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JOURNAL: Glossae XVI (2019) (OPEN ACCESS)

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On the journal:

GLOSSAE is currently indexed in SCOPUS, SJR-2018 is 0.101, Q4 on Law & History. It can be found in several catalogues' systems: DICE, RESH, ERIHPlus, LATINDEX Catálogo v2.0 (2018- ), CARHUS Plus+ 2018: Group A, CIRC: Group C, MIAR (ICDS de 7.3.). It is available on the following databases: SCOPUS, HEINONLINE-Law Journal Library, Directory of Research Journals Indexing (DRJI), DIALNET, etc

Articles:

Un intento de formación de élites criollas: La compañía de Caballeros Americanos de las Guaridas de Corps (Juan Francisco Baltar Rodríguez, Manuel Andreu Gálve)
Tutela mulierum y sus diferentes categorías (María Elisabet Barreiro Morales)
The sources of the procedural roman-canonical law before Clemens V (Javier Belda Iniesta, Michela Coretti)
The Legal Status of foreigners ad the ‘Albinaggio’ Right in the Intermediate Age: Between Doctrine and Practice (Tiziana Ferreri)
Francisco de Vitoria y la Leyenda Negra (Jaime García Neumann)
Una controversia legislativa en 1848: blasfemias, dicharachos de calle… y los faroles de la escalera (Julián Gómez de Maya)
From Protections for miserabiles personae to Legal Privileges for International Travellers: The Historical Development of the Medieval Canon Law regarding Pilgrims (Atria A. Larson)
Definición de furtum y expansión jurisprudencial de los supuestos de hurto en el Derecho romano clásico. Relectura del Diritto penale de Ferrini (José L. Linares Pineda)
Ius mercatorum and statutes of Florence during the 14th and 15th centuries: The case of bankruptcy, (Marta Lupi)
Una “puella habens spiritum phytonis” e un presunto esorcismo: Alcune considerazioni (Anna Maria Mandas)
La correspondencia humanista entre Melchor de Valencia y Antoine Favre durante la crisis diplomática de Monferrato (1613-1614) (Maruci Pérez Simeón)
Ius commune e ius consuetudinarium no direito de edificar junto ao muro urbano na Lisboa medieval (Sandra M.G. Pinto)
Proceso inquisitorial en “El Santo Oficio” de Arturo Ripstein (Erika Prado Rubio)
Entre el ordenamiento del reino y la doctrina canonista: La participación del indígena en el Derecho natural y de Gentes (s. XVI) (Radael Sánchez Domingo)

Book reviews

Alicia Valmaña Ochaíta, Los discursos de Catón y Lucio Valerio en el 195 a. C., Cartagena: Autor-Editor, 2019, pp. 135 [ISBN: 978-84-09-09299-4; EAN: 9788409092994], pp. 365-367 Juan Alfredo Obarrio Moreno
Álamo Martell, María Dolores, El Regente de la Real Audiencia de Canarias, Madrid: Mercurio Editorial (Colección Universidad, nº 8), 2015, 285 pp. [ISBN 978-84-944637-0-9], pp. 368-369 Dionisio A. Perona Tomás
A Locatio-conductio: influencia nos dereitos atuais: Atas do XX Congresso Internacional e do XXIII Congresso Ibero-Americano de Direito Romano, Coord. António dos Santos Justo, Oporto, 2018, pp. 890 [ISBN: 978-989-640-223-5], pp. 370-377 Juan Alfredo Obarrio Moreno
Belén Malavé Osuna, Ciudad tardorromana, élites locales y patrimonio immobiliario. Un análisis jurídico a la luz del Código Teodosiano. Prólogo del Profesor Antonio Fernández de Buján. Ed. Dykinson. Colección Monografías de Derecho romano y Cultura clásica, Madrid, 2018, pp. 299 [ISBN: 978-84-9148-937-5; ISBN electrónico: 978-84-1324-024-4], pp. 378-382 Juan Alfredo Obarrio Moreno

News

In Memoriam. Antonio Manuel Hespanha (Manuel A. Bermejo Castrillo);
How did the French Criminal Code influence the European and Latin-American Codification?; (Aniceto Masferrer); GERN 2020-2021: The birth of penal positivism in Europe and Latin-America: rise and resistances (Yves Cartuyvels); Congreso Internacional: La mujer en la Literatura y en la Jurisprudencia. De Roma a la Actualidad (José Miguel Piquer Marí)

Read all articles in open access here.

BOOK: Alfred H.A. SOONS (ed.), The 1713 Peace of Utrecht and its Enduring Effects [Nova et Vetera Iuris Gentium; Vol. 31] (Leiden/Boston: Martinus Nijhoff/Brill, 2019), 224 p. ISBN 978-90-04-35157-8, € 176

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Book abstract:

The 1713 Peace of Utrecht and its Enduring Effects, edited by Alfred H.A. Soons, presents an interdisciplinary collection of contributions marking the occasion of the tercentenary of the Peace of Utrecht. The chapters examine the enduring effects of the Peace Treaties concluded at Utrecht in 1713, from the perspectives of international law, history and international relations, with cross-cutting themes: the European Balance of Power; the Relationship to Colonial Regimes and Trade Monopolies; and Ideas and Ideals: the Development of the International Legal Order. With contributions by: Peter Beeuwkes, Stella Ghervas, Martti Koskenniemi, Randall Lesaffer, Paul Meerts, Isaac Nakhimovsky, Sundhya Pahuja, Koen Stapelbroek, Benno Teschke, Jaap de Wilde

Table of contents:

Preface Notes on Contributors 
Behaviour of Negotiators   Paul Meerts and Peter Beeuwkes 
Part 1 The Peace of Utrecht: the European Balance of Power 
1 Balance of Power: Adversarial Pair of Scales or Associational Arch?   Jaap de Wilde 2 Envisioning Europe after Utrecht: Voltaire and the Historiography of the Balance of Power   Isaac Nakhimovsky 3 The Peace of Utrecht, the Balance of Power and the Law of Nations   Randall Lesaffer 
Part 2 The Peace of Utrecht: Relationship to Colonial Regimes and Trade Monopolies 
4 “The Long Peace”: Commercial Treaties and the Principles of Global Trade at the Peace of Utrecht   Koen Stapelbroek 5 The Social Origins of 18th Century British Grand Strategy: a Historical Sociology of the Peace of Utrecht   Benno Teschke 6 Public Debt, the Peace of Utrecht and the Rivalry between Company and State   Sundhya Pahuja 
Part 3 The Peace of Utrecht: Ideas and Ideals; the Development of the International Legal Order 
7 Peace of Utrecht (1713) and the “Crisis of European Conscience”   Martti Koskenniemi 8 In the Shadow of Utrecht: Perpetual Peace and International Order, 1713–1815   Stella Ghervas 
Subject Index Name Index 

On the editor:

Alfred H.A. Soons is professor emeritus of public international law at Utrecht University 

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BOOK: Dietmar WILLOWEIT & Steffen SCHLINKER, Deutsche Verfassungsgeschichte Vom Frankenreich bis zur Wiedervereinigung Deutschlands Ein Studienbuch. Mit einer Zeittafel und einem Kartenanhang [Juristische Kurz-Lehrbücher] (München: C.H. Beck, 2019), XXXVII /+ 497p. ISBN 978-3-406-72635-4, € 28,9

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Book abstract:

Diese Darstellung der deutschen Verfassungsgeschichte zeichnet in vier Teilen die verfassungsrechtliche Entwicklung Deutschlands vom Ausklang der Spätantike im fränkischen Reich bis zur aktuellen Gegenwart nach. Dabei beschränkt sich der Autor nicht auf die Behandlung verfassungsrechtlicher Institutionen, sondern berücksichtigt auch die gesellschaftlichen Verfassungsebenen.

