(Source: Risk and the Insurance Business)
We have received the following Call for Papers:
CALL FOR PAPERS: Risk and the Insurance Business in History
An International Conference, Seville 2019
The
International Conference on Risk and the Insurance Business in History will be
held in June 11th to 14th 2019 on the historic city of Seville.
The Scientific
Committee has accepted a set of 23 parallel sessions to shape the program of
the conference (please see the complete list in the attached files).
Now we are
opening the call for participation in these sessions. Please feel free to
consider the most suitable session for your paper. Proposals should include
names and affiliations of the author/s; title and abstract. Please note that
session organisers have the final decision to accept paper proposals for their
sessions. Session organisers are requested to forward to the conference
organisers any proposals for papers that they cannot include in their session,
so that the conference organisers, with the assistance of the Scientific
Committee, have an opportunity of placing the papers elsewhere in the
conference if that proves possible. The definite list of accepted papers will
be announced in September 30th 2018.
Proposals of
sessions should be directed to the organiser/s of the session, with copy to the
conference mail insurance.international.conference@unia.es
The deadline
to send paper proposals is June 30th 2018.
ABSTRACT
Modern scholars of insurance law refer to insurance as a legal product. In a contract of sale,
for
example, the parties exchange goods against money. By contrast, in an insurance transaction the parties exchange money against money: the insurer receives the premiums from the policy holder and in turn promises to pay the insured sum when a certain risk eventuates. The right of the insured to the insured sum is determined in the contract, a legal document, and the boundaries of what the
parties can agree upon are set by the law. Against this background, it comes as a surprise that
research in the history of insurance has been dominated by
economic historians and that within
the domain of legal history the
history of insurance
law
has hitherto
played
only
a marginal role. And were research into the history of insurance law
exists it is (as traditional research in
legal
history tends to be) confined to the boundaries of a given jurisdiction. As a consequence, different
national narratives have developed. The development
of such national narratives is highly
problematic. Only recently, legal historians have rediscovered the field of the history of insurance
law
as a field of study. However, research into
the
history of insurance law faces a number of
challenges. (1) It is an interdisciplinary field of study. Without a firm knowledge of the history of
the
socio-economic background and without a thorough understanding
of insurance markets an analysis of legal questions is
impossible. (2)
Nevertheless, legal historians
have
to define their
research object independently of other disciplines.
Lawyers of all times tend to
transpose known solutions to
new problems. For the understanding where legal rules in insurance law originated from, legal historians, thus, have to
look beyond the sphere of insurance.
(3) Finally, insurance
practice often has not left any
traces in the legal discourse, in
legislation or in the case law. And
where
it
has legal historians do not always appreciate that insurance practice may have followed
different paths.
The session will have four presentations of 20 minutes each, followed by a discussion. The
Organiser invites submissions which challenge, and go beyond, the
traditional narratives of
insurance legal history without restricting
them to any specific field or time frame. Submissions
related to, for example, marine insurance, fire insurance, life insurance, guild welfare or state run
insurance
schemes,
to name just some,
and covering any legal question will be
considered.
For more information, please see the conference's website
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