Max-Planck Summer Academy for Legal History 2017

“Conflict Regulation”
24 July - 4 August

Monday, 24 July
16:00 Welcome & Registration
16:30 Frankfurt City Tour / Dinner

Tuesday, 25 July
9:15-10:45 Meet&Greet
Stefanie Rüther/Osvaldo Moutin: Preliminary Remarks
Stefan Vogenauer: The Max Planck Society and the Max Planck Institute for
European Legal History
Victoria Barnes/Philip Bajon/ Otto Danwerth/Peter Collin:
A glimpse at several of the Institute`s research fields
Coffee
11:15-12:45 Helen McKee: Introduction “Conflict Regulation”
Lunch
14:30 Library Tour
15:30-17:00 Anna Seelentag: Roman Law/Antiquity
Coffee
17:30-19:00 Chair: Douglas Osler
Isabella Zambotto: Procedural aspects in matter of nexum. A re-interpretation
of the debt problem in the frame of the conflict between patricians and
plebeians
Kessler Perumalsamy: Roman law influence of spoliation orders (mandament
van spoilie) on the English equivalent, the novel disseisin

Wednesday, 26 July
9:15-10:45 Stephan Wagner: Ius Commune – Legists
Coffee
11:15-12:45 Christoph Meyer: Ius Commune – Canonists
Lunch and Free Study time
15:30-17:00 Stefan Vogenauer: Common Law
Coffee

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17:30 Evening Lecture
James Gordley: Revolutionary Principles: From the Late Scholastics to the
Declaration of Independence

Thursday, 27 July
9:15-10:45 Wim Decock: Private Law I
Coffee
11:15-12:45 Chair: Caspar Ehlers
Takanori Shibata: Legal Culture in the Ottonian Germany and Northern Italy
Jenny Wienert: Conflict of legal sources in the 16th century. The legislative
solution of the Reichspoliceyordnungen
Lunch and Free Study Time
15:30-16:30 Lena Foljanty: MPG Research Group "Translations and Transitions"
Coffee
17:00-18:00 Chair: Helen McKee
Mariana Armond Dias Paes/ Pamela Cacciavillani/
Lorena Ossio Bustillos/Laila Scheuch/Oliver Lebriez:
Conflict Regulation – Research Projects of the MPIeR
18:30 Discussion Groups Conflict Regulation

Friday, 28 July
9:15-10:45 Michael Stolleis: Constitutional Law
Coffee
11:15-12:45 Phillip Hellwege: Private Law II
Lunch and Free Study Time
15:30-17:00 Guided Tour IG Farben and Campus Westend

Monday, 31 July
9:15-10:45 Chair: Mariana Armond Dias Paes
Gabriel Faustino Santos: The construction of the "mandado de segurança": For
a history of the legal dimensions of justice in republican Brazil (1891-1937)
Taísa Regina Rodrigues: The regulation of working conflicts in the Constitution
of the United States of Brazil from 1937
Coffee
11:15-12:45 Sigfrido Ramirez: EU Law
Lunch and Free Study Time

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15:30-17:00 Elisabetta Fiocchi: International Law
Coffee
17:30-19:00 Chair: Jean-Philippe Dequen
Alberto Neidhardt: Transnational Family Disputes. Private International Law
and the Management of Legal Diversity in the EU
Ray Thornton: Developing children, developing law: NGOs, child development
and international children rights law in Kenya, 1952-1989

19:00-21:00 Chair: Jasper Kunstreich

Movie Night
“Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press”
The Netflix docu-feature from a legal history perspective

Tuesday, 1 August
9:15-10:45 Thomas Duve: Global Legal History
Coffee
11:15-12:45 Max Deardorff/Christiane Birr/David Rex Galindo/Osvaldo Moutin:
Legal History of Latin America
Lunch and Free Study Time
15:30-17:00 Benedetta Albani/Constanza López Lamerain/Alfonso Alibrandi:
Max Planck Research Group Governance of the Universal Church after the
Council of Trent
Coffee
17:30-19:00 Discussion Groups
Jessika Nowak: Antiquity and Holy Roman Empire
Pamela Cacciavillani: Latin America
Victoria Barnes/ Jean-Philippe Dequen: Common and International Law

Wednesday, 2 August
9:15-10:45 Chair: Christiane Birr
Philipp Pesendorfer: The reception of Roman slave law in the Early Modern
European slave holding Societies
Damian Gonzales Escudero: The notion of dominium in the resettlements of
Indians in the Corregimientos of Lima (1560-1650)
Coffee

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11:15-12:45 Chair: Lorena Ossio Bustillos
Marcella Hayes: The Color of Political Authority in Seventeenth-Century Lima
James Almeida: Minting Sovereignty: Potosí’s Seventeenth Century Silver Mint
as a Legal Forum
Lunch and Free Study Time
15:30-17:00 Chair: Max Deardorff
Vanessa Caroline Massuchetto: Criminal legal culture and women's status in
18th century Curitiba (1750-1800)
Camilla De Freitas Macedo: From citizenship to ethnic status – A historical
reading of indigenous rights through Brazilian constitutionalism
Coffee
17:15-18:00 Virginia López Tovilla: The relationship between the diocesan ecclesiastical
court of the bishopric of Chiapas and Soconusco and the court of appeal of the
archbishopric of Guatemala (1743- 1821). Institutions, actors and processes
18:15 PhD-Meeting

Thursday, 3 August
9:15-10:45 Donal Coffey: Legal Transfer in the Common Law World
Coffee
11:15-12:45 Chair: Donal Coffey
Kathleen McCrudden: Lawyers, Constitutions and the Irish Enlightenment
Revolution
Michael Samuel: Controlling Palestine: Britain, Israel, and the Legacies of Arab
Suppression, 1936-1994
Lunch and Free Study Time
15:30-16:15 Helen McKee/Stefanie Rüther
Conflict Regulation Resume
16:30 Max Planck Summer Party

Friday, 4 August
10:00-13:00 Exams
Lunch
13:45-15:30 Final Discussion and Farewell