(Source: University of Edinburgh)
The
Edinburgh Centre for Legal History has published the three Adam Watson Memorial
Lectures (2019) online. The link to be videos can be found here
The ESCLH aims to promote comparative legal history and seeks affiliation with individuals and organisations with complementary aims.
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07 May 2019
22 April 2019
PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME: LXXIIIᵉ Session de la Société Internationale Fernand de Visscher pour l’Histoire des Droits de l’Antiquité, Edinburgh, 2–7 September 2019
(Source: SIHDA 2019)
We have learned
of the provisional program for the next session of the Société Internationale
Fernand de Visscher pour l’Histoire des Droits de l’Antiquité in Edinburgh. All new updates are also shared on SIHDA 2019’s Twitter page.
Preliminary
Programme
Monday, 2
September 2019
Arrival
Tuesday, 3
September 2019
Arrival
Wednesday,
4 September 2019
09:00
Registration
10.00
Opening session – The Playfair Library, Old College
11.00
Conference Sessions (coffees, teas, refreshments and lunch provided)
Thursday, 5
September 2019
09:00
Conference Sessions (coffees, teas, refreshments and lunch provided)
Friday, 6
September 2019
09.00
Conference Sessions (coffees, teas, refreshments and lunch provided)
14.00
Conclusion of Conference/Plenary Session
Saturday, 7
September 2019
08.30
Excursion to Housesteads and Vindolanda (transport, coffees, teas,
refreshments and lunch provided)
More info here
05 July 2018
LECTURE: Professor Paul J. Du Plessis on “Reflections on Futures Past” (University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh Law School, Inaugural Lecture), 10 OCTOBER 2018
(Source: University of Edinburgh)
Professor Paul
J. Du Plessis will hold the inaugural lecture at Edinburgh Law School on 10
October 2018. The event is open to everyone, but registration is required.
Speaker: Paul
J. Du Plessis
Professor of
Roman Law, Edinburgh Law School, The University of Edinburgh.
Abstract
As one of the
most sophisticated legal cultures of the ancient Mediterranean, Roman law has
been an enduring source of intellectual influence upon legal scholars across
the ages. Much like the art, architecture, literature, and languages of the
Greco-Roman world, the Romans and their culture feel strangely familiar even in
2018. This sense of familiarity is not the product of historical chance. It
forms part of an evolving narrative concerning the medieval origins of law
teaching in the universities of Northern Italy during the eleventh century.
Since then, as the cornerstone of legal education for more than a millennium,
the study of Roman law has fulfilled many different functions, whether as a
component of the medieval European ius commune, the foundations of natural law
in the early-modern period or a repository of positivist rules in the late
nineteenth century. Moreover, although one might expect such a narrative to be
thoroughly researched and utterly stable after such a length of time, the past
changes frequently as discoveries come to light, and as new interpretations of
the significance of historical events are put forward. Much work remains to be
done, therefore, on the broader historical narrative, the ideologies as well as
the societal forces (economic, social, political and otherwise), that drove the
adoption or rejection of particular Roman legal rules in the past. But the
study of Roman law is not merely an exercise in legal archaeology. Although the
events of the twentieth century have affected the relationship between Roman
law and modern law, history did not end with codification, and Roman law
continues to exert a powerful influence on contemporary legal development. This
lecture aims to assess the scope and function of this influence against the
backdrop of contemporary debates about the nature of Scots law and the role of
history in the development of law more generally.
Date and time
Wednesday 10
October 2018
6:00pm -
7:30pm
Location
Adam Lecture
Theatre, Edinburgh Law School, Old College.
These events are
free and open to everyone, but registration is required.
24 November 2015
NOTICE: "Legal History Events at Centre for Legal History" (Edinburgh, January-March 2016)
WHAT Legal History Events at Centre for Legal History
WHEN January-March 2016
WHERE Edinburgh
new book discussions - Friday, January 15 2016
Lord Kames: Legal and Social Theorist (EUP 2015)
Professor Andreas Rahmatian
Neil MacCormick Room, 5:30 pm
This is the first biography of Kames since the late Ian Ross's Lord Kames and the Scotland of His Day (1972). While Ross's work focused on the life as well as the work, Rahmatian's study focuses on the intellectual biography. Dr Rahmatian will make a short presentation of the themes of his book. Dr James Harris, Reader in History at the University of St Andrews will then discuss it, and Dr Rahmatian will respond. There will then be an open discussion.
All welcome. Please contact Professor John W. Cairns (john.cairns@ed.ac.uk) if you wish to join us for dinner, aux frais des participants.
21 May 2015
SEMINAR: "The Sentencia Arbitral de Guadalupe of 1486 - stages of incentives for land liberalisation in Medieval Hispanic Kingdoms" (Edinburgh, June 1 2015)
WHAT The Sentencia Arbitral de Guadalupe of 1486 - stages of incentives for land liberalisation in Medieval Hispanic Kingdoms, seminar of the Edinburgh Centre for Legal History
WHEN June 1 2015 - 5:00 pm
WHERE Kenyon Mason Suite, Law School, Old College - South Bridge, Edinburgh EH8 9 YL
all information here
speaker
Prof. Elia Marzal, Ramon Lull University (Barcelona)
The Sentencia Arbitral de Guadalupe, issued by Ferdinand II of Aragon, put an end to the Wars of Remences, by allowing seigneury peasants, until then bound to the land, to leave it. According to the literature, this redemption of serfs -that expresses the dismantling of medieval political organization based on seigneury- took place much earlier than in other Hispanic and European reigns, where reforms would not arrive before the end of XVIIth Century. However, the general Fuero of León, first appeared in the ordinances of a council held in the city by Alfonso V in 1020, already allowed seigneury peasants to leave the land, without the social conflict that preceded in Catalonia the Sentencia Arbitral, but only in exchange of a prize and under certain conditions. Comparing these texts will allow us to put the Catalan text into proper historical perspective and shed light into the logic underlying these measures. Indeed, it will be argued that freedom of movement as recognised to peasants would express a transaction or re-equilibrium of political powers between the King and the Lords, rather than the result of the social tension between peasants and Lords, and would ultimately depend on the existence of incentives for land liberalisation.
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