Fruitful discussions for the INTELLEX project

The symposium “INTELLEX: An Intellectual History of Legal History” I organised on 12-13 June 2025 at the Institute for Franconian Regional History (IFLG) in the Thurnau castle led to many fruitful connections and discussions for the future. The symposium was financed by my Junior Fellowship grant from the University of Bayreuth Centre of International Excellence ‘Alexander von Humboldt’. None of this would have been possible without the help of my colleagues at IFLG, in particular Sylvia Weigel for the logistics, Tom Zimmermann for the electronics, Marcus Mülhnikel for an expert guided tour, and IFLG director Martin Ott for hosting and chairing part of the symposium.

I had the opportunity to present my ongoing research on Hermann Conring‘s teaching of legal history at the University of Helmstedt. My plan is to develop a research proposal to larger funding bodies for a regional approach to lay the foundations of an intellectual history of legal history, and then develop a broader European project.