BOOK: Rudi BEAULANT, Bruno LEMESLE (eds.), Justice en action. Acteurs, spatialité et pratiques dans l’espace francophone (fin du Moyen Âge et époque moderne) (Dijon: Éditions universitaires de Dijon, 2023). ISBN: 9782364414792

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ABOUT THE BOOK

La richesse du matériel documentaire conservé, au croisement entre les sources historiques et archéologiques, offre de nouveaux angles d’approche : sur les acteurs de la justice, officiers de justice grands et subalternes, sur les lieux de la justice, lieux d’exécution, d’exposition mais aussi d’inhumation. Elle permet un regard anthropologique sur le traitement des corps suppliciés ainsi que sur les stratégies mises en œuvre. L’objectif est de mieux comprendre le fonctionnement des appareils judiciaires et leurs implications sociales, juridiques et politiques.

ABOUT THE EDITORS

Rudi BEAULANT est docteur en histoire médiévale et chercheur associé au laboratoire ARTEHIS de l’université de Bourgogne. Post-doctorant au LabEx Hastec.

Bruno LEMESLE est professeur d’histoire médiévale à l’université de Bourgogne, spécialiste de l’Église et des modes de gouvernement et des rapports entre pouvoirs et sociétés au Moyen Âge.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction (Rudi Beaulant)

Première partie : les officiers

• Le Registre des calenges du bailli d’Arras (1362-1376), défense et illustration d’une coopération judiciaire (Romain Telliez)
•  « A perpetuelle memoire et exemple a ceulx de la cité ». Les relations entre Thibaut IX de Neufchâtel et Besançon de 1444 à 1469 : entre exercice de la justice et recherche d’une « bonne union » (Julien Lagalice)
• « Comme le point en la balance » : présider les tribunaux seigneuriaux en Anjou à la fin du Moyen Âge (Isabelle Mathieu)
• Les officiers de justice dans les pays bourguignons méridionaux à la fin du Moyen Âge (Rudi Beaulant)

Deuxième partie : Lieux de justice

• Lieux d’exécutions en pays de Gavot (Chablais, Savoie, XIVe-XVIIIe siècle) (Sidonie Bochaton et Audrey Gaillard)
• La mise en paysage de la justice. Visibilité, complémentarité et plurivocité des lieux de justice à Metz au XVe siècle (Isabelle Liliane d’Artagnan)
• Le « cimetière des clercs » à Troyes (XIIIe-XVe siècles) : un cimetière de relégation lié à l’Officialité (Vincent Marchaisseau, Cédric Roms et Cécile Paresys)
•  Quelles sources pour l’histoire et l’archéologie des lieux de la justice pénale au Moyen Âge et à l’époque moderne ? L’exemple de l’Aquitaine du XIIIe au XVIIe siècle (Anne Crola)

Troisième partie : Pratiques judiciaires

• Louis IX et la sollicitation des justiciers non royaux en vue de réprimer les méfaits (Vincent Martin)
• Procès d’un clerc bourguignon devenu Valdensis perfectus (Marie-Clotilde Lault)
• Le bris de sauvegarde royale dans le bailliage de Mâcon : à propos de trois décisions du Parlement, première moitié du XIVe siècle (commentaire et édition) (Liêm Tuttle)
• Une justice ordinaire à la fin du Moyen Âge : l’officialité face au crime (Châlons, XVe siècle) (Véronique Beaulande)
• Un droit immémorial ? Chasser et faire chasser dans les forêts de Cîteaux selon un procès au parlement de Dijon (1502-1505) (Bertrand Marceau)

More information can be found here.

JOURNAL: Droits: Revue française de theorie juridique, de philosophie et de culture juridiques (LXXVI, 2022/2: Parenté, moeurs et droits/5)

(Image source: Cairn)

SOMMAIRE

Articles

• La représentation successorale dans le droit coutumier de la période moderne (Marta Peguera Poch)
• Peut-on parler d’une biologisation du droit de la parenté au moyen âge ? La durée de la grossesse chez cynus de pistoie, Albéric de Rosate et Pierre Jacobi (Maaike van der Lugt, Charles de Miramon)
• User du bon mot pour défendre son bon droit. Succession royale et enjeux de parenté de 1661 à 1715 (Aurore Causin)
• Bref aperçu de l’endogamie chez les ducs et pairs de l’époque moderne (Christophe Levantal)
• Les frontières mouvantes de l’inceste (Laurent Barry)
• Misyār, misfār, miṣyāf… les avatars récents du mariage « islamique » non conventionnel (Édouard Conte)

Variétés

• De l’utilité de la reconnaissance d’état (Chloé de Perry-Sibailly)
• Le formalisme juridique d’apparence dans L’enracinement de Simone Weil (Londres – 1943) (Amaury Giraud)
• Droit et sociologie dialectique. Les mutations du droit selon Michel Freitag (Baptiste Rappin)
• Gramsci, Luhmann et le droit (Rodolphe Royal)
• Introduction à la traduction des « prolégomènes aux principes de la peine » de Herbert Hart (Benoît Basse, Nicolas Nayfeld)
• Prolégomènes aux principes de la peine [traduit par Benoît Basse et Nicolas Nayfeld] (Herbert Hart)

More information can be find here.

LECTIO MAGISTRALIS, Ulrike MÜßIG: Artificio, natura, vita: the subject invented by art, the nature calculated more geometrico and the life legally explained (Macerata: Scuola di Studi Superiori Giacomo Leopardi, 23 febbraio 2024)

 

REMINDER: CALL FOR BLOGGERS: ESCLH Blog (Deadline 11 FEB 2024)

The blog of the European Society for Comparative Legal History is the successful media outlet of our scholarly society. Since its inception in 2010, the posts and pages have attracted over 2,3 million views from Europe and other continents (approx. 22 000 per month in the past twelve months).

