BOOK: Luka BRENESELOVIC and Arnd KOCH (eds.), Die europäische Bedeutung der Internationalen Kriminalistischen Vereinigung (IKV) 1889–1919 [Grundlagen des Strafrechts; 16] (Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlag, 2026), 336 p. ISBN 978-3-7560-0794-3

 

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Abstract:

Die Internationale kriminalistische Vereinigung war eine international erfolgreiche Vereinsgründung der Belle Époque. Initiiert von Franz v. Liszt, Adolphe Prins und G. A. van Hamel legte sie ihrer Tätigkeit die Prämisse zugrunde, dass Verbrechen und Strafe „ebenso sehr vom soziologischen wie vom juristischen Standpunkte aus ins Auge gefasst werden müssen“ (Art. 1, Satzung von 1889). Auf dieser Basis erhob die IKV kriminalpolitische Forderungen, die bis heute das moderne Bild des Strafrechts maßgeblich prägen. Der Band widmet sich aus einer vergleichenden Perspektive der Tätigkeit und legislatorischen Wirksamkeit der nationalen Landesgruppen der IKV und leistet so einen wichtigen Beitrag zur europäischen Geschichte des Strafrechts.

Contributors:

Mit Beiträgen von Prof. Dr. Attila Barna | Dr. Luka Breneselović, LL.M. | Prof. Dr. Yves Cartuyvels | Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Cyrille Fijnaut | Prof. Dr. José Franco-Chasán | Prof. Dr. Sabine Freitag | Dr. Urs Germann | Prof. Dr. Jørn Jacobsen | Mag. Dr. Nina Kaiser | Prof. Dr. Sylvia Kesper-Biermann | Prof. Dr. Arnd Koch | Prof. Dr. Dr. Michael Kubiciel | Prof. Dr. Dunja Milotić | Prof. Dr. Martin Sunnqvist | Dr. Richard Wetzell

Read more here: 10.5771/9783748915515. 

CONFERENCE: L’industrie des assurances terrestres, un secteur nouveau confronté à des réticences XVIIIe-XXe siècle (Paris: Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (salle 6), 10 DEC 2025)

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10h00 Accueil des participants
10h15 Jonas Knetsch, professeur des universités, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, directeur de l’Institut des Assurances de Paris, Allocution d’ouverture 

I. La difficile implantation d’une industrie innovante au début du XIXe siècle
Sous la présidence de Marta Peguera-Poch, Professeur des universités, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne 
10h30-11h00 Charlotte Broussy, maître de conférences en Histoire du droit, l’Université de Montpellier, Les compagnies royales d’assurance de 1786 et 1787 : l’émergence ratée de l’assurance terrestre en France à la fin de l’Ancien Régime
11h00-11h30 Alix Profit, maître de conférences en Histoire du droit à l’Université de Caen, Les difficultés de la compagnie d’assurance mutuelle contre l’Incendie de Seine-Inférieure et de l’Eure face aux compagnies à prime fixe (XIX^e siècle)
11h30-12h00 Annamaria Monti, professeur d’Histoire du droit, Università degli Studi di Milano, L’industrie des assurances en Italie au XIX^e siècle 
12h00-12h30 Discussions
12h30-14h30 Pause méridienne

II. Une industrie en plein développement face à des réticences subsistantes
Sous la présidence de Raymond Dartevelle, Président du Conseil scientifique de la Chaire « Assurance et Société »
14h30-15h00 Marc Thérage, professeur d’Histoire du droit, Université de Limoges, L'essor du droit pénal des assurances terrestres devant la cour d'appel du Nord : disparition ou intensification des réticences face aux assurances ? (XIX^e-XX^e siècle)
15h00-15h30 Victor Le Breton-Blon, docteur en Histoire du droit, Université Paris Nanterre, Compter, mesurer, évaluer. Le développement de la rationalisation assurantielle contre l’incendie (fin XIX^e siècle)
15h30-16h00 Nelly Hissung-Convert, maître de conférences en Histoire du droit, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, La promotion de l’assurance face aux réticences, l’exemple de L’Argus, Journal international des assurances, depuis 1877
16h00-16h30 Discussions 

Practicalities:

Salle 6, université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (2^ème étage, aile Soufflot, 12 place du Panthéon, 75005 Paris)

 

LECTURE: Tamar HERZOG, "The history(s) of Empire: Where Do We Go From Here and What Should We See on The Way?" [JHIL Lecture] (Leuven: KULeuven, 25 APR 2025)

 

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Announcement by prof. Inge Van Hulle (KULeuven):

We are pleased to host the upcoming JHIL Lecture, on the occasion of the board meeting of the Journal of the History of International Law/Revue d'histoire du droit international, which will be held in Leuven this year. 

