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07 December 2023

BOOK: Laurence BOBIS & Boris NOGUÈS (dir.), La bibliothèque de la Sorbonne. 250 ans d'histoire au coeur de l'université (Paris: Éditions de la Sorbonne, 2022), 440 p. ISBN 9791035106218, € 25

 



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Abstract:

Héritière de la bibliothèque de l'université de Paris ouverte en 1770, la bibliothèque de la Sorbonne est l’une de ces institutions anciennes et bien vivantes où, au fil du temps, se sont superposées des fonctions et des appropriations très diverses. Elle est d’abord, depuis plus de deux siècles, un outil de travail au service des étudiants et des professeurs des universités parisiennes. Mais, avec ses collections anciennes, sa position centrale au XIXe siècle dans l’université française, la monumentalité de sa salle de lecture, ou bien sa place dans la mémoire des cohortes d’étudiants qui l’ont fréquentée, elle est aussi devenue un objet patrimonial. De cette histoire particulièrement riche et complexe, le présent livre entend rendre compte à travers une série d’entrées qui permettront au lecteur de revisiter quelques moments charnières, des projets fondateurs de 1765 à ceux de 2013. La trentaine de contributeurs qui ont participé à l’entreprise se sont également attachés à illustrer la vie des collections, évoquant les richesses conservées, les dons ou le prêt aux lecteurs, le travail des bibliothécaires, certaines figures marquantes, ou encore les relations fluctuantes avec les institutions voisines, partenaires ou rivales. La manière dont l’établissement a été perçu, dans et hors les murs, offre enfin une diversité de points de vue qui met en valeur la vie au long cours et la singularité d’un établissement exceptionnel.

Contributors:

Jacqueline Artier, Jean-Claude Baillat, Marion Bernard-Schweitzer, Laurence Bobis, Arnaud Desvignes, Isabelle Diry-Löns, Sylvie Fayet-Scribe, Lucie Fléjou, Anne-Sophie Gallo, Valérie Grignoux, Anaëlle Guérin, François Haas, Georges Haddad, Claude Jolly, Ismaël Jude-Fercak, Amélia Laurenceau, Éléonore Marantz, Philippe Marcerou, Magali Mattern, Sylvie Meslet-Struyve, Victor Meunier, Laure Murat, Boris Noguès, Cécile Obligi, Géraldine Péoc’h, Vivi Perraky, Marie-Thérèse Petiot, Martine Poulain, Emanuele Romanini, Élodie Rousset, Emmanuelle Sordet, Marie-Brunette Spire-Uran et Pierre Verschueren

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ADVANCE ARTICLE: BOOK REVIEW: James GORDLEY on Matthew DYSON, Explaining tort and crime legal development across laws and legal systems 1850–2020 (Comparative Legal History)

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Prof. James Gordley (Tulane Law School) reviewed Explaining tort and crime. Legal Development across Laws and Legal Systems, 1850-2020 (Cambridge University press, 2022) for our Socieyt's organ Comparative Legal History.

Read the full review here: DOI 10.1080/2049677X.2023.2270381.

BOOK: Miriam GASSNER, Der Vertrag von Sèvres. Vertragstext und Analyse des Friedenschlusses mit der Türkei vom 10. August 1920 im Kontext der Pariser Vorortverträge [Studien zur Geschichte des Völkerrechts, eds. Anne PETERS, Bardo FASSBENDER, Milos VEC & Jochen VON BERNSTORFF; vol. 42] (Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlag, 2023), ,281 p. ISBN 9783848788538. OPEN ACCESS

 

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Abstract:

The 1920 Treaty of Sèvres between the Allied Powers and Turkey can undoubtedly be described as one of the most significant international treaties of the 20th century. Aiming at reshaping the Middle East, it laid the foundation for the British Empire to reach the peak of its territorial expansion shortly after it was signed. The fact that the treaty has been little noticed in the German-speaking world is probably also due to the fact that until now there has been no complete translation of the treaty into German. The aim of this work is now to provide such a translation and to place the Treaty of Sèvres in the context of the Paris Peace Treaties.

 Read the full book in open access: DOI 10.5771/9783748934110.

