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LEARNING LAW BY DOING:
EXPLORING LEGAL LITERACY IN PREMODERN SOCIETIES
14-15 January 2016,
Faculty of Law, University of Turku, Finland
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
Thu 14 Jan. 2016
9.45-10.15 Registration
10.15-11.45 Welcome
Introduction to Premodern Legal Literacy
KEYNOTE LECTURE 1:
Kitrina Bevan (University of Exeter/Independent Scholar): Legal Education in Late Medieval England: How Did Provincial Scriveners Learn Their Law?
11.45-13.00 Lunch
13.00-14.30 Session 1: LEGAL LITERACY IN THE PRE-MODERN EUROPEAN COUNTRYSIDE
Kendra Willson (University of Turku): The Panel of Neighbors in Early Icelandic Law
Riikka Miettinen (University of Tampere): The Laity’s Legal Knowledge and Utilization of the ‘Insanity Defence’ in Early Modern Sweden
Olli Viitaniemi (University of Helsinki): Finnish Pietistic Peasants Coping Strategy during Conventicle Act Trials between 1820-40s
14.30-15.00 Coffee break
15.00-16.00 SESSION 2: LEARNING BY DOING IN EUROPEAN COURTS OF APPEAL
Anette Baumann (University of Gießen): The Imperial Chamber Court as a Training Centre
Marianne Vasara-Aaltonen (University of Helsinki): Legal Learning of Various Kinds: Swedish Court of Appeal Judges in the Seventeenth Century
16.00-16.30 Coffee break
16.30-17.30 SESSION 3: FROM LITERACY TOWARDS PROFESSIONALISM
Marianna Muravyeva (Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg): ‘Instead of N. witnessed the deed’: Russian Legal Profession in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Heikki Pihlajamäki (University of Helsinki): From Legal Literates to Professional Advocates: Legal Counsel in Helsinki Courts, 1820-1880
17.30 Wine Reception
19.00 Dinner
Fri 15 Jan. 2016
9.00-10.30 SESSION 4: LEGAL LITERACY AND AGENCY IN EARLY MODERN EUROPEAN TOWNS
Petteri Impola (University of Jyväskylä): Agency of a Self-Educated Legal Representative in Seventeenth-Century Finland
Mia Korpiola (University of Turku): Legal Literates in Early Modern Swedish Towns: Evidence of Book Ownership in Estate Inventories
Griet Vermeesch (Free University of Brussels): The Legal Agency of Single Mothers. Lawsuits over Illegitimate Children and the Uses of Legal Aid to the Poor in the Dutch Town of Leiden (1750–1810)
10.30-11.00 Coffee break
11.00-12.15 KEYNOTE LECTURE 2:
Anna Kuismin (University of Helsinki): Ideal Types and Odd Men out: Legal Literacy and Social Mobility in Nineteenth-Century Finland
12.15-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.30 SESSION 5: LEARNING THE LAW BY POPULAR LEGAL LITERATURE
Annamaria Monti (University of Bocconi, Milan): Popular Legal Manuals: Sources and Mechanisms of Acquiring Legal Literacy (17th-19th-Centuries)
Jussi Sallila (University of Helsinki): Popular Legal Learning and Mid-Nineteenth-Century Finnish Nationalism
Laetitia Guerlain & Nader Hakim (University of Bordeaux): Acquiring Legal Literacy: Popular Legal Literature in Nineteenth-Century France
The conference venue is the Faculty of Law, Calonia, Caloniankuja 3, Turku.
It is possible to register online for the conference through the conference webpage:
https://www.utu.fi/en/units/law/news/events/Pages/learning-law-by-doing.aspx
For more information, please contact Mia Korpiola (mia.korpiola[at]utu.fi).
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