PODCAST: François OST, A quoi sert le droit ? [France Culture/Les cours du Collège de France, 26 OCT 2018]

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Podcast abstract:

Le droit pourrait-il se dissoudre aujourd’hui dans un océan de normativité indistincte, déterritorialisée et managériale ? s’interroge François Ost. Ce grand juriste et philosophe du droit, a été l’invité, cette année, d’Alain Supiot, titulaire de la chaire État social et mondialisation : analyse juridique des solidarités, pour son stimulant livre À quoi sert le droit ? Usages, fonctions, finalités, édité chez Bruylant en 2016. Sa riche bibliographie montre la diversité de ses questionnements. Il a ainsi publié chez Odile Jacob Le Temps du Droit, puis  Raconter la Loi : Aux sources de l'imaginaire juridique, mais aussi Sade et la loi (il a beaucoup travaillé sur les rapports entre littérature et droit) et aux éditions de la Découverte, il est l'auteur de Nature hors-la-loi, l’écologie à l’épreuve du droit. Revendiquant une approche interdisciplinaire, François Ost présente le droit (mais aussi les droits, il s'en expliquera au cours de sa conférence) comme une mise en questions organisée.Dès cette contribution de François Ost, nous ouvrons un cycle qui interroge la place du droit face aux grandes mutations qui bouleversent nos sociétés, à commencer par "la rupture avec le gouvernement des lois" que permet la révolution technique et culturelle liée à l'informatique et l'affirmation d'une "gouvernance par les nombres", pour reprendre l'expression d'Alain Supiot. Dès lundi, nous le retrouverons d'ailleurs sur ces stimulantes questions, mais pour l'heure, nous gagnons l’amphithéâtre du Collège de France, le 19 janvier 2018,  où le grand juriste français reçoit François Ost, Professeur de philosophie et de sociologie du droit à Bruxelles et à Genève, membre de l’Académie royale de Belgique, président de l’Académie européenne de théorie du droit, pour sa conférence.

More information here.

JOURNAL: Vergentis VI (2018)

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Vergentis is a scientific initiative of the International Chair Innocent III of the Catholic University of Murcia and of the Institutum Utriusque Iuris of the Pontifical Lateran University for the research in History of Law, ius commune and Canon law.

The Journal, in its six-monthly editions, comes both in paper and digital format (the digital version is freely accessible, with no restriction, in open access modality) and it collects scientific articles that are submitted to two specialists in the subject, following the process of the double-blind peer review.

In addition to this, Vergentis is in charge of the paper and digital publication of the proceedings of the International Conference that the International Chair Innocent III holds every year in the Catholic University of Murcia, in the presence of the great personalities of the academic world; the Conference represents an opportunity to make a reflection and a debate regarding the History of Law, Canon Law and the related subjects, without forgetting the dialogue with the Positive Jurist and always considering the signs of times.

The international standing of the Journal, acknowledged as a forum of reflection, novelty and interdisciplinary university research, is regarded favourably and it is supported by more than 200 Historians of Law, Jurists and Canonists of the World, who compose the Scientific council of Referee and the Editorial Board.

Vergentis is regularly published in the catalogues of hundreds of libraries of the world and in the main databases of scientific journals such as Erih Plus - of the European Science Foundation-, DOAJ, WorldCat, OpenAire, Dialnet, MIAR and many others.

The most recent issue, focusing on 'The judicial process', is available now.

(source: Catedra Innocencio III)

INTERVIEW: Anne SCHULT (NYU) interviews Martti KOSKENNIEMI on "Sovereignty, Property and the Locus of Power" (Journal of the History of Ideas Blog)

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The Blog of the Journal of the History of Ideas has published an interview with Martti Koskenniemi.

First paragraph:

Anne: Your work has long explored the nature of governance through international law—in the past as much as in the present. The book project you have been working on over the past years, which explores the correlation of sovereignty and property in international law, is no different in this regard. As you seek to illustrate, sovereignty arises from an often hidden foundation of private property relations, while these exact relations are bound to be delimited by what we call ‘public power’—meaning we ultimately have been, and continue to be, governed by both. This argument re-emphasizes some of the questions your earlier work has tackled with regard to the critical role of international law in politics—or, to be more accurate, international law asinternational politics. But it also appears to address a more fundamental problem in the conceptualization of international law by suggesting that seemingly benign relations of private property are intrinsically connected to the realm of international power struggles. In your mind, how does this project depart from, or perhaps even in part revise, your prior work on the origins of modern international law?

