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May 16, 2018

Conference on Legal History of the European Union, June 21-22, 2018

The annual conference of the research field “Legal History of the European Union” will take place at the Frankfurt Max Planck Institute for European Legal History on June 21-22, 2018. The particular focus of this year’s meeting will be “Key Biographies in the Legal History of European Union, 1950-1993.”

The conference programme (including an outline of the conference aims and objectives), as well as a registration form can be found here. There is no conference fee. We would be delighted to welcome you at the Institute for this event.

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