SYMPOSIUM : "Abroger, conserver ou trier. Que faire du faire du droit privé dans un territoire libéré ?", Université de Bretagne Sud (And Online), 6-7 NOVEMBER 2020

PROGRAMME: 

 6 NOVEMBRE: 

9h15 : Accueil des congressistes 

9h45 : Ouverture du Congrès - Allocutions d’ouverture Anne-Sophie Lamblin-Goudin, Doyen de la Faculté de Droit, des Sciences Économiques et de Gestion de l’Université Bretagne Sud Raphaël Reneau, Directeur du Département Droit, Faculté de Droit, des Sciences Économiques et de Gestion de l’Université Bretagne Sud 1er Panel - L’Europe post-napoléonienne Présidence : Sylvain Soleil, Université de Rennes 1 Entre rejet et séduction : le droit privé étranger dans le Royaume de Piémont-Sardaigne sous la Restauration Marc Ortolani, Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis Abroger, Conserver ou Trier : le droit privé à l’épreuve du feu dans l’Italie du Nord après la chute de Napoléon Gigliola Di Renzo Vilata (en visioconférence), Università Cattolica Milano What to do with the foreign legal codes ? Incomplete elements of French legal culture and their perception in Polish territories Anna Klimaszewska, Uniwersytet Gdański La persistance territoriale partielle du Code Napoléon en Lituanie (1808-2000) Thierry Hamon, Université de Rennes 1 

11h15 : Pause 2ème Panel - L’Amérique des indépendances Présidence : Romain Bareau, Université Bretagne Sud 11h30 : Maintenir ou rejeter la common law d’origine anglaise ? La controverse nord-américaine des années 1820 Sylvain Soleil, Université de Rennes 1 Le Code civil en Amérique espagnole au XIXème siècle : droit privé et les nouvelles républiques Javier Barrientos Grandon, Université de Madrid Maintenir ou rejeter le droit privé portugais au Brésil Mariane Tenório Alves Nunes, Université de Lille 2 

Après-Midi 14h30 : Reprise des travaux La liberté... dans les chaines ? Le tri du droit privé français dans les mains de la common law David Gilles, Université de Sherbrooke  3ème Panel - L’Europe des nations et des nationalismes Présidence : Eric Gasparini, Université d’Aix-Marseille La Belgique des années 1830 Dirk Heirbaut, Universiteit Gent La Roumanie des années 1860 Manuel Gutan, Universitatea Lucian Blaga din Sibiu Maintenir le droit privé applicable en Alsace- Lorraine recouvrée, un enjeu juridique et politique Elodie Coutant, Université de Bordeaux 

16h00 : Pause 4ème Panel - Le monde de la décolonisation Présidence : Eric Gasparini, Université d’Aix-Marseille 

16h15 : L’Indochine Alexandre Deroche, Université de Tours L’Afrique française (1) Eric Gasparini, Université d’Aix-Marseille L’Afrique française (2) Séraphin Nene Bi Boti, Université Alassane Ouattara de Bouaké Le Commonwealth Gwenaël Guyon, Écoles de Saint-Cyr Coëtquidan 

17h45 : Fin de la 1ère journée 

7 Novembre 2020 Matinée 9h00 : Accueil des congressistes 4ème Panel (Suite) -

 Le monde de la décolonisation 9h15 : De la Syrie ottomane à l’indépendance. Conflits de droits dans les mandats français Olivier Hanne, Écoles militaires de Saint-Cyr Coëtquidan 5ème Panel - La question traitée par la doctrine La doctrine de droit privé (1813-1830) Catherine Touche, Université de Rennes 1 La doctrine de droit international public et la question des Pays-Bas septentrionaux Dominique Gaurier, Université de Nantes La doctrine de droit international privé Baudouin Ancel, Université de Paris II 

11h00 : Pause Table Ronde - La synthèse comparative Présidence : Patrice Davost, magistrat 

11h15 : Synthèse et problématiques Hugo Beuvant, Université de Rennes 1 Débats en vue d’aboutir à une synthèse collective 

12h30 : Clôture des travaux : Droit privé japonais au Laos et réformes des années 2000. Retour d’expérience Patrice Davost, Magistrat, Ancien Directeur des Services judiciaires du Ministère de la Justice 

CONTACT AND REGISTRATION:  marie.paulin@univ-ubs.fr You can also attend this symposium online.