On the authors:

Dietmar Willoweit, Weiland Präsident der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften; Prof. dr. Steffen Schlinker 

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BOOK: Fiammetta PALLADINI (transl. David SAUNDERS), Samuel Pufendorf Disciple of Hobbes For a Re-Interpretation of Modern Natural Law [Early Modern Natural Law: Studies & Sources, Volume: 2] (Leiden-New York: Brill, 2020). ISBN 978-90-04-38861-1, €124.00

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Brill has published an English translation of Fiammetta Palladini’s Samuel Pufendorf discepolo di Hobbes (1990).

ABOUT THE BOOK

Fiammetta Palladini’s work is one of the most important discussions of Pufendorf to appear in the latter part of the twentieth century. It cut through the existing field of Pufendorf studies, laying bare its inherited templates and tacit assumptions. Palladini was thus able to peel back the ‘Grotian’ commentary in which the great thinker had been shrouded, revealing a Pufendorf well-known in the 1680s—a formidable and dangerous natural jurist and political theorist—but doubly obscured in the 1980s and still today, by a philosophical history that flies too high to see him, and by a commentary literature that too often does not like what it sees. David Saunders’ remarkable translation carries Palladini’s argument into English with maximum fidelity.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR, TRANSLATOR AND EDITOR

   

Fiammetta Palladini graduated in Philosophy at the University of Rome – La Sapienza in 1965. Until her retirement she was Primo ricercatore at the National Council for Research, Rome, based in Berlin. She has published several books and many papers on Samuel Pufendorf, on Jean Barbeyrac, and on 17th century moral and political philosophy, including Discussioni seicentesche su Samuel Pufendorf(1978), Samuel Pufendorf discepolo di Hobbes (1990), La Biblioteca di Samuel Pufendorf (1999), and Die Berliner Huguenotten und der Fall Barbeyrac (2011).

David Saunders is Emeritus Professor, Griffith University, Australia. An Oxford graduate with a 1973 Grenoble doctorate in Italian, his works include Anti-lawyers: Religion and the Critics of Law and State (1997), “The natural jurisprudence of Jean Barbeyrac: translation as an art of political adjustment” ( Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2003) and, co-edited with Ian Hunter, Samuel Pufendorf, The Whole Duty of Man According to the Law of Nature (2003).

Ian Hunter is Emeritus Professor, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Queensland. He was awarded his doctorate by Griffith University in 1987, and is the author of various works on natural law and the history of political thought. These includeRival Enlightenments (2001), The Secularisation of the Confessional State (2007), “Public Law and the Limits of Philosophy” ( Critical Inquiry, 2018) and, co-authored with David Saunders, “Bringing the State to England” ( History of Political Thought, 2003).

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction (Ian Hunter)
A note from the translator (David Saunders)
Preface
Introduction

Part One: Pufendorf the Hobbesian
I. The theory of obligation
1. The hobbesian matrix of the theory
2. The re-thinking of the hobbesian principles
II. Nature of man and state of nature: the doctrine of sociality
1. Human nature
2. The state of nature
3. The hobbesian inheritance in the doctrines of sociality and the state of nature
4. Consequences of the force of Pufendorf’s anti-hobbesian arguments relating to the state of nature

Part Two: Why did Pufendorf pass for an anti-hobbesian?
I. Pufendorf’s place in the history of ethics according to Pufendorf
II. The role of Cumberland
1. The utilisation of Cumberland
2. Differences between the first and the second editions of the De iure
3. Cumberlandian paternity of these notions
4. Incompatibility of Cumberland’s system with that of Pufendorf
5. Other variants between the first and the second editions of the De iure
III. Anti-hobbesian aspects of the Elementa
1. The social nature of man in observation 3 of the Elementa
2. How this observation is utilised and transformed in the De iure
3. The origin of civil society in the Elementa and the De iure
4. Drawbacks of the utilisation of the Elementa in the De iure
5. What relation is there, according to Pufendorf, between law of nature and utility?
6. The evolution of Pufendorf’s thought
IV. The Barbeyrac factor Conclusion Leave-taking

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JOURNAL: Grotiana (Volume 40, Issue 1)

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We learned of the publication of the latest issue of Grotiana. Here the table of contents:

Observations on the Legal Observations

By: Gustaaf van Nifterik

Pages: 1–6

Publication Date: 12 Dec 2019

The Limits of Natural Law: Liability for Wrongdoing in the Inleidinge

By: Joe Sampson

Pages: 7–27

Publication Date: 12 Dec 2019

An ‘Embellisher’ of Grotius?

Self-Preservation and the Right to Resist in Willem Van der Muelen (1659–1739)

By: Alberto Clerici

Pages: 29–48

Publication Date: 12 Dec 2019

Changing Conservative Thinking in a Jesuit University

The Reception of Grotius in Olomouc

By: Jana Engelbrechtová

Pages: 49–75

Publication Date: 12 Dec 2019

Divine Decrees and Human Choices: Grotius on the Law of Fate and Punishment

By: Francesca Iurlaro

Pages: 76–101

Publication Date: 12 Dec 2019

Grotius and the Marginalization of Cosmopolitan Duties

By: Luke Glanville

Pages: 102–122

Publication Date: 12 Dec 2019

Political Consent, Promissory Fidelity and Rights Transfers in Grotius

By: Laetitia Ramelet

Pages: 123–145

Publication Date: 12 Dec 2019

Hugo Grotius and Samuel Pufendorf on Last Wills and Testaments

By: Raphael Ribeiro

Pages: 146–164

Publication Date: 12 Dec 2019

Piracy and the Origins of Universal Jurisdiction: On Stranger Tides?, written by Mark Chadwick

By: Ioannis D. Evrigenis

Pages: 165–172

Publication Date: 12 Dec 2019

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The Unseen History of International Law: A Census Bibliography of Hugo Grotius’s De iure belli ac pacis

By: Mark Somos

Pages: 173–179

Publication Date: 12 Dec 2019

Bibliography

By: Rens Steenhard

Pages: 181–185

Publication Date: 12 Dec 2019

Contents

Pages: 187–188

Publication Date: 12 Dec 2019

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BOOK: Manuel LOMAS, Governing the Galleys: Jurisdiction, Justice, and Trade in the Squadrons of the Hispanic Monarchy (Sixteenth-Seventeenth Centuries) (Leiden-New York: Brill, 2020). ISBN 978-90-04-38146-9, OPEN ACCESS

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Brill is publishing a new book on Spanish galleys and the law.

