Event reports and videos

With its entry into force on 1 January 2025, the new Belgian Law of Delict is the most recently reformed system of delictual liability. Thereby, the Belgian legislature has outpaced the French reform project, which still is a work in progress. To get a better understanding of emerging tendencies in the comparative law of delict, Senior Research Fellow Tom Hick invited a number of Belgian early career scholars – who have followed the process of the reform closely – to present on some of the most topical aspects of the reformed law of delict. more

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Guest lecture as part of our series “Hamburg Forum on Comparative Animal Law” on February 6, 2025. (video available) more

Guest lecture as part of our series “Arab and Islamic Law to Go” on 4 February 2025. (video available) more

Memorial symposium in honour of Jürgen Basedow
In September 2024 Jürgen Basedow would have celebrated his 75th birthday. Shortly thereafter, in November 2024, his final monograph was published, “Uniform Law: Legal Responses to Globalisation”, a book on which Basedow worked until his death on 6 April 2023. In recognition of these two occasions, a memorial symposium was held at the Institute on 29 November 2024 under the organizational guidance of Konrad Duden (University of Hamburg), Eva-Maria Kieninger (University of Würzburg), and Ralf Michaels (MPI Hamburg). more