We intend to strengthen and enlarge the current team of bloggers, as we regularly welcome new collaborators and thank those who wish to step down after a year of dedicated service.

Candidates are encouraged to send to esclhblog at gmail dot com by 11 February 2024:
- a brief curriculum vitae (mentioning academic credentials and IT experience)
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Bloggers can be at any stage of their academic career (graduate student, PhD-candidate, postdoc, assistant professor, voluntary/associate researcher...). Familiary with legal history (traditionally but not exclusively in a law faculty or history department) is of course a conditio sine qua non. It goes without saying that a Society for comparative legal history is open to candidacies from all backgrounds, irrespective of gender, legal tradition or spatial contingency. We constantly strive to enhance the diversity of our perimeter of interests.  

Serving on the blog is not remunerated. Yet, bloggers receive a reduction on the membership fee of our Society, and are displayed on the blog, as a recognition of their effort.  

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BOOK: Alain MARCHANDISSE, Gilles DOCQUIER (eds.), L’idée de réforme dans les pays bourguignons et les régions voisines (XIVe-XVIe siècles) (Turnhout: Brepols, 2023). ISBN: 9782839940344

 

(Image source: Brepols)

ABOUT THE BOOK

For nearly fifty years, the Centre européen d’études bourguignonnnes (fourteenth and fifteenth centuries) – known until 1984 as the Centre européen d’études burgondo-médianes – has published annually the acts of the scholarly meetings it organizes in cities within the territory covered by its activities. Its objectives, as stated explicitly in its statutes, are the promotion, the encouragement, and the coordination of historical studies relating to the period of the Dukes of Burgundy of the house of Valois and of the first Hapsburgs, between the North Sea, the Rhine-Danube river system, and the Mediterranean. The themes of these meetings relate to different aspects of the past of these lands, with particular emphasis on the political, economic, cultural and spiritual links that existed between them. Because of their international and multilingual nature (French, German, English and Italian), the volumes of the collection hold a position of choice in the bibliography of studies devoted to this historical period which marks the transition between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance in the Western world.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Allocution inaugurale, par S.A.S. le Duc d’Arenberg
• Rapport d’activités pour 2021-2022, par Alain Marchandisse
• In memoriam Philippe Contamine (1932-2022), par Bertrand Schnerb
• Gisela Naegle, Aux armes pour la réforme ? Rêves de réforme entre paix, guerre, révolte et croisade (France/Empire, XIVe-XVIe siècles)
• Sylvie Bépoix, « De grandes réformations » : les idées de réformes et leur application concrète dans le comté de Bourgogne sous Jean sans Peur au début du XVe siècle
• David Bardey, La réforme comme arme politique ? Eudes IV et la réformation du duché de Bourgogne en 1343
• Jean-Baptiste Santamaria, A nous appartient la correction des aministrateurs et la reformation de nos villes. Les ordonnances de réformation des villes d’Artois à la fin du Moyen Âge
• Élodie Lecuppre-Desjardin, Ordre et rigueur dans la ville. Lille, un laboratoire de réformes pour Charles le Téméraire ?
• Hendrik Callewier, La cour des ducs de Bourgogne et la réforme du clergé séculier dans le diocèse de Tournai
• Pierre Fournier, La réforme du clergé dans la Sporta fragmentorum de Gilles Charlier : un champ discursif contesté entre clercs et laïcs
• Éric Bousmar, « Seigneurs, voulez-vous être damnés ? ». Le cordelier Olivier Maillard face à la cour de Philippe le Beau (Bruges, 1501)
• Autre communication présentée aux Rencontres de Lille.

More information can be found here.

BOOK: Yaniv FOX, The Merovingians in Historiographical Tradition. From the Sixth to the Sixteenth Centuries (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023). ISBN: 9781009285018

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ABOUT THE BOOK

The Merovingian centuries were a foundational period in the historical consciousness of western Europe. The memory of the first dynasty of Frankish kings, their origin myths, accomplishments, and failures were used by generations of chroniclers, propagandists, and historians to justify a wide range of social and political agendas. The process of curating and editing the source material gave rise to a recognizable 'Merovingian narrative' with three distinct phases: meteoric ascent, stasis, and decline. Already in the seventh-century Chronicle of Fredegar, this tripartite model was invoked by a Merovingian queen to prophesy the fate of her descendants. This expert commentary sets out to understand how the story of the Merovingians was shaped through a process of continuous historiographical adaptation. It examines authors from across a millennium of historical writing and analyzes their influences and objectives, charting the often-unexpected ways in which their narratives were received and developed.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Yaniv Fox is Associate Professor of History at Bar-Ilan University. He is the organizer of the 2021–2022 Israel Institute for Advanced Studies research group 'Purity and Pollution in Late Antique and Early Medieval Culture and Society' and the author of Power and Religion in Merovingian Gaul: Columbanian Monasticism and the Frankish Elites (2014).

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

1. Trojans, sea-monsters, and long-haired kings: from Priam to Childeric

2. Capud victuriarum vestrarum Chlodovechus

3. Taedit me memorare: the middle Merovingians

4. Omni ecclesiastica dignitate nobilitavit: 'Good King Dagobert'

5. Regibus solo nomine regnantibus: the Late Merovingians

Conclusions

More information can be find here.

