Presentations


Zürcher Ausspracheabend zur Rechtsgeschichte
Zurich University, 2 November 2023: “Modernist Legal Thought in German-Speaking Lands” (invited lecture).

Comparative Legal History: A Conference on Themes in the Work of Jim Whitman
Yale Law School, 13-14 October 2023: “Race, Rules, and Reproduction: Ludwig Kuhlenbeck, Theodor Sternberg, and a Scandal at Lausanne” (invited conference presentation; forthcoming).

Regimes of Codification
University of Cambridge, 29 September 2023: “Law Melodies, Mnemonics, and Housewives’ Manuals: Popular Guides to the German Civil Code of 1900” (invited workshop presentation).

Symposium: Law, Conflict, and Transformation, in Celebration of Christian Joerges
University of Amsterdam, 27-28 September 2023: “Obscure(d) Legacies of Law in Europe (invited presentation).

Forschungskolloquium zur Neueren Geschichte
University of Bremen, 14 December 2022: “Queering German Jurisprudence: Law, Gender, and Sexuality in the Years Before World War I” (invited workshop presentation). 

Revisiting the Dark Legacies of Illiberalism: Varieties of Constitutionalism and Legal-Political Practices in Post-Authoritarian Europe
Imre Kertész Kolleg, University of Jena, 2-3 December 2022: “Reckoning with Radbruch: On Continuities and Ruptures in Modern German Legal History” (invited conference presentation).

Tagung anlässlich des 100. Todestages von Eugen Ehrlich
Max-Planck-Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory, Frankfurt, 29-30 September 2022: „‘Schon wieder Prioritätsstreit‘: Eugen Ehrlich, Hermann Kantorowicz und die Freirechtsbewegung“ (invited conference presentation)

Legal:Inter:Faces. Ein “Netzwerk Quartäre Jurist*innenbildung” als Antwort auf die Herausforderungen der Digitalgesellschaft?
Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung Bielefeld, 28-30 September 2022: Freirecht lesen in New Haven (invited seminar presentation).

Freethought in the Long Nineteenth Century
Queen Mary University London, 9-10 September 2022: On the Confluence of Free Law and Free Pedagogy: Ernst Fuchs’s Paper-Justice and Judge-Kingship (1907) (refereed conference presentation).

Law & Society Association Annual Meeting
Lisbon, 13-16 July 2022: “The Law That We Feel Living Within Us": German Jurists and the Search for “Life" in Modern Legal Science, 1900-1946 (refereed conference presentation).

Through a Legal Lens: Law, History, and Visual Culture
Zoom seminar series, May-June 2022: Nazi Law and Visual Culture in the Exhibition Das Recht (1936) (refereed conference presentation).

Vienna Lectures on Legal Philosophy
University of Vienna, 28 April 2022: Free Legal Reasoning: A History (invited lecture).

Das Recht auf sexuelle Selbstbestimmung
DFG-Forschungsprojekt „Menschenrechte, queere Geschlechter und Sexualitäten seit den 1970er Jahren,“ Freie Universität Berlin, 24-25. February 2022: Zwischen Rechtsmethodik und Moralwissenschaft: Kurt Hillers Das Recht über sich selbst (1908) (invited conference presentation).

Sexuality and the Law in German-Speaking Europe
German Studies Association Seminar, Indianapolis IN, 1-4 October 2021: “Alas Legal and Sexual Science Have a Lot To Do With Each Other”: Theodor Sternberg and the Rise of Charismatic Jurisprudence (refereed seminar presentation).

Dissenting Voices: European Thought between Tradition and Rupture
Birkbeck College London, Cardiff University, Universidad Complutense and University of Oslo, Zoom-Webinar, 11 December 2020: “Hermann Kantorowicz, ‘Has Capitalism Failed in Law?’ (1934),” (invited seminar presentation).

German Historical Institute Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar
Villa Vigoni, Italy, 25-29 May 2020: “The German Free Law Movement 1903-1918” (cancelled due to COVID-19).

Critical Legal Studies: Intellectual History and the History of the Present
Princeton University, 27-28 February 2020: “Re(dis)covering German Free Law, ca. 1968” (invited conference presentation).

American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting
Boston, MA, 21 November-24 November 2019: “From Free Law to Free Love: On Theodor Sternberg’s Sexological Explorations in Imperial Japan, 1935-1937” (refereed Student Research Colloquium presentation).

