WORKSHOP: The Making of Commercial Law (Helsinki, 1-3 September)

Nomôdos announced the Program of a Workshop to be held at Helsinki early September, on the history of commercial law, featuring several members of our society. More information below:

Preliminary Programme

(subject to changes)

Sunday, 31 August 2014

19.30 Meeting at hotel lobby: City walking tour and welcome drink

Monday, 1 September 2014

Session 1: Sources and Commercial Law

9.30-12.00, venue: Lecture room P545 (faculty meeting room), Faculty of Law, Porthania, Yliopistonkatu 3

• Eberhard Isenmann: Legal, moral-theological and genuinely economic opinions on questions of trade and economy in 15th and early 16th century Germany.
• Dave De Ruysscher: Merchant manuals as sources.
• Heikki Pihlajamäki: Constructing a field of law: sources of commercial law in Scandinavia.

Lunch, 12.00-13.30, venue TBA

Session 2: Commercial Legal Conflict Resolution in the Baltic Sea Region

13.30-15.00, venue: Lecture room P545 (Faculty meeting room), Faculty of Law, Porthania, Yliopistonkatu 3

• Justina Wubs-Mrozewicz: Mercantile conflict resolution in practice: connecting diplomatic and legal sources from Danzig c. 1460-1580. 
• Marko Lamberg: Commercial law according to the protocols from the Stockholm Town Court, c. 1475-1650: preliminary reflections.

Coffee Break, 15.00-15.30

Session 3: Superior Courts as Fora for Commercial Legal Conflicts 1

15.30-17.45, venue: Lecture room P545 (Faculty meeting room), Faculty of Law, Porthania, Yliopistonkatu 3

• Alain Wijffels: Records and sources of commercial litigation before the Great Council of Mechelen (15th-16th centuries). 
• Peter Oestmann: Court records as sources for the history of commercial law: The Oberappellationsgericht Lübeck as commercial court.
• Mia Korpiola: Svea Court of Appeal records as a source of commercial law. 

Dinner, 19.00, venue TBA

Tuesday, 2 September 2014

Session 4: Superior Courts as Fora for Commercial Legal Conflicts 2

9.00-10.30, venue: Lecture room P545 (faculty meeting room), Faculty of Law, Porthania, Yliopistonkatu 3

• Anja Amend-Traut: The high imperial courts (the Aulic Council and the Imperial Chamber Court) and commerce.
• Boudewijn Sirks: The High Council of Holland and Zealand (to be confirmed).

Coffee Break, 10.30-11.00

Session 5: Comparing English and Continental Commercial Law

11.00-12.30, venue: Lecture room P545 (faculty meeting room), Faculty of Law, Porthania, Yliopistonkatu 3

• Guido Rossi: Comparing the sources of English and continental commercial law - with the example of maritime insurance law. 
• Margrit Schulte Beerbühl: Bankruptcies, speculation bubbles and the law: bankruptcy law vs. bankruptcy management in late eighteenth-century Hamburg and London.

Lunch, 12.30-14.00, venue TBA

Session 6: Custom and Codification in French and Italian Commercial Law

14.00-16.15, venue: Lecture room P545 (faculty meeting room), Faculty of Law, Porthania, Yliopistonkatu 3

• Richard Court: Genoese merchants and the consuetudine 
• Edouard Richard: Rise of usages in French commercial law and jurisprudence (17th-19th centuries)
• Olivier Descamps: On origins of the French Commercial Code: vicissitudes of the Gorneau Draft.

Session 7: Expanding Horizons: Universal and Non-European Commercial Law

16.30-17.15, venue: Lecture room P545 (faculty meeting room), Faculty of Law, Porthania, Yliopistonkatu 3

• Albrecht Cordes: Levin Goldschmidt and the concept of universal commercial law.

Wednesday, 3 September 2014

Steering group meeting

Contact: 

• Jussi Sallila, Faculty of Law, Legal History, P.O. Box 4, FI-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland - jussi.sallila@helsinki.fi