BOOK: Chanelle DELAMEILLIEURE, Abduction, Marriage, and Consent in the Late Medieval Low Countries (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2024). ISBN: 9789463724074

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ABOUT THE BOOK

The Middle Dutch term schaec referred to abduction with marital intent. This book explores this phenomenon to understand wider attitudes towards marriage-making in the fifteenth-century Low Countries. Whilst exchanging words of consent was all that was required legally, making marriage was a social process that evoked public concern and familial scrutiny. Abductions embodied contrasting evaluations of what mattered when selecting a spouse and resulted in polarized trials in which narratives on consent, coercion, and family strategy coincided and competed. Abduction, Marriage, and Consent draws from a wide range of legal records to assess how men, women, families, and authorities used, navigated, and dealt with abductions during this period. It contributes to debates on consent, family involvement, and women’s access to justice and demonstrates that abduction should be approached as a comprehensive social phenomenon, one that is crucial in the history of marriage and women’s social and legal status.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Chanelle Delameillieure researches late medieval gender and family history with a focus on marriage, sexuality and the social history of the law. She is a tenure track professor of medieval history at KU Leuven.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

I. Perks and Perils of Being an Heiress

II. Abduction’s Who, How, and Why?

III. Consent in and out of the Courtroom

IV. What Authorities Did to Help

Conclusion

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BOOK: Christof ROLKER, Canon Law in the Age of Reforms (c. 1000 to c. 1150), (Washington: The Catholic University of America, 2023). ISBN: 9780813237572

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ABOUT THE BOOK

This monograph addresses the history of canon law in Western Europe between ca. 1000 and ca. 1150, specifically the collections compiled and the councils held in that time. The main part consists of an analysis of all major collections, taking into account their formal and material sources, the social and political context of their origin, the manuscript transmission, and their reception more generally. As most collections are not available in reliable editions, a considerable part of the discussion involves the analysis of medieval manuscripts. Specialized research is available for many but not all these works, but tends to be scattered across miscellaneous publications in English, German, French, Italian, and Spanish; one purpose of the book is thus to provide relatively uniform, up-to-date accounts of all major collections of the period. At the same time, the book argues that the collections are much more directly influenced by the social milieux from which they emerged, and that more groups were involved in the development of high medieval canon law than it has previously been thought. In particular, the book seeks to replace the still widely held belief that the development of canon law in the century before Gratian’s Decretum (ca. 1140) was largely driven by the Reform papacy. Instead, it is crucial to take into account the contribution of bishops, monks, and other groups with often conflicting interests. Put briefly, local needs and conflicts played a considerably more important role than central (papal) ‘reform’, on which older scholarship has largely focused.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Christof Rolker is a professor of medieval history at the University of Bamberg.

More information can be found here.

EXHIBITION: Connaissez-vous Jean-Jacques-Régis de Cambacérès ? (Paris: place Vendôme, 3 JUN - 12 JUL 2024)

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Du 3 juin au 12 juillet 2024, la place Vendôme, à Paris, accueille une exposition avec accès gratuit dédiée à Jean-Jacques-Régis de Cambacérès (1753-1824) à l’occasion du bicentenaire de sa mort. 

Proposée dans le cadre de la programmation culturelle du ministère de la Justice, cette exposition gratuite est une invitation à découvrir le parcours de ce personnage oublié qui a pourtant marqué l’histoire de la justice.

Les dix panneaux de l’exposition retracent la vie de Cambacérès, de ses origines montpellieraines à son ascension politique sous l’ère napoléonienne. Vous pourrez saisir combien son action et ses qualités de juriste ont contribué à l’affirmation de l’État de droit au sortir de la tourmente révolutionnaire. Avocat, puis conseiller de cour souveraine, député, ministre de la Justice, deuxième consul, archichancelier… Habile sur le plan politique, Cambacérès aura réussi à se maintenir sous tous les régimes de 1792 jusqu’en 1815, date de la chute de Napoléon. 

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ARTICLE: Jo GULDI, "The Revolution in Text Mining for Historical Analysis is Here" (The American Historical Review CXXIX (2024), No. 2 (June), 519-543

 

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Abstract:

We have known since Vico to think of written text and oral traditions as two systems of culture. Social historians have long treated the rise of literacy itself as an important index of modernity, although collectors of oral traditions have typically transcribed folk songs and oral stories into text. Modern historians track the appearance of different genres of writing, from parliamentary blue books to the newspaper to the novel to published transcripts of court cases, as an index of evolving institutions and markets. And knowledge of the way that these texts circulated—whether read aloud in the post office or debated on bulletin board systems on the early internet—is often a clue to important social structures. The knowledge accessible through text does not exhaust in any way the full repository of artifacts that historians use—which of course extends to the formats of texts; to visual and audio media, which may or may not combine graphics, video, or sound with text; to the record of the built and natural environment itself; and to demographic, price, and climate data sometimes measured in nontextual ways and stored in separate repositories. Despite innovation and a plurality of possible concerns, many of our points of entry into the past remain through text.

