-speaking world, the 43rd (German)[1] Conference of Legal Historians (Rechtshistorikertag) could at last take place in Zurich in August 2022.[2] Addressing the overarching theme of “Legal Forms…
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Interdisciplinary understanding and diversity of perspectives
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Report on the first internal workshop of the Käte Hamburger Kolleg at Landhaus Rothenberge on 2 and 3 June 2022 Do legal scholars and historians actually mean the same thing when they speak of legal…
