How Law Travels

Workshop

Friday, 30 October 2026

9.00–17.15

Venue:

Käte Hamburger Kolleg (Iduna Building)
Room 7011 (7th floor)
Servatiiplatz 9
48143 Münster

Organisation:

Dr. Dominik Krell

 

Legal transfer is usually understood as a collective undertaking, while individuals have rarely been placed at the centre of analysis. The workshop proposes a shift in perspective. Bringing together scholars working on diverse legal traditions, it asks how individuals, such as judges, traders or missionaries, “carry” law across jurisdictions, and thereby shape processes of legal change.

Registration

by 15 October 2026

via Indico

Programme

09.00-09.30    Registration and coffee

09.30-09.45    Welcome and opening remarks

09.45-10.45    Peter Oestmann | Ius Commune and Regional Customs: The Case of the Learned Saxon Lawyer Johann von Buch (14th Century)

10.45-11.45    Francisco Apellániz | Overseas Notaries as Legal Agents in the Late Medieval Mediterranean

11.45-12.00    Coffee break

12.00-13.00    Laetitia Guerlain | From Croatia to Montenegro: Baltazar Bogišić, a Legal Scholar at the Crossroads of Knowledge in 19th-Century Europe

13.00-14.00    Lunch

14.00-15.00    Shamil Shikhaliev | How Individuals Carry Law: Scholars, Mobility, and the Transformation of Islamic Law in Daghestan

15.00-16.00    Dominik Krell | Travelling Judges, Travelling Law? Graduates of Saudi Universities at Islamic Courts in the Gambia

16.00-16.15    Coffee break

16.15-17.15    Fernanda Pirie | Judges, Colonial Officials, and Merchants: Comparing Processes of Legal Borrowing

17.15-17.30    Closing remarks