Workshop: The Writings of Francisco Rodrigues SJ (1515-1573): Mission, theology, politics, and religious normativities in Iberian Asia (Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory, 1 & 15 December 2023) [online]

Arquivo da Universidade de Coimbra (Colégio de Jesus de Coimbra, Pergaminhos de Cartas e Ordens, AUC-IV-3a-Gav. 28, n. 40). University of Coimbra


 Workshop: The Writings of Francisco Rodrigues SJ (1515-1573): Mission,

theology, politics, and religious normativities in Iberian Asia


Organization: Rômulo Ehalt (mpilhlt)

Contact: ehalt@lhlt.mpg.de


1 December 2023 

 

Rômulo Ehalt (mpilhlt)

10:00-10:30 - The World that Theology and Canon Law Created: Iberian Asia, 1550s-1570s


Coffee break 10:30-10:45


Ines G. Županov (Centre national de la recherche scientifique)

10:45-12:00 - The Crooked Line: Accommodation as pragmatic universal in Portuguese India (16th-

17th c.)


James Fujitani (University of Nottingham, Ningbo)

10:45-12:00 - Rodrigues as a witness to Portuguese smuggling in East Asia


Lunch 12:00-13:00


Gustavo Cabral (Universidade Federal do Ceará)

13:00-14:30 - Francisco Rodrigues and the cases of conscience regarding the captains of fortresses

and voyages in the Estado da Índia (16th c.)


Bradley Blankemeyer (University of Oxford)

13:00-14:30 - By the favor of Our Lord and his prince: Francisco Rodrigues and the politics of Christian uniformity in the Estado da Índia


15 December 2023


Stuart M. McManus (Chinese University of Hong Kong)

10:00-12:00 - Text and Intertext in Francisco Rodrigues' Resolução de algumas dúvidas


Roger Lee de Jesus (Leibniz Universität Hannover)

10:00-12:00 - From percalços to fazenda: Francisco Rodrigues and the economy of the Estado da

Índia


Lunch 12:00-13:00


Antonio Vasconcelos de Saldanha (University of Macau-Universidade de Lisboa)

13:00-14:30 - Finding, defining, and serving a cause: Fr. Francisco Rodrigues and the Jesuit enterprise of mass conversion and idolatry eradication in India


Stefano Cattelan (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

13:00-14:30 - Serafim de Freitas and Francisco Rodrigues: defending the Portuguese Empire in Asia


Rômulo Ehalt (mpilhlt)

14:30-15:00 - Closing remarks and deadlines

JOURNAL: Clio@Themis, 25(2023) - Dossier: 'Genre, histoire et droit' [open access]




Genre, histoire et droit


CONFERENCE: 'Figures politiques de la modernité (XVe-XVII siècles, Europe) (Brussels, Académie royale de Belgique, 7 December 2023)

 


Présidences et modération

Marie Kervyn de Meerendré, Université Libre de Bruxelles.
Agnès Guiderdoni, Université catholique de Louvain, Académie royale.
Frederik Dhondt, Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
Monique Weis, Université du Luxembourg.

Programme

Introduction (10h-10h30).

  • Jean Sénié (Université de Tours/CESR), Jérémie Ferrer-Bartomeu (UCLouvain & ULiège/FNRS) : Retours critiques sur l'« Homme de la Renaissance ». De l'approche civilisationnelle à l'histoire sociale et culturelle du politique.

Première session : Figures politiques au prisme du genre dans la première modernité.

  • Lison Vercammen (UCLouvain / U. Luxembourg), Jules Dejonckheere (UCLouvain) (10h30-11h) : La gouvernante générale au XVIe siècle : une représentante habile, stoïque et dévouée.
  • Nina Lamal (Huygens Institute) (11h-11h30) : Ambassadresses in early modern diplomacy.
  • Sylvie Le Clech (Direction des Archives diplomatiques) (11h30-12h) : Savoir finir une guerre : une sagesse de dirigeantes pragmatiques ?

Deuxième session : L’humanisme aux prises avec une modernité politique ?

