Program GRACEH 2025

Chair: Claudia Kraft | University of Vienna

Religious Diversity in the Habsburg Empire as a Problem of Colonial Legal History
Cornelia Tscheppe | University of Vienna

God-Given Right or Unfounded Self-Deception? The Debate of Jacques Soustelle and Raymond Aron on the Fate of French Algeria (1957-1958)
Sára Lafferton | École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales & Eötvös Loránd University

Living Treaties, Contested Memories: The Role of Museums in Representing Legal Texts
Elisa Ludwig | Ludwig Maximilians University

Chair: Lena Foljanty | University of Vienna

The Merge of two Nations: The Romans under the Lombard Law and the Integration of two Legal Systems
Kaiyue Zhang | University of Oxford

Laws of Strangers, Rights of Guests: The Diverging Paths of Tourism and Alien Law in Europe (1908-1938)
Anna Breidenbach | European University Institute

The Codification of Native Law in 1931: A Strategy to Reduce Diversity in Tonkin
Noa Krief | Paris Cité University 

Chair: Benno Gammerl | European University Institute

Vagabonds and Thieves: German Forests and Borderlands as Spaces of Lawlessness
Bethany McNamara-Dale | University of Oxford

Lawlessness and Connectivity: The 19th-Century Adriatic under Habsburg Rule
Elena Russo | University of Oxford

Trans Lives in Terra Mafiosa: A Comparative Case Study of Transphobic and Trans-Tolerant Behaviour by Mafia Groups in Sicily, Calabria and Naples
Brian O'Connor | European University Institute 

Chair: Lauren Kassell | European University Institute

The Legitimisation of Social Contrast: Dynamics of Exclusion and Political Integration in the Genoa of the Perpetual Dogato (1363-1528)
Gabriele Ciaravolo | University of Bologna

Disadvantaged Groups and the Purpose of the German Public Banking System – a Legal-Historical Analysis
Laurenz Döring | University of Münster

Competing Medical Professional and Legal Norms in State-Socialist Healthcare in Hungary in the 1950s-1960s
Viola Lászlófi | Central European University

Chair: Peter Becker | University of Vienna

Conflict of Legal Ideologies: Rule of Law or Rechtsstaat
Petr Vilem Koluch | Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory

An Erratic Judicial Career: The Italo-Austrian Judge Hugo Erlacher (1895-1971)
Alexander Teutsch | University of Vienna

Classifying and Protecting “Blut und Seele” – The Civil Registry Office & the 1935 Nuremberg Laws
Émilie Duranceau-Lapointe | University of Michigan

Chair: Zsófia Lóránd | University of Vienna 

Pitting Gender against Nationality: The 1908 German Law of Associations and its Implications for German and Polish Women’s Movement
Paula Lange | University of Vienna

Feminist Legal Struggles: Collective Legal Mobilization of the German Women’s Movements in the 20th Century
Louisa Hattendorff | Humboldt University of Berlin

Maternidades Robadas: How Did Interactions with the Legal System Shape the Experience of Motherhood for Spanish Mothers Seeking to Trace their “Stolen Children” in the 2010s?
Alleiah Kall | European University Institute

Chair: Andrea Griesebner | University of Vienna

A Microhistorical Study of Age as a Legal Boundary Marker on the Issue of Sexual Violence against Children in Early Modern Times
Chiara-Marie Hauser | University of Vienna

Prostitution, Power, and Law: Gendered Perspectives on French Legal Regulation
Theshaya Naidoo | University of KwaZulu Natal

Diversity in Austrian Civil Law and Legal Practice between 1783 and 1938
Stephanie Rieder-Zagkla | University of Vienna

Currency, Control, and Legal Deviance: Stigmatization and State Surveillance of Currency Prostitutes in Soviet Ukraine
Aliesia Soloviova | European University Institute

Chair: László Kontler | Central European University

Inquisitorial Justice and the Sailor’s Lament
Gabriel Farrugia | European University Institute

Diversity as Equality of Opportunity during the Judicial Process
Paweł Porębny | University of Silesia

The Diversity in Roman Law: From the View of Legal Fiction
Fangfang Tian | Sapienza University Rome

Chair: Elena Bacchin | University of Vienna 

Enforcing and Evading Migration Law on the Southern English Coast, 1800-15
Conor Muller | University of Oxford

Migration, Integration, and Economic Inclusion: Legal Responses to Workforce Diversity in Europe
Ziyi Wang | Cornell University

“Crossing Borders, Facing Barriers”: DisAbling Migration Policies in Austria through the Ages
Rosa-Maria Mayerl | University of Vienna

Chair: Phillip Ther | University of Vienna

Omnes liberti sunt in tuitione ecclesiae: Freed Slaves in Classical Canon Law
Olha Stasiuk | Central European University

Between Law and Politics: The Russian Old Believers in the Habsburg Legal Space
Aleksandr Orlov | Columbia University

Navigating a Slippery Slope: Habsburg Diplomats and Jewish Suspects in the Late 19th Century
Margarita Lerman | Hebrew University of Jerusalem