NOTICE: ESCLH 5Th BIENNAL CONFERENCE (Paris, 28-30 Jun 2018) - Laws Across Codes and Laws Decoded: updated program and registration information

Please find below the updated program and registration information for the ESCLH Conference coming June.

ESCLH 5th Biennal Conference, Paris, 28-30 June, 2018 : Laws Across Codes and Laws Decoded

Thursday, the 28th of June


1) PhD presentations:

Ecole normale suéprieure, 48 Boulevard Jourdan, PhD presentations in two rooms (R1 07, R2 02), 9h00-12h30

1) panel 
-Tina Miletić (Split), Concept of testamentum in Medieval Dalmatia

- Łukasz Gołaszewski (Warsaw), Meandering way of the change of the civil and canon laws in 16th – 17th century Poland – a case of tithes and significance of legal practice

- Kaat Cappelle (Brussels), Married Women as legal agents in sixteenth-century Antwerp and Leuven

- Przemysław Gawron (Warsaw) and Jan Jerzy Sowa (Warsaw), Military Law between Codes and Realities of Early Modern Warfare. Codification and Decodification of Military Law in 17th Century England, Poland-Lithuania and Sweden

- Juan Manuel Hernandez-Velez (Paris), Emilien Petit (1713-1780) : a comparatist of codification avant la lettre

- Rafal Kaczmarczyk (Warsaw), The diverse model of codification, establishment or recognition of criminal law in Muslim countries

- Piotr Alexandrowicz (Poznan), The Code as an Instrument: the History of Canon Law and the Codification in the Church

- Naveen Kanalu Ramamurthy (Los Angeles), The “Sublime” Jurisprudence of Roman Law: British Jurists and the Codification of Islamic Law in Eighteenth-Century Colonial India

- Sebastian L. Spitra (Vienna), Codifying World Cultural Heritage: The Quest for New Narratives of a Global Legal History 

2) panel 

- Payam Ahmadi-Rouzbahani (Paris), Between Islamic Law and Civilian Tradition: The Particular Role of Codification in Making Iranian Civil Law through French Transplants

- Adrien Wyssbrod (Neuchâtel), The Supremacy of the Code in Continental Europe

- Omer Aloni (Tel Aviv), Whales, high seas and the codification of international law: the League of Nations and the whaling dilemma, a case study in comparative legal history – 1919-1939 

- Evlampia Tsolaki (Thessaloniki), The Paradigm of the Hellenic Civil Code 

- Elisabeth Bruyère (Ghent), Civil Code and Nature Law 

- Kellen Funk (Princeton), An Empire in itself: the Migration of New York’s Remedial Code 

- Julie Rocheton (Paris), The 19th century American Definition of Civil Code 

- Matthieu Juneau (Québec), The influence of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council on the interpretation of the Civil Code of Lower Canada 

- Airton Ribeiro da Silva Junior (Firenze), Brazilian efforts on the codification of international law in the early twentieth century: the trajectory of the Epitácio Pessoa's draft code on public international law

Thursday 28th of June 14:00 – 19:00 PLENARY SESSION


Ecole normale supérieure, 45, rue d’Ulm, 75005 Paris, Dussane Room (Enter the main building, take the corridor to the left. The Dussane room is at the end on the left).


14h- 15h Registration and Greetings by the ESCLH President Aniceto Masferrer

15H 16h 30 Key Notes:

Catharine MacMillan (King’s College, London):
Why English law is not codified: the unsuccessful efforts of Victorian jurists

Pedro Barbas Homem (University of Lisbon):
Science of legislation and codification. The preparation of codification by legal literature in Portugal and Brazil

16h30 coffee break

17h-18h 30 First panel

- Luigi Lacché (Macerata), An impossible codification? Drafting Principles of Administrative Law: the Italian Experience in a Comparative perspective (19th-20th centuries)

- Matt Dyson (Oxford), Legal Change in Tort in the shadow of codification

- Dirk Heirbaut (Ghent), Past failures are no guarantee of a future flop: why Belgium's dismal codification record may enable radical change today

18h30- 19h Legal education in Paris, Jean-Louis Halpérin


Friday 29th of June, Beginning at 9h00 am, coffee break 10h30-11h, lunch buffet 12h30-13h30, concert and dinner 19h00)

I) Amphitheater Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan 75014 Paris

9h-10h30 Panel Criminal Codification

Karl Härter (Darmstadt), Aniceto Masferrer (Valencia), Isabel Ramos-Vázquez (Jaén), Juan B. Cañizares-Navarro (Jaén), Criminal law and the Limits of State Power in the Era of Codification


11h-12h30 Why a Civil Code?