ABOUT THE BOOK

The development of the Spanish Navy in the early modern Mediterranean triggered a change in the balance of political and economic power for the coastal populations of the Hispanic Monarchy. The establishment of new permanent squadrons, endowed with very broad jurisdictional powers, was the cause of many conflicts with the local authorities and had a direct influence on the economic and production activities of the region. Manuel Lomas analyzes the progressive consolidation of these institutions in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, their influence on the mechanisms of justice and commerce, and how they contributed to the reconfiguration of the jurisdictional system that governed the maritime trade in the Mediterranean.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Manuel Lomas, Ph.D. (2009), Universitat de València, is Professor of Early Modern History at that university. His research focuses on the policy of the Hispanic Monarchy towards minorities. He is the author of El proceso de expulsión de los moriscos de España (PUV, 2011).

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Abbreviations, Coinage, Weights, and Measures

Introduction

1 Galleys on the Coast!
 1 The Jurisdiction of the Galleys
  1.1  Continuity and Change under the Catholic Monarchs
  1.2  Culmination of the Process: from Andrea Doria to Don John of Austria
  1.3  The System in Its Maturity: from the Conquest of Portugal to the Thirty Years’ War
 2 Galleys and Ports: Profiles of a Complex Relationship
  2.1  The Galleys: a Vehicle for Concord
  2.2  “That Is Spain’s Flagship, and This Is the Pope’s Fortress”
  2.3  Soldiers, Sailors, and Townspeople
 3 Between Naval Tradition and Military Innovation
  3.1  Galley Ordinances and Corsair Customs
  3.2  Convergence with the Tradition of Military Privileges
  3.3  Roman Law and Experience: the Introduction of Auditores into the Galleys
  3.4  The Galleys’ Jurisdictional Supremacy

2 Captures, Commerce, and Corruption
 1 Prizes, Embargoes, and the Audiencia de las Galeras
  1.1  Ship Capture and Its Benefits to Crews
  1.2  Acquisition of Slaves
  1.3  The Audiencia de las Galeras and Embargoes
 2 Cross-Cultural Trade and Control of Smuggling
  2.1  Between Religious War and Collaboration: the Action of Tunis, 1609
  2.2  Profiles of a Cross-Cultural Trade: Ransoms
  2.3  Purchase of North African Wheat and Control of Maritime Trade
 3 Legitimate Trade and Fraud in the Galleys
  3.1  Smuggling in the Galleys
  3.2  The Visit of 1591
  3.3  The Galleys of Spain and El Puerto de Santa María

3 Resistance, Consensus, and Solidarity
 1 Escapes and Mutinies
  1.1  Escapees
  1.2  Mutineers
 2 Internal Justice, Mercy, and Solidarity in the Galleys
  2.1  The Captain General’s Mediation and Mercy
  2.2  Auditores, Inspectors, and Other Officials
  2.3  Solidarity among Soldiers, Sailors, and Rowers
 3 Religious Belief
  3.1  Catholic Belief
  3.2  Vice among the Crews
  3.3  Captains General and the Inquisition

Conclusion

Bibliography
Index 

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BOOK: Wouter DRUWÉ, Loans and Credit in Consilia and Decisiones in the Low Countries (c. 1500-1680) (Leiden - New York: Brill, 2019). ISBN 978-90-04-41652-9, €209.00

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Brill is publishing a new book on loans and credit in the Golden Ages of Antwerp and Amsterdam (c. 1500-1680).

ABOUT THE BOOK

Based on consilia and decisiones, Wouter Druwé studies the multinormative framework on loans and credit in the Golden Ages of Antwerp and Amsterdam (c. 1500-1680). He analyzes the use of a wide variety of legal financial techniques in the Low Countries, such as money lending and the taking of interest, the constitution of annuities, cession and delegation, bearer bonds, bills of exchange, partnerships, and representation in financial affairs, as well as the consequences of monetary fluctuations. Special attention is paid to how the transregional European system of learned Roman and canon law ( ius commune) was applied in daily ‘learned legal practice’. The study also deals with the prohibition against usury and with the impact of moral theology on legal debates.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Wouter Druwé (1991) is assistant professor of Roman law and legal history at KU Leuven. He read law (Ph.D. 2018, MLaw 2013), canon law (JCL 2018) and theology (BA 2013). He mainly studies the ius commune in the Low Countries.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

INTRODUCTION
1. Need for credit in the Golden Age(s) and its normative framework
2. Research questions
3. Methodological considerations
4. Structure

CHAPTER I. CONSILIA AND DECISIONES IN THE LOW COUNTRIES
1. Introduction
2. Consilia and decisiones: a general framework
A. Consilia
B. Decisiones
3. Consilia in the Low Countries
A. The first printed consilia: Nicolaas Everaerts and Angelus a Sancto Ioanne
B. Leuven law professors and their consultation practice (ca. 1550 – 1590)
C. Learned legal practitioners: the Kinschot family (ca. 1580 – 1650) and Antoon Anselmo
D. A humanist counsellor: Jean de Deckher de Walhorn (1583-1646)
E. Learned consultations by a canon lawyer: Franciscus Zypaeus (1580-1650)
F. Jacob Coren
G. The Hollandic and Utrecht consultations: disordered and varied collections
4. Decisiones in the Low Countries
A. Collections of decisiones from the Northern Low Countries
B. Printed collections of decisiones from the Southern Low Countries
5. Conclusion

CHAPTER II. SIMPLE MONEY LENDING AND THE TAKING OF INTEREST
1. Introduction
2. Money loans and the law of evidence
A. Proof of original payment of the capital
B. Proof of mutual intention
C. Other impediments to a claim for restitution: the S.C. Macedonianum
D. Proof of repayment of the money lent
3. The taking of interest
A. Introduction
B. Contractually stipulated interest for the duration of a (money) loan
C. Interest in case of default (mora)
D. Some questions on the proof of usury
E. Sanctions
4. Conclusion

CHAPTER III. SALE OF ANNUITIES
1. Introduction
2. Constitution of annuities
3. Enforcement of annuities: the issue of prescription
4. Redemption, reduction and forced restitution of annuities
A. Redeemability and reductibility by the seller of the annuity
B. Reduction of annuities through the enactment of tax legislation
C. Forced restitution of the capital
5. Conclusion

CHAPTER IV. TRANSFER OF BONDS AND CLAIMS
1. Introduction
2. Cession and assignment
A. Introduction
B. Proof of a cession: transfer and causa
C. Alternative causae for the transfer of a bond
D. Consequences of a cession and its revocability
E. Recourse liability
F. Legal remedies by the ceded debtor
G. Intermediate conclusion
3. Delegation and novation
A. Introductory remarks
B. Proof of novation
C. Recourse liability
D. Legal remedies by a delegated debtor
E. Intermediate conclusion
4. Bonds to bearer
A. Introduction
B. The solution of the ius commune
C. The causa of the transfer
D. Legal remedies by the debtor against the bearer
E. Recourse liability by the bearer against the transferor
F. Questions of proof
G. Intermediate conclusion
5. Bills of exchange
A. Introduction
B. Acceptance by the drawee
C. Liability of the drawer
D. Liability of the remitter of a bill of exchange
E. Bills of exchange and usury
F. Determination of the exchange rate
G. Intermediate conclusion
6. Conclusion

CHAPTER V. PARTNERSHIPS, REPRESENTATION AND SEA LOANS
1. Introduction
2. The law of partnerships
A. Foundation of partnerships
B. Liability of partners vis-à-vis third parties
C. Relationship between partners
D. Leonine clauses and triple contracts
E. Trade in shares
3. Representation in financial affairs
A. Introductory remarks
B. Claims by principals and/or agents
C. Claims against the principal
D. A mandate should not harm the institor
4. Sea loans ( faenus nauticum)
5. Conclusion