SEMINAR SERIES: Le spectacle des arcanes. Le travail de l’administration sur elle-même (images, discours, corpus) Première modernité, Europe et premières colonies (FEB-DEC 2024, h. 12:30-14) [ONLINE]

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Dans un texte désormais célèbre, Denis Richet analysait le travail de la monarchie sur elle-même. Le wébinaire que nous proposons invite à suivre ses analyses, en décentrant le regard sur les acteurs institutionnels, individuels et collectifs, qui, dans l’exercice quotidien de la souveraineté au nom des autorités publiques, travaillent à façonner leurs propres charges, à discuter les ordres qu’ils reçoivent et à feindre l’antiquité de leurs propres pratiques instituées bien souvent récemment, au gré d’un coup politique, d’une disgrâce, d’un changement dynastique. Pour dessiner les contours scientifiques de cet objet de recherche original, les sources mobilisées au cours des séances seront autant des sources iconographiques que textuelles, en questionnant la notion de corpus d’enquête et son lien avec les questionnaires de recherche. La modernité est entendue de manière large, afin de prolonger, pour la première modernité, les analyses heuristiques de la lente montée en puissance des administrations expertes de la fin du Moyen Âge, institutions implantées dans les entourages souverains depuis plus d’un siècle lors du déclenchement des conflits civils et géopolitiques de forte intensité au second xvie siècle. La visée des séances est de parvenir à analyser les représentations du pouvoir qui se pense et se donne à voir à lui-même, à la société administrative et à la société politique dans ces discours de formes hybrides, véritables objets politiques dotés d’une efficacité politique et sociale, inscrits au cœur des stratégies de propagande et de communication politique. Cette approche permet également de restituer plus finement quel est le périmètre de la fraction de la société politique que nous proposons de nommer société administrative. Le wébinaire donne la parole à des collègues de disciplines diverses telles que l’histoire, les sciences du droit et les sciences politiques et sociales, la littérature, l’anthropologie, la philosophie et l’histoire des images. Les séances permettent de dresser les entrées d’un questionnaire de recherche en vue de l’organisation d’un colloque international à Bruxelles à l’automne 2025, premier point d’étape de la constitution d’un groupe de recherche transdisciplinaire en histoire et anthropologie culturelles du politique.

Inscription obligatoire (jeremie.ferrer-bartomeu@uliege.be). Les séances ne font pas l’objet d’un enregistrement mais d’un court résumé sur le carnet de recherche dédié (https://pouvoirs.hypotheses.org/).

PROGRAMME

• 16 février 2024 - Jérémie Ferrer-Bartomeu, UCLouvain-ULiège/FNRS 
• 21 mars 2024 - Florence Bistagne, Avignon Université
• 26 avril 2024 - Nathanaël Valdman, EHESS
• 17 mai 2024 - Géraldine Cazals, Université de Bordeaux 
• 14 juin 2024 - Monique Weis, Université du Luxembourg 
• 11 septembre 2024 - Maud Hagelstein, ULiège/FNRS
• 20 septembre 2024 - Paul-Alexis Mellet, IHR/Université de Genève
• 18 octobre 2024 - Géraud Poumarède, Université Bordeaux Montaigne 
• 15 novembre 2024 - Guillaume Gaudin, Toulouse-II-Jean-Jaurès 
• 13 décembre 2024 - Marjorie Meiss, Université de Lille

More information can be found here.

JOURNAL: Initium: Revista catalana d'historia del dret (XXVIII, 2023)

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

De Re Iuridica Gesta

• Origen, formación y consolidación oficial de los Usatici (Aquilino Iglesia Ferreirós)
• Los «plagios» de Alonso de Villadiego de Montoya, en su lnstrucción política y práctica judicial (Pedro Ortego Gil)
• Inseparable de su real diadema: la implantación de los recursos extraordinarios de suplicación en Cataluña (1716-1742) (Carlos Antonio Garriga Acosta)

De Batayla facienda

• Tra stato ed autonomie nel medioevo italiano (Mario Ascheri)

Opinionibus et noscendis

• Un capítulo del edicto de Adelchis (866) y los Usatici Barchinone (Aquilino Iglesia Ferreirós)
• Grossi, Foucault y Fueros (Faustino Martínez Martínez)

De Officiis

• Le novae leges canoniche tra diritto positivo, politica e istituzioni: Innocenzo III e la questione inglese (Giovanni Diurni)

LECTURE SERIES: Helsinki Legal History Series (Spring 2024) [ONLINE]

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How have collective identities shaped law, and how has law been used to affect, change or protect common identities? Does law recognize marginalized identities or is the history of law a narrative of exclusion?

The themes of the first meetings will be: 

• Mathilda Tarandi, 30.1.2024: Who was criminalised? Analysing the crime of abortion in Sweden, early 20th century.

Tarandi's research is on the crime and the decriminalisation of abortion in Sweden. The analysis starts in early 19th century and ends in 1975, when the formal decriminalisation entered into force. She is looking at what, or rather who, was criminalised. Studying material from the parliament as well as court archives, She explores how norms on female identity came into play in the legal discourse and how concepts such as guilt were used in the argumentation for decriminalisation. In this presentation, she will analyse the criminalised area in early 20th century. Borrowing from the humanities, she will reflect on the argumentation and criminalised area in relation to female archetypes.

• Moritz Vormbaum, 27.2.2024: ‘A Legal Instrument of the Political Power of the Working Class’ - The Criminal Law of the German Democratic Republic

 Today, more than 30 years after the German unification, not much is known about the criminal law of the German Democratic Republic (GDR). This is surprising, for the fact alone that, in 1968, the GDR enacted a new overall codification of criminal law – something that from 1871 until today no other German government has managed to do. In addition, a study of GDR criminal law gives us insights of the criminal law in an authoritarian regime based on socialist ideology. The presentation will give an overview of the development of substantive criminal law in East Germany from 1945 to 1990. Moreover, it will analyse the role of the judiciary and the Ministry for State Security in practice. Finally, it sketches a pattern of interpretation of GDR criminal law.

More information can be found here.

CfA: Doctoral Fellowships, ERC project 'Local Law under Rome' (Jerusalem: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

 

The ERC project Local Law under Rome is offering two fully funded PhD degrees at the Hebrew University Department of Talmud for a period of up to five years. The research students participating in this project will dedicate their research to the study of early rabbinic law within its legal contexts (e.g. Roman, Hellenistic or Egyptian). 

