(Source: Tilburg University)
We learned of a workshop on 19th-20th
century insolvency law at Tilburg University. Attendance is free but with
registration
This workshop addresses the highly
topical theme of mercantile and corporate insolvency and insolvency
regulations. Over the course of the past three decades insolvency legislation
has come to embrace pre-insolvency compositions and has been orientated more to
continuity and the preservation of the going-concern value of firms. The legal
and economic history of insolvency needs further exploration. Because of the
interdisciplinary nature of the phenomena mentioned, in this workshop economic
and legal historians reflect on the theme. The emphasis lies on methodological
challenges in combining economic and legal-historical research. The
presentations also tackle issues from a comparative perspective. This follows
from the fact that the drafting of insolvency laws since the middle of the
nineteenth century was often combined with borrowing and transplanting of legal
arrangements and parts of law from elsewhere. The focus of the papers is on
Western Europe.
Venue: Meeting room 10th floor,
Montesquieu building, prof. Cobbenhagenlaan 221, 5037 DE Tilburg
Programme
9h30 Coffee
10u-10h30 P. di Martino (Birmingham
Business School), M. Latham (Leicester Business School) and M. Vasta
(University of Siena), “Putting history into the study of legal institutions:
bankruptcy and insolvency laws around Europe, 1850-2015”
11h-11h30 D. De ruysscher (Tilburg University,
Vrije Universiteit Brussel) en P. De Reu (Vrije Universiteit Brussel),
“Averting Bankruptcy in Belgium 1884-1914. Who Made Use of Pre-Insolvency Compositions?”
12h-13h lunch
13h-13h30 J. Künstreich (Max-Planck
Institut für europäische Rechtsgeschichte), “Insolvency and Liquidity during
the Crisis of 1857 in Hamburg and Lübeck”
14h-14h30 J. Cepec (University of
Llubljana), “How Countries Construct Insolvency Laws. Lessons from the ex-Yugoslav
Republics”
15h coffee break
15h30-16h Thomas G.W. Telfer
(Western University), “The Legal History of Bankruptcy Law: Reflections on
Comparative and Institutional Approaches”
16h discussion and closing remarks
18h informal dinner Esplanade
Attendance of the workshop is free
but with registration. Because of the closed set-up and limited seats, please
register at d.deruysscher@uvt.nl. This workshop is part of the
research conducted under the umbrella of the ERC-funded project CLLS (www.clls.eu).
More information here
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