One year after launching our blog, we’ll be hosting a symposium, bringing together leading scholars to think critically about the field of global legal history.

The symposium will be a space for collective reflection and exchange. Join us and contribute to the conversation:

The keynote will be delivered by renowned global legal historian Thomas Duve, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory.

Then, three panels will invite moderated discussions of central issues. Each panel will start with short statements to spark collective brainstorming.

Panel 1 Writing Global Legal Histories Today

Tzung-Mou Wu (Taiwan), Luisa Stella Coutinho (Portugal), and others will explore the complexities of writing about global legal history in the current context while critically engaging with Western, postcolonial, and semicolonial narratives.

Panel 2 Bridging Past and Present

Nina Keller-Kemmerer (Germany), Rachel Gillett (Netherlands), and others will consider ways of connecting insights into the past with challenges of the present and expectations for the future.

Panel 3 Blogs as a Medium for Global Legal Histories

Anna Sophia Tiedeke (Germany) and others will address aspects of using modern media to communicate about and raise awareness of global legal histories.

With this symposium, we want to address interested scholars and researchers in global legal history, as well as global history and related disciplines.

Watch this space for more information to follow soon, or contact us at: ante.rg@univie.ac.at