Read further here.
(source: ESILHIL Blog)

CALL FOR PROPOSALS: UK-German Call for Proposals: Funding Initiative in the Humanities (DEADLINE: 20 February 2019)

(Source: DFG)

We learned of a UK-German funding initiative in the humanities, including law.

The UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) hereby launch a competitive call for proposals with a view to bringing together arts and humanities researchers in the UK and humanities (including law and linguistics) researchers in Germany to conduct outstanding joint UK-German research projects.

Both funding agencies are aware that some of the best research can only be achieved by working with the best researchers internationally. Accordingly, they wish to fund academic research of the highest quality within their own countries, to strengthen and deepen cooperation between their two countries in the relevant fields, and to contribute to the growth of a transnational collaborative research culture in the UK and Germany.

The scheme will provide funding for integrated UK-German projects. The partner agencies will organise a coordinated peer review and a single joint selection process. Funding will be distributed among the research partners according to the researchers’ place of work and, in general, according to the funding rules of each individual agency.

The call is open to applications addressing any research topic where there is significant potential to advance knowledge through collaborative research bringing together arts and humanities researchers in the UK and humanities (including law and linguistics) researchers in Germany (see call document for further details of the remit of the call).

Awards will normally be for, and in any case will not exceed, a period of three years. On the UK side awards will be for up to a total of £350,000 (fEC). Projects do not have to be symmetrical, in the sense that neither the sums requested nor the items requested have to be identical on the UK and German sides, but there should not be large discrepancies – we would expect the work packages to be delivered reasonably equally.

This first joint call is being administered by DFG and applications must be submitted via DFG’s submission system “elan”. Deadline for this call for proposals: 20 February 2019 at midnight CET.

More information can be found here

BOOK: Nicolas LAURENT-BONNE & Xavier PRÉVOST (dir.), Penser l'ancien droit privé. Regards croisés sur les méthodes des juristes, II [Contextes. Culture(s) du droit, ed. Anne-Sophie CHAMBOST] (Paris: LGDJ, 2018), 228 p. ISBN 978-2-275-05904-4, € 44

Book abstract:

L'ouvrage s'inscrit dans le sillage d'un premier volume, intitulé Penser l'ordre juridique médiéval et moderne, qui tentait d'évaluer la tendance des historiens des facultés de droit à jeter un voile dogmatique, sinon trompeur, sur les réalités normatives du Moyen Âge et des Temps modernes. Consacré cette fois-ci, non à l'ordre juridique médiéval et moderne, mais à l'écriture de l'histoire du droit privé, ce deuxième volume a pour ambition de livrer une réflexion épistémologique sur l'un des enjeux de l'historiographie juridique : peut-on penser l'ancien droit privé à partir des catégories juridiques contemporaines ? Il semble en effet que le droit privé - au moins en France - ait largement échappé à de tels questionnements, qui ont pourtant fait l'objet de débats nourris dans la plupart des autres champs de la connaissance historique. Afin de combler ce manque, l'ouvrage entend porter dans le champ du droit privé le dilemme bien connu du rapport de la recherche historique au présent, telle l'opposition entre écriture d'une histoire continuiste et celle d'une histoire inactuelle. Plus largement, les deux volumes souhaitent contribuer aux débats sur la place de l'analyse historique du droit.

On the editors:

Xavier Prévost, agrégé des facultés de droit, agrégé d'économie et gestion, archiviste paléographe (diplômé de l'École des chartes), ancien élève de l'École normale supérieure de Cachan, est professeur d'histoire du droit à l'université de Bordeaux. Nicolas Laurent-Bonne est agrégé des facultés de droit et professeur d'histoire du droit à l'université Clermont Auvergne.

More information here.

CALL FOR PAPERS: ESCLH - Second Postgraduate Conference in Comparative Legal History, 27-29 June 2019 (DEADLINE: 15 January 2019)

We are pleased to announce a Call for Papers for the 2^nd ESCLH Postgraduate Conference: 

Second Postgraduate Conference in Comparative Legal History
27–29 June 2019, Augsburg University, Germany
Call for Papers

The European Society for Comparative Legal History (ESCLH) is pleased to announce its Second Postgraduate Conference. The ESCLH invites PhD-students (beyond their first year) and post-doctoral-researchers who work in the field of comparative legal history to participate in the conference. The conference will be held from 27 to 29 June 2019 at Augsburg University, Germany.