Hans Schulte-Nölke (Osnabrück), On the purposes of Civil Law Codification

Nir Kedar (Bar-Ilan), The Symbolic Aspect of Civil Code

Constantin Willems (Marburg), Advocating Codes – from Thibaut to European Contract Law

13h30 – 15h00 Panel Legal Practices and Legal Professions in the 19th Century Japan, China, the Ottoman Empire, and England

Murat Burak Aydin (Frankfurt), Lena Foljanty (Frankfurt), Yu Wang (Frankfurt), Zeynep Yazici Caglar (Frankfurt)


15h15-16h45 Panel Hungary Codification

Judit Beke-Martos (Bochum), Zsuzsanna Peres (Budapest), Imre Képessy (Budapest), Modernization through Codification? External and Internal Comparison of the Hungarian Codification History

17h00-18h30 Panel The Codification of Unjustified Enrichment in French Law

Eric Descheemaeker (Melbourne), Jan Hallebeek (Amsterdam), Matthew Campbell (Glasgow) and Pablo Letelier (Universidad de Chile)


II) International University City of Paris (Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris, Maison des Provinces de France, 59 boulevard Jourdan, salon Abreu)

9h-10h30 Medieval Law

Valerio Massimo Minale (Milano), Dušan's Zakonik: Codification in Maedieval Serbia and Byzantine Heritage 

Tomislav Karlovic (Zagreb), et en fist assises et usages que l’on deust tenir et maintenir et user el roiaume de Jerusalem « Decoding the Laws of the Kingdom of Jerusalem

Andreja Katančevi (Belgrade), The Mining Code of Despot Stefan 

Helen F. Leslie-Jacobsen (Bergen), How Innovative is Innovative? Adaptations of Norwegian Law in New Law Codes in Iceland and Norway from the Tenth to Thirteenth Centuries

11h-12h30 Criminal Law

Stefano Vinci (Bari), Criminal law and Naples Supreme Court case law in the French decade 

Francesco Mastroberti (Bari), The Part II of the Code for the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies: an "excellent" criminal code in a despotic state

Emmanuel Berger (Paraiba), Le Code des délits et des peines du 3 brumaire an IV. Enquête sur les origines et les principes du code de procédure pénale de la Révolution

13h30-15h00 16th /17th centuries

Adam Moniuszko (Warsaw), ‘Codification’ of Polish and Lithuanian law in the 16th-17th centuries: successes, failures and impact on legal systems.

Marek Stary (Prague), The Role of the Monarch on the Codifications of Land Law in the Estates’ State

Adolfo Giuliani (Helsinki), Codes without natural law. The case of Jacopo Menochio's De praesumptionibus (1587)

15h15-16h45 Asia 

Naoki Kanayama (Tokyo), Japan's "Success" in Codification in the Late 19th Century: By Code, with Code and beyond Code

Khohchahar E. Chuluu (Tokyo), Laws of Different Levels:
Central and Regional Codification in Early Modern Mongolia and Japan

Hiromi Sasamoto-Collins (Edinburgh), The Japanese Criminal Code of 1880: Convergence and Resistance in Cultural Exchange

Guliyev Emin (Baku), Jar-Tala Code of law (decree of the Agdam Majlis) as an act of systematization of the Islamic law and adats

17h00-18h30 Panel Criminal Codification Italy

Emilia Musumeci (Teramo), Monica Stronati (Macerata), Paolo Marchetti (Teramo), Riccardo Cavallo (Firenze), A colourful mosaic: doctrinal influences on Italian penal codification in the long Nineteenth Century


III) International University City of Paris, Maison de étudiants de l’Asie du Sud-Est (59 boulevard Jourdan), Salon Asie du Sud-Est


9h-10h30 Rights

Ivan Kosnica (Zagreb), Yugoslav Citizenship Law (1918 – 1941): Between Diversity and Unification

Marju Luts-Sootak, Hesi Siimets-Gross, Marelle Leppik (Tartu), Codification of basic rights in Estonian Constitution (1920) compared with imperial Russian and German republican models

Thomas Mohr (Dublin), Codes of Rights in the British Empire, 1865-1939

11h-12h30 19th/20th centuries

Filippo Rossi (Milan), Dismissal across codes and laws decodes.
Italian and European legal science dealing with the termination of the employment relationship (latter half of the 19 century-first years of the 20 century)

Frederik Dhondt (Brussel), Permanent Neutrality, Stepping-Stone for a Code of Nations

Michal Galedek (Gdansk), Comparative analysis as the method of building the Polish civil law from scratch in the interwar period

Dolores Freda (Napoli), The Italian “emigration code” of 1919

13h30-15h00 20th century

Martin Sunnqvist (Lund), The “Rule of Life”. The Functions of Legislation and Adjudication according to Wilhelm Sjögren in a Comparative Historical Context

Fernando Gil González (London), The theory of Cappelletti in the review of comparative legal history systems in Europe