  • Laure Fagnart (Uliège / FNRS) (14h-14h30) : Léonard de Vinci, « omo sanza lettere » vs « omo universal ».
  • Renaud Adam (ULiège) (14h30-15h) : Imprimer au cœur des conflits confessionnels : Christophe Plantin et l’Officina Plantiniana.
  • Christian Martens (Université de Genève / University of Warwick), Didier Martens (Université Libre de Bruxelles / Académie royale d'archéologie de Belgique) (15h-15h30) : À la recherche du visage de François Hotman. Les portraits d’un humaniste célèbre aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles.

Pause : 15h30-15h45.

Troisième session : Figures politiques et divisions confessionnelles.

  • Julien Régibeau (ULiège / La Sapienza, Università di Roma) (15h45-16h15) : Le nonce apostolique. Diplomatie ecclésiastique et carrière curiale.
  • Alexandre Goderniaux (ULiège) (16h15-16h45) : Le jeu d’acteur d’Henri III aux États généraux de Blois (16-18 octobre 1588).

Conclusions 16h45-17h30.

Organisation

Jérémie Ferrer-Bartomeu, Université catholique de Louvain, Centre d'Analyse Culturelle de la Première Modernité (GEMCA), Université de Liège, unité de recherches Transitions sur le Moyen Âge et la première Modernité, F.R.S.-FNRS.


Jean Sénié, Université de Tours, Centre d’études supérieures de la Renaissance (CESR).
Nicolas Simon, Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique.

 

PROGRAMME (PDF)

ADVANCE ARTICLE: Goran MILJAN & Aders E.B. BLOMQVIST, "The unwanted citizens: The ‘Legality’ of Jewish destruction in Croatia and Romania during World War II" (Comparative Legal History) [OPEN ACCESS]

 


Abstract:

This article examines the establishment of the legal framework that led to the destruction and elimination of Jewish communities in Croatia and Romania during World War II. It argues that both regimes, supported by domestic fascist ideologies, evolving antisemitism, and inspired by the Nazi regime, promulgated anti-Jewish legal norms to present and establish new political, ideological, and social values and categories to their citizens. This article employs the theoretical framework of norms developed by Paul Morrow, whereby norms are seen as practical prescriptions, permissions or prohibitions. We argue that these destructive norms served as guidelines for individuals within the fascist new worldview and new reality. As such, these norms received state authorisation and implementation, serving as the ‘legal’ basis for the institutional destruction of unwanted citizens. This gave local and state actors a ‘legal’ pretext for the persecution and murder of Jews, who were stripped of their rights, assets, properties and right to life. The article concludes that the two legal frameworks enacted the process by which Jewish communities in Croatia and Romania faced a devastation of unseen proportions, which testifies to the importance and impact of legal norms on individuals, be they victims, bystanders or perpetrators.

Read the article here: DOI 10.1080/2049677X.2023.2270390 

SEMINAR: Heritage Restitution: Goals, Rules and Queries (8.12.2023, hybrid format)

 
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The Coordination Board of the research platform „Hector. Heritage, Culture, Norms”, held at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, invites you to participate in the fourth project seminar entitled “Heritage Restitution: Goals, Rules and Queries”.
The seminar will focus on various matters concerning law and procedure for restoring looted cultural property. Apart from covering the general spectrum of law-based actions, the participants will also delve into the most heated ongoing debates regarding processes of politically based returns of heritage (such as the Benin bronzes), the return of mummified human remains or the effects of territorial state succession on the cultural property (in cases such as the Crimean gold).

The guests will be:
Prof. Vincent R. Johnson (St. Mary's University School of Law, USA) with the paper
“Protecting and Transferring Cultural Assets”
Dr Andrzej Jakubowski (Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Science, Poland) with the paper
“State Succession to Responsibility for Cultural Wrongs”.

The event will be held in a hybrid format: on-site in the conference room at the JU Student Zone (Strefa Studencka UJ) (św. Anny Street 6 in Cracow) and via the MS TEAMS platform - on the 8th December 2023 (Friday) at 13:00 to 15:00.
If you are interested in taking part in this seminar, we would kindly ask you to fill in the registration form: https://forms.office.com/e/nEabYStpaT
The link allowing online participation will be sent the day before the event.

