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Former senior research fellow Lena-Maria Möller, an alum of the research group on the law of Islamic countries, has accepted a research assistant professorship at Qatar University in Doha. more

The law of business valuation is highly fluid, and its involvement with approaches and terminology from microeconomics and business administration can pose a difficulty for lawyers. The Rechtshandbuch Unternehmensbewertung (Handbook of business valuation law), edited by Institute director Holger Fleischer with Rainer Hüttemann, teases out the specifically legal dimensions of business valuation and amplifies the ways in which this body of law is integral to the economic valuation methods as well as the practices of professionals in this field. more

A new special issue of the Zeitschrift für Japanisches Recht/Journal of Japanese Law (ZJapanR/J.Japan.L.) presents a treatise on the Japanese system of capital punishment by Makoto Ida, one of Japan’s leading authorities on criminal law, in which he examines the meaning of retribution, the predominant theory of criminal justice in Japan. The ZJapanR/J.Japan.L. is a joint publication of the Institute and the German-Japanese Association of Jurists (DJJV). more

The Senate of the Max Planck Society (MPG) has appointed two new External Scientific Members to the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law. Both have been associated with the MPG for many years. more

The research group “Changes in God’s Law - An Inner-Islamic Comparison of Family and Succession Laws”, first initiated at the Institute in 2009, has been transformed into the Centre of Expertise for the Law of Arab and Islamic Countries. Dörthe Engelcke, senior research fellow at the Institute since 2017 and an expert in the family law of Islamic countries, has been appointed its acting head as of 1 August 2024. more

Ralf Michaels, director at the Institute, has co-edited the book Philosophical Foundations of Private International Law, an interdisciplinary collection of 18 articles at the intersection of private international law (PIL) and philosophy. The articles stem from a research project established by Michaels along with Roxana Banu of Oxford University and Michael S. Green of the William and Mary Law School. more

The Venezuelan-born legal scholar who teaches in Seville was a guest in Hamburg in June 2024, participating as a fellow in the team of Institute Director Ralf Michaels. Jiménez is researching issues relating to the restitution of cultural property of colonial origin. She is also working on a proposal for a private international law statute in Colombia. more