Käte Hamburger Kolleg
“Legal Unity and Pluralism”

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Semester opening for the winter semester

We warmly invite you to this year’s Welcome Evening and Fellow Day! This year, we will be officially opening our semester on Wednesday, 7 October 2026, at 17.00 with a keynote lecture, our Fellow Day will take place on 15 October 2026 from 9.30 to17.00.

| Publications
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Second edition of the source reader and working paper on insolvency law published

Two new volumes have been published in the EViR Working Papers open-access series. EViR Working Paper 20 by Ulrich Falk focuses on German bankruptcy law. Working Paper 22 is the second issue of the Münster Source Reader on Unity and Diversity in Law, edited by Peter Oestmann, Ulrike Ludwig, Sophia Mösch and Nora Markard.

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Workshop programme in the winter semester

The Käte Hamburger Kolleg's event programme for the 2026/2027 winter semester has been published. The programme includes events dealing with both historical and contemporary dimensions of law.

| Call for Applications
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Visiting Researchers Programme

The Käte Hamburger Kolleg “Legal Unity and Pluralism” (EViR) at the University of Münster welcomes self-funded visiting researchers. Residencies lasting between 1 and 6 months are possible.