06 December 2023

BOOK: Quentin VERREYCKEN, Crimes et gens de guerre au Moyen Âge : Angleterre, France et principautés bourguignonnes au XVe siècle (Paris: PUF, 2023), 277 p., ISBN 9782130826439, €27

 

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Abstract:
Dans le royaume de France au XVe siècle, les violences charriées par la guerre de Cent Ans forgent une image particulièrement négative de l’homme de guerre. Face aux exactions perpétrées par les soldats (pillage, brigandage, viol, destruction), il devient urgent pour les autorités de réagir. Mais à une époque où la notion de « crimes de guerre » n’existe pas, pas plus que les conventions de Genève ou les tribunaux pénaux internationaux, comment réguler efficacement la violence militaire ? À la fin du Moyen Âge, dans un contexte de renforcement du pouvoir monarchique et de restauration de la justice, c’est par le biais de la répression mais également du pardon que le gouvernement royal parvient tant bien que mal à mettre au pas les gens de guerre.

A book presentation will take place on 12 December in Chaumont (Haute-Marne, France). More information here


SEMINAR SERIES: Max Planck Institute & Tel Aviv University, Transnational Legal History Workshop (2023-2024)

 




TRANSNATIONAL LEGAL HISTORY WORKSHOP

 


6 December: Assaf Likhovski (TAU)

Studying Ancient Constitutional Law in Colonial India and Mandatory Palestine


13 December: Jan-Henrik Meyer (MPILHLT)

European Community Environmental Law in the 1970s: Combatting Water Pollution


20 December: Noga Morag-Levine (Michigan State University)

England’s Missing Boards of Health: The Medieval Beginnings of an Anglo-Continental Divergence


10 January: Alon Jasper (TAU)

Transforming a Polity into an Economy: The Five Nations and the Railroads, 1855-1894


17 January: Raquel Sirotti (MPILHLT)

State-like powers? Charter Companies and the production of knowledge of normativity in Mozambique (1891-1942)


24 January: Egas Moniz Bandeira (FAU)

Changing Legal Professions in China, Japan, and the Ottoman Empire in the long 19th century: Towards a Historical Comparison


31 January: Aparna Balachandran (Delhi University)

Religion, Law and Urban Governance: Subaltern Christians as Legal Subjects in Early Colonial South India


7 February: Cristiano Paixão (University of Brasília)

Transnational legal mobilization: repressive structures and networks of resistance in S. American dictatorships (1964-1988)


14 February: Julia Moses (University of Sheffield)

Harmonizing the Family? International Law, Cultural Norms and Marriage at the Turn of the Twentieth Century


21 February: Sarina Kuersteiner (Union College)

Whatever God Gives: Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic Rizq and Latin Resicum in Commercial Vocabulary, 1154-1164 CE



For more information or to register, please email mpitauwkshp@gmail.com.

ADVANCE ARTICLE: Thomas MOHR, "Irish newspapers and the creation of the 1922 constitution of the Irish Free State" (Comparative Legal History) [OPEN ACCESS]

 

Abstract:

This article attempts to recover perceptions of the Constitution of the Irish Free State at the time of its creation through analysis of Irish newspapers published in 1922. The comparative analysis of contemporary perceptions is intended to serve as a counterweight to perceptions of this Constitution presented in scholarship written in the years after 1922 that have been heavily influenced by knowledge of subsequent events. This article includes analysis of the 1922 Constitution in newspapers based in all regions of the island of Ireland. It covers the jurisdiction of ‘Southern Ireland’, that was evolving into the ‘Irish Free State’, and the jurisdiction of ‘Northern Ireland’ that was destined to remain a part of the United Kingdom. The comparative analysis examines differing viewpoints within and between these two jurisdictions. The conclusion argues that the difficulties and relatively short lifespan experienced by the Constitution of the Irish Free State could not have been easily predicted from the vantage point of 1922.

