Professor Sheilagh Ogilvie will deliver a public lecture in Frankfurt at the Max-Planck-Institute for European Legal History on 30 January 2019. Her lecture addresses a question of concern to economists, historians and legal scholars: "How Did Pre-Modern Merchants Solve Conflicts? Public-Order versus Private-Order Institutions". A one-day workshop on Sheilagh's forthcoming book, The European Guilds: An Economic Analysis, will take place at the University of Frankfurt on 31 January 2019.