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With over 400 researchers, 20 Directors, and 9 Institutes, Max Planck Law is one of the world's largest networks for legal research.
How do legal narratives shape our understanding of climate and environmental justice? The Initiative ‘Law, Climate Change, and the Environment’ is hosting a webinar on 3 Dec exploring how narratology offers new insights into environmental law: law.mpg.de/event/enviro... #InitiativeEvent
Environmental Law and Narratology - Max Planck Law
This webinar brings together leading experts on the emerging field of narratological approaches to environmental law, in both the domestic and the international spheres. The event will show how narrat...
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November 14, 2025 at 9:09 AM
How do legal narratives shape our understanding of climate and environmental justice? The Initiative ‘Law, Climate Change, and the Environment’ is hosting a webinar on 3 Dec exploring how narratology offers new insights into environmental law: law.mpg.de/event/enviro... #InitiativeEvent
New episode of the Lawcast: How can a democracy defend its core values without undermining them? Christopher Murphy talks with Marc Bovermann and Johanna Fink about Germany’s concept of ‘militant democracy’. Listen here: law.mpg.de/lawcast/?id=...
#LawcastEpisode #Democracy
#LawcastEpisode #Democracy
Lawcast - Max Planck Law
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November 13, 2025 at 8:00 AM
New episode of the Lawcast: How can a democracy defend its core values without undermining them? Christopher Murphy talks with Marc Bovermann and Johanna Fink about Germany’s concept of ‘militant democracy’. Listen here: law.mpg.de/lawcast/?id=...
#LawcastEpisode #Democracy
#LawcastEpisode #Democracy
The Initiative ‘Security and Law’ hosts the event ‘Quantifying State Surveillance in a Constitutional Perspective’ on 1 December, presenting the new ‘surveillance barometer’—a tool to assess the scope of state surveillance in Germany. More information: law.mpg.de/event/quanti... #InitiativeEvent
Quantifying State Surveillance in a Constitutional Perspective - Max Planck Law
How much state surveillance is there in Germany? The talk will present the 'surveillance barometer' project and address contemporary challenges for the effective protection of fundamental rights.
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November 12, 2025 at 7:55 AM
The Initiative ‘Security and Law’ hosts the event ‘Quantifying State Surveillance in a Constitutional Perspective’ on 1 December, presenting the new ‘surveillance barometer’—a tool to assess the scope of state surveillance in Germany. More information: law.mpg.de/event/quanti... #InitiativeEvent
The 9th Annual Max Planck Law PhD Workshop took place in Berlin, bringing together doctoral researchers from across the network for collegial discussion, constructive feedback, and a supportive academic exchange. A space to think, test ideas, and grow as scholars: law.mpg.de/news/phd-wor... #News
PhD Workshop Group Holds Ninth Annual Event - Max Planck Law
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November 7, 2025 at 10:00 AM
The 9th Annual Max Planck Law PhD Workshop took place in Berlin, bringing together doctoral researchers from across the network for collegial discussion, constructive feedback, and a supportive academic exchange. A space to think, test ideas, and grow as scholars: law.mpg.de/news/phd-wor... #News
@towfigh.bsky.social speaks about his keynote lecture entitled 'Equality in the Face of Diversity: Challenges for the Rule of Law' at the Max Planck Law Annual Conference 2025. Watch the video here: youtu.be/LtsLaU9K5ZY?... #Video #maxplancklawconference
Equality in the Face of Diversity: Challenges for the Rule of Law
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November 5, 2025 at 7:19 AM
@towfigh.bsky.social speaks about his keynote lecture entitled 'Equality in the Face of Diversity: Challenges for the Rule of Law' at the Max Planck Law Annual Conference 2025. Watch the video here: youtu.be/LtsLaU9K5ZY?... #Video #maxplancklawconference
Call for Papers: The Max Planck Fellow Group on ‘Fairness and International Law’ invites early-career researchers to a workshop in Kiel (10–12 May 2026) on fairness across space and time in international law. Abstracts due 12 December. More information: law.mpg.de/event/fairne... #FellowGroupEvent
Fairness and International Law: Across Space and Time - Max Planck Law
An early career workshop that probes fairness as a regulative idea for interpreting and developing public.
