Event reports

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

Ari Schriber (Utrecht University): Sharīʿa, droit musulman, and Colonial Legality: The Conflict of “Paternity Claim” (istilḥāq) 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

Foreign law in the courts

Twenty-first century theory and practice of producing expert opinions on foreign law
On 16–17 June 2023, around fifty legal scholars and practitioners met in Hamburg to trade notes about the role of expert opinions on foreign law in twenty-first century litigation.
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Event reports and videos

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

Ari Schriber (Utrecht University): Sharīʿa, droit musulman, and Colonial Legality: The Conflict of “Paternity Claim” (istilḥāq) in Colonial-Era Moroccan Courts

#FUTUREOFLAW Barcamp

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

Foreign law in the courts