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The Mixed Courts of Egypt, 1876-1949: between imperial internationalism and shared legal knowledge
April 3, 2025
How did the Mixed Courts of Egypt impact legal knowledge and societies on both sides of the Mediterranean? 150 years after these once highly influential institutions heard their first cases, the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory will dedicate a workshop to this question.
Organizers: Michel Erpelding, Max Planck
Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory
Conference Time: 23 - 24 February 2026
Place: Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Deadline for Abstracts: 1 July 2025
The organizers have issued a call for papers (available in three
languages) inviting submissions on topics such as the normative
production and environment of the Mixed Courts, their relation to the
political context during the time of their operation, and the sociology
of actors involved with them.The call welcomes papers based on archival sources and/or on doctrinal writings and the case law of Mixed Courts. It can be downloaded here: https://www.lhlt.mpg.de/4599508/the-mixed-courts-of-egypt-1876-1949
Abstracts of no more than 500 words, written in English, French or Arabic and including the author’s name, e-mail address and a short curriculum vitae, should be submitted to erpelding@lhlt.mpg.de by 1st July 2025. Successful applicants will be notified via e-mail by 1st September 2025 and are expected to produce a summary draft paper by 31st January 2026.
The event will be held in person with no conference
fee. Financial support for travel and accommodation is available. For
more information, please contact Dr. Michel Erpelding.
Source: https://www.lhlt.mpg.de/4599508/the-mixed-courts-of-egypt-1876-1949 (3.4.2025)