Conferences 2026
19–20 March 2026 – International Conference: Between State Power and the Rule of Law
(M. Reichenthaler, Regensburg)
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2025
20–21 November 2025 – International Conference: Kraków as a Legal Interstice
(with A. Dziadzio, Kraków, and K. Staudigl-Ciechowicz, Vienna/Regensburg)
8–9 May 2025 – International conference: The internationalisation of transport law since the Second Industrial Revolution
9–11 July 2025 – International conference: The Franco-Italian draft for a common Code of Obligations (1927)
funded by the Vielberth Foundation
2024
21–22 November 2024 – International conference: Legal Unification through Case Law?
Publication: Löhnig (ed.), Legal Unification through Case Law, Berlin (Duncker & Humblot) 2026.
Funded by the Vielberth Foundation
2023
8–9 December 2023 – International Conference: Georg Ludwig Maurer – Lawmaker of Greece
(with K. Papathanasiou, Vaduz)
Publication: Löhnig/Papathanasiou (eds.), Georg Ludwig von Maurer (1790–1872) – Lawmaker of Greece, Berlin (Duncker & Humblot) 2025.
20–21 February 2023 – International conference at the Burgenland State Parliament (Eisenstadt): Burgenland as a legal liminal space
(with K. Staudigl-Ciechowicz, Vienna/Regensburg)
Publication: Löhnig/Staudigl-Ciechowicz (eds.), Burgenland as a Legal Interstitial Space, Berlin (Duncker & Humblot) 2026.
23–24 March 2023 – International conference: The Autonomous Silesian Voivodeship
(with K. Staudigl-Ciechowicz, Vienna/Regensburg)
Publication: Löhnig/Staudigl-Ciechowicz (eds.), The Silesian Voivodeship – Analysis of a ‘legal interspace’, Berlin (Duncker & Humblot) 2024.
11–12 May 2023 – International conference: Inheritance law developments in interwar Central Europe in transnational dialogue
funded by the Vielberth Foundation
15–16 June 2023 – International conference: Northern Italy as a contact zone between Austro-Hungarian and Italian law
Publication: Löhnig (ed.), Northern Italy as a contact zone between Austro-Hungarian and Italian law, Turin (Giappichelli) 2025.
Funded by the Vielberth Foundation
2022
10–11 October 2022 – International conference: The GmbH as an element of transnational European company law
(with A. Moszyńska, Toruń)
Publication: Löhnig/Moszynska (eds.), Reception of the Limited Liability Company (GmbH), Göttingen 2024.
19–20 May 2022 – International Conference: Sales Law in Central Europe – The History of the Development and Impact of Articles 337 et seq. of the ADHGB
Publication: Löhnig/Wagner (eds.), Sales Law in Central Europe, Tübingen (Mohr Siebeck) 2026.
(with S. Wagner, Halle/Saale)
funded by the DFG
23–24 May 2022 – Feuerbach 2.0?: The Greek Penal Code of 1834
(with K. Papathanasiou, Vaduz)
Publication: Papathanasiou/Löhnig (eds.), Feuerbach 2.0? The Greek Penal Code of 1834, Berlin (Duncker & Humblot) 2024.
2021
8–9 November 2021: Prescribed Democracy: Elections in Post-War Germany 1946/47
(with F. Michl, Münster)
Publication: Löhnig/Michl (eds.), Decree-Based Democracy? The Post-War Elections of 1946/47, Göttingen 2023.
23–24 September 2021 – International Conference: Civil Procedure in Interwar Central Europe
Publication: Löhnig (ed.), Varieties of Social Civil Procedure, Berlin (Duncker & Humblot) 2025
funded by the Vielberth Foundation
25–26 October 2021 – International conference: Alsace-Lorraine as a legal laboratory / Alsace-Lorraine – un laboratoire de droit
Publication: Löhnig (ed.), Alsace-Lorraine as a Legal Laboratory, Regensburg 2023.
Funded by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation
7–8 January 2021 – International conference: Developments in criminal law during the interwar period
(with Arnd Koch, Augsburg)
Publication: Koch/Löhnig (eds.), Penal Codes of the Interwar Period, Tübingen (Mohr Siebeck) 2024. (external link, opens in a new window)
2020
26–27 March 2020 [postponed] – International conference: The Law of Sale in Central Europe – The History of the Origin and Impact of Articles 337–359 of the ADHGB
(with Stephan Wagner, Halle)
Publication: Löhnig/Wagner, The Law of Breach of Contract in Central Europe, Tübingen (Mohr Siebeck) 2024.
Funded by the DFG
22–23 October 2020 – Conference: The Contemporary Legal History of the 1980s
Publication: Löhnig (ed.), Beginn der Gegenwart, Göttingen 2021.
19–20 November 2020 – International conference: “Commercial Law in South-Eastern Europe from the Tanzimat Period until the Eve of the Great War”
(with Ivelina Masheva, Sofia)
Publication: Löhnig/Maseva (eds.), Commercial Law in South-Eastern Europe, Vienna 2022.
Funded by the DFG
2019
21–22 March 2019 – Conference ‘The German Federation and National Legal Unity – Symposium in Honour of Hans-Jürgen Becker’
Publication: Löhnig/Wagner (eds.), The German Federation and National Legal Unity, Tübingen (Mohr Siebeck) 2025
14 February 2019 – Workshop: ‘Frost comes out of the Kremlin – Civil Law and Family Law during Stalinism (Czechoslovakia, Poland, East Germany)’
Publication: The papers have been published in a special issue (49/2) of *Právněhistorické studie* (Charles University Journal of Legal History).