Read more here: DOI 10.1093/ahr/rhae163.

 

PROGRAM: PHEDRA’s Summer School (Palos de la Frontera: Universidad Internacional de Andalucía, 25-28 JUN 2024)

 

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Summer school of the international research network PHEDRA: Pour une Histoire Européenne du DRoit des Affaires

 Program

25th June 2024

18.00-20.00 – Plenary session – AULA MAGNA

Lecture 1. Roman Law in the Sources of Commercial Law – Prof. Dario Mantovani and prof. Guido Rossi

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26th June 2024

9.00-11.30 Parallel sessions

AULA 2 Antiquity – Discussants: prof. Luisa Brunori, prof. Olivier Descamps, prof. Carlos Petit                                      

Albert Gómez Jordán – Las cripto monedas como precio del contrato de compraventa/Los bienes con elemento digitales como objeto del contrato de compraventa/ La negotiorum gestio: casos dudosos.

Carlota Hernández García – El estudio de la multa en el derecho romano y el análisis del comercio marítimo en la Antigüedad.

Julio Romano Cabello – Reconstrucción del derecho privado constantiniano a partir de los rescriptos de la época.

Vid Žepič – Favor debitoris and Factors of Its Evolution in the Imperial Legislation between the 4th and 6th Centuries.

AULA 6 Early Modern Period – Discussants: prof. Giovanni Chiodi, prof. Florent Garnier

Femke Gordijn – Law and Trade in Late Medieval Bruges and Southhampton (c. 1400-1520).

Alexis Audemar – The legal treatment of labour by the early modern scolastics.

Paola Iezzone – The saffron trade in Rome during the Renaissance: archive sources and trade routes from Abruzzo.

AULA MAGNA Contemporary Period  – Discussants: prof. Albercht Cordes, prof. Dave De ruysscher

Damian Baçzkiewicz – A Tsunami or a Gentle Tide? The Influence of the French Commercial Code of 1807 on the Formation of Belgian Legal Discourse.

Aurelia Ghetivu – Le rôle de la coutume jurisprudentielle devant le Tribunal de commerce de la Seine sous la Second Empire (1852-1870).

Jérôme Hecker – L’importance du cadre juridique dans le développement économique au Grand-Duché de Luxembourg. Une perspective historique (1929-1990).

Break

12.00-13.30 – Plenary session – AULA MAGNA

Lecture 2. Long Distance Trade – Prof. Ron Harris

Lunch

15.30-18.00 – Parallel sessions

AULA 2 – Middle Ages – Discussants: prof. Luisa Brunori, prof. Olivier Descamps, Prof. Ana Belem Fernández Castro

David De Concilio – The Ecclesiastical Stance on Just Price in the Thirteenth Century

Niels Fieremans – Law, Leverage and Litigation. Legal strategies of foreign merchants in late medieval Bruges.

Daniele Tinterri – The Liber Gazarie

Ana Cláudia Silveira – Setúbal, a rising Portuguese sea port in the international trade of the Late Middle Ages.

AULA 6 – Early Modern – Discussants: prof. Giovanni Chiodi, prof. Albercht Cordes; Prof. Florent Garnier

Andriws González Barrera – Florence and Toulouse (1450-1550): Early Modern Examples of Economic Sovereignty and Legal Drafting in Commercial Policies.

Daniel Bökenkamp – A Tale of Two Cities: sovereignity, diplomacy and commerce in early modern Lübeck and Rouen.

Stefano Cattelan – In the Shadow of the Great Powers: Freedom of the Sea and Neutrality in the Long Eighteenth-Century.

Francesca Fusco Italian terms of commerce in German: the entries of the MICOLL glossary

AULA MAGNA – Contemporary Period Discussants: Prof. Anja Amend-Traut, Prof. Dave De ruysscher, prof. Carlos Petit

Greta Spineti – New Forms of Cultural Tourism in Adriatic: The Potential Role of Ancient Maritime Wine Routes.

Christian Magaling – Private Colonialism and Island Diplomacy: Germany’s Company Rule in Pacific Politics.

Hélène Hu – La concession française de Shanghai : aspects juridiques et juridictionnels.

Carolina Argiroffi – Commercial law goes to the countryside: Association and labour subordination in the 19th-20th century Italian legal discourse.