Read the article here: DOI 10.1080/2049677X.2023.2270389

05 December 2023

BOOK: Luisa BRUNORI (dir.), Dynamique juridique des réseaux marchands. Hanses, nations, agences, filiales et comptoirs [Etudes d'Histoire du Droit et des Idées Politiques; 33] (Toulouse: Presses universitaires de Toulouse, 2023), 338 p., ISBN 978-2-36170-249-6, € 22

 

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Abstract:
Troisième volet du projet PHEDRA, ce volume poursuit l'ambition d'appréhender la pratique commerciale dans son devenir, la perméabilité normative qui lui est inhérente, et les parcours des dynamiques de formation du droit des affaires, saisis dans leur « écosystème juridique européen ». Le colloque « La dynamique juridique des réseaux marchands : hanses, nations, agences, filiales et comptoirs », dont les actes sont rassemblés dans le présent volume, a retenu comme objet d'études un aspect essentiel de cette porosité des normes et pratiques des affaires : les réseaux marchands. Ils ont été très étudiés par l'historiographie économique et sociale, cependant les enjeux juridiques de ces réseaux marchands sont restés plutôt inexplorés. Or, l'historiographie juridique s'aperçoit de plus en plus que la ramification de l'organisation marchande a joué un rôle déterminant dans l'homogénéisation des pratiques et des normes des affaires. Les contributions ici recueillies en sont la confirmation et invitent à de nouvelles recherches.

 On the editor:

Luisa Brunori est Directrice de Recherche au CNRS, spécialiste de l’histoire du droit et du droit comparé.

More information here

SEMINAR: Sotto la punta dell'Iceberg (violenza economica, violenza verbale, violenza morale). Le donne e la battaglia per l'accesso all'istruzione e al lavoro tra otto e Novecento - (Padova: Università di Padova 6 dicembre 2023)

 

ADVANCE ARTICLE: Jean-Louis HALPÉRIN, "Doctrinal circulations in criminal law 1764-1914" (Comparative Legal History)

 


Abstract:

Although criminal law books were comparatively rare before the middle of the eighteenth century, Beccaria’s Dei delitti e delle pene (1764) triggered the development of an enormous literature devoted to penal issues (from philosophical foundations to debates related to prisons) in Europe until 1914. In one and a half centuries, more than 20,000 books were published on these issues, of which about half were published in German lands and the remainder in Italy, France, Great Britain/United Kingdom, Spain, Portugal, Belgium and the Netherlands. Both philosophers and sociologists participated to these intellectual exchanges. This paper tries to analyse different ways for measuring the circulation of these texts (translations, quotations especially in footnotes, catalogues of private and public libraries, correspondence and travels). Although the debates were clearly transnational, there were also obstacles in the diffusion of foreign books. After evaluating these linguistic or cultural obstacles and considering the changing contexts between the first and second halves of the nineteenth century, this article outlines three conclusions about the globalisation and non-globalisation of legal concepts during this period.

Read the article here: DOI 10.1080/2049677X.2023.2270387.

SPECIAL ISSUE: Special Issue Risk Management and Jurisdictional Boundaries in Pre-Modern Europe (ed. Maria FUSARO) (Quaderni Storici LVII (2022), nr. 3)

 

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Maria Fusaro, Introduction. Risk Management and Jurisdictional Boundaries in Pre-Modern Europe (OPEN ACCESS)
DOI 10.1408/108114

Giovanni Ceccarelli, I teologi e l’avaria generale. Linguaggi del rischio tra XIII e XVIII secolo (OPEN ACCESS)
10.1408/108115
Abstract:
By taking into analysis a wide range of scholastic texts, this essay aims at filling a gap in our understanding of how risk was perceived and theorized in pre-modern Europe. Scholarly investigations have so far underlined how intellectuals, while discussing about marine insurance, were able to explore the economic dimensions of risk, including its measurability and profitability. However, we know very little about what they thought about alternatives to insurance and, by focusing on General Average, this study intends to overcome this shortcoming. An extensive survey of scholastic writings from the 13th to the 18th century, shows that theologians had difficulty at considering General Average as worthy of in-depth discussion. Only at the end of the 16th century scholasticism acknowledges the principles currently used in legal literature, without this prompting anything comparable to the discussions on insurance or gambling. Nonetheless, these sources reveal alternative ways to describe sea risks, where the emphasis is not on calculus or profit but on shared responsibility, collective action, and ex-post mitigation