The successful candidate will be a part of a unique interdisciplinary team, alongside scholars of other local legal cultures, which will be engaged in comparative study of local legal cultures from a historical perspective. Together we seek to enhance the understanding of provincial legalism in its multiple manifestations. 

The appointed fellow is expected to work closely with other team members. S/he will participate in the project’s ongoing activities and is expected to contribute to its collaborative outputs, produce project-related publications and provide materials for the comparative database. 

Candidates must have: 

❖ Proven experience in the research of rabbinic law and a genuine curiosity in other legal cultures 

❖ Ability to participate in academic discussions in English 

❖ An interest and ability to work in a team

Please submit the following files to the e-mail below (in one PDF file): 

❖ Curriculum vitae (CV) 

❖ Letter of application describing your motivation and qualifications (1-2 pages) 

❖ Official academic transcripts and certificates (scanned copies) 

❖ At least one writing sample (academic paper, essay, or publication) 

In addition, please arrange for two Reference Letters to be sent directly to the email below. 

You are welcome to contact us with any question. 

Applications will be reviewed beginning 1 April 2024

More information here.

CfA: Postdoctoral Fellowships, ERC project 'Local Law under Rome' (Jerusalem: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

 

The ERC project Local Law under Rome is offering a number of Postdoctoral fellowships at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem beginning October 2024, or as soon as possible thereafter. Scholars who have received their Ph.D. after October 1st 2019 or will submit their Ph.D. no later the beginning of the Postdoctoral period are eligible to apply. 

The successful candidate will be a part of a unique interdisciplinary team which will be engaged in comparative study of local legal cultures within their Roman imperial context. Together we seek to enhance the understanding of provincial legalism in its multiple manifestations. We are seeking experts in one (or more) of the following legal traditions, who are committed to a contextual and historical analysis of legal materials:  

(1) Early rabbinic law (2) Legal papyrology (3) Roman law in the provinces, or (4) Greek law. We also welcome applications by scholars of (5) Anthropology of Law who are interested in these materials.       The appointed fellow is expected to work closely with other team members. S/he will participate in the project’s ongoing activities and is expected to contribute to its collaborative outputs, produce project-related publications and provide materials for the comparative database.

The scholarship will be granted for a maximum of 3 years. (subject to review at the end of each year). The fellow will receive a monthly stipend of approximately 11,000 NIS. Additional funding for travel will be available following approval. The fellow will have an office at the Mount Scopus Campus in Jerusalem and is expected to be present there regularly. Knowledge of Hebrew is not required.

Please submit the following documents (in one PDF file) to the e-mail address below:  

❖ Introduction Letter describing your academic experience and motivation for participating in the project (2-3 pages)  

❖ Curriculum vitae  

❖ Abstract of the PhD dissertation  

❖ Writing Sample: dissertation chapter or a paper that has been published or accepted for publication (no more than 30 pages)   

In addition, please arrange for two Reference Letters to be sent directly.  We encourage potential applicants to contact us for additional information on the project, the application procedure, The Hebrew University and life in Jerusalem.  

Applications will be reviewed beginning March 15, 2024.

More information here.

WORKSHOP: La codification européenne du droit des affaires. Perspectives historiques et contemporaines (Lille: Université de Lille, 5 FEB 2024)

 

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Lundi 5 février, 14h

Faculté des Sciences juridiques, politiques et sociales

1 place Déliot, Lille

 

 

 

Victor Simon, professeur à l’Université de Lille

Ouverture de la journée l’étude

 

 

Nicolas Cornu-Thénard, professeur à l’Université Paris Panthéon-Assas &

Nicolas Laurent-Bonne, Professeur à l’Université Paris-Est Créteil

Présentation de la revue Tribonien

 

 

Pauline Pailler, professeur à l’Université Paris Cité

Les conflits de qualification en droit européen des affaires

 

 

Alexis Mages, professeur à l’Université de Bourgogne

Retour sur le(s) discours de la méthode… Idéalisme (F. Cosentini) Vs réalisme (R. Demogue)

 

 

Cristina Ciancio, professeur associé à l’Università degli studi del Sannio

La codification commerciale dans le Royaume d'Italie : entre modèles européens et solutions originales

 

 

Frank Schäfer, professeur à l’Albert-Ludwigs-Universität

Uniform Code Instead of Divided Codes: Lessons for the Relationship of the Law of Obligations and Commercial Law

 

 

Anna Klimaszewska, professeur assistant à l’Uniwersytet Gdanski et professeur invité à l’Universitetet i Oslo

Que peuvent apprendre les créateurs du Projet de Code européen des affaires de plus de 200 ans d'adoption de lois commerciales en Pologne ?

More information: see poster.

REMINDER: CALL FOR BLOGGERS: ESCLH Blog (Deadline 11 FEB 2024)

The blog of the European Society for Comparative Legal History is the successful media outlet of our scholarly society. Since its inception in 2010, the posts and pages have attracted over 2,3 million views from Europe and other continents (approx. 22 000 per month in the past twelve months).

We intend to strengthen and enlarge the current team of bloggers, as we regularly welcome new collaborators and thank those who wish to step down after a year of dedicated service.

Candidates are encouraged to send to esclhblog at gmail dot com by 11 February 2024:
- a brief curriculum vitae (mentioning academic credentials and IT experience)
- a cover letter

Bloggers can be at any stage of their academic career (graduate student, PhD-candidate, postdoc, assistant professor, voluntary/associate researcher...). Familiary with legal history (traditionally but not exclusively in a law faculty or history department) is of course a conditio sine qua non. It goes without saying that a Society for comparative legal history is open to candidacies from all backgrounds, irrespective of gender, legal tradition or spatial contingency. We constantly strive to enhance the diversity of our perimeter of interests.  