Break

18.30-20.00 – Plenary session – AULA MAGNA

Lecture 3. – Early-modern archival sources on foreign commercial nations’ judicial competences, and their relations to the local, regional and central jurisdictions (illustrated by Antwerp cases) – Prof. Georges Martyn

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27th June 2024

9.00-10.30 – Plenary session – AULA MAGNA

Lecture 4. The Sources of Northern European Commercial Law – Prof. Heikki Pihlajamäki

Break

11.00-13.30 – Parallel sessions

AULA 2 – Early Modern Discussants: prof. Anja Amend-Traut, prof. Dave De ruysscher, prof. Olivier Descamps

Roberto Ganau – Sovranità e commercio nella Francia del XVI secolo. Verso una storia intellettuale della bancarotta

Gilles Hebben – The Levant Company (1592-1825).

Victor Le Breton-Blon – A transnational history of commercial paper in Europe (16th-18th century)

Laurine Manac’h – Incorporating business: merchants, law and the regulation of business organizations in the age of liberalism. Barcelona and Buenos Aires, 1778-1840.

AULA 6 – 18th-19th c. – Discussants: prof. Albrecht Cordes, prof. Florent Garnier, prof. Ana Belem Fernández Castro

Matthieu Mraizika – Modélisation mathématique et impôt dans la France du XVIIIe siècle.

Luca Jacopo Salvadori – Mutual Aid in Eighteenth Century.

Manon Séréni – Le crédit dans les répertoires de droit, d’une crise à l’autre (1715-1789).

Alexandre Valverde – L’idée de codification du droit privé à l’échelle européenne et internationale (fin XVIIIe s-début XXe).

AULA MAGNA – Contemporary Period – Discussants: prof. Luisa Brunori, Prof. Giovanni Chiodi, Prof. Carlos Petit

Andrea Raffaele Amato – Tra Progresso e Innovazione: Il lungo itinerario della scienza giuridica italiana verso la socializzazione dell’ordine familiare.

Marjorie Carvalho de Sousa – A General Law out of a Special Jurisdiction: Commercial Law of Labor in Nineteenth-Century Brazil.

Justine Chauvel – Le bail immobilier du local commercial-Histoire comparée des droits européens (XVIIIe-XXe siècle).

Rodrick Van Der Smissen – Roman law and the formative interpretation of history in nineteenth-century insolvency law (c. 1850-c. 1900)”. 

Lunch

15.30-17.30 – Plenary session – AULA MAGNA

Lecture 5. Reading the Sources of Commercial Law Doctrine – Prof. Annamaria Monti and prof. Xavier Prévost

Break

18.00-20.00 – Plenary session – AULA MAGNA  

Lecture 6. Lexicon and Translation of Commercial Law Sources – Prof. Jake Dyble and Prof. Stefania Gialdroni

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Practical information

Universidad Internacional de Andalucía (UNIA)

Paraje de La Rábida s/n, 21819 Palos de la Frontera – Huelva – Spain

Phone +34 959350452

Breakfast 8.00h – 9.00h
Lunch 14h-15h
Dinner 20.30h-21.30h

Luisa Brunori +33 6 37 79 23 70 / +39 331 77 33 230
Ana Belem Fernández Castro +33 7 77 33 66 71
Carlos Petit +34 666 41 86 3

CALL FOR PAPERS: 8th ESCLH BIENNIAL CONFERENCE (Szeged, 2-4 JUL 2025; DEADLINE 31 OCT 2024)

 

The Organising Committee and the Executive Council of the European Society for Comparative Legal History are pleased to call for papers for the upcoming Society’s 8^th Biennial Conference to be held from 2 to 4 July 2025 at the University of Szeged, Hungary.

The conference series started in Valencia (2010), followed by Amsterdam (2012), Macerata (2014), Gdansk (2016), Paris (2018), and Lisbon (2022). In 2023, we had a successful conference in Augsburg.

The theme of the conference is to call attention to the development of legal institutions that are related to and serve as the foundation of modern/contemporary state and law. We mainly expect papers based on the examination of primary sources, since the main aim of the conference is to draw attention to the importance and analysis of primary sources (e.g. archival sources, judgements, parliamentary materials) in legal historical research, across legal systems.

The organizers wish to offer the opportunity to all participants who intend to present their legal historical and comparative research based mainly on primary sources, regardless of the historical era and geographical areas.

Back to the past and analysis of primary sources, new findings can be presented which can be used for the development of law in the contemporary period. Building the future can only be based on thorough historical and legal research, which can be achieved by connecting the past to the present. Through the complex and comparative assessment of the different branches of law, we can work towards a more general picture of legal development.

To offer a paper, please submit an abstract of up to 400 words, in English, by 31 October 2024. The abstract should include the title of your proposed paper and your personal data (full name, email address, work affiliation). Please also send a short CV (no more than 4 pages). Anyone at any stage in their research career can offer a paper. The submissions should be sent to vargan@juris.u-szeged.hu. Abstracts will be assessed against: (1) the aim to have a diverse conference; (2) the novelty of the work; (3) a professionally grounded presentation proposal including a description of the sources and methodology involved and a concise description of the research results. One author may only give one paper at the conference in order to allow as many people as possible to deliver papers.