The ESCHL wants to overcome the narrow nationalism and geographical segregation of legal history in contemporary European scholarship and professional organisations. The society, thus, aims to promote comparative legal history, the explicit comparison of legal ideas and institutions in two or more legal traditions.

The Second Postgraduate Conference of the ESCLH will give advanced PhD-students and post-doctoral-researchers the opportunity to present their research in the field of comparative legal history to a panel of six leading experts. Furthermore, the conference will give all participants the opportunity to build academic networks. The experts on the panel cover a broad range of subjects: Ulrike Babusiaux (Zürich), Mia Korpiola (Turku), Annamaria Monti (Milano), Wim Decock (Leuven), Matthew Dyson (Oxford), and Aniceto Masferrer (Valencia).

The ESCLH invites advanced doctoral candidates and post-doctoral researchers to submit abstracts for presentation. The abstract should be of no more than 300 words and give the title of your research project, your field of research, and your personal data (full name, email address, affiliated university, CV) to:

phillip.hellwege@jura.uni-augsburg.de

The conference language is English and abstracts must be submitted in English. The closing date for receipt of abstracts is 15 January 2019. 12 applicants will be selected and invited to participate in the conference. Successful applicants will be informed by 15 February 2019.

Participants are expected to cover their own travel expenses. Accommodation and catering will be provided without charge.

SPECIALISATION COURSE: Roman Private Law (3-7 DEC 2018) (Lisbon: Universidade de Lisboa)

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The Centre for Legal Theory and History of the University of Lisbon organizes a Specialisation Course in Roman Private Law, taught by Professor Francisco CUENA BOY, titular professor of Roman Law at the University of Cantabria. The course will take place from Monday to Friday, between 14:30-15:30 and 16:00-17:00.

Structure:
§ 1. A concept of Roman Law for teaching and research purposes
§ 2. Contemporary constraints in teaching Roman Law
§ 3. Roman Law research methods and purposes
§ 4. The relevance of Roman Law for contemporary jurists

Participation to the full course costs € 20, a single session € 10.

Information and registration with the organisation.

More information in the PDF announcement here.

Source: Dr. Ana Isabel Barceló Caldeira Fouto (Lisbon).

SSRN PAPER: John C. HARRISSON, 'The Constitution and the Law of Nations', Georgetown Law Journal XVI (2018), 1659-1705

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Abstract:

Under the original understanding of the Constitution, customary international law features in the U.S. legal system as general law. It is not law of the United States within the meaning of Articles III or VI of the Constitution, and so does not serve as a basis for federal question jurisdiction or override contrary state law. Under the original understanding, the Constitution does not confer the protections of the international law of state-state relations on either foreign states or governments that have been recognized as such by federal political actors. Congress may confer those protections by statute, but in the absence of statute or treaty, they rest on general law. The Constitution’s text indicates that the laws of the United States referred to in Articles III and VI consist entirely of federal statutes. The Federal Convention’s drafting process indicates that members of the convention had that understanding of the text they produced. That process also indicates that the drafters probably understood the laws referred to by the Take Care Clause of Article II to consist of federal statutes. Prominent figures in the ratification debates treated Articles III and VI as using the term “laws of the United States” to refer to statutes. The First Congress drafted the Judiciary Act of 1789 on the assumption that the laws of the United States referred to in Articles III and VI were federal statutes. During the 1793 prosecution of Gideon Henfield for non-statutory criminal violations of the United States’ neutrality, a number of leading figures took the position that the federal courts could entertain prosecutions under unwritten law. It is unlikely, however, that any of them meant to assert that the law of nations was law of the United States within the meaning of Articles III or VI.

Fulltext on SSRN.

