New fellows winter semester
From the ‘Armenian Statute’ of 1519, through war crimes in the long 18th century, to law as a resource in conspiracy thinking: at the project presentation, our fellows provided insights into their current research projects. The ten fellows are exploring questions relating to legal unity and pluralism, drawing on perspectives from history, legal history, sociology and law. This interdisciplinary and international exchange sparked lively discussions and provided valuable new insights.
Last week, our research professor Sarah Albiez-Wieck officially opened the semester with her inaugural lecture, ‘Legal categorisations and petitions in the Spanish Empire’. In it, she presented her research project at the Kolleg and discussed it with the participants.
We are looking forward to a varied semester featuring numerous talks, workshops and public events – and, of course, to welcoming our new fellows and visiting researchers to the Kolleg:
Aparna Balachandran (University of Delhi)
Between Legal Pluralism and Colonial Authority: Urban Governance, State Power,
and the Early Colonial City in South India
10/2025–03/2026
Péter Cserne (University of Aberdeen)
Cultural Diversity in/of Contract Law
10/2026–07/2027
Marian Füssel (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)
War Crimes. On the Construction and Containment of Illegitimate Military Violence in the Long 18th Century
10/2026–03/2027
Anastasia Hammerschmied (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften)
Creating International Law through Practice? The Role of International Commissions
10/2026–03/2027
Jürgen Heyde (Leibniz-Institut für Geschichte und Kultur des östlichen Europa)
The ‘Armenian Statute’ in the Kingdom of Poland (1519). Legal Compatibility and Social Difference in a Legal Codex
10/2026–09/2027
Renzo Honores (Instituto Internacional de Derecho y Sociedad, Lima)
The Laws of the Red Mountain: Legal Orders, Social Interactions, and Customary Laws in the Villa Imperial de Potosí, 1550-1670
10/2026–03/2027
Andrea Kretschmann (Leuphana Universität Lüneburg)
Law as a Resource in Conspiratorial Thinking
10/2026–09/2027
Maciej Krogel (University of Amsterdam)
Towards the Societal Theory of Constitutional Pluralism: Common Values and the EU-Belarus Border Crisis
09/2026–08/2027
Here you will find all the Fellows and their projects
Visiting Researcher:
Claudia Garnier (Universität Vechta)
Exclusion and Deviance in the Context of Legal Diversity in the High Middle Ages
10/2026–03/2027