How to Ensure Predictability in Legal Pluralism. Merchants and their Interaction in Late Medieval Europe is the latest volume in the Käte Hamburger Kolleg series. The ten contributions in this volume discuss various means used by medieval merchants to deal with legal pluralism in Northern Europe.
A new volume entitled The Power to Pardon in Medieval and Early Modern Christian Europe has been published in the Käte Hamburger Kolleg series. This collective volume comprises eleven articles devoted to the central importance of the act of pardon in medieval and early modern Europe.
On 13 October 2025, the Käte Hamburger Kolleg marked the start of its second funding phase. At an event held at the University of Münster's Geomuseum, fellows and alumni, colleagues from the faculties, partners and friends, along with an interested audience, came together to celebrate what has been achieved and what lies ahead.
A collection of conference proceedings entitled Ancient Greek Law: Vectors of Unity and Local Idiosyncrasy has now been published, documenting the results of a symposium held in February 2023 at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg ‘Legal Unity and Pluralism’.
