Field of research: Pre-modern alternatives

  • Subjects in court – Use of courts and its alternatives by subjects in the pre-modern period (Anette Baumann / Bernhard Diestelkamp)
  • On the resolution of conflicts between medieval merchants (Albrecht Cordes)
  • Conflict resolution by church authorities in the New World in the 16th Century (Thomas Duve)
  • Conflict resolution in early Protestant marital law in Saxony (Ralf Frassek)
  • Legal protection in Hellenic Egypt (Nadine Grotkamp)
  • Pactum de non petendo clauses in ancient Near Eastern contractual and trial documents (Guido Pfeifer)
  • Urban unrest in Europe in the 16th/17th Centuries – pre-modern conflict resolution without court proceedings (Luise Schorn-Schütte)
  • Trade policy conflicts between the Londoner Merchant Adventurers and the Hanseatic League around 1550 (Alain Wijffels / Albrecht Cordes)
  • Field of research: Alternatives in modern times

  • Conflict prevention and conflict resolution mechanisms in China in the late Imperial Era (Iwo Amelung)
  • Main factors in the selection of extrajudicial prosecution? – Comparison of state access to arbitration in the USA and Germany (Isabella Anders-Rudes)
  • Reassessment of judicial and extrajudicial dispute resolution in Japan (Moritz Bälz)
  • Balancing of state and private interests by arbitral institutions in the Germany of the German Empire and the Weimar Republic (Peter Collin)
  • Third-Party Financing of Litigation from a Legal-Economic Perspective (Dominique Demougin / Felix Maultzsch)
  • System competition and case preferences: Common law vs. equity in England in the 18th and 19th Centuries (Andreas Fahrmeir)
  • Conflict resolution mechanisms in national and international cartels in the first half of the 20th Century (Louis Pahlow)
  • Fighting, judging, reconciling: Conflict resolutions in employment law (Joachim Rückert)
  • Conflict resolution in international law (Miloš Vec)
  • ADR and the Rule of Law in the USA (Joachim Zekoll)