CONFERENCE: Lay Advocacy in the Pre-modern World (University of Turku, 28-29 May 2018)

(Source: University of Turku)

Please find below the programme for the conference “Lay Advocacy in the Pre-modern World”, to be held in Turku later this month.

Venue: Calonia, Caloniankuja 3 (Seminarhall Cal1006)
Schedule: 28–29 May, 2018
Organiser: Faculty of Law and Legal Literacy in Finland 1750–1920 Academy of Finland project

Programme

Monday 28 May 2018

17.00-17.15​	​Welcome
​17.15-18.30	​Keynote Lecture: Sir John Baker: The Regulation of Advocacy in Medieval and Early-Modern England
​ 19.00	​Conference Dinner

 Tuesday 29 May 2018

​9.30-10.30	​Raffaella Bianchi Riva: Lay Advocacy in the Treatises on Legal Profession: The Debate Surrounding Legal Ethics in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period Mia Korpiola: Advocates before Official Advocacy: Lay Advocacy in the Stockholm Town Court ca. 1615
​10.30-10.45	​Coffee break
​10.45-11.45	​Josep Capdeferro: "Síndics" in Early Modern Catalan Society: Legal Skills through Experience Petteri Impola: Lay Advocacy in the Court Records of Seventeenth-Century Sweden: Methodological Approach
​11.45-13.00	​Lunch
​13.00-14.15	​Keynote Lecture: Kjell Åke Modéer: From Amateurship to Quasi-professional Lawyering: Laymen’s Participation in Swedish Judicial Culture 1850–1950
​14.15-14.30	​Break
​14.30-16.00	​Marianne Vasara-Aaltonen: Lay Advocates at the Town Courts of Kuopio and Vaasa in Nineteenth-century Finland Zeynep Yazici Caglar: The Way to Define the Barrister in 19th Century England – Bar Examination Anna Kuismin: Representations of Lay Scribes and Advocates in Finnish Newspapers and Fiction from the 1840s to the 1920s
​16.00-16.30	​Coffee break
16.30-17.45	​Keynote Lecture: Jane Burbank: Advocacy and sovereignty: Perspectives from Russia
​19.30	​Dinner

For more information, see the conference page