WHAT Histoire de l'économie sans travail, Colloquium
WHEN June 8-10 2017
WHERE Florence, Villa Finaly
The ESCLH aims to promote comparative legal history and seeks affiliation with individuals and organisations with complementary aims.
21 May 2017
NOTICE: "Oxford University Press launches the Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law"
Oxford University Press launches the
Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law
Your launchpad for global constitutional research
· Developed for use by constitutional lawyers, academics, and students
· Provides comprehensive analysis of constitutional law topics in a comparative context
· Linked to the constitutional texts so users can verify accuracy of commentary
· Built with accessibility in mind, with browsing by subject matter and simple search functionality
Oxford University Press is delighted to announce the launch of the Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law (MPECCoL), a new addition to the Oxford Constitutional Law family.
The Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law offers a global overview of constitutional law in a comparative context via painstakingly researched articles, and was developed with constitutional lawyers, academics, and students in mind. The online resource provides seamless navigation between encyclopedia articles, linking to English versions of the constitutional documents mentioned in articles and hosted on our Oxford Constitutions of the World and US Constitutional Lawproducts, as well as through references from the Oxford Law Citator.
Developed in partnership with the team of editors at the Max Planck Foundation for International Peace and the Rule of Law, the Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law has launched with 70 articles from more than 60 different authors, providing analytical coverage of constitutional law topics in a comparative context. This will grow to include over 500 articles once fully established, linked by an intuitive subject and keyword search functionality.
The articles define and cover the underpinnings of state formation and constitutional law, as well as analysing and explaining from a global comparative perspective a number of foundational legal concepts, such as:
· Human rights
· Constitutional formation
· Scope of state protections
· The defining structures of governmental makeup
· Types of legal structures and interactions within a constitutional law system; and
· Legal constitutional concepts that make up constitutional law
The Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law is available on annual subscription to libraries, organizations, and institutions worldwide. Pricing is based on the size and type of institution and the number of users.
If your readers/members are on the cutting edge of this field and would be interested in reading about Oxford’s new online resource, please consider announcing or reviewing it in your blog, newsletter, or journal.
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BOOK: "Landmark Cases in Criminal Law" P. Handler, H. Mares and I. Williams eds (May, 2017)
Landmark Cases in Criminal Law, edited by Philip Handler, Henry Mares and Ian Williams
all information here
Criminal cases raise difficult normative and legal questions, and are often a consequence of compelling human drama. In this collection, expert authors place leading cases in criminal law in their historical and legal contexts, highlighting their significance both in the past and for the present.
The cases in this volume range from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century. Many of them are well known to modern criminal lawyers and students; others are overlooked landmarks that deserve reconsideration. The essays, often based on extensive and original archival research, range over a wide spectrum of criminal law, covering procedure and doctrine, statute and common law, individual offences and general principles. Together, the essays explore common themes, including the scope of criminal law and criminalisation, the role of the jury, and the causes of change in criminal law.
Table Of Contents
16 May 2017
BOOK: Dante FEDELE, Naissance de la diplomatie moderne (XIIIe-XVIIe siècles). L'ambassadeur au croisement du droit, de l'éthique et de la politique [Studien sur Geschichte des Völkerrechts; 36). Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlag, 2017, 830 p. ISBN 9783848741274, € 198.
(image source: Nomos)
Dante Fedele (KULeuven) published his PhD dissertation (ENS Lyon) in the collection Studien zur Geschichte des Völkerrechts (Nomos).
Abstract:
The author investigates the birth of modern diplomacy. Drawing on a wide-ranging body of textual materials dealing with the ambassador from the 13th to the 17th century, he analyses how that figure was developed within a complex constantly renewed field of interaction between law, ethics and politics, where theory and practise are intertwined in an unresolved dialectical interaction. The first part examines how the legal status of the ambassador was shaped during the late Middle Ages and how this process influenced early-modern scholarship on diplomacy. The second part investigates how the emergence of the modern State both reinvigorated and reshaped the scholarly approaches to the different themes linked to the figure of the ambassador. The third part proposes an account of how the professional status of the ambassador developed within the examined body of literature. Through the prism of these approaches, diplomacy appears as a foundational matrix of modern political rationality.