2018
9–10 November 2018 – Conference “1918 – Criminal Law between Revolution and Republic” at the University of Augsburg
(with Arnd Koch and Michael Kubiciel)
Publication: Koch/Kubiciel/Löhnig (eds.), Criminal Law between the November Revolution and the Weimar Republic, Tübingen (Mohr Siebeck) 2020
11–12 October 2018 – Interdisciplinary symposium: Divorce without Fault – The 1977 Reform of Matrimonial Law
Publication: Martin Löhnig (ed.), No-Fault Divorce, Tübingen (Mohr Siebeck) 2019 (external link, opens in a new window)
2017
Trilateral Conferences 2017–2019: Private Law in the Post-Civil Age – Le droit privé à l’époque post-civile – Il Diritto privato dopo l’era borghese
(with David Deroussin, Lyon, and Ferdinando Mazzarella, Palermo)
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Deroussin/Löhnig/Mazzarella/Wagner (eds.), Private Law in the Post-Civil Age, Volume 1, Frankfurt am Main 2022
Deroussin/Löhnig/Mazzarella/Wagner (eds.), Private Law in the Post-Civil Era, Volume 2, Frankfurt am Main 2023
funded by the DFG
Conference: Supreme Courts under Nazi Occupation
(with Derk Venema, Nijmegen)
Publication: Venema (ed.), Supreme Courts Under Nazi Occupation, Amsterdam (AUP) 2022.
funded by the DFG
2016
Lecture series 2016: Migration & Integration
(with Thomas Schlemmer, IfZ Munich)
Publication: Etzold/Löhnig/Schlemmer (eds.), Migration and Integration in Germany after 1945, Berlin/Boston (de Gruyter) 2018
Conference: The Unborn Children of Liberalism? Civil Legislation in Interwar Central Europe
Publication: Löhnig/Wagner (eds.), “The Unborn Children of Liberalism?”, Tübingen (Mohr Siebeck) 2018
Funded by the DFG
Conference: The General Commercial Code of 1861 as a Common Law of Obligations in Central Europe
Publication: Löhnig/Wagner (eds.), The General German Commercial Code of 1861 as a Common Law of Obligations in Central Europe, Tübingen (Mohr Siebeck) 2018
funded by the DFG
2015
Conference: Karl Binding – Theorist of Legal Norms, Legal Positivist, Criminal Law Scholar
(with Michael Kubiciel/Augsburg, Michael Pawlik/Freiburg, Carl-Friedrich Stuckenberg/Bonn, Wolfgang Wohlers/Basel)
Publication: Kubiciel/Löhnig/Pawlik/Stuckenberg (eds.), “A Mighty Manifestation of Positive Law”: Karl Binding’s Theory of Norms and Criminal Law, Tübingen (Mohr Siebeck) 2019
Conference: Popular Justice in Transitional Periods
(in collaboration with the Istituto Storico Italo-Germanico (external link, opens in a new window) and the Université de Namur)
Publication: Berger/Delivré/Löhnig (eds.), Popular Justice in Times of Transition (19th and 20th-century Europe), Bologna/Berlin 2017
Funded by the Vielberth Foundation
Conference: Paths of Law: (Contemporary) Historical Processes of Reception in the Southern Baltic Region
(in collaboration with the Graduate School for East and South-East European Studies (external link, opens in a new window))
Publication: The papers have been published in *Rechtskultur*, Issue 6 (2017)
2014
Conference: The v. Liszt School and the Emergence of Modern Criminal Law
(with Arnd Koch/Augsburg)
Publication: Koch/Löhnig, The School of Franz von Liszt, Tübingen 2016
Lecture Series 2014: State and Church
(with Thomas Schlemmer, IfZ Munich)
Publication: Löhnig (ed.), State and Religion in the Modern Age, Regensburg 2019
2013
2013 Lecture Series: Order and Protest
(with Thomas Schlemmer, IfZ Munich)
Publication: Löhnig/Preisner/Schlemmer (eds.), Order and Protest, Tübingen 2015
Conference: Weimar Civil Law Scholarship
Publication: Löhnig/Preisner, Weimar Civil Law Scholarship, Tübingen 2014
Conference: Feuerbach’s Bavarian Criminal Code: The Birth of Liberal, Modern and Rational Criminal Law, followed by a lecture series
(with Michael Kubiciel/Cologne and Michael Pawlik/Freiburg)
Publication: Koch/Kubiciel/Löhnig/Pawlik, Feuerbach’s Bavarian Criminal Code, Tübingen 2014
2010–2012
Lecture series 2012: War and Law – From the Hague Conferences to the Present Day
(with Thomas Schlemmer, IfZ Munich)
Publication: Löhnig/Preisner/Schlemmer (eds.), War and Law, Regenstauf 2014
Lecture Series 2011: Reform and Revolt – A Legal History of the 1960s and 1970s
(with Thomas Schlemmer, IfZ Munich)
Publication: Löhnig/Preisner/Schlemmer (eds.), Reform and Revolt – A Legal History of the 1960s and 1970s, Tübingen 2012
Lecture Series 2010: The Interlude – A Legal History of the Occupation Period 1946–49
Publication: Löhnig (ed.), ‘Interim Period – A Legal History of the Occupation Years’, Regenstauf 2011