Dave De ruysscher, Shipping, Commerce and the Risk of Jurisdiction. The Scheldt Trade (Sixteenth Century). (OPEN ACCESS)
DOI 10.1408/108116.
Abstract:
This article investigates the rules of jurisdiction that were applied in the case of damages in maritime transport. The focus is on traffic in one of the main riverine estuaries of the Low Countries, over the rivers Honte and Scheldt. In the course of the fifteenth century the governments of the county of Flanders and the duchy of Brabant had come to embrace a more exclusive notion of jurisdiction on rivers, which comprised the idea of precise demarcations. In practice, however, this new approach did not bring about more clarity. Uncertainty as to which forum would hear disputes on riverine shipping accidents marked a risk of trade. Among merchants and shipmasters, choice of jurisdiction was common, which happened after mishaps and was not arranged for contractually. The mentioned uncertainty was addressed with rules of thumb, which steered towards the courts of some locations instead of others. They took the port of destination as criterion, in combination with the residence of the merchant-owners of cargo on board of the ship.

Maria Fusaro, Venetian «Averages» between East and West. Risk Management and Transaction Costs in the Early Modern Mediterranean (OPEN ACCESS)
DOI 10.1408/108117
Abstract:

Between the thirteenth and seventeenth centuries, Averages played an important (and neglected) role within Venetian maritime trade and shipping, as they functioned both as risk management tools and as a mechanism for the absorption of transaction costs. The essay will trace these normative developments across the phase of economic growth in the Middle Ages, and analyse how these were structurally transformed in the seventeenth century under the pressure of new maritime operators which contributed to the early modern crisis of the Venetian maritime sector. This touches on several elements of the shifting Venetian economy about which we still know very little: the internal balance of interests between different economic sectors; and within the maritime sector itself – shipowners, merchants, investors; and presents a novel interpretation of the resilience of Venetian maritime working capital well into the eighteenth century.

Jake Dyble,  Lex Mercatoria. Private «Order», and Commercial «Confusion». A View from Seventeenth-Century Livorno (OPEN ACCESS)
DOI 10.1408/108118
Abstract:

This article examines how maritime Averages – legal procedures that were quotidian but multi-centred and potentially complex – were managed in the jurisdictionally crowded Mediterranean. One suggested solution to this difficulty was that procedures were governed by the lex mercatoria, a supposedly universal body of customary merchant law which allowed disputes to be resolved according to a common framework: the debunking of this historical myth demands that legal historians elucidate more clearly how the problem of different maritime customs was resolved in a transnational environment. Evidence from seventeenth-century Livorno suggests that heterogenous maritime Average rules were overcome by mutual recognition of the decisions made in other jurisdictions even when these followed different rules. This was justified with reference to the «disorder» and «confusion» that would otherwise afflict commerce. «Order» here did not mean uniformity and ex-ante certainty of outcomes but rather general expectations that judgements made in other centres would be respected. Attempts by the English and French states to press for consular jurisdiction threatened – mostly unsuccessfully – to disrupt this system. The case buttresses certain lex mercatoria theories only in as far as it demonstrates that early modern state building had the potential to destabilise a functioning international commercial order: yet this order was guaranteed by a legitimating authority that only state-backed institutions could provide.

 Andrea Addobbati, Il romanzo del barattiere. «Prova di mare» e indebolimento della posizione legale del marinaio nel passaggio tra Sette e Ottocento (OPEN ACCESS)
DOI 10.1408/108119
Abstract:

In the second half of the 18th century, the emergence of large insurance companies significantly altered the European market for maritime risks, changing the traditional balance of power between insurers and policyholders. This change had repercussions on the regulatory framework and contractual practices, whose reform began to be perceived as a need that could no longer be postponed. In order to be able to make use of the new calculation- based forecasting tools, it was first necessary to develop and adopt certain legal devices that would reduce information asymmetries and moral hazard, both at the contractual level and at the time of claim settlement. Starting from the close analysis of an emblematic case against a Neapolitan shipowner accused of fraud, the essay clarifies how the evolution of admissible evidence and judicial procedure was shaped by the profound structural transformations of the period.