More information on the publisher's website.
12 May 2017
SYMPOSIUM: Evaluating the Turn to History of International Law (ESIL Conference, Naples, 6 Sep 2017)
ESIL 2017 Annual Conference
Symposium of the
Interest Group on the History of International Law
“Evaluating the Turn to History of International Law”
Naples, Wednesday, 6 September 2017
13:00-17:00, Venue TBA
13:00: Welcome and Opening Remarks
Thomas Skouteris (The American University in Cairo)
13:00-14:30: Session 1
Martin Clark (London School of Economics): “Ambivalences, anxieties / Adaptations, advances”
Valentina Vadi (Lancaster University): “International Law and its Microhistories”
Amrita Mukherjee (University of Leeds): “Subaltern Studies & International Law”
Discussant: Gerry Simpson (London School of Economics)
15:00-16:30: Session 2
Miriam Bak Mackenna (Lund University) & Matilda Arvidsson (Lund University): “The ‘turn to history’ and the sources doctrine in international law: disruption, democratization, and distress”
Jan Martin Lemnitzer (University of Southern Denmark): “Writing a new history of international criminal law – where do we start?
Immi Tallgren (University of Helsinki): “A turn to women? Histories of ‘international criminal lawyers”
Discussant: Ignacio de la Rasilla del Moral (Brunel University)
Moderator: Inge van Hulle (Tilburg University)
16:30: Closing remarks and discussion on future activities of the IGHIL
Symposium Conveners/ IGHIL Coordinating Committee Members
Frederik Dhondt, Inge van Hulle, Ignacio de la Rasilladel Moral, and Thomas Skouteris
07 May 2017
BOOK: "L'eterno ritorno del Droit des gens di Emer de Vattel (secc. XVIII-XIX). L'impatto sulla cultura giuridica in prospettiva globale" by Elisabetta Fiocchi Malaspina (May, 2017)
Elisabetta Fiocchi Malaspina, L'eterno ritorno del Droit des gens di Emer de Vattel (secc. XVIII-XIX), May 2017
Global Perspectives on Legal History 8
With “L'eterno
ritorno del Droit des gens di Emer de
Vattel (secc. XVIII-XIX)” by Elisabetta Fiocchi Malaspina, the Max Planck Institute for European Legal
History presents the newest publication in its book series "Global
Perspectives on Legal History".
Global Perspectives on Legal History is a book series edited and
published by the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, Frankfurt am
Main, Germany.
As its
title suggests, the series is designed to advance the scholarly research of
legal historians worldwide who seek to transcend the established boundaries of
national legal scholarship that typically sets the focus on a single, dominant
modus of normativity and law. The series aims to privilege studies dedicated to
reconstructing the historical evolution of normativity from a global
perspective.
It includes
monographs, editions of sources, and collaborative works. All titles in the
series are available both as premium print-on-demand and in the open-access format.
Prof. Dr. iur. Elisabetta
Fiocchi Malaspina is Assistant Professor at the University of Zurich
L'eterno ritorno del Droit des gens di Emer de Vattel (secc. XVIII-XIX)
L'impatto
sulla cultura giuridica in prospettiva globale
Global
Perspectives on Legal History 8
Frankfurt
am Main: Max Planck Institute for European Legal History 2017. 364 p., € 17,69
D
ISBN:
978-3-944773-07-0
The numerous editions and early translations
produced throughout the eighteenth century enabled the broad dissemination of
Emer de Vattel’s juridical-political work Droit des gens. This book
investigates the global impact of the Droit des gens with regard to the
different political realities, the historical and legal contexts as well as the
attempts, mechanisms and strategies used to put these ideas into practice and
establish new doctrine between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
The Droit des gens
had an extremely diverse impact, owing to its varied reception in different
political situations, historical and legal contexts, and attempts at practical
and theoretical implementation. The fact that Vattel’s book was a point of
reference for a considerable number of jurists and politicians further
demonstrates its authority in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
The question naturally
arises whether the continuous references to the work may be regarded as
«typical citations of style», simply confined to referencing Vattel’s thought,
or whether they are a clear sign of a deeper significance; one springing
directly from the characteristics of the Droit des gens, with its
capacity to organise and regulate the State in its domestic and international
relations.