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November 3, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Call for Papers: The Max Planck Fellow Group on ‘Fairness and International Law’ invites early-career researchers to a workshop in Kiel (10–12 May 2026) on fairness across space and time in international law. Abstracts due 12 December. More information: law.mpg.de/event/fairne... #FellowGroupEvent
The Max Planck Law Annual Conference at Harnack Haus, Berlin, brought together researchers from nine Institutes to explore how law both shapes and is shaped by diversity. Inspiring lectures and lively discussions made for two enriching days. Read more: law.mpg.de/news/max-pla... #News
Max Planck Law Annual Conference 2025 - Max Planck Law
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October 29, 2025 at 10:26 AM
The Max Planck Law Annual Conference at Harnack Haus, Berlin, brought together researchers from nine Institutes to explore how law both shapes and is shaped by diversity. Inspiring lectures and lively discussions made for two enriching days. Read more: law.mpg.de/news/max-pla... #News
The Department of Social Law at the @mpisoc.bsky.social, Munich, invites applications for a PhD Position in Law within ‘The Eco-Social State’. Explore the role of law in ecological transformation. More information and to apply by 1 December: www.mpisoc.mpg.de/karriere/ste... #AcademicOpportunities
October 27, 2025 at 1:23 PM
The Department of Social Law at the @mpisoc.bsky.social, Munich, invites applications for a PhD Position in Law within ‘The Eco-Social State’. Explore the role of law in ecological transformation. More information and to apply by 1 December: www.mpisoc.mpg.de/karriere/ste... #AcademicOpportunities
Are you an early career researcher in law looking for new academic opportunities? Join the Max Planck Law Open House—an online info session and Q&A—on 2 December, 15:30 CET to learn about PhD and postdoc possibilities across our network: law.mpg.de/event/open-h... #OpenHouseEvent
Open House | Winter 2025 - Max Planck Law
An online information session plus Q&A.
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October 24, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Are you an early career researcher in law looking for new academic opportunities? Join the Max Planck Law Open House—an online info session and Q&A—on 2 December, 15:30 CET to learn about PhD and postdoc possibilities across our network: law.mpg.de/event/open-h... #OpenHouseEvent
What can the spaces of constitutional history tell us about today’s constitutional challenges?
The MPI Network Event ‘Constitutional Places’ at MPI-Frankfurt explored how architecture and law intersect, shaping constitutional values and memory.
Read more: law.mpg.de/news/constitutional-places/ #News
The MPI Network Event ‘Constitutional Places’ at MPI-Frankfurt explored how architecture and law intersect, shaping constitutional values and memory.
Read more: law.mpg.de/news/constitutional-places/ #News
Constitutional Places - Max Planck Law
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October 22, 2025 at 9:00 AM
What can the spaces of constitutional history tell us about today’s constitutional challenges?
The MPI Network Event ‘Constitutional Places’ at MPI-Frankfurt explored how architecture and law intersect, shaping constitutional values and memory.
Read more: law.mpg.de/news/constitutional-places/ #News
The MPI Network Event ‘Constitutional Places’ at MPI-Frankfurt explored how architecture and law intersect, shaping constitutional values and memory.
Read more: law.mpg.de/news/constitutional-places/ #News
October 21, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Meet our Initiatives! #maxplancklawconference
October 21, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Meet our Initiatives! #maxplancklawconference
The last panel for today: ‘Making a difference’ with @rossbacs.bsky.social, @erik.d-64.social, and Cristina Valega Chipoco. #maxplancklawconference
October 20, 2025 at 5:22 PM
The last panel for today: ‘Making a difference’ with @rossbacs.bsky.social, @erik.d-64.social, and Cristina Valega Chipoco. #maxplancklawconference
Welcome to this year’s Annual Conference! The first keynote is delivered by our new Chair - Anne Röthel.
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October 20, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Welcome to this year’s Annual Conference! The first keynote is delivered by our new Chair - Anne Röthel.
