Legal personhood. Historical and contemporary perspectives

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Konzeptforum

Dienstag, 2. Juni 2026

Ort:

Käte Hamburger Kolleg (Iduna-Hochhaus)
Raum 7011 (7. OG)
Servatiiplatz 9
48143 Münster

Organisation:

Dr. Fernando Liendo-Tagle
Käte Hamburger Kolleg / PUCP (Lima)
fernando.liendot@pucp.edu.pe

Anmeldung

bis zum 18. Mai 2026

via Indico

Konzept

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. 

Programm

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 Mittagspause

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 Kaffeepause

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 Kaffeepause

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 Abendessen