SUMMER SCHOOL: Max Planck Summer Academy for Legal History 2023 (3-14 July 2023, Frankfurt)(DEADLINE: 31 January 2023)

 

(Source: MPI for Legal History and Legal Theory) 

 

We learned that the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory is organizing a summer school on legal history.

Date

3 July - 14 July 2023

The Course

 
The Max Planck Summer Academy for Legal History provides a selected group of highly motivated early-stage research students, usually PhD candidates, with an in-depth introduction to traditional and contemporary approaches and methods in legal history.

This year’s theme: Actors, Groups and Identities in Legal History

The history of the law has been shaped by individual actors as well as groups of people. In either case, their identity was an important factor motivating their individual or collective actions and omissions. Today, legal history sees a resurgence of biographical studies of "key actors". At the same time, "legal history from below" sharpens our awareness that marginalised groups were powerful forces of legal development, too. Should legal historians make sure that their accounts integrate both perspectives, so as to present a "balanced" interpretation of the past? If so, how can this be achieved? How can the prism of "identities" help to contextualise and better understand both individual and collective interests and behaviour? The 2023 Summer Academy will explore these issues further. Applicants are encouraged to present research projects that are related to this year’s theme.

Eligibility Requirements
Early-stage research students, usually PhD candidates. Working knowledge of English is required, German is not a prerequisite.

Application
All applications must be supported by a CV, a project summary (approx. ten pages) and a letter of motivation. Please send your applications via e-mail to: summeracademy@lhlt.mpg.de. 

 

Submission deadline for applications is 31 January 2023.

Fees
The Academy is generously funded by mpilhlt. There is no participation fee. Accommodation will be provided by the organisers for free. Participants, however, will be responsible for covering their travel expenses (in cases of hardship these can be covered by a limited number of scholarships).
 

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