Serving on the blog is not remunerated. Yet, bloggers receive a reduction on the membership fee of our Society, and are displayed on the blog, as a recognition of their effort.  

The level of engagement with the blog can vary depending on the person. We aim to publish one notification of publication, job announcement, call for papers... per working day, in order to keep the interested audience connected to our RSS-feed, this URL, X (twitter) account, or the daily mailing with follow.it.

JOURNAL: Droits: Revue française de theorie juridique, de philosophie et de culture juridiques (LXXV, 2022/1: Parenté, moeurs et droits/4)

(Image source: Cairn)

SOMMAIRE

Articles

• Le caractère unique de la parenté agnatique romaine (Emmanuelle Chevreau)
• Parricide (Jean-Marie Carbasse)
• La puissance paternelle romaine entre dogmatique juridique et évolution des mœurs (Elena Giannozzi)
• La dévolution des noms durant le Haut Moyen Âge (Ve-Xe siècle) (Christian Settipani)
• Les familles et l’impôt des personnes physiques (Thierry Lambert)
• L’adoption, une longue évolution (Laurent Leveneur)
• L’homme enceint (Cyrille Duvert)

Variétés

• Se souvenir du Pays de sapience… Résilience coutumière et mémoire du droit normand au XIXe siècle (Gilduin Davy)
• De Kant à Schopenhauer. La métaphysique aux sources du positivisme juridique (Alexandre Viala)
• Le[s] droit[s] naturel[s] de H. L. A. Hart (Bertrand Guillarme)
• La conception du parlement comme un système juridique ou les difficultés de la théorie hartienne (Dylan Swolarski)
• De la science politique (D’hier à aujourd’hui : occidentalisme, descriptivisme, refus du temps long et de l’interdisciplinarité) (Robert Charvin)

Billet

• Les mutants de Panurge. « Iel est un autre » (Éric Desmons)

More information can be found here.

SEMINAR: 'Vittorio Scialoja e la lotta per l'egemonia nella romanistica' (Napoli: Università Federico II, 23 gennaio 2024)

 

(Source: Storia del diritto)

JOURNAL: Journal for Digital Legal History (Vol. 1, Issue 1)

(Source: Open Journals UGent)

The Journal for Digital Legal History has recently published its first issue. The full issue can be found (in open access) here.

BOOK PRESENTATION: 'Francesco Accolti maestro del diritto comune del Quattrocento' di Alarico Barbagli (Arezzo: Accademia Petrarca, 19 gennaio 2024 - 17:30 CET)

 

(Source: Storia del diritto)

JOURNAL: Rivista internazionale di diritto comune (XXXIV, 2023)

(Image source: Skira edizioni)

Memorie di umanità e diritto

• Bartolo tra Stato e città-Stato (Mario Ascheri)

Saggi

• Consilia o tractatus di Pietro d’Ancarano per il Grande Scisma (1405-1410) (Andrea Padovani)
• Stranieri-nemici. Il riconoscimento del diritto di difesa agli hostes iniusti. Voci di giuristi tra i secoli XIV e XV (Rosalba Sorice)
• Ius decretalium nella Sicilia del secolo XII. Le decretali indirizzate a destinatari dell’isola, dall’inizio dell’età normanna a Celestino III (1198) (Vincenzo Roberto Imperia)
• Teaching Canon Law with Verses. Poetic Quotes in Hostiensis’s Summa Aurea (c.1253) (David De Concilio)
• Angelo Gambiglioni effigiato in una iniziale miniata Note sul ms Philadelphia, Free Library, Hampton L. Carson Collection, LC 14 23 e sul possessore Francesco Berardi da Cagli (Paola Maffei)
• Diritto e mutamenti costituzionali nella History of the Common Law of England di Matthew Hale. Una ricerca comparativa nella tradizione giuridica occidentale (Christian Zendri)

Discussioni

• Francesco Calasso, il ‘sistema del diritto comune’ e il desiderio di un’Europa del diritto (Luca Loschiavo)

 Note e documenti

• The Decretum Gratiani in the Kingdom of Bohemia in the Middle Ages (Pavel O. Krafl)

Ricordi

• Ricordi… non è mai troppo tardi, nr. 16: Povertà, violenza, ignoranza fra l’Alto Medioevo e il Rinascimento medievale (Manlio Bellomo)
• Ricordi… non è mai troppo tardi, nr. 17: Calascibetta civitas victoriosa: così il notaio Adriano Pampillonio nel 1592 (Manlio Bellomo)

Varie 

• Considerazioni sul diritto canonico nelle Università statali: “status quaestionis” e prospettive (Orazio Condorelli)

Orientamenti bibliografici

• Bibliografia

More information can be found here.

BOOK: Arnault SKORNICKI & Jérôme TOURNADRE (dir.), La nouvelle histoire des idées politiques [Repères] (Paris: La Découverte, 2024), 128 p. ISBN 9782348082023

 

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Abstract:

L’histoire des idées politiques s’est longtemps résumée au commentaire savant de grands penseurs discutant de grandes questions éternelles. De par le monde, les entreprises de refondation se sont pourtant multipliées depuis les années 1960, portées par des approches parfois divergentes, mais s’accordant sur la nécessité de traiter les idées comme des faits insérés dans la réalité historique. Longtemps restée en marge, la France a fini par être gagnée par ces courants étrangers et par développer à son tour de nouvelles entreprises collectives originales. Ce panorama national et international met en relation les divers courants de cette historiographie renouvelée. Disséquant les apports d’écoles consacrées (Cambridge School, sémantique historique allemande, généalogie foucaldienne, histoire sociale des idées politiques, etc.) et mettant en perspective des thématiques ayant peu fait l’objet de synthèses (idées et milieux populaires, idées et décision publique, etc.), il offre des réponses à des questions essentielles : qu’est-ce qu’une idée politique ? Les idées politiques sont-elles le fruit du seul génie créateur de leurs auteurs ? Gouvernent-elles le monde ?

