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Guest lecture as part of the series “Hamburg Forum on Comparative Animal Law” on May 2, 2024. more

Guest lecture as part of the series “Hamburg Forum on Comparative Animal Law” on May 2, 2024. more

Guest lecture as part of the series “Afternoon Talks on Islamic Law” on 25 April 2024. more

Anne Röthel was appointed as Director of the Institute as of 1 January 2024. On the occasion of her induction on 18 April 2024, she presented her research agenda in her inaugural lecture. more

Guest lecture as part of the series “Afternoon Talks on Islamic Law” on 22 February 2024. more

Guest lecture as part of our series “Afternoon Talks on Islamic Law” on 30 November 2023. more

Around 40 international legal scholars and practitioners came together at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law from 4-8 July 2023 for the Decolonial Comparative Law Summer School to discuss the various contexts of as well as the methodological approaches to decolonial comparative law. more

Shéhérazade Elyazidi analyzes at Latest Thinking the interplay between the Kurdish-Iraqi national identity and the 2008 reform of Iraq’s Personal Status Law. more

Meet some of the panelists of the international conference “Succession in Islamic Law”, which will take place at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law on 30 and 31 March 2023. more

Virtual roundtable as part of the series Russia's aggression against Ukraine: Conversations on law and policy implications for Japan and Germany on 11 January 2023. more

Guest lecture as part of our series “Afternoon Talks on Islamic Law” on 8 December 2022. more

Virtual roundtable as part of the series Russia's aggression against Ukraine: Conversations on law and policy implications for Japan and Germany on 24 October 2022. more

Guest lecture as part of the series “Afternoon Talks on Islamic Law” on 6 October 2022. more

Guest lecture as part of the series “Afternoon Talks on Islamic Law” on 25 August 2022. more

Guest lecture as part of the series “Afternoon Talks on Islamic Law” on 9 June 2022. more

Dörthe Engelcke explains at Latest Thinking why reforming the family laws of Christian communities in Middle Eastern countries is difficult. more

Guest lecture as part of the series “Afternoon Talks on Islamic Law” on 28 April 2022. more

Guest lecture as part of the series “Hamburg Lecture Series on Chinese Law” on 18 February 2022. more

Guest lecture on 27 January 2022 as part of the series „Afternoon Talks on Islamic Law“. more

Guest lecture at the Hamburg Lecture Series on Chinese Law, 16 December 2021. more

In the Max Planck Lawcast, Jan Peter Schmidt, Head of the Centre of Expertise for the Application of Foreign Law, discusses the long-standing tradition that the Institute has of providing expert opinions on foreign law for German courts. more

In the Max Planck Lawcast, Nadjma Yassari, head of the Research Group 'Changes in God’s Law', explains how societal beliefs and assumptions on the role of mothers and fathers have led legislatures in Germany and Iran to accept or reject egg donation to overcome infertility. more

Who can save the elderly from the clutches of greedy relatives? In this podcast, Ben Köhler, senior research fellow at the Institute, talks about good and bad wills, tropes of nineteenth-century masculinity, and court decisions that read like family sagas. (in German) more

In the Max Planck Lawcast, Valentin Pinel le Dret, Research Associate at the Institute, talks about the concept of unjust enrichment and the law of obligations. In particular, he addresses the historical dimension of the topic from the perspective of the legal systems of France and England. more

Europe and the U.S. continue to set the standards against which the rest of the world is measured. This is true also when it comes to how the law is conceived. Western structures are in some regards so thoroughly internalized that it can be hard to recognize them – which makes comparative law that much more valuable. Just how the discipline of comparative law can counter colonial ideas and allow for more legal diversity is explained in the podcast by Institute Director Ralf Michaels. (in German) more