Read the full special issue (and the book reviews in the journal) here

 



 



04 December 2023

BOOK: Clive EMSLEY & Sara MCDOUGALL (eds.), A Global History of Crime and Punishment (London: Bloomsbury, 2023), 6 vol. ISBN 9781472584847, 550 USD

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Abstract:

What constituted a crime 2,500 years ago, and how was criminal activity dealt with? How has our definition of justice evolved over time alongside developments in law, society, religion and class structures? 36 experts address these pressing questions in a six-volume reference set that spans 2,500 years of human history. Integrating perspectives from history, cultural studies, philosophy and classics, this globally-focused work traces developments in the ever-changing criminal and justice worlds against a variety of social, legal and cultural contexts. Individual volume editors ensure the cohesion of the whole, and to make it as easy as possible to use, chapter titles are identical across each of the volumes. This gives the choice of reading about a specific period in one of the volumes, or following a theme across history by reading the relevant chapter in each of the six. The six volumes cover: 1. Antiquity (500 BCE - 800 CE); 2. Medieval Age (800 - 1450); 3. Renaissance (1450 - 1650) ; 4. Age of Enlightenment (1650 - 1800); 5. Age of Empire (1800 - 1920); 6. Modern Age (1920 – 2000+). Themes include crime, types of criminal, law enforcement, sanctions and representations of crime and punishment. The page extent is approximately 1,728 pp. with c. 300 illustrations. Each volume opens with notes on contributors, a series preface and an introduction, and concludes with notes, bibliography and an index.

Table of contents:

Volume 1: A Global History of Crime and Punishment in Antiquity
Edited by Adriaan Lanni, Harvard Law School, USA

Volume 2: A Global History of Crime and Punishment in the Medieval Age
Edited by Karl Shoemaker, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

Volume 3: A Global History of Crime and Punishment in the Renaissance
Edited by Laura Stokes and Michael Menna, both Stanford University, USA

Volume 4: A Global History of Crime and Punishment in the Age of Enlightenment
Edited by Xavier Rousseaux, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium

Volume 5: A Global History of Crime and Punishment in the Age of Empire
Edited by Mark Finnane, Griffith University, Australia

Volume 6: A Global History of Crime and Punishment in the Modern Age

Edited by Paul Lawrence, The Open University, UK

On the editors:

Clive Emsley was Emeritus Professor and founder Co-Director of the International Centre for Comparative Criminological Research at the Open University, UK. His books include Crime and Society in England, 1750-1900, The English Police: A Political and Social History and Gendarmes and the State in Nineteenth-Century Europe. Sara McDougall is Professor of History at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and appointed to the faculty in Biography and Memoir, French, History, and Medieval Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center. She studies gender and justice in the Middle Ages, with a focus on women’s encounters with legal and religious ideas in the society and culture of Medieval France. She is the author of two books, Bigamy and Christian Identity in Late-Medieval Champagne (2012), and Royal Bastards: The Birth of Illegitimacy, c.800-1230 (2017). She has co-edited special issues for Law & History Review and Gender & History.


 Read more here.

CONFERENCE: Punir moins pour punir mieux ? La culture juridique du libéralisme pénal. Doctrine, lois et pratiques (XVIIIe-XXIe siècles) (Genève: Université de Genève, 7-8 DEC 2023)

 

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Abstract:

L’équipe Damoclès de l’université de Genève organise un colloque les 7 et 8 décembre prochains à Genève sur le thème “Punir moins pour punir mieux ? La culture juridique du libéralisme pénal. Doctrine, lois et pratiques (XVIIIe-XXIe siècles)”. Depuis la fin du Moyen Âge, le pénal hégémonique de l’État a profondément modifié les sociétés modernes en pacifiant les conflits et en endiguant les mécanismes de la vindicte sociale. L’équipe DAMOCLES (Droit, Administration, Magistrats, Ordre, Crime, Lois et Société) étudie les mécanismes institutionnels et sociaux liés à l’affirmation du pénal hégémonique entre l’État justicier et l’État de droit issu de la culture juridique des Lumières, entre l’arbitraire et la légalité des délits et des peines, entre l’éclat des supplices et la prison comme peine. Dans le renouveau international d’un champ historiographique consacré depuis une quinzaine d’années à l’État, à la justice, au droit de punir, à la magistrature, au contrôle social et à la police, l’équipe DAMOCLES fédère et amplifie à Genève les études autour de ces objets. Entre les époques moderne et contemporaine, sur les plans régional, national et international, à partir de l’archive, des sources de la loi et de la doctrine, il s’agit d’en penser de façon comparative les pratiques, les doctrines, les concepts, les idéologies, les mutations, les sensibilités et les représentations sociales.