CHAPTER VI. MONETARY FLUCTUATIONS AND DEBTS
1. Introduction
2. One-time payments
A. Introductory remarks
B. Coinage to be used
C. Applicable rate or valuation
D. Intermediate conclusion
3. Recurring payments
A. Introductory remarks
B. Rate of payment: relevant location
C. Rate of payment: relevant time
4. Conclusion

CONCLUSION
1. Research questions and the core sources
2. The evolution of the normative framework on loans and credit: a summary
3. Transregional multinormativity
4. Moral theology
5. North and South: An Age of Estrangement?
6. Consilia and decisiones
7. Open questions

BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. Netherlandish sources of learned legal practice: the core material
2. Other primary sources
3. Customary law and ordinances
4. Legal historical literature 

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BOOK: Stefania GIALDRONI et al., eds., Migrating Words, Migrating Merchants, Migrating Law (Leiden - New York: Brill, 2019). ISBN 978-90-04-41664-2, €116.00

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Brill is publishing a book on connections that existed between merchants’ journeys, the languages they used and the development of commercial law in the context of late medieval and early modern trade.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Migrating Words, Migrating Merchants, Migrating Law examines the connections that existed between merchants’ journeys, the languages they used and the development of commercial law in the context of late medieval and early modern trade. The book, edited by Stefania Gialdroni, Albrecht Cordes, Serge Dauchy, Dave De ruysscher and Heikki Pihlajamäki, takes advantage of the expertise of leading scholars in different fields of study, in particular historians, legal historians and linguists. Thanks to this transdisciplinary approach, the book offers a fresh point of view on the history of commercial law in different cultural and geographical contexts, including medieval Cairo, Pisa, Novgorod, Lübeck, early modern England, Venice, Bruges, nineteenth century Brazil and many other trading centers.

Contributors are Cornelia Aust, Guido Cifoletti, Mark R. Cohen, Albrecht Cordes, Maria Fusaro, Stefania Gialdroni, Mark Häberlein, Uwe Israel, Bart Lambert, David von Mayenburg, Hanna Sonkajärvi, and Catherine Squires.

ABOUT THE EDITORS

Stefania Gialdroni, Ph.D. (2009), is Assistant Professor of Medieval and Modern Legal History at the RomaTre University. Her main research topic is the history of commercial law. In 2011 she published the book East India Company. Una storia giuridica (1600-1708) (Il Mulino).

Albrecht Cordes is Professor of Medieval and Early Modern Legal History and Civil Law at the Goethe University Frankfurt/Main. His research is especially focused on the history of commercial law, Hanseatic legal history and the history of conflict resolution.

Serge Dauchy is Research Director at the CNRS (Lille-France) and Professor of Legal History at the University Saint-Louis of Brussels. His main research topics are the history of civil procedure, comparative history of central courts and the history of Québec.

Dave De ruysscher, Ph.D. (2009), is Associate Professor at Tilburg University and at Vrije Universiteit Brussels. As a legal historian and lawyer, he specialized in the history of commercial and private law of the early modern period and the nineteenth century.

Heikki Pihlajamäki is Professor of Comparative Legal History at the University of Helsinki. He has published extensively on the legal history of Scandinavia, Europe and America, including Conquest and the Law in Swedish Livonia (ca. 1630-1710): A Case of Legal Pluralism in Early Modern Europe (Brill, 2017).

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Acknowledgments
Notes on Contributors
Introduction 
  Albrecht Cordes and Stefania Gialdroni

Part 1: Mediterranean Networks

1 Migrating Words and Migrating Custom among the Geniza Merchants: Maimonides on Commercial Agency Law
  Mark R. Cohen

2 Propter ConversationemDiversarum Gentium: Migrating Words and Merchants in Medieval Pisa
  Stefania Gialdroni

3 ʻMigrating Seamen, Migrating Laws’? An Historiographical Genealogy of Seamen’s Employment and States’ Jurisdiction in the Early Modern Mediterranean
  Maria Fusaro

4 Lingua Franca and Migrations
  Guido Cifoletti 

Part 2: European Networks
5 Brokers as German-Italian Cultural Mediators in Renaissance Venice
  Uwe Israel

6 German-East Slavic (Language) Contacts in Legal Texts of the Thirteenth-Fifteenth Centuries
  Catherine Squires

7 The Language of the Law: The Lübeck Law Codes (ca. 1224–1642)
  Albrecht Cordes

8 A Legal World Market? The Exchange of Commercial Law in Fifteenth-Century Bruges
  Bart Lambert

9 Wörter für Wucher: Ius commune and the 16th Century Debate on the Legitimacy of South German Trading Houses
  David von Mayenburg

10 Transfer of Credit, Mercantile Mobility, and Language among Jewish Merchants in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Central and East Central Europe
  Cornelia Aust

Part 3: Atlantic Networks

11 Coming to Terms with the Atlantic World: German Merchants, Language, and English Legal Culture in the Early Modern Period
  Mark Häberlein

12 Laws – Customs – Conventions: French Merchants and French Legal Doctrines in the Brazilian Law Courts in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century
  Hanna Sonkajärvi
Index 

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CALL FOR PAPERS: Kinship and Business. Law, Gender and Generational Perspectives (16th-20th centuries) (Bolzano, 17-19 September 2020) (DEADLINE: 28 February 2020)

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The University of Vienna has a CFP for a conference on “Kinship and Business. Law, Gender and Generational Perspectives (16th–20th Centuries)” (conference languages: German, English, Italian). Here the call:

Organisationsteam:

Margareth Lanzinger (Institut für Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte, Universität Wien)

Siglinde Clementi (Kompetenzzentrum für Regionalgeschichte, Freie Universität Bozen)

Andrea Bonoldi (Dipartimento di Economia e Management, Università di Trento)

Keynote: Martha Howell (Columbia University)

Wirtschaften gestaltet sich in und über soziale Beziehungen. In der wirtschafts- und sozialhistorischen Forschung stehen dabei je nach Perspektive ganz unterschiedliche Formen und Qualitäten sozialer Beziehungen im Fokus. Unternehmen als Form sozialer Organisation des Wirtschaftens gehören zu den etablierten Themenfeldern. In den letzten Jahrzehnten hat sich die historische Verwandtschaftsforschung konstituiert, die sich sowohl den kulturell und rechtlich geprägten Konzepten von Verwandtschaft widmet als auch spezifischen Beziehungsnetzen und Organisationsformen und damit verbundenen Praktiken des Wirtschaftens.

Ziel der Tagung ist es, Unternehmen im weitesten Sinn und Verwandtschaft – in Verbindung mit Recht, Geschlecht und Generation – in Beziehung zueinander zu setzen.

Tagungssprachen sind Deutsch, Englisch und Italienisch mit Simultanübersetzung ins Englische.

Bitte senden Sie einen Themenvorschlag (1 Seite/300 Wörter) und einen KurzCV in der gewählten Tagungssprache bis 28. Februar 2020 an:

Siglinde Clementi (Freie Universität Bozen), siglinde.clementi@unibz.it

Weiterführende Informationen in deutscher Sprache finden Sie hier.

Weiterführende Informationen in englischer Sprache finden Sie hier.