Hesi Siimets-Gross and Katrin Kiirend-Pruuli (Tartu), Changes of Estonian and Latvian Divorce Law after WWI: in Draft, in Civil Code and outside of them

Valdis Blūzma (Turiba), History of the Codification of Civil Law in Latvia (19th-20th centuries): Overcoming the Territorial and Estate Particularism of Law

15h15-16h45 America

Agustin Parise (Maastricht), Stepping Stones for Law and Society: An Exploration of the Generations of Civil Codes in Latin America (19-21 Centuries)

Joshua Tate (Dallas), Codification of Texas Trust Law, 1943-2017

Diego Nunes (Santa Catarina), Codification, Recodification and Decodification of Law:a History of Legal Dimensions of Justice in the Imperial Brazil by the “Codigo de Processo Criminal” of 1832

17h00-18h30 Civil Law

Piotr Pomianowski (Warsaw), The national codification of civil law in Poland at the beginning of the 19th century. Sources and inspirations

Manuel Gutan (Sibiu), Codification as a Tool of Social Engineering in Modern Romania (!?) The Case of Civil Code Alexandru Ioan

Emőd Veress (Cluj-Napoca), Abrogation of the 1887 Romanian commercial code and the survival of its institutions and concepts, in the context of the new civil Code

19h00 Piano Concert and Buffet in salon Abreu, Maison des Provinces de France


Saturday the 30th of June, light buffet 12:30 to 13:30


I) Amphitheater Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan 75014 Paris

9h-10h30 Codification Movement

Mingzhe Zhu (Pekin), Notions of Law in the Era of Codification

Dmitry Poldnikov (Moscow), Codifying the Laws of the Late Russian Empire: Legal Unification through Contested Western Legal Tradition?

Ditlev Tamm (Copenhagen), To codify or not to codify – the Nordic discussion

11h00-12h30 Legal Periodicals Panel

Marju Luts-Sootak, Merike Ristikivi (Tartu), Sebastiaan Vandenbogaerde (Ghent), Legal Periodicals as Alternative to Codes?


13h30-15h00 Commercial Law

Dave de Ruysscher (Tilburg), Pre-Insolvency Proceedings (France, Belgium and the Netherlands, 1807-c 1910)

Annamaria Monti (Milano), Commercial Codes: the Italian Example in a comparative perspective

Efe Antalyali (Istanbul), Ottoman Jurisprudential Shift: Recpetion of French Commercial Law (1807)

15h 15-16h45 Final Plenary (for all participants)


II) International University City of Paris (Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris, Maison des Provinces de France, 59 boulevard Jourdan, salon Abreu)

9h-10h30 20th century

Raffaella Bianchi Riva (Milano), Legal Ethics in the 19th and 20th centuries: A code of conduct for Italian and European lawyers?

Dalibor Cepulo (Zagreb), Local court in Croatia: transplant and challenges of modernity

Marcin Lysko (Bialystok), Main problems of the codification works on substantive misdemeanour law in People’s Poland

11h00-12h30 Overseas

Anna Taitslin and Murray Raf (Canberra), Codification or Transplantation? The Case of Absolute Ownership

Ricardo Sontag (Minais Gerais), Models, examples and antimodels: representations of foreign penal codes within the Brazilian codification process (1928-1940)

Paul Swanepoel (KwaZulu-Natal), Codifying Criminal Law in East Africa, 1920-1945

13h30-15h 00 20th century

Coding Authoritarianism: Law, State, Ideology and World War 2

Cosmin Sebastian Cercel (Nottingham), Discontinued Dictatorships: (Re)Coding Authoritarianism in Antonescu's Romania; David Fraser (Nottingham), Decoding the Jew: Vichy's National Legal Revolution; Simon Lavis (Open University), Codes, Codification and Encoding Nazism in the Legal System of the Third Reich; Stephen Skinner (Exeter), Central Authority in Codified and Non-Codified Legal Systems: Law in the Shadow of the State, or the State in the Shadow of the Law?

III) Ecole normale supérieure, 48 boulevard Jourdan, R 3-46.