Program:

Jeudi 7 décembre 2023

09.00 heures : Mot de bienvenue de M. Nicolas Schaetti, conservateur en charge des collections spéciales de la BGE.

09.15 heures : Introduction: Michel Porret

Panel I : Lumières. Présidence, Robert Roth

09.40-10.00 Philippe Audegean, Libéralisme et abolitionnisme dans la philosophie pénale de Beccaria

10.05-10.25 Raphaëlle Théry, Libéralisme idéal et libéralisme défensif – Deux lectures de l’institution pénale

10.30-10.50 : pause

10.55-11.15 Dario Ippolito, Frontières de l’abolitionnisme. La question de la prison à vie dans le libéralisme pénal

11.20-11.40 Luigi Ferrajoli, Le repli illibéral de la justice pénale d’aujourd’hui. Comment punir moins, comment punir mieux

Dès 11.45 : discussion

Dès 12.30 : déjeuner de travail

Panel II : Pratiques. Présidence, Raphaëlle Théry

14.15-14.35 Emmanuel Berger, Le libéralisme pénal sous tension. Le principe de la modération des peines confronté aux crises politiques et sociales de la Révolution française (1791-1799)

14.40-15.00 Marc Ortolani, Libéralisme pénal et balbutiements de la justice criminelle – La répression du suicide et de sa tentative dans les États de Savoie sous la Restauration

15.05-15.25 Numa Graa, La Régénération : un moment d’affirmation du libéralisme pénal ?

15.30-15.55 : pause

16.00-16.20 Marco Cicchini, La mesure de sûreté pour les délinquants irresponsables : le laboratoire vaudois (1830-1900)

Dès 16.25 : discussion

Dès 18.00 à Uni Mail – Présidence, Numa Graa

Conférence de Xavier Tabet, Foucault et Beccaria à l’épreuve du libéralisme

Dès 19.00 heures, apéritif de bienvenue

 

Vendredi 8 décembre 2023

Panel III : Politiques carcérales. Présidence, Frédéric Chauvaud

09.00-09.20 Alice Rey, Le corps pénal chez Bentham

09.25-09.45 Jean-Charles Daumy, La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt et les prisons de la Seine, une expérience d’un libéralisme carcéral ?

09.50-1010 Nathalie Dahn-Singh, Surveiller pour punir mieux. Acteurs et enjeux de l’inspection des prisons à la fin du XIXe siècle en Suisse

10.15-10.35 : pause

10.40-11.00 Alix Heiniger, Libéralisme pénal dans l’exécution des peines : les premières années du pénitencier de Lenzburg (et le directeur Müller) 1864-1872

11.05-11.25 Marc Renneville, «À la sueur de leur front». Les mineurs de Gaillon, une expérience carcérale du libéralisme pénal

Dès 11.30 : discussion

Dès 12.00 : repas de midi

Panel IV : État libéral. Présidence, Vincent Fontana

14.00-14.20 Luigi Lacchè, Le libéralisme pénal et le constitutionnalisme : trois générations de juristes (Francesco Carrara, Enrico Pessina, Luigi Lucchini) dans le débat italien

14.25-14.45 Elio Tavilla, Professeurs et avocats contre la peine capitale : une bataille du libéralisme pénal italien

14.50-15.10 Clémence Faugère, La loi du 29 juillet 1881 : le libéralisme pénal au service d’une Troisième République en construction

Dès 15.15 : Pause

15.35-15.55 Jonathan Barras, Adultère et libéralisme pénal : autour de la ‘croisade’ de deux juristes genevois

16.00-16.20 Laurence Soula, La pensée humaniste au sein des congrès pénaux et pénitentiaires internationaux (1872-1950)

16.25-16.45 Élisabeth Salvi, Lois criminelles et sûreté publique dans l’œuvre de Brissot de Warville

Dès 16.50 : discussion

17.30-18.00 Flávio Borda d’Água, Présentation d’un corpus de correspondance issu du fonds des Manuscrits et Archives Voltaire et de la BGE.

Dès 19.45 Repas de clôture du colloque

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