(source: ESILHIL Blog)

PRIZE: Hermann Conring Prize 2018 for Stephan DUSIL for Wissensordnungen des Rechts im Wandel. Päpstlicher Jurisdiktionsprimat und Zölibat zwischen 1000 und 1215 [Mediaevalia Lovaniense; Studia; 1/47], (Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2018), 642 p. 9789462701335, € 95

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The KULeuven announced that Prof. dr. Stefan DUSIL (Research Unit of Roman Law and Legal History) won the Hermann Conring Preis 2018 for the book Wissensordnungen des Rechts im Wandel. Päpstlicher Jurisdiktionsprimat und Zölibat zwischen 1000 und 1215 [Mediaevalia Lovaniense; Studia; 1/47], (Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2018), 642 p. 9789462701335, available for € 95 here

Book abstract:

Die Studie untersucht die Ordnung des mittelalterlichen Rechtswissens in vorgratianischen Sammlungen, dem Decretum Gratiani sowie den Glossen und Summen zum Dekret. Im Mittelpunkt steht also das kirchenrechtliche Wissen, das sich zwischen 1000 und 1215 grundlegend änderte: Während kirchliche Rechtsregeln um 1000 in Kanonessammlungen linear gespeichert waren, wurden sie im 12. Jahrhundert zu komplexem Rechtswissen miteinander verknüpft. Auf Basis einer umfassenden Auswertung der handschriftlichen Überlieferung wird der Wandel des Rechtswissens anhand des päpstlichen Jurisdiktionsprimats und des Zölibats analysiert. Zudem zeigt die Untersuchung den Einfluss der artes liberales und der Rhetorik bei der Ordnung kirchlicher Normen. Die Studie gibt so einen faszinierenden Einblick in die Entstehung der Kanonistik und zeigt zugleich die Vielfältigkeit und Vielschichtigkeit des juristischen Wissens im Hochmittelalter.

English abstract:

Between 1000 and 1215, the knowledge of canon law changed fundamentally. Although ecclesiastic rules of law had been linearly collected by 1000, they had evolved into complex, highly interlinked carriers of knowledge by 1215. By carefully examining manuscript transmission, this book elucidates the evolution of legal knowledge, taking papal jurisdictional primacy and clerical celibacy as an illustrative example. Furthermore, it shows the influence the artes liberales and rhetoric had on the organisation of canon law. This study thus offers fascinating insights into the origins of canon law as an academic discipline, thereby also demonstrating the diversity and multi-layeredness of legal knowledge in the High Middle Ages.

(source: KULeuven)

LECTURE AND MEDAL: Sarton Medal for Legal History to Prof. dr. Paul BRAND (Oxford) (Ghent: Ghent University, 22 NOV 2018): 'The beginning of the English common law (to c. 1350)'

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Prof. Dr. Paul Brand (Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford) will receive the George Sarton Medal for the History of Sciences for the History of Law at Ghent University. Collega Proximus is Prof. dr. Dirk Heirbaut (Ghent Legal History Institute). Previous laureates include Serge Dauchy (Lille/St-Louis), Jos Monballyu (KULeuven), Raoul Van Caenegem (UGent), Anne Lefèbvre-Teillard (Paris II), Jean-Louis Halpérin (Ecole Normale Supérieure), Ignacio Czeghun (FU Berlin), Jürgen Weitzel (Würzburg), Emanuele Conte (Roma III).

Professor Brand will pronounce an oration entitled 'The beginning of the English common law (to c. 1350)'.

The event will take place at 4PM in auditorium NBIII. See Google itinerary below:


Please notify your presence with Mrs. Karin Pensaert.

JOURNAL: Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, Vol. LXI (Special issue on Repossessing Property in South Asia: Land, Rights, and Law across the Early Modern/Modern Divide)

(Source: Brill)

We learned of a special issue of the Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient on Repossessing Property in South Asia: Land, Rights, and Law across the Early Modern/Modern Divide.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Repossessing Property in South Asia: Land, Rights, and Law across the Early Modern/Modern Divide-Introduction; Author: Faisal Chaudhry; pp.: 759–802 (44)

The Theory and Practice of Property in Premodern South Asia: Disparities and Convergences; Author: Timothy Lubin; pp.: 803–850 (48)

Property and Social Relations in Mughal India: Litigations and Disputes at the Qazi’s Court in Urban Localities, 17th-18th Centuries; Author: Farhat Hasan; pp.: 851–877 (27)

Revenue Farming Reconsidered: Tenurial Rights and Tenurial Duties in Early Modern India, ca. 1556-1818; Author: Sudev Sheth; pp.: 878–919 (42)

Property and Its Rule (in Late Indo-Islamicate and Early Colonial) South Asia: What’s in a Name?; Author: Faisal Chaudhry; pp.: 920–975 (56)