It is also possible to submit a proposal for a complete panel. Panels normally consist of three papers. A panel proposal should – in addition to the abstracts and CVs of those who wish to present a paper in that panel – include an abstract for the entire panel, as well as a CV of the panel organizer. The list of accepted papers will be announced by December 2024.

A conference website will be launched with further details of the conference in December 2024.

The conference website will also contain information on the attendance fee for those not members of the ESCLH, transport to and from Szeged, and accommodation in Szeged. The conference website will allow registration for the conference, starting in February 2025. Finally, the conference will be preceded by an additional PhD-workshop on 2 July 2025. Further information about the workshop will also be published in December 2024.

Norbert Varga
organizer

University of Szeged

Faculty of Law and Political Sciences

Department of Hungarian Legal History

ADVANCE ARTICLES: American Journal of Legal History

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Letter Writing and Legal Consciousness during World War I (Elisabeth A. Hoffmann)

DOI 10.1093/ajlh/njae003
Abstract:

This article explores how ordinary Americans thought about law during World War I by examining 119 letters to Congress regarding charges under the Espionage Act. These letters are a product of their time and shed new light on our understanding of the first Red Scare. This lens of legal consciousness explains how people remain within established modes of engagement, rather than either withdrawing or becoming violent, as is found in the extant literature. Despite opposing goals, the letter writers’ shared master frame enabled them to ‘speak to’ the other side, rather than ‘past’ those with opposing views. This article explains how individuals who opposed and supported seating Berger rallied under the same master frame of Americanism. Yet, the two groups displayed strikingly different legal consciousness. These disparate groups not only conceptualized the law itself differently, but engaged the law as a tool for different agendas. At a time when violence was on the rise, these people eschewed violent means and maintained the most conventional, peaceful means of protest: letter writing. How they managed this was by embracing the law as their key, nonviolent tool.

A Turbid River of History and Law: The Procurement of Women in Imperial Japan and Colonial Korea (Marie Seong-Hak Kim)
DOI 10.1093/ajlh/njae006
Abstract:

Japanese military brothels during the Pacific War, known as comfort stations, and the predicaments of women confined there still reverberate in public memory. Of late a growing number of scholars have called for approaching the comfort women issue from a broader historical context, linking it to Japan’s prewar state-regulated prostitution, later transplanted into its colonies, and human trafficking. This article discusses the legal frameworks of indentured contracts and criminal prosecution surrounding the procurement of women in imperial Japan and colonial Korea. Most women entered prostitution impressed by poverty when the law fully recognized their agency as independent contractors. The age-old machinery of advanced loan agreements, signed or guaranteed in many cases by destitute parents, revealed how the ill-guided idea of filial piety muddled the boundaries between the exercise of legal rights and their abuses. The judicial process dealing with prostitution contracts and also the crimes of abduction and kidnapping helps understand how law and state institutions operated in the Japanese colonial empire. The recent historiographical debate on the comfort women raises critical questions about the conditions under which the past is assessed.

The Pennsylvania Council of Censors and the Debate on the Guardian of the Constitution in the Early United States (Angus Harwood Brown) [OPEN ACCESS]
DOI 10.1093/ajlh/njae004
Abstract:

In 1776, Pennsylvania established an institution called the Council of Censors, which would be elected every seven years and was tasked with ensuring that the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government had remained faithful to the constitution. None of the other thirteen colonies would create a similar institution, although Vermont would in 1777. Nor has the Council of Censors enjoyed a positive reputation among historians or constitutional scholars: Gordon Wood, for example, has attacked the institution as ‘a monster [pulled] out of Roman history’. Contemporaries agreed, and the body was abolished in Pennsylvania in 1790 after years of vociferous opposition and was criticized extensively at the Federal Convention in 1787. But the Council of Censors was a remarkably innovative institution, the first designed to enforce a written constitution, created decades before the Supreme Court’s assumption of the power of constitutional judicial review in 1803. This article presents a new history of the origins of the Council of Censors and its reception both in Pennsylvania and across the United States. It challenges prevailing accounts of the origins and purpose of the Council of Censors and argues that it was a product of a new theory of constitutionalism as the codification of popular sovereignty which emerged in the United States in the 1770s in response to the colonists’ fears about legislative overreach. Prior to the nineteenth century, it was only in Pennsylvania that this resulted in the creation of institutions to secure the supremacy of constitutional law over ordinary legislative power. As the final section of this article demonstrates, the idea that the constitution could be enforced against the legislative branch by an independent constitutional guardian—including the Supreme Court—was rejected at the Federal Convention precisely because of its framers’ antipathy to Pennsylvania’s radically democratic constitution.

