Tuesday, 2 June 2026
Venue:
Käte Hamburger Kolleg (Iduna Building)
Room 7011 (7th floor)
Servatiiplatz 9
48143 Münster
Organisation:
Dr. Fernando Liendo-Tagle
Käte Hamburger Kolleg / PUCP (Lima)
fernando.liendot@pucp.edu.pe
The Forum will address legal personhood – and related concepts such as legal capacity, status, and legal subjectivity – from historical and contemporary perspectives. Across different times and regions, experts from various disciplines will examine legal personhood, its theoretical and practical foundations, the interests underlying its configuration, and how the law has approached the issues of unity and pluralism regarding legal personhood.
9.50-10.00 Fernando Liendo Tagle (Lima/Münster) | Introduction and opening remarks
10.00-11.00 Doris Forster (Geneva) | Constructing Legal Personhood: Lessons from Roman Law
11.00-12.00 Peter Oestman (Münster) | Determining Legal Capacity in Medieval German Law
12.00-13.00 Lunch
13.00-14.00 Mauricio Novoa (Lima) | Indigenous Peoples and Legal Personhood in Vice-Regal Spanish America
14.00-15.00 Evgenia Kermeli (Ankara/Münster) | From the Islamic Concept of Legal Capacity to the Ottoman Law of Legal Personhood: Shari’a in Action
15.00-15.15 Coffee break
15.15-16.15 Felix Aiwanger (Hamburg) |Deconstructing Legal Personhood(s) in Light of Current Debates
16.15-17.15 Vera Wriedt (Münster)| The Right to Recognition of Legal Status in Regional Human Rights Law
17.15-17.30 Coffee break
17.30-18.30 Alessandro Drigo (Gießen)| The Legal Personhood of Future Individuals: Chimera or Black Swans?
18.30-19.00 Closing Discussion
19.00 Dinner