Practicalia:

The lecture will take place on Friday April 25, from 12pm till 1.30pm in the conference room of the International House (Tiensestraat 47, Leuven). RSVP by 23 April with inge dot vanhulle at kuleuven dot be.

(source: KULeuven Roman Law and Legal History newsletter)

BOOK: Manuel BASTIAS SAAVEDRA (ed.), Beyond Property. Ownership Regimes in the Iberian World (1500-1850). The Normative Role of Kinship and Community (Leiden: Brill, 2025). ISBN: 9789004722712 [OPEN ACCESS]

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About the book

Explore a new perspective on land relations with Ownership Regimes, which shifts focus from traditional legal views to socio-historical contexts. This book reveals how land holding was influenced by diverse practices, including doctrine, laws, customs, regional kinship, and community ties. By understanding these as components of a broader normative framework, scholars from different regions show how complex social, religious, and cultural norms shaped efficient and enduring land-use arrangements. It challenges historians and legal scholars to examine the interplay of these norms in the Iberian world, uncovering how they defined ownership, division, regulation, and conflict resolution in various regions.

Contributors are: Manuel Bastias Saavedra, Alessandro Buono, Thiago Mota, José Carlos De La Puente Luna, Íñigo Ena Sanjuán, Alcira Dueñas, Marta Martín Gabaldón, Carolina Jurado, Crislayne Alfagali, and Rosa Congost.

About the editor

Manuel Bastias Saavedra, Ph.D. (2012), is Associate Professor of Latin American History at Leibniz University Hannover. His research focuses on the legal and institutional history of the Spanish and Portuguese empires. He currently leads the IberLAND project, funded by the European Research Council.

Table of contents

1. Manuel Bastias Saavedra, Beyond Private and Common. Ownership Regimes in the Iberian World (1500–1800) 
2. Alessandro Buono, The Rights of Things and the Obligations of the Owner. Exploring the Deep Normative Grammars of the Early Modern Ownership Regime
3. Thiago Henrique Mota, Guests in Foreign Lands. Land Control and Ownership in Greater Senegambia in the Face of the Portuguese Presence (16th and 17th Centuries)
4. José Carlos de la Puente Luna, A Widow’s Tale. Shifting Land Regimes and the Interplay of Household and Community in Colonial Peru
5. Marta Martín Gabaldón, Ownership and Seigniorial Relationships. Land and Territory in Colonial Tlaxiaco (the Mixteca, Mexico)
6. Carolina Jurado, Domestic Rights in Indigenous Communal Lands and the Expression “Menester” during the Execution of the 1591 Royal Decrees in Charcas, Viceroyalty of Peru
7. Íñigo Ena Sanjuán, Concordias, Sentencias Arbitrales, and Vistas. Ownership and Possession of Grassland in the Valleys of Ansó and Hecho (17th–19th Centuries)
8. Alcira Dueñas, Amparos and Mapas. Communal Land Possession and Dispossession in the Late Colonial Andes
9. Crislayne Gloss Marão Alfagali, Sobas, Ilamba, and Residents. On the Diverse Meanings of Land in Angola’s Hinterland in the 18th century
10. Rosa Congost, Epilogue: The Necessary De-Westernisation of the Models of Land Ownership. Reflections on the Idea of Feudal Remnants in Core Western Countries

More information can be found here.

MEDAL: George Sarton Medal for Legal History to Prof. Arno DAL RI Jr. (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina) (Ghent: UFO, 5 DEC 2024)

 

Department of Interdisciplinary Study of Law, Private Law and Business Law

Ghent Legal History Institute

Sarton Medal 2024 – Sartonmedaille 2024

on Thursday, December 5^th at 4 pm

 

in Auditorium Leon De Meyer of the University Forum

Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 33, 9000 GENT

 

The Ghent University Sarton Committee,

Prof. Dr. Michel Tison, Dean of the Faculty of Law and Criminology,

Prof. Dr. Dirk Heirbaut and Prof. Dr. Georges Martyn, Co-Directors of the Ghent Institute for Legal History

 

have the honour to invite you to the Sarton Lecture,

the laudatio and the handing over of the Sarton Medal to

 

Prof. Dr. Arno Dal Ri Jr.

(Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil)

 

 

Programme

 

- Welcome by dean Michel Tison.

