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Viele Grüße aus Kyoto! Vom 26.-27.03.2026 fand hier ein gemeinsames Symposium unseres Instituts und der Universität Kyoto zum Thema "Biographie und Demographie - Recht des demographischen Strukturwandels in vergleichender Analyse" statt.

Ziel des Symposiums war eine vergleichende Untersuchung der Auswirkungen demographischer Strukturveränderungen durch Alterung und Geburtenrückgang auf das Recht und dessen Rolle bei ihrer Bewältigung.

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MPI für Privatrecht 5d ago

📚 Von 1937 bis 1946 leitete Ernst Heymann als Nachfolger Ernst Rabels das Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht, aus dem unser Institut hervorgegangen ist. Zu dessen 100-jährigem Gründungsjubiläum zeichnet Direktor emeritus Reinhard Zimmermann Leben, Werk und Wirken Heymanns nach. 👉 https://www.mpipriv.de/2110340/20260323-der-nachfolger

📆 Save the Date: Am 18.05.2026 wird Reinhard Zimmermann einen Vortrag über Ernst Heymann halten. Details folgen in Kürze.

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MPI für Privatrecht Mar 19

🎓 Greetings from Nijmegen! From 5-6 March 2026, several of our Institute's doctoral candidates came together with peers from the Radboud Business Law Institute. In a jointly organized PhD Seminar at Radboud University, they presented and discussed their current research topics.

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MPI für Privatrecht Mar 19

📢 REMINDER: Call for Abstracts 📢
Apply now for the 5th Young Sustainability Law Conference (JNR 2026) in Istanbul!

📆 July 2-3 2026
📍Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey
❗Deadline: 10 April 2026

The conference provides a forum for young scholars working on sustainability and law. It is organized by a team of scholars from our Institute, Koç University Law School, the University of Amsterdam, Bocconi University, Sapienza University of Rome and the University of Bari.

👉 https://www.mpipriv.de/2029366/jnr-2026

MPI für Privatrecht Mar 17

WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2026, 6:30 PM (UTC +2): On behalf of Denise Wiedemann, Veronica Ruiz Abou-Nigm, María Mercedes Albornoz and Luana Matoso we cordially invite you to the third virtual workshop in our series “MPI-ASADIP Trialogues in Private International Law.” 👉 via Zoom 💻

Jose Antonio Moreno Rodriguez will be speaking on “Private International Law in International Investment Contracts.”

👉 Further information and registration: https://www.mpipriv.de/trialogues

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MPI für Privatrecht Mar 16

TUESDAY, 7 APR 2026, 11:00 AM (UTC +2): On behalf of Ralf Michaels and Philipp Kronier we cordially invite you to a virtual workshop in our series "Current Research in Private International Law".

Chukwuma Okoli (University of Birmingham) will be speaking on "Choice of Law for Employment Contracts in Africa: Rethinking the EU Methodology in an African Context." 👉 via Zoom 💻

Further information and registration: 👇
https://www.mpipriv.de/current-research-in-pil

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MPI für Privatrecht Mar 13

Edinburg Law School and Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law organize a Private International Law Festival, to take place in Edinburgh 24-25 SEP 2026. Save the date!

And submit a proposal of up to 500 words, together with a short bio/s in the same word document, to [email protected] by 10 April 2026 with the email subject clearly marked “Proposal PIL Festival_ Surname/s”. Selected speakers will be informed in May 2026. 👉https://www.mpipriv.de/2106605/24-25-september-2026-private-international-law-festival-2026

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MPI für Privatrecht Mar 13

TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2026, 5:00 PM (UTC +1): On behalf of Dr. Antonia Sommerfeld, Dr. Biset Sena Güneş, Saparya Sood, Vincent Hoppmann and Lara Schmidt we cordially invite you to a virtual lecture in our Max Planck Law series “Corporate Responsibility | ESG.”

Alexander Hellgardt (University of Augsburg) will be speaking on “The Limited Regulatory Impact of ESG Information Duties.” 👉 via Zoom 💻

Further information and registration: https://law.mpg.de/event/the-limited-regulatory-impact-of-esg-information-duties/

The Limited Regulatory Impact of ESG Information Duties - Max Planck Law

This talk looks at (1) regulating information recipients, especially investors, through disclosure of ESG risks; and (2) regulating the disclosing entities themselves by incentivizing behavioural change through transparency.

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MPI für Privatrecht Mar 13

WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2026, 2:00 PM (UTC +2): On behalf of Katharina Isabel Schmidt we cordially invite you to a virtual lecture in the Speaker Series of our Minerva Fast Track Research Group “Artificial Justice.”

Damien Charlotin (HEC Paris) will be speaking on “The Authority of Style: Hallucinations and the Epistemic Breach in Law.” 👉 via Zoom 💻

Further information and registration: https://www.mpipriv.de/1929073/artificial-justice

MPI für Privatrecht Mar 12

FREITAG, 20. MÄRZ 2026, 16:30 UHR (UTC +1): Im Namen von Knut Benjamin Pißler laden wir herzlich zu einem Vortrag aus der Reihe „Hamburger Vorträge zum chinesischen Recht“ ein. Aaron Pfautsch (Universität Freiburg) wird über „Das neue chinesische Register für Mobiliarsicherheiten – Effizienzgewinn durch Registerpublizität?“ sprechen.

📍 Präsenzveranstaltung am MPI für Privatrecht, Mittelweg 187, 20248 Hamburg.

👉 Weitere Informationen und Anmeldung: https://www.mpipriv.de/events/44939/2371

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