Centennial events

Kick-off event

Lecture by Reinhard Zimmermann:
"Der Nachfolger: Leben, Werk und Wirken von Ernst Heymann (1870–1946)" (in German)
In his lecture, Reinhard Zimmermann will speak about the second director of our predecessor Institute, the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht. Heymann assumed the leadership of the Institute in 1937 after founding director Ernst Rabel was deprived of the position on account of the Nuremberg Race Laws.
Exhibition opening

Annual meeting of the Friends of the Institute with a symposium on the history of the Institute

Lectures (in German):

Jasper Kunstreich: Wiedergutmachung? Ernst Rabel und das Institut nach 1945
Ralf Michaels: „Fern von den Stürmen des Tages“? Kollisionsrecht im Nationalsozialismus im Spiegel der Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht,
Mathias Reimann: „Es ist, wie ins Gebirge kommen.“ Ein Überblick über 100 Jahre Rechtsvergleichung am Hamburger Max-Planck-Institut

English-language academic symposium: "Thinking Ahead in Private Law"

Lectures:

Nils Jansen: Precedents and Time in European Laws
Annelise Riles: Reimagining Hosting
Fernanda Nicola: Contesting Family Law Exceptionalism: The Sexual, Economic, and Natural Family
Rüdiger Veil: Corporate Law in Transformation. The Art of Integration under the Rise of European Business Law

Ceremony and Senate reception at Hamburg City Hall (in German)

Open house