Prof. Dr. Matthias Armgardt - Nucleus Professorship for Global Legal History, Private Law, and Computational Legal Theory

Welcome to the website of the Nucleus Professorship for Global Legal History, Private Law, and Computational Legal Theory at the Faculty of Law of the University of Hamburg.

We are a motivated, international team working with passion and an interdisciplinary approach in the fields of ancient legal history, philosophy of law, computational legal theory and private law.

We are delighted by your visit.

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Center for the Study of Ancient Law

Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Ancient Jewish, Greco-Hellenistic and Roman Law

Legal Logic, Computational Legal Theory, AI and Law

Project for the Development of Formal Methods for Intelligent Norm-Based Reasoning by AI-Systems

Schwarz-Weiß-Fotografie eines alten Recheninstruments

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Mathematical and Legal Foundations of AI

Study of the Foundations of Artificial Intelligence and especially of Machine Learning

Leibniz's Philosophy of Law

Investigation of the Philosophy, Logic and Dogmatics of Law of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Ein Portrait von Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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New Approaches to Private Law and Legal Reasoning

Analysis of the Foundations of Private Law and Legal Reasoning in Civil and Common Law

27 August 2023|Neuigkeiten

Talk: 'Leibniz as Scholar of Private Law' by Prof. Armgardt at Harvard Law School

On Monday, October 2, 2023 Prof. Matthias Armgardt will give a talk on 'Leibniz as Scholar of Private Law' at Harvard Law School (on invitation by Prof. Dr. Henry E. Smith).

21 August 2023|Neuigkeiten

Talk: 'Leibniz's Legal Philosophy' by Prof. Armgardt at Harvard University

On Tuesday, September 19, 2023 Prof. Matthias Armgardt will give a talk on 'Leibniz's Legal Philosphy' at Prof. Jeffrey K. McDonough's History of Philosophy Workshop at Harvard University

6 June 2023|Neuigkeiten

Prof. Dr. Scott Brewer, Visiting Professor from Harvard Law School

From Sunday, June 11 until Friday, June 30 2023 Visiting Professor Scott Brewer (Harvard Law School) will be joining Prof. Armgardt's team at the University of Hamburg Faculty of Law.

During that time Prof. Brewer will attend the...

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