Alexander Hamilton's Constitutional Jurisprudence and the Bank Bill (Peter Charles Hoffer)
DOI 10.1093/ajlh/njae002
Abstract:

Alexander Hamilton's view of law was more than pragmatic. Forward looking, and innovative, it saw law as a creative tool. Often misread, and dismissed, as mere policy preference, it was in fact sophisticated and superbly articulated jurisprudence. In the years between the ratification debate and the proposal for the First Bank of the United States, Hamilton displayed this jurisprudence to great effect.

Book reviews

•  Christian G Fritz, Monitoring American Federalism: The History of State Legislative Resistance (DOI 10.1093/ajlh/njae007)

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BOOK: Valentin JEUTNER, The Reasonable Person. A Legal Biography (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024), ISBN 9781009445627

 

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Abstract:

Jeutner argues that the reasonable person is, at heart, an empathetic perspective-taking device, by tracing the standard of the reasonable person across time, legal fields and countries. Beginning with a review of imaginary legal figures in the legal systems of ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome, the book explains why the common law's reasonable person emerged amidst the British industrialisation under the influence of Scottish Enlightenment thinking. Following the figure into colonial courts, onto battlefields and into self-driving cars, the book contends that the reasonable person invites judges, jury-members, and lawyers to take another person's perspective when assessing their own or another person's conduct. The perspective of another is taken by means of empathy, by feeling what others might feel in a particular situation. Thus construed, the figure of the reasonable person can help us make more accurate judgments in a diverse world.

Table of contents:

Table of Contents - Introduction - The Reasonable Person in the Past - The Reasonable Person in Birmingham - The Reasonable Person in Clapham - The Reasonable Person in the Colonies - The Reasonable Person in the Battlefield - The Reasonable Person in the Future-  Conclusion Bibliography Index. 

On the author:

Valentin Jeutner is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, Lund University and Senior Retained Lecturer, Pembroke College, Oxford. Jeutner encountered the reasonable person when studying law in England (Oxford/Cambridge) and the US (Georgetown). He is also admitted to the bar of New York State. Previous publications include Irresolvable Norm Conflicts in International Law (2017) and [l]ex machina (2020). 

Read more on Cambridge Core: DOI 10.1017/9781009445672.

BOOK SERIES: Legal History of Asia (eds. Kentaro MATSUBARA & Fernanda PIRIE) (Leiden/Boston: Martinus Nijhoff/Brill)

 

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As Asian societies play increasingly significant roles in the political economy of the world, it becomes crucially important to understand their laws and values in historical context. In fact, many of the longest-lived and most intricate legal traditions come from Asia. This series offers studies of historic legal systems, texts, jurisprudence, legal practices and everyday experiences of law from this complex and diverse region. Volumes encompass both formal laws and broader legal practices. The editors particularly encourage work that analyses laws in their social and political contexts, as well as scholarship that assesses Asian laws comparatively. The authors bring multiple perspectives to these subjects, and the series offers resources for regional specialists, legal and other historians, and comparative lawyers, whose fields of scholarship are being enriched by the broadening interest in historic Asia. The series welcomes the submission of standard monographs and edited volumes (80.000 - 120.000 words). Exceptions to this wordcount can be discussed with the Publisher. Prospective authors are cordially invited to submit enquiries and proposals to the series editors, Kentaro Matsubara and Fernanda Pirie, or the Publisher at Brill, Alessandra Giliberto. Brill is in full support of Open Access publishing and offers the option to publish your monograph, edited volume, or chapter in Open Access. Our Open Access services are fully compliant with funder requirements. We support Creative Commons licenses. For more information, please visit Brill Open or contact us at openacess@brill.com.

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BOOK: Burt KASPARIAN (ed.), La concorde entre les hommes de l'Antiquité à nos jours: aspects culturels et juridiques. Mélanges en l'honneur de Jacques Bouineau (Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2024). ISBN: ‎ 2753597308, pp. 432, €30,00

 

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ABOUT THE BOOK

Qu’est-ce que la concorde entre les hommes? Quelles sont les conditions d’une société harmonieuse? Pourquoi la concorde passe-t-elle par l’intelligence, la connaissance de soi et celle de l’autre, ainsi que par la compréhension des différences mutuelles? Historiens du droit et des idées, antiquisants, médiévistes, spécialistes des lettres et des arts associent leurs recherches pour envisager les facteurs d’unité et de désunion entre les hommes, ainsi que les moyens d’assurer leur plein épanouissement dans le cadre des relations personnelles, sociales, institutionnelles et internationales qu’ils nouent entre eux. Tous scrutent la dimension culturelle de la concorde qui participe à l’affirmation de l’identité dans des espaces et des périodes variés. Tous soulignent les points de tension à dépasser pour assurer la cohésion du groupe et sa persistance. L’Antiquité est ici la période privilégiée. C’est en effet à cette période que se fonde la façon dont nous concevons encore la concorde et l’éducation de l’homme, de l’enfant et du citoyen qui y mène.