Read more on cairn. 

CALL FOR PAPERS: Exposing and punishing "forgery": the policing of professions in the early modern era (15th-18th centuries) (Paris: 12-13 SEPTEMBER 2024) [DEADLINE 2 FEBRUARY 2024]

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The aim of this conference is to examine the uses of the notion of ‘forgery’ in policing any given trade or economic activity in the early modern town and/or its peripheries. In other words, to question whether there existed one or more models of such suitable policing through the qualification of what was ‘fraud’.

Our approach inscribes itself in the scholarship that, over the last fifteen years, has revisited the economic practices of Ancien Régime men and women in terms of their inclusion in regimes of power or belonging, also by taking into account the actors themselves challenging these regimes. The focus placed on the possibilities of interpersonal negotiation surrounding the exercise of a given economic activity (manufacturing, retailing, services, access to credit) has shed light on the agents’ practical knowledge or expertise. The fact remains, however, that their skills, whether individual or collective, insofar as they inscribed themselves in social and political contexts, were not without limits. 

Qualifying, judging and punishing ’fraud’, whether rightly or wrongly singled out in a product, a service or a person's legal status, is one of the recurring expressions of such limits. Whether expressed individually or collectively, based on custom or positive law, such an accusation referred to any form of challenge to what had been established as the rule. "Forgery", as it constituted counterfeit or usurpation, could then be employed to qualify the quality of the product as well as the quality of those who manufactured or sold it. To state the ‘fraudulent’ character of a thing implied mobilizing an expertise, but also to recall and endorse an authority, including and perhaps especially in a context of existing competing jurisdictions, or standards. Having said that, is this accusation based primarily on legal, economic, social or religious dimensions? Is pointing at ’fraud’ a manner of making room for obedience or prohibitions, in search of the integrity of goods, prices and services to the public, or on the contrary a manner of circumscribing a status to the happy few? Does this accusation draw lines to exclude, serve to include by means of a constrained procedure, or merely reaffirm an existing rule?

This call for papers welcomes original research spanning the whole prism of craft and commercial situations, at all scales of use of the notion of ’forgery’ - be it in a workshop, a shop, a profession, a town or a territory. Proposals may focus on one-off or recurring uses of this notion. They may examine the constituting elements of the incorporated trade, whether male, female or mixed, right through to the otherwise regulated worlds to which female labour largely belongs. As the urban environment allows for the comparative approach, this call for papers will prioritize proposals focusing on spaces that are necessarily urban, or at least undergo a process of urbanisation.

In particular, proposals may address:

• The nature of the actors qualified as "fraud", as well as that of the actors who mobilize the notion: "fraud workers", "incompetent judges", incorporated or non-incorporated individuals, graduates or non-graduates, on the one hand, trade organizations, various municipal or supra-local bodies, on the other.
• The materiality of objects and tools, whether in terms of inspection and expertise in workshops or factories, or the examination of products at markets, fairs and customs, including in the context of the renewal of techniques and the opening of commercial outlets.
• Characterizing the gestures and authorizations that relate actors to goods: implementation of  labour regulation, or of several competing regulations, submission to tax rubrics, rituals of inspection and registration of individuals and goods in public places or private homes.

Proposals shall be approximately 1,500 characters long, written in French or English, and are to be submitted by 2 February 2024 to the following address: punirlefaux@gmail.com. A brief résumé shall be attached.

More information can be found here.

WORKSHOP: Egodocuments in Legal History: Individual Experiences and Memories as Sources of Legal Cultural Change (Turku: Turku Faculty of Law, 8 FEB 2024)

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The appreciation of different types of autobiographical writing as historical sources has grown considerably in the last decades. Diaries, travel journals, memoirs and autobiographies describe their authors’ affairs, impressions and emotions. Such egodocuments also include confessions, family genealogies and personal letters.

Some researchers have discovered the possibilities of egodocuments for legal historical research as sources when studying e.g. legal work, law studies, litigation and legal culture more generally. Yet, they are still much underused.

This workshop aims at exploring a variety of early modern and modern egodocuments and demonstrating their potential for legal history research. Despite the fact that egodocuments have rarely been written for legal purposes, they can be used to answer both more traditional and novel research questions in legal history.

We will discuss the uses of such sources in legal history research through examples from various types of egodocuments. During this workshop, we will investigate the range of research topics, questions and methodological issues relating to their use and how they enrich our knowledge of the legal cultures of the past.

Preliminary Program:

10.30 Welcome and some practicalities (Mia Korpiola, Turku)
10.45 The Possibilities of Egodocuments for Legal History Research (Mia Korpiola)
11.15 Discussion
11.30 Lunch
12.30 Case Study 1: Egodocuments and Early Modern Law Studies (Marianne Vasara-Aaltonen, Helsinki)
Discussion
13.10 Case Study 2: Using Egodocuments for Uncovering Nineteenth-Century Legal Work (Elsa Hietala, Turku/Sarka - The Finnish Museum of Agriculture
Discussion
13.50 Coffee
14.10 Case Study 3: Discovering the Lives of the First Swedish Female Lawyers through Egodocuments (Elsa Trolle Önnerfors, Lund)
Discussion
14.50 Introduction to workshop (Mia Korpiola)
15.00 Working in groups
15.30 Presentation of group work
16.00 Final discussion

Venue: Cal2109, Calonia, Caloniankuja 3, University of Turku
For more information, please contact prof. Mia Korpiola, mia.korpiola[at]utu.fi . Registration takes place via the following link: https://konsta.utu.fi/Default.aspx?tabid=88&tap=17539 (incl. dietary requests, allergies).

