[Our friends at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History send word of an upcoming conference on digital legal history. As the full announcement explains,
attendance is free, but the organizers ask that attendees register by
sending an informal mail to dlh@rg.mpg.de before February 14, 2020. DRE.]
Digital Methods and Resources in Legal History (DLH2020). An international Conference at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History (MPIeR), Frankfurt/M. 19/20 March 2020
Preliminary Programme
Thursday, 19.03.2020
09:00-09:30 Registration
09:30-10:30 Duve, Thomas and Amedick, Sigrid and Wagner, Andreas (MPIeR): Opening
10:30-11:30 Funk, Kellen (New York): Plenary Talk, The Making of Modern Law. Digital Computation and the Search for Anglo-American Legal Modernity
11:30-11:45 – Coffee Break –
11:45-12:45 Trump, Dominik (Köln): Digital Methods in Early Medieval Legal History. The New Edition of the Frankish Capitularies
Taylor, Alice (London): Introducing the 'dynamic edition' as a model and method for medieval legal history. Regiam Maiestatem and 'the community of the realm in Scotland' project
12:45-13:45 – Lunch Break –
13:45-14:45 Short Presentations of DH projects at MPIeR
(C. Birr, J.-H. Meyer, A. Küsters, M. Bragagnolo)
14:45-15:00 – Coffee Break –
15:00-16:00 Weck, Marlene (Freiburg): Digital Methods for a Narrative Analysis of Historical Narratives in the Archives of the ICTY
Petz, Cindarella (München): A mixed methods approach to political judiciary
16:00-16:15 – Coffee Break –
16:15-16:45 Robertson, Stephen (Washington, D.C.): Disorder in the Courts. Using Data, Visualizations, and Hypertext to Create a Legal History of the 1935 Harlem 'Riot'
16:45-17:00 Poster Slam
17:00-18:30 Poster Session