Les études rassemblées dans cet ouvrage sont dédiées au professeur d’histoire du droit Jacques Bouineau qui a œuvré et milité tout au long de sa carrière, non seulement au nom de l’« intelligence cordiale », mais pour sa réalisation ou son progrès.

ABOUT THE EDITOR

Burt Kasparian est maître de conférences en histoire du droit à La Rochelle Université. Il dirige le pôle éditorial de l’Ifao depuis 2023.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Tabula Gratulatoria
• Bibliographie de Jacques Bouineau
• L’intelligence cordiale : réflexions sur l’expérience libanaise
• Citadin et bédouin dans la pensée d’Ibn Ḫaldūn: essai d’une conception de la Cité
• Une concorde conflictuelle : autour de l’individualisme juridique
• Le baptistère épiscopal à l’épreuve des siècles : une heureuse falsification de la mémoire de la cité antique au profit de la communauté
• Concordia et consanguinitas : la parenté biologique et la parenté spirituelle dans les plus anciens textes juridiques slaves
• Justice, Sexualité dans La Cité du Soleil de Campanella
• Le vie della pace nel Mediterraneo: communita’ locali, plutocrazie e sviluppo
• L’intelligence cordiale dans la perspective linéaire du Quattrocento florentin
• Les lettres de Pline à Tacite : éthique et esthétique de la concordia
• Régulation de l’audiovisuel et économie digitale
• L’entente cordiale au Proche-Orient ancien : la diplomatie au secours de l’État
• Vivre en terre chrétienne : les musulmans du royaume de Sicile – approche comparative
• L’étude de la Saintonge antique au XVIIIe siècle : les Recherches topographiques de François-Marie Bourignon
• De la persona à l’egomet dans la tradition littéraire des miroirs aux princes : l’exemple du De regimine principum de Gilles de Rome
• L’éducation du citoyen républicain idéal (1792-1794) : le héros
• Riverains et Rivaux : droits d’eau et conflits le long de la rivière au lendemain du Code civil
• La prise de Constantinople par les Russes : la position de Chateaubriand
• Le fondement du pouvoir impérial à l’époque de Justinien : cadre historiographique d’analyse politique et religieuse
• Burke, les Révolutionnaires et l’Antiquité : étude comparative de l’utilisation de l’Antiquité par les Révolutionnaires et dans les Réflexions sur la Révolution en France
• Un homme « éclaté » ? Regard contemporain sur un être juridiquement stable, socialement tiraillé 
• La commémoration des amis sur les monuments funéraires du Moyen Empire égyptien
• De quelques représentations et/ou manifestations de la concorde entre les hommes à travers un film, un texte, un lieu
• Concorde ou discorde sur la régulation du fait religieux en Francedans les relations interpersonnelles au début du XXIe siècle ?
• L’idée de la tolérance religieuse selon Spinoza
• Une expérience de codification commentée par son auteur : témoignage d’une correspondance inédite entre Victor Collin de Plancy et Gustave Boissonade (1892-1905)
• Prolégomènes à une recherche sur l’institution indo-européenne de l’éducation pour autrui : à propos de Jacques Bouineau, Traité d’histoire européenne des institutions (Ier-XVe siècle), t. I, Paris, Litec, 2004, p. 333)
• Boire ou manger ? Remarques d’anthropologie historique du droit sur l’art d’accommoder la paix

WEBINAR: Dialogues of art, history and law - Friday 21 JUN 2024 (on ZOOM)

 

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Details and registration here.

BOOK: William E. BUTLER & Oleksiy KRESIN (eds.), The World Picture of Comparative Law (Clark, NJ: Talbot Publishing, 2024). ISBN: 9781616196905, pp. 694, $185.

 

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ABOUT THE BOOK

A title in the JCL Studies in Comparative Law, Second Series. 

Every discipline perceives and constructs the world in its own way, structuring an aspect of reality and developing a research program and methodology with a specific vision that forms a special world picture of the discipline. The essays in this volume address the dialectics of the individual, national or other legal systems, the particular/common, and the (non)existence of the general/global, as the basis of a comparative law world picture, presenting for the first time its complex philosophical and historical vision. The view of law as a "national" discipline disregarded the law of nations and non-Western realities and the interaction of state legal orders with other normative orders. As shown here, a paradigmatic change is underway as awareness of this larger picture takes root. 

ABOUT THE EDITORS

William E. Butler is the John Edward Fowler Distinguished Professor of Law, Dickinson School of Law, Pennsylvania State University; Emeritus Professor of Comparative Law, University of London (University College London); Foreign Member, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine. 