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JOURNAL: Diplomatica (Volume 1, Issue 2)

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The new journal diplomatica has published its second issue. Here the table of contents

Introduction

Scripts for a New Stage: United Nations’ Observances and New Perspectives on Diplomatic History

By: Paul van Trigt

Pages: 145–156

unhcr’s Shifting Frames in the Social Construction of Disabled Refugees: Two Case Studies on the Organization’s Work During the World Refugee Year (1959–1960) and the International Year of Disabled Persons (1981)

By: Veronika Flegar

Pages: 157–179

From Tehran to Helsinki: the International Year of Human Rights 1968 and State Socialist Eastern Europe

By: Ned Richardson-Little

Pages: 180–201

1979: a Year of the Child, but Not of Children’s Human Rights

By: Linde Lindkvist

Pages: 202–220

A Global Approach to Local Problems? How to Write a Longer, Deeper, and Wider History of the International Year of Disabled Persons in Kenya

By: Sam de Schutter

Pages: 221–242

Science Diplomacy and the Making of the United Nations International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction

By: Lukas Schemper

Pages: 243–267

International Days at the United Nations: Expanding the Scope of Diplomatic Histories

By: Monika Baár

Pages: 268–290

Review Essay∵A Renewal of Diplomatic History or the Continuation of Old Trends?Selected Readings from the French-speaking Field of International History

By: Louis Clerc

Pages: 291–298

Diplomacy: Communication and the Origins of International Order, written by Robert F. Trager. 2017

By: Alexandros Nafpliotis

Pages: 299–301

War, Law and Humanity: The Campaign to Control Warfare, 1853–1914, written by James Crossland. 2018

By: Benjamin Coates

Pages: 302–304

Diplomacy Meets Migration: US Relations with Cuba during the Cold War, written by Hideaki Kami. 2018.

By: Jorrit van den Berk

Pages: 305–307

Eric Drummond and his Legacies. The League of Nations and the Beginnings of Global Governance, written by David Macfadyen, Michael Davies, Marilyn Carr and John Burley. 2019

By: Karen Gram-Skjoldager

Pages: 308–310

Navigating Semi-Colonialism: Shipping, Sovereignty, and Nation-Building in China, 1860–1937, written by Anne Reinhardt. 2018

By: Maartje Abbenhuis

Pages: 311–313

International Relations, Music and Diplomacy, Sounds and Voices on the International Stage, edited by Frédéric Ramel and Cécile Prévost-Thomas. 2018

By: Nur Bilge Criss

Pages: 314–316

The Ideas and Practices of the European Union’s Structural Antidiplomacy: An Unstable Equilibrium, written by Steffen Bay Rasmussen. 2018

By: Roberto Duran

Pages: 317–319

The Making of Indian Foreign Policy: A Critique of Eurocentrism, written by Deep K Datta-Ray. 2015

By: Thomas Gidney

Pages: 320–322

Practices of Diplomacy in the Early Modern World c. 1410–1800, edited by Tracey A. Sowerby, Jan Hennings 2017

By: Isabella Lazzarini

Pages: 323–326

Contents

Pages: 327–330

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BOOK: Michał GALEDEK and Anna KLIMASZEWSKA, eds., Modernization, National Identity and Legal Instrumentalism (Vol. I: Private Law; Vol. II: Public Law) (Leiden - New York: Brill, 2019). ISBN 978-90-04-41727-4 & 978-90-04-41735-9, €139.00 & €99.00

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Brill is publishing a two-volume work on modernization of the law over the past few centuries, nationality identity and legal instrumentalism.

ABOUT THE BOOK

The driving force of the dynamic development of world legal history in the past few centuries, with the dominance of the West, was clearly the demands of modernisation – transforming existing reality into what is seen as modern. The need for modernisation, determining the development of modern law, however, clashed with the need to preserve cultural identity rooted in national traditions. With selected examples of different legal institutions, countries and periods, the authors of the essays in the two volumes Modernisation, National Identity and Legal Instrumentalism: Studies in Comparative Legal History, vol. I:Private Law and Modernisation, National Identity and Legal Instrumentalism: Studies in Comparative Legal History, vol. II: Public Law seek to explain the nature of this problem. 

ABOUT THE EDITORS

Michał Gałędek Ph.D. (2010), University of Gdańsk, is Professor in the Department of Legal History, Faculty of Law and Administration. In his research he focuses on the Polish administration, judiciary, constitutionalism, and political thought at the beginning of the 19th century and in the interwar period.

Anna Klimaszewska Ph.D. (2011), University of Gdańsk, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Legal History, Faculty of Law and Administration. In her research she focuses on the influence exerted by the French law on the shape of the Polish legal system, commercial law, civil procedure and national legal identity in the 19th century.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

VOLUME I – PRIVATE LAW

1 Introduction: Modernisation, National Identity, and Legal Instrumentalism
  Michał Gałędek

2 Prenuptial Agreements of the Hungarian Aristocracy in the Early Modern Era
  Zsuzsanna Peres

3 Revolution and the Instrumentality of Law: Theories of Property in the American and French Revolutions
  Bart Wauters

4 English Commercial Law in the Longue Durée: Chasing Continental Shadows
  Sean Thomas

5 The Italian Destiny of the French Code de commerce (19th Century)
  Annamaria Monti

6 The Reception of the French Commercial Code in Nineteenth-Century Polish Territories: A Hollow Legal Shell
  Anna Klimaszewska

7 Development of the medical malpractice law and legal instrumentalism in the Antebellum America
  Marcin Michalak

8 The Contractual Third-Party Notion: Beyond the Principle of the Relativity of Contracts: The Comparative Legal History as Methodological Approach
  Sara Pilloni

9 Civilian Arguments in the House of Lords’ Judgments: Regarding Delictual (Tortious) Liability in 20th and 21st Century
  Łukasz Jan Korporowicz

10 Usucapio in Era of Real Estate Title Registration Systems
  Beata J. Kowalczyk

11 In the Name of the Republic: Family Reform in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century France and China
  Mingzhe Zhu

12 The Private Law Codification as an Instrument for the Consolidation of a Nation from Inside: Estonia and Latvia between two World Wars
  Marju Luts-Sootak, Hesi Siimets-Gross, Katrin Kiirend-Pruuli

13 Reluctant Legal Transplant: United States Moral Rights as Late 20th Century Honor Law
  Steven Wilf 

VOLUME II – PUBLIC LAW

1 Residential Right in the Course of Time: Changes in the Legal Institution of the Inkolat in the Bohemian Crown Lands
  Jiří BrňovjákandMarek Starý

2 Legal Transfers and National Traditions: Patterns of Modernization of the Administration in Polish Territories at the Turn of the 19th Century
  Michał Gałędek

3 National Modernization through the Constitutional Revolution of 1848 in Hungary: Pretext and Context
  Imre Képessy

4 Restoring the Hungarian Historical Constitutional Order with a Coronation in 1867
  Judit Beke-Martos

5 The Privy Council Appeal and British Imperial Policy, 1833–1939
  Thomas Mohr

6 Direct Impact on Hungarian Migration Policy of the 1870 Agreement on Citizenship between the United States and Austria-Hungary (1880s–1914)
  Balázs Pálvölgyi