BOOK: Peter Charles HOFFER, Uncivil Warriors : The Lawyers’ Civil War (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018). ISBN 9780190851767, £18.99

(Source: Oxford University Press)

Oxford University Press has published a book on the role of law and lawyers during the American Civil War.  

ABOUT THE BOOK

In the Civil War, the United States and the Confederate States of America engaged in combat to defend distinct legal regimes and the social order they embodied and protected. Depending on whose side's arguments one accepted, the Constitution either demanded the Union's continuance or allowed for its dissolution. After the war began, rival legal concepts of insurrection (a civil war within a nation) and belligerency (war between sovereign enemies) vied for adherents in federal and Confederate councils.

In a "nation of laws," such martial legalism was not surprising. Moreover, many of the political leaders of both the North and the South were lawyers themselves, including Abraham Lincoln. These lawyers now found themselves at the center of this violent maelstrom. For these men, as for their countrymen in the years following the conflict, the sacrifices of the war gave legitimacy to new kinds of laws defining citizenship and civil rights. The eminent legal historian Peter Hoffer's Uncivil Warriors focuses on these lawyers' civil war: on the legal professionals who plotted the course of the war from seats of power, the scenes of battle, and the home front. Both sides in the Civil War had their complement of lawyers, and Hoffer provides coverage of both sides' leading lawyers. In positions of leadership, they struggled to make sense of the conflict, and in the course of that struggle, began to glimpse of new world of law. It was a law that empowered as well as limited government, a law that conferred personal dignity and rights on those who, at the war's beginning, could claim neither in law. Comprehensive in coverage, Uncivil Warriors focus on the legal side of America's worst conflict will reshape our understanding of the Civil War itself.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Peter Charles Hoffer is Professor of History, University of Georgia; he is the author of many books, including Cry Liberty and The Federal Courts.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction: A Civil War Of, By, and For Lawyers?

Prologue: The Inseparability of Politics and Law: The First Lincoln-Douglas Debate

Chapter One: The Contested Legality of Secession

Chapter Two: A Tale of Two Cabinets and Two Congresses

Chapter Three: In Re Merryman and its Progeny

Chapter Four: Was Secession a Crime?

Chapter Five: An Emancipation Proclamation

Chapter Six: "A New Birth of Freedom"

Epilogue: The Lawyers' Reconstruction

Conclusion: The Lawyers' Civil War in Retrospect

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BOOK: "Legal History of the Civil War and Reconstruction: A Nation of Rights" by L.F. Edwards

Legal History of the Civil War and Reconstruction: a Nation of Rights", by L.F. Edwards, in the  New Histories of American Law series of the Cambridge University Press

Although hundreds of thousands of people died fighting in the Civil War, perhaps the war's biggest casualty was the nation's legal order. A Nation of Rights explores the implications of this major change by bringing legal history into dialogue with the scholarship of other historical fields. Federal policy on slavery and race, particularly the three Reconstruction amendments, are the best-known legal innovations of the era. Change, however, permeated all levels of the legal system, altering Americans' relationship to the law and allowing them to move popular conceptions of justice into the ambit of government policy. The results linked Americans to the nation through individual rights, which were extended to more people and, as a result of new claims, were reimagined to cover a wider array of issues. But rights had limits in what they could accomplish, particularly when it came to the collective goals that so many ordinary Americans advocated. Ultimately, Laura F. Edwards argues that this new nation of rights offered up promises that would prove difficult to sustain.

Laura F. Edwards, Peabody Family Professor of History at Duke University.

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