#maxplancklawconference
#maxplancklawconference
The ‘Minerva LAW Network’ hosts an in-person event in Strasbourg for women researchers across Max Planck Law. The programme explores gender and the law, features insights on the Istanbul Convention, and fosters connections among women in law: law.mpg.de/event/career...
#WomenInLaw #InitiativeEvent
#WomenInLaw #InitiativeEvent
Career Talk and Discussions on Gender and the Law - Max Planck Law
Connect with leading women in the legal field, learn about being a woman in the legal profession, and discuss gender and the law with experts from the Council of Europe and academics from the Universi...
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October 16, 2025 at 8:13 AM
The ‘Minerva LAW Network’ hosts an in-person event in Strasbourg for women researchers across Max Planck Law. The programme explores gender and the law, features insights on the Istanbul Convention, and fosters connections among women in law: law.mpg.de/event/career...
#WomenInLaw #InitiativeEvent
#WomenInLaw #InitiativeEvent
The Max Planck Law Initiative ‘European Law Group’ held the conference ‘Fairness as a Principle of European Law’ in Munich, exploring how fairness functions across Europe’s legal systems: law.mpg.de/news/fairnes...
@gmonti.bsky.social #News #EuropeanLaw
@gmonti.bsky.social #News #EuropeanLaw
October 15, 2025 at 12:43 PM
The Max Planck Law Initiative ‘European Law Group’ held the conference ‘Fairness as a Principle of European Law’ in Munich, exploring how fairness functions across Europe’s legal systems: law.mpg.de/news/fairnes...
@gmonti.bsky.social #News #EuropeanLaw
@gmonti.bsky.social #News #EuropeanLaw
The Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law (Freiburg) is hiring a PhD Candidate (f/m/div) for the project ‘Costs of Cybercrime’. Apply by 2 November: recruitingapp-5535.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/50...
#PhD #Criminology #Vacancy
#PhD #Criminology #Vacancy
October 14, 2025 at 1:12 PM
The Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law (Freiburg) is hiring a PhD Candidate (f/m/div) for the project ‘Costs of Cybercrime’. Apply by 2 November: recruitingapp-5535.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/50...
#PhD #Criminology #Vacancy
#PhD #Criminology #Vacancy
Law gains depth through dialogue with other disciplines. In the latest #Perspectives article, Alexandra Mercescu explores the promise and challenges of interdisciplinarity in law—its balance, reciprocity, and contextual awareness. Read more: law.mpg.de/perspectives...
Turning the Page, Endlessly: Interdisciplinarity in Law - Max Planck Law
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October 9, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Law gains depth through dialogue with other disciplines. In the latest #Perspectives article, Alexandra Mercescu explores the promise and challenges of interdisciplinarity in law—its balance, reciprocity, and contextual awareness. Read more: law.mpg.de/perspectives...
Reminder: On 10 October, the Initiative ‘Legal Research Methods’ hosts an online session with Antonia Layard on legal geography — exploring how law and space shape each other through doctrinal, ethnographic, and visual methods. law.mpg.de/event/legal-... #InitiativeEvent
Legal Geography - Max Planck Law
This session will introduce legal geography as an approach that examines how law produces space and spatiality and, conversely, how law is produced by space and spatiality.