7 Political Systems in Transition and Cultural (In)dependence: The Limits of a Legal Transplant in the Example of the Brazilian’s Court of Auditors Birth
  Marjorie Carvalho de Souza

8 Constitutional Systems of Free European States (1918–1939)
  Tadeusz Maciejewski and Maja Maciejewska-Szałas

9 Local Citizenship in the Croatian-Slavonian Legal Area in the First Yugoslavia (1918–1941): Breakdown of a Concept?
  Ivan Kosnica

10 Nazi Law as Pure Instrument: Natural Law, (Extra-)Legal Terror, and the Neglect of Ideology
  Simon Lavis 

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BOOK: Andrew FEAR & Jamie WOOD (eds.), A Companion to Isidore of Seville [Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition, vol. 87] (Leiden/Boston: Martinus Nijhoff/Brill, 2019), ISBN 978-90-04-41545-4

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Book abstract:

A Companion to Isidore of Seville presents nineteen chapters from leading international scholars on Isidore of Seville (d. 636), the most prominent bishop of the Visigothic kingdom in Hispania in the seventh century and one of the most prolific authors of early medieval western Europe. Introductory studies establish the political, religious and familial contexts in which Isidore operated, his key works are then analysed in detail, as are some of the main themes that run throughout his corpus. Isidore's influence extended across the entire Middle Ages and into the early modern period in fields such as church governance and pastoral care, theology, grammar, science, history-writing, and linguistics – all topics that are explored in the volume.

More information with Brill.

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BOOK: Rachel HAMMERSLEY, James Harrington – An Intellectual Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019). ISBN 9780198809852, £70.00

(Source: OUP)

Oxford University Press is publishing a new intellectual biography of the 17^th century political thinker James Harrington.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Despite not being an active participant in the English Civil War, seventeenth-century political thinker James Harrington exercised an important influence on the ideas and politics of that crucial period of history. In The Commonwealth of Oceana he sought to explain why civil war had broken out in 1642, to put the case for commonwealth government, and to offer a detailed constitutional blueprint for a new and successful English government. In this intellectual biography of Harrington, Rachel Hammersley sets a fresh analysis of this and Harrington's other writings against the background of his life and the turbulent period in which he lived.

In doing so, this study seeks to move beyond the conventional view of Harrington as primarily a republican thinker, offering a broader and more comprehensive account of him which addresses the complexity of his republicanism as well as exploring his contributions to economic, historical, religious, philosophical, and scientific debates; his experimentation with vocabulary and literary form; and the relationship between his life and thought. Harrington is presented as an innovative political thinker, committed to democracy, social mobility, and meritocracy. Ultimately, this broader examination of Harrington's life and work opens a window on political, economic, religious, and scientific issues which serve to complicate understandings of the English Revolution, and sheds fresh light on the relevance of seventeenth-century ideas to the modern world.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Rachel Hammersley, Senior Lecturer in Intellectual History, University of Newcastle

Rachel Hammersley is a Senior Lecturer in Intellectual History at Newcastle University. She has published on the translation and dissemination of English republican ideas in France and on notions of republicanism, democracy, and revolution during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. She has a passion for communicating knowledge of history and past ideas not just to academic audiences, but also a wider readership.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction
Section One: Harrington the Man
Introduction
1: The Family Man
2: The Supporter of Parliament
3: The Agent of Monarchy
Section Two: Harrington the Republican
Introduction
4: The Republican
5: The Atypical Republican
Section Three: Harrington the Innovator
Introduction
6: Innovation in Substance: 'Empire Follows the Balance of Property'
7: Innovation in Substance: Democracy
8: Innovation in Style
Section Four: Harrington the Controversialist
Introduction
9: Political Controversy
10: Historical Controversy
11: Religious Controversy
12: Philosophical and Scientific Controversy
Section Five: Harrington the Man of Action
Introduction
13: Engaging with Politicians
14: The Rota Club
15: Life After 1660
Conclusion

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BOOK: Wendy DAVIES, Christian Spain and Portugal in the Early Middle Ages Texts and Societies (London: Routledge, 2020). ISBN 9780367345754, £96.00

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Routledge is publishing a collection of papers by Wendy Davies on Early Medieval Spain and Portugal, and which also includes legal historical articles.

ABOUT THE BOOK

A collection of papers in English by one of the foremost historians of the social and economic structure of ​medieval rural communities, who here examines local societies in rural northern Spain and Portugal in the early middle ages. Principal themes are scribal practice and the analysis of charter texts; gift, sale and wealth; justice and judicial procedures. Always with a concern for personal relationships and interactions, for mobility, for decision-making ​and for practice, a sense of land and landscape runs throughout. Spanish and Portuguese experience has seemed irrelevant to the great debates of early medieval European history that occupy historians. But Spain and Portugal shared the late Roman heritage which influenced much of western Europe in the early middle ages and by the tenth century records and practice in Christian Iberia still shared features with the Carolingian world. This book offers a substantial corpus of Iberian evidence to set beside Frankish, Italian, English and Scandinavian material and thereby makes it possible for Northern Iberia to play a part in the​se great debates of medieval European history.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Wendy Davies taught medieval European history and was also successively Head of the History Department, Deans of Arts and of Social and Historical Sciences, and Pro-Provost (Europe)? at UCL until she retired in 2007. She remains active in research: while her personal research initially centred on Wales and then Brittany, in the last twenty years northern Iberia in the early middle ages has been the focus. She is an Associate Member of the History Faculty, University of Oxford.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. The early middle ages and Spanish identity

I Charter Writing

2. Local priests and the writing of charters in northern Iberia in the tenth century

3. Local priests in northern Iberia

4. Creating records of judicial disputes in northern Iberia before the year 1000

5. Exchange charters in the kingdom of Asturias-León, 700-1000

II Production and Exchange

6. Sale, price and valuation in Galicia and Castile-León in the tenth century

7. When gift is sale: reciprocities and commodities in tenth-century Christian Iberia

8. Countergift in tenth-century northern Iberia

9. Notions of wealth in the charters of ninth- and tenth-century Christian Iberia

10. Water mills and cattle standards; probing the economic comparison between Ireland and Spain in the early middle ages

11. Free peasants and large landowners in the West

12. With David Peterson, The management of land-use in Old Castile: the early strands of the Becerro Galicano of San Millán de la Cogolla

13. Gardens and gardening in early medieval Spain and Portugal

III Judicial Practice

14. Settling disputes in early medieval Spain and Portugal: a contrast with Wales and Brittany?

15. Judges and judging. Truth and justice in northern Iberia on the eve of the millennium

16. Boni homines in northern Iberia. A particularity that raises some general questions

17. On suretyship in tenth-century northern Iberia

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OPEN ACCESS JOURNAL: Studia Iuridica – Acta of the XXIVth Annual Forum of Young Legal Historians (2018, Warsaw)

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We learned of the publication, by the journal Studia Iuridica, of the acta of the XXIVth Annual Forum of Young Legal Historians, which was organized in Warsaw last year.

