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Max Planck Lawcast
Episodes
Whose Rules? The Battle for the New International Order
24 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Malcolm Jorgensen (Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law) Imagine you’re on a yacht in the South China Sea. S...
Militant Democracy in Germany: Balancing Security and Freedom of Speech
12 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Guests: Johanna Fink & Marc Bovermann (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law) How can a democracy protect and safeguard it...
Sexual Assault Law: What Does Consent Mean?
11 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Tatjana Hörnle (Director of the Department of Criminal Law, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law) Beyond a simple ‘...
Bridging the Divide: Mediation and Intractable Conflicts
18 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Valérie Rosoux (University of Louvain (Belgium) and Max Planck Law Fellow) Today's episode explores the complexities of mediation in some of t...
Global Gatekeepers: Online Oversight and Internet Content Moderation
06 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Erik Tuchtfeld (Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law) The Internet connects people from across the globe: it f...
The Politics of Faith: Evangelicalism and Human Rights in Latin America
08 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: René Urueña (Universidad de Los Andes in Bogotá (Colombia) and Max Planck Law Fellow) Is Latin America on the verge of a clash between human...
Democratic-Liberal Norms Under Fire: Abortion Rights in the United States
25 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Janne Mende (Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law) This episode delves into the US Supreme Court's 2022 decisi...
Kinder und Küche: Women, Marriage, and Children in Nazi Germany
17 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Lara Bucholski (Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law) During the years that it was in power, the Nazi regime made...
The International Regulation of Warfare: A History of Power, Law, and Humanity
28 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Raphael Schäfer (Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law) One of international law’s greatest concerns is ensu...
Europe’s 'Independence Wars'
06 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Antoine Vauchez (University of Paris 1-Sorbonne and Max Planck Law Fellow) On today’s episode Christopher Murphy is joined by Antoine Vauchez...
Between Reason and Emotion: The Syriacs' Experience of Law, Identity, and Survival
11 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Kadir Eryilmaz (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology) In this episode, Christopher Murphy talks with Kadir Eryilmaz about his ethnograp...
Seeds of Discord: Inside Apple’s EU Tax Controversy
02 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Ruth Mason (University of Virginia School of Law and Max Planck Law Fellow) In a dramatic upset in September 2024, Apple and Ireland lost their...
Breaking Barriers: How Intergroup Contact Can Reduce Discrimination
11 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Sergio Mittlaender (FGV Law School in São Paulo and Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy) In this podcast, we explore a fasc...
Doing It Right, Doing It Wrong - Experimental Evidence on the Expressive Power of Legal Mechanisms
29 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Mahdi Khesali (Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods) Normative ambiguity, which stems from conflicting norms, can lead to inef...
Bürgergeld in Germany (Citizens Benefit Act): System, Changes, and Challenges
19 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Rick Sallaba (Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy) It has been over a year now since the German government introduced Bürger...
The Law of Unjust Enrichment in India
22 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Ragini Surana (Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory) Suppose you pay someone more than you intended to by mistake. What rule...
Contemporary Fathers, Care, and the Law
10 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Alice Margaria (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology) Defining what makes someone a father has become a complex task in contemporary Eu...
Equal Pay in the 1948 Italian Constitution: A Pioneering Role in Europe?
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Nina Cozzi (Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory) After the liberation of Italian territory from the Nazi-Fascist regime, th...
Comparative Law in Action: Applying Foreign Law in German Courts
19 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Jan Peter Schmidt (Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law) In this episode Jan Peter Schmidt discusses the long-sta...
Regulating Star Power: Legal Challenges for Nuclear Fusion
22 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Philipp Sauter (Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law) In this episode Christopher Murphy talks with Philipp Sa...
New Kids on the Block: Assisted Reproductive Technologies in Germany and Iran
13 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Nadjma Yassari (Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law) In this episode Christopher Murphy learns from Nadjma Yassa...
Law as a Means of Communicating Colonial Control in India
20 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Erica Ollikainen-Read (Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory) In this episode of the Lawcast, Erica Ollikainen-Read explains...
Artificial Intelligence in Crime Control and Criminal Justice (Part #2)
23 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Modern policing increasingly relies on the extensive use of personal data collected in large-scale databases which are rendered interoperable and auto...
Artificial Intelligence in Crime Control and Criminal Justice (Part #1)
23 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The impact of AI on law enforcement and the administration of justice is a contentious issue, offering both promise and peril. While it holds the pote...
EU Security and Defence in a New Geopolitical Era
26 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Carolyn Moser (Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law) In this episode Christopher Murphy holds a captivating di...
Colonial Law and Missionaries in South Africa and Zambia
25 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Alicia Haripershad (Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory) In this episode Christopher Murphy talks with Alicia Haripershad a...
Provincial Poor Laws and Pauper Auctions: The Elizabethan Welfare System in Colonial Canada
25 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Victoria Hooton (Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory) In this episode Christopher Murphy travels back in time with Victoria...
Unjust Enrichment and the Law of Obligations
05 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Valentin Pinel le Dret (Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law) In this episode Christopher Murphy talks with Valen...
Yes Means Yes and No Means No? The Debate on Consent as a Legal Standard in Rape Offences
04 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Cristina Valega Chipoco (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law) In this episode Christopher Murphy sits down with Crist...