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Dr. Béligh Elbalti (Osaka University): 'Conflict of Laws’ in the Islamic Legal Tradition – Between the Principles of Personality and Territoriality of the Law

Guest lecture as part of the series “Afternoon Talks on Islamic Law” on 25 April 2024. (video available) more

Prof. Nathan J. Brown (George Washington University/HIAS Hamburg): Does Studying Islam Change It? How Universities Structure Religion

Guest lecture as part of the series “Afternoon Talks on Islamic Law” on 22 February 2024. (video available) more

Ari Schriber (Utrecht University): Sharīʿa, <i>droit musulman</i>, and Colonial Legality: The Conflict of “Paternity Claim” (<i>istil</i><i>ḥāq</i>) in Colonial-Era Moroccan Courts

Guest lecture as part of the series “Afternoon Talks on Islamic Law” on 30 November 2023. (video available) more

#FUTUREOFLAW Barcamp

The inaugural #FUTUREOFLAW BarCamp was held at the Institute on 2 November 2023. About seventy participants spent the afternoon in open discussions, exchanging knowledge, standpoints, and ideas about topics for a jurisprudence of the future. Students and doctoral candidates from Germany and abroad attended, together with researchers from the various law-related Max Planck institutes. more

Online Panel: Grundrechte und IPR nach der BVerfG-Entscheidung zum KinderEheBG

The Hamburg Max Planck Institute organized an online panel to discuss implications from the German Federal Constitutional Court Decision on the Act to Combat Child Marriages rendered just prior. more

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