The dissemination of the Droit
des gens is reconstructed via a broad overview of the dynamics that
actually underpinned the use of the treatise, ranging from its influence on
political power in domestic and foreign affairs to its use as a guidebook for
diplomats and consuls, and even its use as a teaching manual.
Co-existing in Vattel’s
work are several topics—the legislative, the political and the social—which are
developed independently of one another, yet are part of one unified framework.
The book aims to bring together a study of the first publication in 1758 of
Vattel’s Droit des gens, its constant interaction with subsequent
editions, translations and annotated versions carried out by jurists in the 19th
century its critical reception (both positive and negative) in relation to the
more complex legislative contexts.
The publishing history of
the Droit des gens will be accompanied by the methodological
aspect—closely bound to the need to write a global legal history—in which
translation, in the broader sense of the term, plays a key role. Concepts of
fashion and modernity are examined within the context of the practical and
theoretical legal entanglements of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries,
thanks to the voices of distinguished jurists and politicians who made use of the
Droit des gens and who translated and annotated it, thereby encouraging
the assimilation—not always unadulterated—of Vattel’s thinking.
CONFERENCE & CFP: "Justice and judicial process. Evolution and development in the History of the law" (Murcia, November 29-30-December 1, 2017)
WHAT Justice and judicial process. Evolution and development in the History of the law, Conference & Call for papers
WHEN November 29-30-December 1, 2017
WHERE Murcia, Spain
Deadline for proposal is September 15th, 2017, by e-mail to catedrainocencio@gmail.com
Each participant will have 20 minutes to give his communication. Presentations can be given in Spanish, English, French, Italian, German or Portuguese.
The following publication of the works presented to the Congress will be subject to a blind refereeing process and to the editorial norms of the Vergentis (vergentis.ucam.edu).
BOOK: "The History of Law in Europe" by Bart Wauters and Marco de Benito (April, 2017)
Bart Wauters, Marco de Benito, The History of Law in Europe
Comprehensive and accessible, this book offers a concise synthesis of the evolution of the law in Western Europe, from ancient Rome to the beginning of the twentieth century. It situates law in the wider framework of Europe’s political, economic, social and cultural developments.
05 May 2017
EUROPEAN CHAIR OF THE COLLEGE DE FRANCE: Prof. dr. dr. Alain WIJFFELS (2016-2017)
(image source: Collège de France)
Prof. dr. dr. Alain A. Wijffels (KUL/UCL/Leiden/Lille II-CNRS) obtained the prestigious European Chair of the Collège de France for the academic year 2016-2017.
His inaugural lecture "Le droit européen a-t-il une histoire ? En a-t-il besoin ?" can be watched here.
A special section of the Collège de France's website is dedicated to the series of free public courses prof. Wijffels delivers. The first course (27 April; Métamorphoses du pouvoir : des droits savants médiévaux aux droits communs des Temps Modernes, la privatisation d'un système de gouvernance publique) can already be watched and listened to.
On 12 May, Prof. Wijffels organizes a colloquium on the comparative history of law, featuring several distinguished legal historians.
The final lecture (Pour une culture juridique européenne) will be held on 29 June.
Prof. Wijffels' appointment was echoed in mainstream media as well. A 30 minute-broadcast on France Inter ("La Marche de l'histoire") can be found here.
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