Table of contents: 

The Entailed Estate in Polish Law from late 15th to the 20th Century: Exception from General Succession Law and Perpetuation of Estate

 Wojciech Bańczyk 

Government Acting on Itself: Hungarian Cabinet in the Interwar Period

Gábor Bathó 

Foundations of the Uncodified Historical Constitution of Hungary

Zsófia Biró 

The Protection of Oikoi under Extinction by the Eponymous Archon in Ancient Athens: The Law and its Application

Athanasios A. Delios 

The Transformation of Political Crimes and its Impact on the Hungarian Criminal Regulation with Special Regard to the Interwar Period

Izabella Drócsa 

Information Exchange and Relations between Ahhiyawa and the Hittite Empire

Tea Dularidze 

The Influence of the Rules of Succession on the Structure of Hungarian and German Families of Southern Transdanubia in the Early 20th Century

 Dóra Frey 

The Beginning of the Debate on the Codification of Polish Law after the World War I: The Issue of the Codification Commission Autonomy in the Light of Political Declarations

 Michał Gałędek 

The Legal Value of Mos Maiorum in Cicero

 Anna Iacoboni 

The Consolidation of Hungarian Legal Practice with the Austrian Norms in 1861

 Imre Képessy 

Searching for National Components in Building own Legal Culture: The Debate on the Legal Situation of Women in Interwar Poland

 Anna Klimaszewska 

Bankruptcy and the Praetorian Pledge: The Law of the Books and the Law in Action in the Early Modern Netherlands

 Ilya A. Kotlyar 

The Death Penalty, the “Marriage Penalty” and Some Remarks on the Utility of Senecan Research in the Study of Roman Law

 Joanna Kulawiak-Cyrankowska 

On Prosecutor’s Offences in Roman Criminal Trial

Elżbieta Loska 

Main Problems of the Codification Works on Substantive Misdemeanor Law in People’s Poland

Marcin Łysko 

Constitutional Norms in the Polish and Finnish Constitutions of the Interwar Period

Dawid Michalski 

From Scandalous Verdicts to “Suicidal Sentences”: The Reform of the Courts of Assize under the Fascist Regime

Claudia Passarella 

Escaping the Guillotine: The Gap between the Crimes Punishable by Death and the Effective Death Sentences (France, 20th Century)

 Nicolas Picard 

The Nautical Commission in the 19th Century Antwerp

 Stephanie Plasschaert  Between Law in the Books and Law in Action: Counteracting Speculation and Usury in Poland (1918-1920)

Jakub Pokoj 

Norms and Legal Practice of Patriarchalism according to James II’s Advices to His Son (1692)

Balázs Rigó 

Community (Custom) vs. State (Law): The Debate about Property in the Papal States in the 18th – 19th Centuries

 Simone Rosati 

In Search of a Legal Conscience: Juridical Reformism in the Mid-19th Century Peace Movement

 Wouter De Rycke 

Norms and Legal Practice in Ancient Egypt: A Case Study of Irrigation System Management

Aneta Skalec 

Living with the Rules: Gender and the Rule of Law in Herodotus’ Histories

 Helen Tank 

The Conservation in Lyon and the Long Tradition of Coutume and Usage

Cornelis M. in ’t Veld 

Did Totalitarian Experience Shape Democratic Norms? Struggle for the Independence of the Polish Judiciary and its Results: Conclusions from Talks with Professor Adam Strzembosz

 Stanisław Zakroczymski 

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BOOK: Simona TAROZZI & Elisabetta FIOCCHI MALASPINA (eds.), Historical Perspectives on Property and Land Law. An Interdisciplinary Dialogue on Methods and Research Approaches [Carlos III. Historia del Derecho] (Madrid: Dykinson, 2019), 243 p. 978-84-1324-499-0, OPEN ACCESS

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Book abstract:

This volume aims to investigate, with an interdisciplinary approach, how legal property regimes, land law and land registration systems are intertwined with economic, social, and political spheres; to analyse the social functions and legal and political implications of various land registration systems in different contexts and how, for example, they operated in a colonial framework; to scrutinise the relations between politics and property, as well as the transformation of the property concept, in its meaning and function.

Table of contents:

Transfer of Immovable Properties, Publicity and Land Law in the Age of Justinian: the Perspective of the Praetorian Prefect. Silvia SchiavoL’evasione fiscale come problema circolare nelle esperienze storiche: esempi della tarda antichità. Paola BianchiLand Grant in Late Antiquity: a pattern for Modern Colonial Regulations? Simona TarozziContextualización iushistórica de la reforma agraria chilena (siglo XX). Agustín PariseLa influencia del Derecho Romano en la adquisición y en el sistema de transferencia en los derechos reales en el siglo XIX, Argentina. Pamela Alejandra CacciavillaniThe indigenous concept of land in Andean constitutionalism. Silvia BagniThe “trascrizione” system in Italy from the end of the nineteenth century to the promulgation of the civil code (1942). Alan SandonàRegistro e colonialismo em Angola. Mariana Dias PaesTracing Social Spaces: Global Perspectives on the History of Land Registration. Elisabetta Fiocchi MalaspinaThe politics of real property in the Kingdom of Sardinia, 1720–1848. Charles BartlettList of AbstractsList of Contributors 

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BOOK: Jeannette KAMP, Crime, Gender and Social Control in Early Modern Frankfurt Am Main (Leiden-New York: Brill, 2020). ISBN 978-90-04-38844-4, €121.00

(Source: Brill)

Brill is publishing a new book on crime, gender and social control in Early Modern Frankfurt am Main.

ABOUT THE BOOK

This book charts the lives of (suspected) thieves, illegitimate mothers and vagrants in early modern Frankfurt. The book highlights the gender differences in recorded criminality and the way that they were shaped by the local context. Women played a prominent role in recorded crime in this period, and could even make up half of all defendants in specific European cities. At the same time, there were also large regional differences. Women’s crime patterns in Frankfurt were both similar and different to those of other cities. Informal control within the household played a significant role and influenced the prosecution patterns of authorities. This impacted men and women differently, and created clear distinctions within the system between settled locals and unsettled migrants.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jeannette Kamp, Ph.D. (1986), is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Oxford. She has previously published an edited volume with Matthias van Rossum Desertion in the Early Modern World (2016).

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Front Matter

Free access

Copyright

Free access

Acknowledgements

Restricted Access

Introduction

Pages: 1–31

A Multi-Layered Legal System: Criminal Justice in Early Modern Frankfurt

Pages: 32–58

Gender and Recorded Crime: Long-Term Patterns and Developments

Pages: 59–85

Restricted Access

Transcending Dichotomies: Gender, Property Offending and the ‘Open House’

Pages: 86–155

Between Control and Agency? The Prosecution of Sexual Offences

Pages: 156–210

Transgressing Social Order: Mobile Men and Women

Pages: 211–274

Conclusions

Pages: 275–286

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PODCAST: Alain SUPIOT, Figures juridiques de la démocratie (France Culture: Les cours du Collège de France, 2019)

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Prof. Alain Supiot's course on Figures juridiques de la démocratie are also available on France Culture as a podcast.

Read more hereµ.

BOOK: Peter MACALISTER-SMITH & Joachim SCHWIETZKE (Hrsg.), Treaties and Other Acts in Multilateral Conference Diplomacy 1641 to 1924. A brief Calendar of State Practice 1641 to 1924 [Arbeitshefte der Arbeitsgemeinschaft für juristisches Bibliotheks-und Dokumentationswesen, Band: 27] (Wien: Neugebauer, 2019), 440 p. ISBN 9783853763278, € 39,8

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Book abstract:

The Calendar surveys over 450 treaties and other official acts worldwide in relation to 111 multilateral conferencesand congresses convened by states from the 17th century to the era of League of Nations.