Sovereignty, Property and Land Development: The East India Company in Madras; Author: Bhavani Raman; pp.: 976–1004 (29)

The Problem of Property: Local Histories and Political-Economic Categories in British India; Author: Upal Chakrabarti; pp.: 1005–1035 (31)

Fluid Histories: Swamps, Law and the Company-State in Colonial Bengal; Author: Debjani Bhattacharyya; pp.: 1036–1073 (38)

More information here

BOOK: Paul FINKELMAN and Donald R. KENNON, eds., Civil War Congress and the Creation of Modern America: A Revolution on the Home Front (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2018). ISBN 978-0-8214-2338-7, $35.00

(Source: Ohio University Press)

In December, Ohio University Press is publishing a new book on Congress during the Civil War.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Most literature on the Civil War focuses on soldiers, battles, and politics. But for every soldier in the United States Army, there were nine civilians at home. The war affected those left on the home front in many ways. Westward expansion and land ownership increased. The draft disrupted families while a shortage of male workers created opportunities for women that were previously unknown.

The war also enlarged the national government in ways unimagined before 1861. The Homestead Act, the Land Grant College Act, civil rights legislation, the use of paper currency, and creation of the Internal Revenue Service to collect taxes to pay for the war all illustrate how the war fundamentally, and permanently, changed the nation.

The essays in this book, drawn from a wide range of historical expertise and approaching the topic from a variety of angles, explore the changes in life at home that led to a revolution in American society and set the stage for the making of modern America.

Contributors: Jean H. Baker, Jenny Bourne, Paul Finkelman, Guy Gugliotta, Daniel W. Stowell, Peter Wallenstein, Jennifer L. Weber.

ABOUT THE EDITORS

Paul Finkelman is an expert on constitutional history, the law of slavery, and the American Civil War. He coedits the Ohio University Press series New Approaches to Midwestern Studies and is the president of Gratz College.  

Donald R. Kennon is the former chief historian and vice president of the United States Capitol Historical Society. He is editor of the Ohio University Press series Perspectives on the History of Congress, 1789–1801

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BOOK: Chenxi TANG, Imagining World Order : Literature and International Law in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2018). ISBN 9781501716911, $59.95

(Source: Cornell University Press)

Coming December, Cornell University Press is publishing a book on literature and international law in Early Modern Europe.

ABOUT THE BOOK

In early modern Europe, international law emerged as a means of governing relations between rapidly consolidating sovereign states, purporting to establish a normative order for the perilous international world. However, it was intrinsically fragile and uncertain, for sovereign states had no acknowledged common authority that would create, change, apply, and enforce legal norms. In Imagining World Order, Chenxi Tang shows that international world order was as much a literary as a legal matter. To begin with, the poetic imagination contributed to the making of international law. As the discourse of international law coalesced, literary works from romances and tragedies to novels responded to its unfulfilled ambitions and inexorable failures, occasionally affirming it, often contesting it, always uncovering its problems and rehearsing imaginary solutions.

Tang highlights the various modes in which literary texts - some highly canonical (Camões, Shakespeare, Corneille, Lohenstein, and Defoe, among many others), some largely forgotten yet worth rediscovering - engaged with legal thinking in the period from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. In tracing such engagements, he offers a dual history of international law and European literature. As legal history, the book approaches the development of international law in this period —its so-called classical age—in terms of literary imagination. As literary history, Tang recounts how literature confronted the question of international world order and how, in the process, a set of literary forms common to major European languages (epic, tragedy, romance, novel) evolved.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Chenxi Tang is Professor of German, University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of The Geographic Imagination of Modernity: Geography, Literature, and Philosophy in German Romanticism.

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BOOK: Marc ORTOLANI, Bénédicte DECOURT-HOLLENDER & Olivier VERNIER (eds.), Les juristes des États de Savoie (XVIe-XIXe siècles) (Nice, Serre Éditeur, 2018), 314 p. ISBN 9782864106418

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Table of contents here.

(Source: Hi-D)

BOOK: Erika VAUSE, In the Red and in the Black : Debt, Dishonor, and the Law in France between Revolutions (Charlottesville: The University of Virginia Press, 2018). ISBN 9780813941417, $45.00

(Source: University of Virginia Press)

The University of Virginia Press is publishing a book on the history of debt imprisonment and bankruptcy in Revolutionary France next month.