Oleksiy Kresin is a leading Ukrainian comparative lawyer; Head, Center of Comparative Jurisprudence, Koretsky Institute of State and Law, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; Secretary-General, Ukrainian Association of Comparative Jurisprudence; President, Ukrainian National Committee, International Association of Legal Sciences; Associate, International Academy of Comparative Law.

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CONFERENCE: Lectures de... n° 17 : L'excellence menacée, Sur la philosophie politique d'Aristote, de Pierre Pellegrin (Garnier, 2017) (Paris: Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, 17 JUN 2024)

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Programme

9 h 30 : salle 1 (aile Soufflot, 1er étage)

Sous la présidence de Michel Humbert, professeur émérite d'histoire du droit de l'Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas.

Pierre Pellegrin, directeur de recherche émérite en philosophie du CNRS, Ouverture.

Annick Jaulin, professeur émérite de philosophie de l'Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Des excellences politiques.

Raphaëlle Théry, maître de conférences en droit privé à l'Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas, Equité et proportionnalité.

Pierre Balmond, attaché temporaire d'enseignement et de recherche en lettres classiques à l'Université Paris Nanterre, Les affections du corps civique, des Politiques à la Rhétorique.

14 h 00 : salle 307 (aile Cujas, 3ème étage)

Sous la présidence de Pierre-Marie Morel, professeur de philosophie à l'Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.

David Lefebvre, professeur de philosophie à Sorbonne Université, Pierre Pellegrin et la théorie politique.

Jérôme Casali, doctorant en histoire du droit à l'université d'Aix-Marseille, L'amitié dans la philosophie politique d'Aristote.

Cristina Cerami, directrice de recherche en philosophie à Sphère-Gramata (UMR 7219, CNRS, Université Paris Cité, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), Le législateur et la Nature, Aristote contre Platon sur l'apolitique.

René de Nicolaÿ, postdoctorant en philosophie à l'Ecole Normale Supérieure, La participation politique est-elle un bien naturel ?

Esther Rogan, docteur en philosophie, chargée de cours à l'Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, “Marcher sur ses deux jambes” (réaliste et normative) : la politique d'Aristote, une approche complexe.

Jean-Marie Denquin, professeur émérite de droit public de l'Université Paris Nanterre, Aristote et la politique moderne.

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Comme théoricien de la politique, Aristote fournit aux législateurs les moyens de penser la réalité des cités pour leur permettre d'instaurer des régimes droits, notamment une méthode fine pour penser la diversité des formes constitutionnelles et une théorie des changements et révolutions dans les cités.

Journée d'étude organisée par Pierre Bonin, Ulysse Chaintreuil et Pierre-Marie Morel.

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BOOK: Caroline HUMFRESS, David IBBETSON & Patrick OLIVELLE (eds.), The Cambridge Comparative History of Ancient Law (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024), ISBN 9781009452243, € 175,06

 

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Abstract:

The Cambridge Comparative History of Ancient Law is the first of its kind in the field of comparative ancient legal history. Written collaboratively by a dedicated team of international experts, each chapter offers a new framing and understanding of key legal concepts, practices and historical contexts across five major legal traditions of the ancient world. Stretching chronologically across more than three and a half millennia, from the earliest, very fragmentary, proto-cuneiform tablets (3200–3000 BCE) to the Tang Code of 652 CE, the volume challenges earlier comparative histories of ancient law / societies, at the same time as opening up new areas for future scholarship across a wealth of surviving ancient Near Eastern, Indian, Chinese, Greek and Roman primary source evidence. Topics covered include 'law as text', legal science, inter-polity relations, law and the state, law and religion, legal procedure, personal status and the family, crime, property and contract.

On the editors:

CAROLINE HUMFRESS is Professor of History and Co-Director of the Institute of Legal and Constitutional Research at the University of St Andrews, and an L. Bates Lea Global Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School. She is a Philip Leverhulme Prize winner and recipient of Il Premio della Corte Costituzionale della Reppublica Italiana (awarded by the Gérard Boulvert Society for the Study of European Civilization). She has published widely on ancient and early medieval law, rhetoric and forensic practice, and their intersections with modern scholarship; DAVID IBBETSON is Regius Professor Emeritus of Civil Law at the University of Cambridge and an Honorary Fellow of Clare Hall, where he was President from 2013 to 2020. He has published widely on the ways in which Roman law influenced (and continues to influence) English law, as well as the way in which Roman law related to other early legal systems; PATRICK OLIVELLE has been Chair of both the Department of Religious Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington, and of the Department of Asian Studies at the University of Texas. He has edited and translated seven early treatises on Indian law, including the Laws of Manu and the legal treatise of Yājñāvalkya. As the author of over thirty books, his works have won awards from the Association for Asian Studies and the American Academy of Religion.

