Helsinki, September 1st – 3rd,
2014
Organisers:
“The Making of Commercial Law The Making of Commercial
Law: Common Practices and National Legal Rules from the Early Modern to the
Modern Period”
Project funded by the Academy of Finland and Finnish
Cultural Foundation
Prof. Heikki Pihlajamäki, University of Helsinki; and
the
Steering Group: Prof. Albrecht Cordes (Frankfurt), Prof. Serge
Dauchy (Lille) and Prof. Dave De ruysscher (Brussels)
Programme
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: The Birth of Commercial Law in Early Modern Sweden
Lunch break, 12.00-13.30
Session 2: Commercial Legal Conflict Resolution in the Baltic Sea Region
and Universal Commercial Law, 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
Albrecht Cordes: Levin
Goldschmidt and the concept of universal commercial law
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
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
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
No comments:
Post a Comment