CALL FOR BLOGGERS: ESCLH Blog (Deadline 11 FEB 2024)

The blog of the European Society for Comparative Legal History is the successful media outlet of our scholarly society. Since its inception in 2010, the posts and pages have attracted over 2,3 million views from Europe and other continents (approx. 22 000 per month in the past twelve months).

We intend to strengthen and enlarge the current team of bloggers, as we regularly welcome new collaborators and thank those who wish to step down after a year of dedicated service.

Candidates are encouraged to send to esclhblog at gmail dot com by 11 February 2024:
- a brief curriculum vitae (mentioning academic credentials and IT experience)
- a cover letter

Bloggers can be at any stage of their academic career (graduate student, PhD-candidate, postdoc, assistant professor, voluntary/associate researcher...). Familiary with legal history (traditionally but not exclusively in a law faculty or history department) is of course a conditio sine qua non. It goes without saying that a Society for comparative legal history is open to candidacies from all backgrounds, irrespective of gender, legal tradition or spatial contingency. We constantly strive to enhance the diversity of our perimeter of interests.  

Serving on the blog is not remunerated. Yet, bloggers receive a reduction on the membership fee of our Society, and are displayed on the blog, as a recognition of their effort.  

The level of engagement with the blog can vary depending on the person. We aim to publish one notification of publication, job announcement, call for papers... per working day, in order to keep the interested audience connected to our RSS-feed, this URL, X (twitter) account, or the daily mailing with follow.it.

SEMINAR: Le vie del diritto romano, Luigi Capogrossi Colognesi in dialogo con Mario Caravale (19 gennaio 2024, ZOOM link available)

 

(Source: Storia del diritto)

PODCAST: Tristan G. BROWN, Laws of the Land. Fengshui and the State in Qing Dynasty China (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023) [New Books Network, 11 DEC 2023]

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First paragraph:

Welcome to another episode of New Books in Chinese Studies. I am your host, Julia Keblinska, and I am speaking today to Prof. Tristan Brown about his book, Laws of the Land: Fengshui and the State in Qing Dynasty China (Princeton UP, 2023). Brown’s book considers fengshui, that is, the knowledge of orienting structures, such as graves and houses, in accordance with well-established cosmological principles, as an administrative technology and language of power that was intrinsic to governance through the Qing legal code.

Listen to the podcast here. 

BOOK: Victoria BARNES, Nora HONKALA & Sally WHEELER (eds.), Women, Their Lives, and the Law. Essays in Honour of Rosemary Auchmuty (London: Routledge, 2023), 230 p. ISBN 9781509962082, 90 GBP

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Abstract:

This collection of essays honours Rosemary Auchmuty, Professor of Law at the University of Reading, UK. She has fostered the study of women's academic careers and, more politically, advanced progress on gender and equality issues including same-sex marriage and property law. Her research promotes the case of feminist legal history as a way of revealing the place of women and challenging dominant historical narratives that cast them aside. Just as Rosemary's work does, the book seeks to end the marginalisation and exclusion of women in the legal world, by including them. The book begins fittingly with a discussion of Miss Bebb, the woman whose biography Auchmuty deployed to push feminist legal history into the mainstream. It turns then to a discussion of women known and unknown and their struggles within the legal profession offering within those chapters a critical appraisal of the role of history and biography as a methodology. From there it moves to consider feminist perspectives and critiques of the dominant structures of private law. This is followed by chapters that explore those who educate the legal profession within the academy. The chapters, and the collection as a whole, examine areas of law that have a deep significance for women's lives.

Table of contents:

1. The Recovery of a Rising Star: Miss Bebb – Broken Biography, Judith Bourne (St Mary's University, UK)
2. Women Jurists Under the Swastika, Ulrike Schultz (FernUniversität, Germany)
3. Beyond Firsts: Feminist Biography and Early Women Barristers, Caroline Derry (Open University, UK)
4. Anna van Zwanenberg – A Life History, Anonymous
5. Gender, Feminism and Unsung Workers: The Early Years of the Law Centres Movement 1970-1980, Marie Burton (University of Oxford, UK) and Linda Mulcahy (University of Oxford, UK)
6. Rosemary Auchmuty – Doing Feminist Legal Biography, Fiona Cownie (University of London, UK)
7. Spinsters, Goblins and Contract, Sally Wheeler (Australian National University, Australia)
8. The Heroines, the Underdogs, and Everything In-between: Injecting a Feminist Approach into Family Law History, Sharon Thompson (Cardiff University, UK)
9. Change, Challenge and Resistance in Family Law, Felicity Diduck (Brunel University, UK) and Alison Diduck (University College London, UK)
10. Relationship Recognition: Feminism, Law, and Transformation, Susan Boyd (University of British Columbia, Canada) and Claire Young (University of British Columbia, Canada)
11. Until Marriage Do Us Part: Women Teachers and the Marriage Bar in the 1920s, Harriet Samuels (University of Westminster, UK)
12. Women and Publishing in Family and Property Law Journals, Victoria Barnes (Queen's University Belfast, UK) and Nora Honkala (University of Reading, UK)
13. Locating Feminist Scholars and Scholarship in the Legal Academy, Rosemary Hunter (University of Kent, UK) 14. Auchmuty, Legal Education and Equality, Lisa Webley (University of Birmingham, UK)

Read more here.

