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17 June 2025

SYMPOSIUM: An Intellectual History of Legal History (INTELLEX). Figures, Methods and Moments of the Institutionalisation of Legal History in 1500-1900 Europe (Bayreuth: Universität Bayreuth/Institut für Fränkische Landesgeschichte der Universitäten Bamberg und Bayreuth, 12-13 JUN 2025)

 


Abstract:

This symposium is funded by a Junior Fellowship grant from the University of Bayreuth Centre of International Excellence “Alexander von Humboldt” [https://www.humboldt-centre.uni-bayreuth.de/en/index.html]. It will bring together scholars working on legal history or any aspects related to the teaching of legal disciplines in a historical context, contributing to the intellectual history of this field. While the conference focuses on identifying the intellectual contexts in which legal history developed, it also considers social aspects, as ideas do not exist independently of people.

Program:

 1. The Use of History in the Theory and Practice of Law: Codification, Concepts, and Origins

2. Theology, Medicine, History, and Legal Studies: Early Modern Knowledge Paradigms

3. Actors of Exchange: Influential Legal Historians and the Legacy of Their Concepts

4. The History of Teaching Legal History: Temporality and Spatiality in Academia

Keynote Speakers:

  • Heikki Pihlajamäki, University of Helsinki: How legal histories are written: codification, modernization and taxonomy of law
  • Sören Koch, University of Bergen: Changing perspectives on the sources of and reasons for legal historical research – A Scandinavian case study

More information here.

(source: Legal History Blog)

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