On the editors:

Joachim Schwietzke Library Director emeritus at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg, Germany. Peter Macalister-Smith is a member of the editorial board of JUS GENTIUM, Journal of International Legal History (Lawbook Exchange, Clark NJ, USA).

 More information with the publisher.

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CALL FOR PAPERS: Market Revolutionaries – An Interdisciplinary Workshop on Neoliberal Development and the Global South (1900-2020) (2-3 June 2020, Utrecht) (DEADLINE: 3 February 2020)

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We learned of a CFP for a conference by the Decolonisation Group at Utrecht University. Here the call:

When: 2-3 June 2020

Location: Utrecht University, Utrecht

Organised by: The Decolonisation Group (part of the  Utrecht University Centre for Global Challenges)

Proposal Deadline: 1 February 2020

Contact: Frank Gerits f.p.l.gerits@uu.nl or Stacey Links s.links@hum.leidenuniv.nl

The Decolonisation Group

​

While the decolonisation of academia and society have become important topics, the significance and potential of such an approach is open to interpretation and often the subject of passionate debate. The Decolonisation Group at Utrecht University, which was created in January 2018, brings together historians, lawyers and postcolonial theorists to explore what can be gained from an interdisciplinary discussion. More information about the Decolonisation Group can be found on our website (www.decolonisationgroup.com) or on the website of the Centre for Global Challenges (Utrecht University) (https://www.uu.nl/en/organisation/centre-for-global-challenges).

This workshop wants to invite scholars from the fields of history, law, political science, sociology, economics and media and cultural studies as well as other academics who work on the topics of Neoliberal economics – broadly defined – to join this debate. This will be our third yearly workshop. While previous editions turned to settler colonialism (2019) and sports (2019) we will now focus on Neoliberalism in the Global South.

Topic of the Workshop

​

This interdisciplinary workshop seeks to understand Neoliberal market reform and Neoliberal ideas as related to politics and the challenge of development in the Global South. In recent years the Neoliberal model has become contested on a global scale. In the United States and the United Kingdom, for instance, discussions about the 1% as well as the National Health Service (NHS) and “Medicare for all” have raised questions about the enduring legacy of Thatcherism and Reaganism.

In the Global South, the resistance against Neoliberal solutions has been overlaid with a call to decolonise societies. In Chile, for instance, protests over a raise of the Santiago Metro's subway fare in 2019 led to wider demonstrations against the ever increasing cost of living, privatisation and inequality. In 2015, South Africa got swept up by student-led protests which demanded free university education. In the call for free university education – #FeesMustFall – the demand to decolonise and the resistance against Neoliberal reform become virtually indistinguishable. While Neoliberal reform has arguably been embraced in large parts of the Global South the link between Neoliberalism and decolonisation remains under-theorised. The demands for Neoliberal reform from the Global North through ‘global’ institutions such as the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the scepticism about this type of reform in the Global South still require more research. The case of the Structural Adjustment Policies (SAPs) of the 1980s, for instance, remains a highly contested research topic.

Debates about global inequality, equitable burden sharing in the fight against climate change, and the universality of human rights have been dominated by decision-making powers in the Global North. At the same time it is leaders from areas of the world that were formerly colonised, such as Asia, Latin America and Africa that have been able to make their mark and demand concessions.

In connecting past and present this workshop asks, how have/do economists, diplomats and other intellectuals in the past and present reconciled/reconcile Neoliberal proscriptions for reform with demands for global equality? How do we understand Neoliberalism as an ideology from the perspective of the Global South?

Prof. dr. David Engerman, Leitner International Interdisciplinary Professor of History at Yale University will act as a Keynote speaker on Neoliberalism in the Global South.

Engerman is a scholar of twentieth-century international history.  Building on his dual training in American and Russian/Soviet history at the University of California-Berkeley (where he received his Ph.D. in 1998), he wrote two books on the place of Russia and the USSR in American intellectual and political life: Modernization from the Other Shore: American Intellectuals and the Romance of Russian Development (Harvard UP, 2003) and Know Your Enemy: The Rise and Fall of America’s Soviet Experts (Oxford UP, 2009).  He has also researched and written on a variety of topics related to the history of development assistance, including a co-edited volume, Staging Growth: Modernization, Development and the Global Cold War (U-Mass Press, 2003), and most recently a monograph, The Price of Aid: The Economic Cold War in India (Harvard UP, 2018).  His new research focuses on the geopolitics of international economic inequality in the second half of the twentieth century.

Prof. dr. Ido de Haan, who is heading a research project on Neoliberalism in the Netherlands at Utrecht University will act as a keynote speaker on Neoliberalism in the Global North.

De Haan is a professor at Utrecht University and focuses on the modern history of Western Europe. He is the main applicant and project leader of the research project ‘Market Makers’. He is especially interested in the consequences of regime changes, revolutions and large scale violence, in particular the Holocaust. He also researches the history of political thought, the development of citizenship, state and civil society in Western Europe and the political history of the Netherlands in the 19th and 20th century.

This workshop will consider a variety of contributions. Topics amongst others may include:

• Economic theory in the Global South
• The history of African, Asian and Latin-American economists of the 1970s
• World Bank policy in past and present
• The impact of NGOs and their decision-making process
• The continued relevance of the WTO
• The links between the anticolonial struggle and Neoliberal reform
• The Cold War and Neoliberalism
• Emerging powers and Neoliberal reform
• Neoliberalism and development reimagined
• Neoliberalism and modernisation theory
• The sociology of Neoliberal changes
• The legal aspects of WTO reform and world trade
• Economic theory of inequality
• The history of capitalism and development theory
• …

Practicalities

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This workshop will take place on 2 and 3 June 2020 at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Participants are expected to be present at all panels. Our first workshop day, 2 June, will start at noon (12h) and run until 17h, after which panellists are invited to dinner. Our second day will run from 9h until 17h. Please note, when planning your trip, that Monday 1 June is Pentecost Monday and a holiday in the Netherlands. Established as well as early career academics who are exploring new areas of research in the disciplines of history, law, political science, sociology and other disciplines are encouraged to apply. The best papers will be considered for publication in a special issue of a journal (more details will follow).

Submission of Abstracts (Deadlines)

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Please send an abstract of max. 500 words, a short CV and a document in which you explain your travel arrangements and budget (if you require support) to decolonisationgroup@gmail.com by 3 February 2020 (midnight). For more information you can contact Frank Gerits (f.p.l.gerits@uu.nl) and Stacey Links (s.links@hum.leidenuniv.nl). Contributors will be notified regarding the acceptance of their contribution by 20 February 2020. Invited speakers will be expected to submit a draft paper prior to the event, which will be circulated among all other participants. This is a small scale workshop intended to discuss research projects at different stages. Researchers from all disciplines are warmly invited to apply, particularly those research working in the Global South.

Some bursaries will be available to cover travel expenses for participants from outside of Utrecht, but these are unlikely to be enough to cover all expenses for all participants. We therefore ask participants to make their own travel arrangements and then apply for funding. Please include a budget for travel and 1 night stay, when you send in your paper proposal. Priority will be given to PhD candidates and early career scholars  who need to travel from afar. Bursaries can cover your entire trip or part of it, based on your need.

More info here