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12 February 2026

LECTURE SERIES: Focus (Jewish) law, (Jewish) history & theory (Wien: Universität Wien, JAN-DEC 2026)

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University of Vienna

Faculty of Law

Department for Legal & Constitutional History

 

Team Wendehorst

 

Focus (Jewish) law, (Jewish) history & theory

 

10 February 2026

 

 

Programme 2026

-        […] not yet decided

 

13/14 February 2026, Vienna, Juridicum

Empire, Law & Debts. Lessons from the Holy Roman Empire VIII

Workshop

contact: Eric Lanzrath, eric.lanzrath@univie.ac.at; Prof. Dr. Rainer Klump, klump@hof.uni-frankfurt.de

For more see https://rechtsgeschichte.univie.ac.at/news-events/?no_cache=1

 

 

21/22 February 2026, Baden bei Wien/Vienna

Engagement at the Margins with Other Legal Systems: Jewish Law Locally and Globally,

CFP/Workshop

Together with the Jewish Law Association (JLA), European Chapter

Contact: Dr George Wilkes george.wilkes@kcl.ac.uk, Dr Stephan Wendehorst, stephan.wendehorst@univie.ac.at

For more see https://rechtsgeschichte.univie.ac.at/news-events/detailansicht/news/call-for-papers-engagement-at-the-margins-with-other-legal-systems-jewish-law-locally-and-globall/?no_cache=1&cHash=462ae2633857659437427640c174fc46

 

 

22-28 February 2026, Baden bei Wien, Reichenau & Payerbach an der Rax

Winterschool „Palaeography skills in Jewish, general and legal history 

Contact: Mohamed Attia, mohamed.attia@univie.ac.at

For more see https://jhrr.univie.ac.at/en/teaching/winter-school-palaeography-skills-in-jewish-general-and-legal-history/

 

 

22-27 February 2026, Baden bei Wien, Reichenau & Payerbach an der Rax

10th Jewish Law Moot Court, Leg 1 (together with the law faculties of the universities of Belgrade, Rijeka, Tel Aviv and Vilnius, the Masaryk University Brno, the Hebrew University Jerusalem and Cardozo Law School New York)

Contact: david.fuchs@univie.ac.at

For more see https://jhrr.univie.ac.at/en/teaching/historical-jewish-law-moot-court/

 

 

26 February 2026, University of Vienna Campus, Spitalgasse 2-4, Courtyard 1, Seminar Rooms 1 & 2

Book Presentation

Daniela F. Eisenstein and Carsten L. Wilke, eds., Mayer Bretzfeld (1747–1823) – der letzte bayerische Landesrabbiner. Briefe aus dem privaten Nachlass mit geschichtlichen Studien, Baden-Baden: Ergon-Verlag, 2025.

In cooperation with the library of the department of Judaic Studies of the University of Vienna

Contact: Paula Somogyi, MA, paula.somogyi@univie.ac.at

 

 

6 – 12 April 2026, Jerusalem, Austrian Hospice, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, Jerusalem  

Legal History & Palaeography Clinic

Contact: Vincent Adali vincent.adali@univie.ac.at

For more see https://jhrr.univie.ac.at/en/teaching/paleography-legal-history-clinics/

 

 

14 April 2026, Juridicum Vienna

Lecture and Round-Table Discussion

Human Rights to Health and Dignity in Gaza, Physicians for Human Rights and Clean

Shelter

In Cooperation with the New Israel Fund

Contact: Dr Eleonore Lappin-Eppel, eleonore.lappin@chello.at, Dr. Stephan Wendehorst, stephan.wendehorst@univie.ac.at

For more see https://rechtsgeschichte.univie.ac.at/news-events/?no_cache=1

 

 

20 Mai 2026, Mühlhausen 

Die Reichsstadt Mühlhausen am Reichshofrat: Regesten, Bde 1-2, hg. von. Stephan Wendehorst, bearb. von Ulrich Hausmann (with numerous Jewish cases before the Imperial Aulc Council)

Contact: Birte Frerichs, birte.frerichs@lesser-stiftung.de, Ulrich Hausmann, MA, ulrich.hausmann@univie.ac.at

For more see https://rechtsgeschichte.univie.ac.at/news-events/?no_cache=1

 

 

11 June 2026, Fulda Kanzlerpalais-Volkshochschule

Paula Somogyi, Fuldaer jüdische Familiennamen der frühen Neuzeit (Veröffentlichung des Fuldaer Geschichtsvereins)    

Book Presentation

Contact: Paula Somogyi, MA, paula.somogyi@univie.ac.at, Dr. Thomas Heiler, Fuldaer Geschichtsverein, Thomas.Heiler@fulda.de

For more see https://rechtsgeschichte.univie.ac.at/news-events/?no_cache=1

 

 

23-31 July 2026, Kopenhagen, Hamburg-Altona

17th summer academy „History of the Jews in the Holy Roman Empire and its successor states

Contact: Georg Donabauer, B.A., georg.donabauer@univie.ac.at

For more see https://jhrr.univie.ac.at/en/teaching/univiesummerschool/

 

 

16.- 24. August 2026, Fulda

10th Jewish Law Moot Court, 2nd Coaching-Week (together with the law faculties of the universities of Vilnius, the Masaryk University Brno, the Hebrew University Jerusalem, Tel Aviv University, Cardozo Law School New York and the University of Rijeka)

Contact: david.fuchs@univie.ac.at

For more see https://jhrr.univie.ac.at/en/teaching/historical-jewish-law-moot-court/

 

 

[17.-26. August 2026, Fulda] 

Legal History & Palaeography Clinic

For more see https://jhrr.univie.ac.at/en/teaching/paleography-legal-history-clinics/

 

 

25 August 2026, Fulda, City Palace, State Hall 

10th Jewish Law Moot Court, Finals (together with the law faculties of the universities of Vilnius, the Masaryk University Brno, the Hebrew University Jerusalem, Tel Aviv University, Haifa University and Cardozo Law School New York)

Contact: david.fuchs@univie.ac.at

For more see https://jhrr.univie.ac.at/en/teaching/historical-jewish-law-moot-court/

 

 

[31 August – 5 September 2026 Mantua]

Legal History & Palaeography Clinic

For more see https://jhrr.univie.ac.at/en/teaching/paleography-legal-history-clinics/

 

 

17-22 September 2026, Jerusalem, Austrian Hospice, Hebrew University, Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, Jerusalem  

Legal History & Paleography Clinic

Contact: Vincent Adali vincent.adali@univie.ac.at

For more see https://jhrr.univie.ac.at/en/teaching/paleography-legal-history-clinics/

 

 

[November/Dezember 2026, 18.30 Uhr, University of Vienna, Juridicum

8th Salo-Wittmayer-Baron Lecture

 

In connection with the book presentations of the previous Salo-Wittmayer-Baron lectures

Contact: Dr Stephan Wendehorst, stephan.wendehorst@univie.ac.at

For more see https://jhrr.univie.ac.at/en/salo-wittmayer-baron-society/

 

 

17-22 December 2026, Jerusalem, Austrian Hospice, Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, Jerusalem  

Legal History & Palaeography Clinic

For more see https://jhrr.univie.ac.at/en/teaching/paleography-legal-history-clinics/

 

More information : Vincent dot adali at univie dot ac.

vincent.adali@univie.ac.at

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