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October 7, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Reminder: On 10 October, the Initiative ‘Legal Research Methods’ hosts an online session with Antonia Layard on legal geography — exploring how law and space shape each other through doctrinal, ethnographic, and visual methods. law.mpg.de/event/legal-... #InitiativeEvent
Call for Applications: @maxplanck.de invites proposals for Max Planck Research Group Leaders (all disciplines). Successful candidates will lead an independent group for six years, with possible extension. Deadline: 14 October: www.mpg.de/career/max-p... #AcademicOpportunities
October 6, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Call for Applications: @maxplanck.de invites proposals for Max Planck Research Group Leaders (all disciplines). Successful candidates will lead an independent group for six years, with possible extension. Deadline: 14 October: www.mpg.de/career/max-p... #AcademicOpportunities
How do digital technologies reshape rights? Recent Max Planck Law work includes ‘humanet3’ on AI and rights; Anna Sophia Tiedeke’s study of Meta, its Oversight Board and IHRIs; and Elisa Orrù’s analysis of privacy and personal data in the AI era: law.mpg.de/impact/right... @erik.d-64.social #Impacts
October 1, 2025 at 9:49 AM
How do digital technologies reshape rights? Recent Max Planck Law work includes ‘humanet3’ on AI and rights; Anna Sophia Tiedeke’s study of Meta, its Oversight Board and IHRIs; and Elisa Orrù’s analysis of privacy and personal data in the AI era: law.mpg.de/impact/right... @erik.d-64.social #Impacts
Max Planck Law Welcomes New Chair: Anne Röthel
As of today (1 October 2025), Professor Dr Anne Röthel, Managing Director at MPI-Hamburg, assumes the Chair of Max Planck Law.
Read more: https://law.mpg.de/news/max-planck-law-welcomes-new-chair-anne-rothel/
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As of today (1 October 2025), Professor Dr Anne Röthel, Managing Director at MPI-Hamburg, assumes the Chair of Max Planck Law.
Read more: https://law.mpg.de/news/max-planck-law-welcomes-new-chair-anne-rothel/
#News
Max Planck Law Welcomes New Chair: Anne Röthel - Max Planck Law
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October 1, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Max Planck Law Welcomes New Chair: Anne Röthel
As of today (1 October 2025), Professor Dr Anne Röthel, Managing Director at MPI-Hamburg, assumes the Chair of Max Planck Law.
Read more: https://law.mpg.de/news/max-planck-law-welcomes-new-chair-anne-rothel/
#News
As of today (1 October 2025), Professor Dr Anne Röthel, Managing Director at MPI-Hamburg, assumes the Chair of Max Planck Law.
Read more: https://law.mpg.de/news/max-planck-law-welcomes-new-chair-anne-rothel/
#News
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology invites applications for 2026 fellowships on ‘Complexity as a Topic of Law’. For more information in German and to apply by 15 November: web.eth.mpg.de/data_export/... #AcademicOpportunities
September 30, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology invites applications for 2026 fellowships on ‘Complexity as a Topic of Law’. For more information in German and to apply by 15 November: web.eth.mpg.de/data_export/... #AcademicOpportunities
On 10 Oct, the Initiative ‘Legal Research Methods’ hosts Antonia Layard for an online session introducing legal geography, exploring how law produces space and how space produces law, with methods from doctrinal analysis to ethnography and visual studies: law.mpg.de/event/legal-... #InitiativeEvent
Legal Geography - Max Planck Law
This session will introduce legal geography as an approach that examines how law produces space and spatiality and, conversely, how law is produced by space and spatiality.
law.mpg.de
September 29, 2025 at 1:07 PM
On 10 Oct, the Initiative ‘Legal Research Methods’ hosts Antonia Layard for an online session introducing legal geography, exploring how law produces space and how space produces law, with methods from doctrinal analysis to ethnography and visual studies: law.mpg.de/event/legal-... #InitiativeEvent
On 30 September, the Initiative ‘Security and Law’ hosts Jasmine Sommerdal for a talk on ‘National Security Expulsions Beyond Non-Refoulement’. The lecture compares approaches of global and regional human rights bodies to expulsions on security grounds: law.mpg.de/event/nation... #InitiativeEvent
National Security Expulsions beyond Non-refoulement - Max Planck Law
Dr Jasmine Sommerdal comparatively examines how the United Nations Human Rights Committee (HRC) and the main regional human rights bodies have addressed expulsions on national security grounds, beyond...
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September 26, 2025 at 12:28 PM
On 30 September, the Initiative ‘Security and Law’ hosts Jasmine Sommerdal for a talk on ‘National Security Expulsions Beyond Non-Refoulement’. The lecture compares approaches of global and regional human rights bodies to expulsions on security grounds: law.mpg.de/event/nation... #InitiativeEvent