9h-10h30, 19th and 20th centuries

Arthur Barrêtto de Almeido Costa and Ricardo Sontag (Minais Gerais), Change Through Mercy. Royal Pardon and Criminal Law Reforms in Late 19th Century in Brazil and France

Anna Klimaszewska (Gdansk), Code de commerce of 1807 as an instrument of transforming legal reality - the Polish point of view


Sara Pilloni (Trieste), “Roman Legal Heritage and Codification Processes: the Role of Italian Roman Law Scholars in the Codification of Civil Law”

11h00-12h30 Civil Law

Asya Ostroukh (West Indies), An Unlimited Number of Limited Real Rights: A Story of an Adaptation of French Property Law in Francophone Switzerland, Quebec, and Louisiana in the Nineteenth Century

Katharina Kaesling (Bonn), Codified Conditions vs. Judicial Discretion in Family Law: What codification means for the adaptation of maintenance law to social change

Maria Lewandowicz (Gdansk), How to make impossible possible? On the unification of inheritance law in Switzerland in the 19th century

13h30-15h00 Comparisons

Marianna Muravyeva (Tampere), Gendering the Law or Codifying Gender: Family Law in Early Modern Europe

Raphaël Cahen (Brussels), Joseph Marie Portalis (1778-1858): from comparatism to the idea of a European code of Citizenship

Pim Oosterhuis (Maastricht), Is there something like the ‘Great Litigation Increase’?

VENUES AND HOTELS


Ecole Normale Supérieure


Campus « Quartier latin », 45 rue d’Ulm, 75000 Paris (on the 28th of June, afternoon)


Campus Jourdan 48 boulevard Jourdan 75014 Paris


On the other side of Boulevard Jourdan (number 59), Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris


The two campus are linked through Underground RER B (stations Luxembourg and Cité Universitaire)


Arrival from Paris airports: Stations Charles de Gaulle Etoile (RER A), Montparnasse (Underground)


Plan of Paris Underground : https://www.ratp.fr/plan-metro


École normale supérieure

45, rue d’Ulm / 29 rue d’Ulm / 24 rue Lhomond

F-75230 Paris cedex 05

Tél. +33 (0)1 44 32 30 00 (standard)



Campus Jourdan

48, boulevard Jourdan

75014 Paris

Tél. +33 (0)1 43 13 61 00 (standard)



Campus Montrouge (with some possible rooms for PhD candidates)

1, rue Maurice Arnoux

92120 Montrouge

Tél. +33 (0)1 58 07 65 00 (standard)

Recommended hotels near the venues of the Conference (approximate price for a night):



Ibis Paris Porte d’Orléans

Adresse : 33 Rue Barbès, 92120 Montrouge, France

Téléphone : +33 1 42 31 67 00

Around 75 €


Hôtel Cujas-Panthéon

Adresse : 18 Rue Cujas, 75005 Paris, France

Téléphone : +33 1 43 54 58 10

Around 150 €



Hôtel de Senlis

Adresse : 9 Rue Malebranche, 75005 Paris, France

Téléphone : +33 1 43 29 93 10

Around 100 €


Hôtel Observatoire Luxembourg

Adresse : 107 Boulevard Saint-Michel, 75005 Paris, France

Téléphone : +33 1 46 34 10 12

Around 230 €


Hotel Novotel Paris 14 Porte d’Orléans

Adresse : 15, 17, 21 boulevard Romain, Rolland, 75014 Paris, France

Téléphone : +33 1 41 17 26 00

Around 125 €


Hotel Mercure Paris Alesia

Adresse : 185 Boulevard Brune, 75014 Paris, France

Téléphone : +33 1 45 39 68 50

Around 140 €


Hôtel du Midi

Adresse : 4 Avenue René Coty, 75014 Paris, France

Téléphone : +33 1 43 27 23 25

Around 120 €



Hotel Max

Adresse : 34 Rue d'Alésia, 75014 Paris, France

Téléphone : +33 1 43 27 60 80

Around 170 €



Hôtel Terminus Orléans

Adresse : 197 Boulevard Brune, 75014 Paris, France

Téléphone : +33 1 45 39 71 44

Around 80 €


Hôtel Best Western Nouvel Orléans Montparnasse

Adresse : 25 Avenue du Général Leclerc, 75014 Paris, France

Téléphone : +33 1 43 27 80 20

Around 160 €


Hôtel Les Jardins du Luxembourg

Adresse : 5 Impasse Royer-Collard, 75005 Paris, France

Téléphone : +33 1 40 46 08 88

Around 170 €


Hôtel Elysa-Luxembourg

Adresse : 6 Rue Gay-Lussac, 75005 Paris, France

Téléphone : +33 1 43 25 31 74

Around 180 €


Hôtel Claude Bernard Saint Germain

Adresse : 43 Rue des Écoles, 75005 Paris

Téléphone : 01 43 26 32 52

Around 150 €


Hotel Best Western Bretagne Montparnasse

Adresse : 33 Rue Raymond Losserand, 75014 Paris

Téléphone : 01 45 38 52 59

Around 130 €


Hotel Montparnasse Daguerre

Adresse : 94 Rue Daguerre, 75014 Paris

Téléphone : 01 43 22 43 54

Around 130€


The attendance to the Conference is free for every member of the ESCLH. It needs the payment of a fee for non-members. Please inform jean-louis.halperin@ens in case of attendance to the Conference.