Law & Society Association Annual Meeting
Washington D.C., 30 May-2 June 2019; “‘But American Legal Science is Terribly Backward’: On Hermann Kantorowicz’s Attempt to Infuse “Realism” with “Some Rationalism” (refereed conference presentation).

The Making of a World Order: A Reappraisal of the Paris Peace Conference and the Treaty of Versailles
The American University of Paris, 23-25 May 2019: “On Illiberal Internationalism and the Rise of Nazi “Life”-Law” (refereed conference presentation).

History of Sexuality & Erudition: Institutions, Texts, Practices
Princeton University, 9-10 May 2019: “From Free Law to Free Love: On Theodor Sternberg’s Sexological Explorations in Imperial Japan, 1935-1937” (refereed conference presentation).

Hermann Kantorowicz (1877-1940): The Battle for Legal Science Conference
University of Helsinki, 25-26 October 2018: “But American Legal Science is Terribly Backwards: On Hermann Kantorowicz’s Attempt to Infuse “Realism” with “Some Rationalism” (invited conference presentation).

American Historical Association Annual Meeting
Washington D.C., 4-7 January 2017: From “Rechtsleben” to “Lebensrecht”: On Life's Victory over Law in the Pages of the Archive for Legal and Economic Philosophy, 1907–33 (refereed conference presentation).

Hermann Kantorowicz’s Concept of Law
University of Kiel, 17-18 November 2017: “Many Shafts of Insight”: Reading Hermann Kantorowicz’s ‘The Definition of Law’ alongside H.L.A. Hart’s ‘The Concept of Law (invited conference presentation).

Law & Society Association Annual Meeting
Mexico City, 20-23 June 2017: ‘Lücken im Recht’—On the Quest for ‘Life’ in German Legal Science, 1848-1946 (refereed conference presentation).

Modern Europe Workshop
Princeton University, 20 October 2016: From “Rechtsleben” to “Lebensrecht”—On Life’s Victory over Law in the Pages of the Archive for Legal and Economic Philosophy, 1907-1933 (refereed workshop presentation).

The Making of the Humanities V Conference
Johns Hopkins University, 5-7 October 2016: From Evolutionary Functionalism to Critical Transnationalism: Comparative Legal History, 1780s to Present (refereed conference presentation).

Transatlantic Studies Association Conference
Plymouth, 4-6 July 2016: Transatlantic Legalisms: Between German “Life” and American “Experience” in Early Twentieth Century Legal Thought (invited panelist D.C. Watt Panel).

European Society for Comparative Legal History Biennial Conference
Gdansk, 28 June-1 July 2016: A Tale of Two Naturalisms: Law’s Instrumentality in the Minds of Early 20th Century German and American Alternative Jurists (refereed conference presentation).

I.CON
Humboldt University Berlin, 17-19 June 2016: Between “Life” and “Experience”: German Free Lawyers, American Legal Realists, and the Transatlantic Turn to Jurisprudential Naturalism, 1903-1945 (refereed conference presentation).

Law and Jewish Biography—Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Jewish Legal Theorists
Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture, Leipzig, 30 May 2016 (via Skype): On the Jewish Roots of the German Free Law Movement: Kantorowicz, Ehrlich, Fuchs (referred workshop presentation).

Law & Society Association Annual Meeting
New Orleans, 2-5 June 2016: On German “Life” and American “Experience”: German Free Law, American Legal Realism, and the Transatlantic Turn to Jurisprudential Naturalism, 1903-1934 (refereed conference presentation).

Forging Bonds Across Borders: Mobilizing for Women's Rights and Social Justice in the 19th-Century Transatlantic World
German Historical Institute, Washington D.C., 28-30 April 2016: Strategically Navigating the Publicist Sphere: Ottilie Assing and America’s German-Intellectual Communities, 1865-1884 (refereed conference presentation; forthcoming).

Futures of Intellectual History Conference
Remarque Institute at New York University, 23-24 October 2015: Towards a “Legal Turn” in Modern Intellectual History (refereed conference presentation).

German Studies Association Annual Conference
Washington D.C., 1-4 October 2015: De-Naturalizing “American Jurisprudential Exceptionalism:” German Free Lawyers, American Legal Realists and the Transatlantic Turn to “Life,” 1903-1933 (refereed conference presentation).

International Conference “A Great Divide? America between Exceptionalism and Transnationalism
German Historical Institute Washington D.C. & Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, May 2015: De-Naturalizing “American Jurisprudential Exceptionalism:” German Free Lawyers, American Legal Realists and the Transatlantic Turn to “Life,” 1903-1933 (refereed conference presentation).

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