Laws Across Codes and Laws Decoded
28 June – 30 June 2018 at the Ecole Normale Supérieure
(Paris)
The Organising Committee of the 5th
Biennal Conference and the Executive Council of the European Society for
Comparative Legal History are pleased to call for papers for the upcoming
conference to be held. The main theme picks up threads of thought from the
earlier ESCLH conferences in Valencia (2010), Amsterdam (2012), Macerata (2014)
and Gdansk (2016) to explore what codes and codification have meant and
continue to mean for legal systems with codes, and for those without. Papers
should be submitted, as set out below, by 15 November 2017.
The conference will focus on the issue
of codes or alternatives to codes as instruments of transforming laws in
Europe and in the world. While codes, and the process of codification, are at
least familiar if not always completely understood, this conference challenges us
to look deeper at what a code meant for the legal systems affected by it. The
conference seeks to understand the whole process of codification, from political
aspects to its conception, agreement and roll-out, through to technical matters
of drafting and implementation and even to linguistic matters of expression and
deeper meanings. Challenging the importance for legal rules to be inserted
within or outside a code, the conference proposes to examine all sorts of
codes, and not only the most known civil codes: general codes as special (such
as penal, commercial, labour, family, military) codes, officious codes as
official codes. The conference seeks also to study the effects the codified
structure of the norms could have on their content and on
the way law functions, notably through case law and law writing. All the
historical situations in which law reform took place outside of codification
and outside of codes can be questioned could be relevant in helping us to
understand law reform through codes or its alternatives.
Papers should be novel, properly researched and
referenced. They should address the conference theme, exploring doctrinal,
theoretical, cultural or methodological aspects of comparative legal history. They
must also be comparative, addressing more than one system of laws. The
organisers particularly welcome addressing multiple legal systems or
cultures. This includes where a similar legal system functions in different
cultural circles.
Practical
details:
1. To offer a paper, please send the
title of their paper, a short abstract (of 200-400 word, absolutely no
more and a short CV (no more than 1 page) by 15 November 2017 to the
organizing committee, c/o jean-louis.halperin@ens.fr.
2. The presentations should be in English.
3. It is also possible to submit a
complete proposal for one or more panels (3 papers normally).
4. The list of accepted papers will be
announced by 8 December 2017.
Shortly, a conference website will
be launched with fuller details of the conference. For the moment, some
transport and accommodation information follows.
Paris offers many accommodation possibilities ranging
from five-star hotels, through smaller hotels in the Quartier latin and private rooms to beds in youth and student
hostels. For some postgraduates the Ecole Normale Supérieure
could offer cheaper accommodation in student
dormitories.
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