 

PODCAST: Naveen KANALU RAMAMURTHY, "Le droit hanéfite dans l’Empire moghol. Institutions, normes et pratiques islamiques en Inde (1650–1700)" (Paris: Collège de France, 14 DEC 2023)

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Abstract:

Tout comme l’Empire ottoman et des khanats d’Asie centrale, l’Empire moghol (1526-1857) – dernière grande puissance impériale ayant dominé le sous-continent indien avant le colonialisme britannique –, était régi par des institutions, normes et pratiques issues du droit hanéfite, une des quatre écoles juridiques de l’islam sunnite. Comment les normes élaborées par le droit savant des juristes hanéfites ont-elles façonné les institutions mogholes ? À partir d’archives multilingues en arabe, en persan et en langues vernaculaires indiennes, nous proposons un petit tour d’horizon des pratiques administratives et juridiques mogholes afin de montrer des relations de pouvoir asymétriques qui existaient entre les agents de l’autorité impériale et les sujets dans les sociétés composées de différentes castes, ethnicités et religions. Il s’agit d’appréhender la normativité juridique entre les normes provenant de la méthode casuistique des juristes et leurs usages par les chancelleries, les administrateurs et les juges à l’œuvre dans l’Empire moghol, l’un des régimes de pouvoir impérial les plus centralisés à l’époque moderne. Nous interrogeons les pratiques quotidiennes de l’application des règles pour saisir le savoir-faire professionnel du système juridique hanéfite qui s’est développé dans la région. Nous faisons ainsi dialoguer la culture juridique de l’Inde moghole avec l’histoire des empires en terre d’Islam.

On the speaker:

Naveen Kanalu Ramamurthay, Maître de conférences, EHESS 

Listen to the podcast here. 

CALL FOR BLOGPOSTS: Cross-Jurisdictional Dialogues in the Interwar Period (British Association of Comparative Law)

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Call:

The British Association of Comparative Law (BACL) is pleased to announce a call for the 2023-2024 cycle of its “Cross-jurisdictional dialogues in the Interwar period” series, which shines a light on less-known legal transfers in the Interwar period which have played an important role in the advancement of the law.

BACL ran the first season of the series during the 2022-2023 academic year – the pieces, which belong to it, can either be accessed by clicking on the hashtag “#Series_Interwar_Dialogue” or by selecting the “Interwar Dialogue” category on the BACL Blog.

BACL is interested to consider for publication stories of legal transfers from all over the world. The call is not limited to a single legal discipline either. During the first season of the series, BACL published contributions concerning the laws of Australia, Austria, China, Greece, Ibero-America, Italy, Poland, and Yugoslavia. Moreover, these blog pieces encompass Interwar dialogues in private law, administrative law, constitutional law, criminal law, and human rights law.

The inspiration behind the series and the requirements for submission can be found below.

The period between World War I and World War II was characterised by vigorous debates and legal innovation in response to extreme social and economic challenges. This was a time of disillusionment with well-established paradigms and legislative models, but also a time of hope in which comparative dialogue and exchange of ideas between jurisdictions thrived. Some of these exchanges have had a long-lasting impact both on doctrinal and legislative development, but not all stories are well-known. For more details about the background of our series, please read R. Vassileva’s piece on “Interwar Dialogues and the Patterns of Legal Change”. 

Some of the questions we are interested to hear about in the 2023-2024 season of the series include:

• Do you know of intellectual giants of their time who have served as bridges between different legal cultures, ultimately becoming key agents of legal change, and whose legacy deserves more attention?
• Are there intellectual hubs that have channeled pivotal comparative dialogue, but whose significance has been underestimated?
• What factors gather scholars together? To what extent do academic friendships play a role in law development? Do formal or informal networks have a decisive impact on comparative dialogues?
• For legal ideas to travel during the Interwar period, jurists needed to physically travel, too. However, jurists may have different motivations to cross borders – these personal choices make all the difference and may provide insights on the conditions that trigger legal change. What do such episodes tell us about the mobility, relatability, and translatability of legal ideas? Is the notion of “travel”, which encompasses both time and space, rather than “transfer” more helpful in understanding the complexity of the exchanges between jurisdictions?
• What factors shape legal identity and, respectively, determine the type of legal transfers that a given legal system embraces and/or rejects?
• Many of the pieces, which BACL published in the 2022-2023 cycle of the series, seem to indicate that legal transfers are facilitated by windows of opportunity conditioned by the unique concurrence of diverse factors. The concomitance of the (geo)political context, the socio-economic challenges, the backgrounds and aspirations of the individuals involved who could make a difference, etc. create fleeting opportunities for lasting legal change to take place. If that is indeed the case, what do unique windows of opportunity that facilitated legal transfers tell us about the bigger picture of law development? Can they inform the important theoretical work on legal development which has already been carried out?
• Overall, do you know of fascinating stories of how cross-jurisdictional dialogues between World War I and World War II that have impacted law development? You can focus on one legal principle, the work of a scholar or a group of scholars, or provide a general overview of how cross-jurisdictional dialogue has impacted a legal system that you research.   

Please note that BACL is interested in receiving submissions discussing legal transfers in different fields – private law, public law, constitutional law, criminal law, etc.

 Submission requirements

• Deadline for the 2023-2024 season: BACL will accept pieces for consideration until 10 November 2023.   
• BACL encourages early submissions.
• Please send blog piece to Dr Vassileva r.vassileva[at]mdx.ac.uk, copying Prof Marique ymarique[at]essex.ac.uk (co-editors of the series).
• The blog piece should be ca 2,000 words and in excellent English. By exception, longer pieces may be accepted.
• Please provide a title and focus for your blog piece, and your affiliation.  
• Please use hyperlinks instead of footnotes or include references in the text itself.
• Please use headings for the different parts of your blogpost.
• Pictures to illustrate the text are welcome. Please provide their credits.  
• BACL encourages prospective authors to take a look at the pieces which have already been published in this series by clicking on the hashtag “#Series_Interwar_Dialogue” or by selecting the “Interwar Dialogue” category on the BACL Blog in order to gain a better idea of what is expected.
• Please feel free to contact the editors informally to test your ideas prior to submission.
• BACL reserves the right to demand corrections and to reject submissions which do not address the call or which do not meet its publication standards.

Further information here.