ABOUT THE BOOK

"The most dishonorable act that can dishonor a man." Such is Félix Grandet’s unsparing view of bankruptcy, adding that even a highway robber—who at least "risks his own life in attacking you"—is worthier of respect. Indeed, the France of Balzac’s day was an unforgiving place for borrowers. Each year, thousands of debtors found themselves arrested for commercial debts. Those who wished to escape debt imprisonment through bankruptcy sacrificed their honor—losing, among other rights and privileges, the ability to vote, to serve on a jury, or even to enter the stock market.

Arguing that French Revolutionary and Napoleonic legislation created a conception of commercial identity that tied together the debtor’s social, moral, and physical person, In the Red and in the Black examines the history of debt imprisonment and bankruptcy as a means of understanding the changing logic of commercial debt. Following the practical application of these laws throughout the early nineteenth century, Erika Vause traces how financial failure and fraud became legally disentangled. The idea of personhood established in the Revolution’s aftermath unraveled over the course of the century owing to a growing penal ideology that stressed the state’s virtual monopoly over incarceration and to investors’ desire to insure their financial risks. This meticulously researched study offers a novel conceptualization of how central "the economic" was to new understandings of self, state, and the market. Telling a story deeply resonant in our own age of ambivalence about the innocence of failures by financial institutions and large-scale speculators, Vause reveals how legal personalization and depersonalization of debt was essential for unleashing the latent forces of capitalism itself.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Erika Vause is Assistant Professor at St. John's University

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BOOK: Dominique CHAGNOLLAUD and Benoit MONTAY, eds., Les 60 ans de la Constitution - 1958-2018 (Paris: Dalloz, 2018). ISBN 9782247183715, €79.00

(Source: Dalloz)

Dalloz published a new book on the 50^th anniversary of the promulgation of the constitution of the 5^th French Republic.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Le 4 octobre 1958, adoptée par référendum à plus de 82 % des suffrages exprimés, soit près de 66 % des inscrits, la Constitution de la V^e République était promulguée.

Soixante ans plus tard, après vingt-quatre révisions constitutionnelles, dont la dernière fête également ses dix ans, que reste-t-il de l’œuvre du général de Gaulle et de Michel Debré ? Quel bilan en tirer ? Quelles évolutions envisager ? Ce sont à ces questions que répondent les contributions publiées dans cet ouvrage collectif, réunissant les plus grandes signatures de personnalités politiques, institutionnelles et universitaires.

Fidèle à ses ambitions d’origine, unissant les générations et entrecroisant les points de vue de sensibilités fort différentes d’acteurs et de penseurs du droit, de la politique et de l’histoire, le Cercle des constitutionnalistes, fondé en 2008, offre ici, à l’occasion de ce dixième anniversaire, les clés pour mieux comprendre aussi les enjeux de la réforme projetée des institutions.

CONTRIBUTORS

Préface d'Edouard Balladur.
Textes réunis par Dominique Chanollaud de Sabouret, Président du Cercle des Constitutionnalistes, Professeur à l'Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris II), et Benoît Montay, Maître de conférences à l'Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris II).
Contributions de Bernard Accoyer, Aurélien Antoine, Joël Andriantsimbazovina, Édouard Balladur, Philippe Bas, Aurélien Baudu, Alix de Benedetti, Xavier Bioy, Julien Boudon, Yaël Braun-Pivet, Jean-Félix de Bujadoux, Dominique Bussereau, Dominique Chagnollaud de Sabouret, Paul Cassia, André Chassaigne, Jack Lang, Gérard Larcher, Michel Lascombe, Armel Le Divellec, Bertrand Louvel, Hervé Marseille, Didier Migaud, Pierre de Montalivet, Benoît Montay, Marcel Morabito, Xavier Pacreau, François de Rugy, François Saint-Bonnet, Jean-Éric Schoettl, Jean-François Sirinelli, Bernard Stirn, Guillaume Tusseau, Jean-Luc Warsmann.

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COLLOQIUM: Hommage varois à J-E-M Portalis (Toulon, 16-17 November 2018)

(Source: Encyclopediae Britannica)

We learned of a colloqium on J.E.M. Portalis.  

