The first lecture series in legal history includes three lectures on selected issues. The first will discuss the last two hundred years of developments in judicial independence in Austria. The second will provide new insights into the history of Polish partitions from the perspective of international law. The third will delve into the details of the drafting of the Italian constitution after World War II. All these lectures cover topics from modern European legal history and are directly related to current legal challenges. This combination of various times, areas, actors, and processes from the past and their repercussions today will offer the audience interesting and inspiring questions and hypotheses.
The editor-in-chief of CPH, Dr. Hab. Maksymilian Stanulewicz, a professor at AMU, warmly invites all interested scholars and students to participate in our online lectures and to submit papers to CPH.
For more information on the series, please visit the website. The series is organized by the Editorial Secretary of CPH, Dr. Piotr Alexandrowicz (piotr.alexandrowicz@amu.edu.pl).
SECOND LECTURE
Title: The partitions of Poland in the light of the 18th century concepts of international law
Speaker: Prof. Michael G. Müller
Date: May 21st, 4:00 pm CEST
Link to the online meeting: https://bit.ly/legalhistory2
Abstract: Recent research has delivered substantially new insight into the diplomatic history of the partitions of Poland in the 18th Century. We are now able to thoroughly reconstruct the strategies by which the partitioning powers tried to justify their action, and to follow Western responses to that. The lecture will examine the respective diplomatic and public discourse in the light of contemporary concepts of international law.
CV: Born 1950. M. A. in History and Slavonic Languages at the University of Frankfurt/Main 1974, PhD in East European History 1977. Worked as researcher in East European History at the universities of Frankfurt/Main and Giessen as well as at the Berlin Historical Commission (Historische Kommission zu Berlin). Between 1990 and 1992 research grants awarded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) and the “Immanuel Kant”-programme. Habilitation in Modern and East European History at the Freie Universität Berlin 1993. From 1992 to 1996 professor for East Central European History at the European University Institute in Florence (Italy). 1996-2019 chair for East European History in Halle. Co-editor of Kwartalnik Historyczny; 2003-2014 German chairman of the Joint Polish-German Commission for the Revision of School Textbooks; 2012 Doctor honoris causa, University of Warsaw.
Website: https://www.geschichte.uni-halle.de/mitarbeiter/mueller/