Table of contents:

1. Orientation David Ibbetson
2. Law as text Michael Gagarin, Ernest Caldwell, David Ibbetson, Timothy Lubin, Geoffrey MacCormack, Joseph Manning and Martha T. Roth
3. Legal science Dario Mantovani, Ernest Caldwell, Sophie Demare-Lafont, Caroline Humfress, David Ibbetson, Geoffrey MacCormack, Patrick Olivelle, Robin Osborne, William Tooman, and Bruce Wells
4. War, peace and interstate relations Katelijn Vandorpe, Sophie Démare-Lafont, Geoffrey MacCormack, Mark McClish, Patrick Olivelle and Nicolas Wiater
5. Law and the state Mark McClish, Ari Bryen, Sophie Demare-Lafont, Geoffrey MacCormack and Robin Osborne
6. Law and religion Bruce Wells, Noah Bickart, Donald Davis, Edward Harris, Caroline Humfress, Geoffrey MacCormack, Robin Osborne and Katelijn Vandorpe
7. Legal procedure Patrick Olivelle, Michael Gagarin, Caroline Humfress, Geoffrey MacCormack, Joseph Manning and Bruce Wells
8. Status and family Timothy Lubin, Ari Bryen, Sophie Démare-Lafont, Michael Gagarin, Caroline Humfress, Geoffrey MacCormack and Joseph Manning
9. Crime, redress, and social control Ari Z. Bryen, Timothy Lubin, Geoffrey MacCormack and Robin Osborne
10. Property Joseph G. Manning, Edward Harris, David Ibbetson, Timothy Lubin and Geoffrey MacCormack
11. Commerce and contracts David Ibbetson, Ernest Caldwell, Edward Harris, Geoffrey MacCormack, Joe Manning and Patrick Olivelle

12. Conclusion Caroline Humfress.

Read more here (DOI 10.1017/9781009452243).

BOOK: Lorenzo SINISI (cur.), Dall'Unità all'unificazione. Diritto ed economia in Italia dal 1861 al 1871, a cura di Lorenzo Sinisi (Soveria Mannelli: Rubbettino Ed., 2024). ISBN: 9788849876109, pp. 198, €18,00

 

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ABOUT THE BOOK

Il volume prende lo spunto da un centocinquantenario che fa riferimento, più che ad un anno ben preciso (il 1871), al decennio che lo precede, un periodo cruciale nella storia del nostro paese segnato da profonde trasformazioni in ambito sia giuridico che economico. Raggiunta, nel giro di un biennio e fortunosamente dopo secoli di divisioni e dominazioni straniere, l’unità politica, il nuovo Stato nazionale dovette affrontare e risolvere, proprio nel primo decennio della sua esistenza, non pochi problemi, primo fra tutti quello di dare al paese una legislazione unitaria, un uniforme assetto amministrativo ed un’unica moneta. Su questo e su altri aspetti della difficile unificazione italiana sono intervenuti studiosi appartenenti a vari settori scientifici che, secondo una prospettiva interdisciplinare, con i loro contributi qui pubblicati dimostrano ancora una volta come la storia giuridica e la storia economica interagiscano efficacemente e costituiscano un mezzo imprescindibile per una più approfondita conoscenza dei principali snodi che hanno segnato il nostro passato condizionando anche il nostro presente.

Hanno collaborato al presente volume: Domenico Bilotti, Vittorio Daniele, Iole Fargnoli, Matteo Carmine Fiocca, Paolo Malanima, Ferruccio Maradei, Andrea Micciché, Lorenzo Sinisi, Alessandro Tira.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Presentazione di Lorenzo Sinisi 

Iole Fargnoli

Filippo Serafini e il dialogo con il diritto oltre confine

Matteo Carmine Fiocca

L’unificazione sotto scacco. La repressione del brigantaggio meridionale postunitario attraverso la legislazione d’emergenza (1863-1865)

Ferruccio Maradei

Il processo di unificazione del diritto penale militare nell’Italia postunitaria

Vittorio Daniele – Paolo Malanima

Il divario Nord-Sud prima della crescita moderna. I salari in Italia dal 1862 al 1878

Vittorio Daniele

Il tenore di vita in Italia nel primo decennio postunitario: salute e scolarità

Domenico Bilotti

Le “giornate di Aspromonte” del 1862 tra politica ecclesiastica e tentate riforme nell’ordinamento positivo

Andrea Miccichè

Uguaglianza civile e libertà dei culti tra speculazione teorica e prassi: brevi note intorno a Isacco Rignano, giurista israelita al tempo della questione romana

Alessandro Tira

La condanna canonica della massoneria: la graduale configurazione del divieto di affiliazione (1738-1917)

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