16 et 17 novembre 2018 –  Hommage varois à J-E-M Portalis –  deux lieux,

à TOULON,     un colloque pour mieux souligner la personnalité talentueuse de Portalis, ses apports juridiques à notre société, son niveau de réflexion philosophique, ses convictions assumées, et les progrès politiques réalisés en conséquence au début du XIXe siècle. Outre un intéressant accès à l’Histoire et au Droit, un large public de provençaux pourra redécouvrir le caractère et le cœur du célèbre ministre de Napoléon. au BEAUSSET,    un concert classique organisé en soirée du premier jour.

Programme du vendredi 16 novembre 2018

08.20 – 09.00    Accueil

Amphithéâtre  Aymeric Bailleux

Faculté de Droit, Université de Toulon

09.00 – 09.20    Discours de bienvenue

09.20 – 10.00    Gilbert BUTI, Pr., Historien, Président de l’Académie du Var Entre Lumières et Empire, le temps de Portalis (milieu XVIIIe siècle – début XIXe siècle)

10.05 – 10.45    Joël-Benoit d’ONORIO, Pr., Directeur de l’Institut Portalis

Portalis, un Provençal au destin national

10.50 – 11.20    Pause

11.20 – 12.00    Laurence WODEY, chargée de recherches, Grande Chancellerie Légion d’Honneur

Grands Aigles du Premier Empire

12.05 – 12.35    Table-ronde /Débat

Portalis, une forte personnalité, un passeur entre deux mondes

Pierre LASSERRE, Commissaire général de la Marine, Président-modérateur

Gilbert BUTI, Joël-Benoit d’ONORIO, Laurence WODEY

Questions des participants

Temps libre, déjeuner, …

14.30 – 15.10    Raphaël CAHEN, Chercheur FWO, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Les Portalis et la Weimar du Nord

15.15 – 15.55    Sylvie HUMBERT, Pr., Historienne, Université Catholique de Lille

Portalis, un épris de justice

16.00 – 16.30    Pause

16.30 – 17.10    Rémy CABRILLAC, Pr., Université de Montpellier

Le discours préliminaire de Portalis, acte  fondateur de la codification

17.15 – 17.45    Table-ronde /Débat

Portalis, père d’une révolution juridique structurante  pour la société du XIXe siècle

Me Eric NEGRON, 1er Président Cour d’appel d’Aix, Président-modérateur

Raphaël CAHEN, Sylvie HUMBERT, Rémy CABRILLAC

Questions des participants

Soirée du vendredi 16 novembre 2018 au Beausset

19.30 – 20.45    Cocktail dinatoire

Hôtel de ville du Beausset – Salle du Conseil Municipal

21.00 – 22.15    Concert classique

Eglise Notre-Dame de l’Assomption – Le Beausset

Orchestre à cordes OSAMU – Sébastien BOIN chef d’orchestre

MENDELSSOHN : Sinfonia XII en Sol m

BACH : Suite d’orchestre n°2 en Si m, BWV 1067

HAYDN : Quatuor en Sol M op 77

Programme du samedi 17 novembre 2018

08.20 – 09.00    Accueil

Amphithéâtre  Aymeric Bailleux

Faculté de Droit, Université de Toulon

09.00 – 09.40    Gérard DELAFORGE, Docteur en Médecine, membre de l’Académie du Var

Portalis et son village natal, Le Beausset

09.45 – 10.25    Antoine GAUTIER, Valentin LAMY, Frédéric SEDAT

Le procès Mirabeau de 1783, deux plaidoiries revisitées

sous forme théâtralisée, abcthéâtre83–Damien RONDELART,

sur une idée de Mélina DOUCHY-OUDOT et Patrick PENEL

10.30 – 11.00    Pause

11.00 – 11.40    Jean-Michel DUCOMTE, Pr., Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Toulouse

Portalis, négociation et mise eu œuvre du Concordat

11.45 – 12.25    Table-ronde/Débat

L’héritage de Portalis,

le triomphe de la mesure pour endiguer les déraisons

Me Jérémy VIDAL, Bâtonnier, Président-modérateur

Sylvie HUMBERT, Rémy CABRILLAC, Joël-Benoit d’ONORIO,

Gérard DELAFORGE, Damien RONDELART, Jean-Michel DUCOMTE

Questions des participants

12.30 – 12.45    Discours de clôture

13.00                  Vin d’honneur

Registration information can be found here