Event reports and videos

From 14-15 July, the Institute hosted the international conference “Minority Law in Arab States – Governing Religious Diversity” organized by the Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA) and our Institute’s Centre of Expertise for the Law of Arab and Islamic Countries under the leadership of Dörthe Engelcke. Faouzia Zeraoulia, AGYA Co-President, introduced AGYA as an organization. more

Panel discussion on 15 May 2025
In cooperation with the German Women Lawyers Association and the Equality Office of the Faculty of Law at the University of Hamburg more

Guest lecture as part of our series “Hamburg Forum on Comparative Animal Law” on May 22, 2025. (video available) more

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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