New fellows in spring

The Käte Hamburger Kolleg is starting its summer semester and welcomes a new cohort of fellows. Ten scholars from the fields of history, legal history and Jewish Studies will conduct research on projects in the field of legal unity and pluralism, enriching the Kolleg with their different perspectives.

We are pleased to welcome the following Fellows to the Kolleg:

Beate Althammer (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Schuld – Recht – Gerechtigkeit: Begnadigungspraktiken im Europa der Moderne

Bruno Boute (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main)
Governing by Exception. Transnational Regimes of Grace wielded by the Papacy and Legal Plurality in the Early Modern World

Ana Belem Fernández Castro (Scuola Superiore Meridionale, Naples)
Legal Pluralism: How Normative and Institutional Diversity Supported Early Modern Long-Distance Trade

Luke Giraudet (Université catholique de Louvain)
Legal Plurality and the Princely Regulation of Crime in the Early Modern Habsburg Low Countries

Anastasia Hammerschmied (Universität Wien)
International Commissions of Inquiry in Late 19th Century

Charlotte Johann (Queen Mary University, London)
Corporate Rights and the Making of Legal Subjects in the German and British Empires, ca. 1870-1920

Iveta Leitane (Yale University)
Max M. Laserson (1887-1951) als Vermittler zwischen Rechtskulturen

Maciej Mikuła (Jagiellonian University in Kraków)
The Krakow procedural law project of 1544 against the background of legal codification in Central European cities in the 16th century

Aleksandra Oniszczuk (University of Warsaw)
Legal Patchwork in a Napoleonic State: Ruling Jewish matters in the Duchy of Warsaw

Visiting Researcher:
Lester Field (University of Mississippi)