 

- Laudatio of Prof. Dr. Arno Dal Ri Jr. by Prof. Dr. Georges Martyn.

 

- Sarton lecture, in French, by Prof. Dr. Arno Dal Ri Jr. on

 

François Laurent au Brésil.

La diffusion du principe des nationalités outre-Atlantique (1899-1978)

to be published in Sartoniana as:

François Laurent in Brazil.

The Defence of the Principle of Nationalities that Crossed the Atlantic (1899-1978)

 

- Handing over of the Sarton Medal by Prof. Dr. Guido Van Huylenbroeck, Academic Secretary of the Sarton Committee

 

- Drink offered by the Faculty of Law and Criminology.

 

Please register: https://event.ugent.be/registration/SARTONdalRi.

George Sarton (1884-1956), one of the founding fathers of the history of science as an academic discipline, was an alumnus of Ghent University. In 1912, one year after his graduation in physics and mathematics, he wrote to a friend: “J'ai décidé de vouer ma vie à l'étude désintéressée de l'histoire des sciences”. He established two leading journals in the field (Isis in 1912 and Osiris in 1934) and the History of Science Society. In 1984, at the centenary of Sarton's birthday, Ghent University decided to establish a Sarton Chair of History of Science. Each year the Sarton committee, consisting of representatives of the faculties of Ghent University, selects the Sarton chair holder and the Sarton medallists. The Sarton chair holder and the medallists are invited to lecture on the history of science in the faculties of the university.. The lectures are published in the annual journal Sartoniana. (www.sartonchair.ugent.be).

JOURNÉE D'ÉTUDES: La Principauté de Liège: une histoire finie? - Centre Liégeois d'Histoire du Droit - Liège, 19 avril 2023

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Une journée transdisciplinaire pour dresser un bilan et envisager des perspectives dans le champ des disciplines historique et juridique

Depuis plusieurs années, la Principauté de Liège (IXe s. – 1795) fait l’objet de nouveaux travaux de recherche dans le domaine des relations internationales, du droit ou encore de l’économie (DE-MOULIN, 2022 ; DRECOURT, 2019 ; LAGASSE, 2018). De nouveaux projets viennent continuellement améliorer nos connaissances dans cette thématique (PUCCIO, 2019). Pourtant, l’histoire de Liège a connu des moments de tensions (GENIN, 2022).

La journée d’étude proposée par le Centre liégeois d’histoire du droit et l’Unité de Recherche Groupe étude sur le 18e siècle, les Lumières et les Révolutions propose de parcourir les projets passés, en cours et futurs afin de dresser un bilan des découvertes dans le champ de l’histoire liégeoise. Plusieurs questions viennent alimenter la réflexion. Quels sont les enjeux de l’histoire de la Principauté de Liège dans la recherche actuelle ? Quelles avancées et découvertes restent à faire ? Quelles avancées ont été réalisées depuis ces dernières années ?

L’objectif de cette journée d’étude est donc triple. Elle vise à pointer les enjeux spécifiques de la recherche sur la Principauté de Liège dans le milieu scientifique, à dresser le bilan historiographique dans les domaines du droit et de l’histoire concernant la Principauté de Liège et enfin à développer les champs en cours d’exploration en histoire liégeoise.

Programme

8h45 : Accueil des participant·es

9h15 : Mot d’ouverture par Vincent GENIN, docteur en histoire

10h : Communication par Christophe MASSON, chargé de recherche FNRS en histoire du moyen-âge tardif

10h45-11h : Pause

11h-11h45 : Communication par Wim DECOCK, professeur d'histoire du droit et co-président du Centre Liégeois d'Histoire du Droit

11h45-12h30 : Communication par Benoït LAGASSE, professeur invité de la Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres, docteur en Droit

12h30-13h30 : Pause de midi

13h30-14h15 : Communication par Laetizia PUCCIO, chargée de recherche aux Archives de l’État et co-présidente du Centre Liégeois d'Histoire du Droit

14-15-15h: Communication par Charlotte SÉAUX, doctorante en droit constitutionnel

15h-15h15 : Pause

15h15-16h : Communication par Marie-Sophie SILAN, aspirante FNRS en histoire du droit liégeois

16h-16h45 : Communication par Antoine LECLÈRE, doctorant en Histoire

16h45-17h30 : Mot de fermeture par Philippe RAXHON, co-président de l'UR GEDLER, professeur en histoire contemporaine et critique historique

17h30-18h : Clôture de la journée

 

Une journée soutenue par l'Unité de recherche Groupe d'étude du 18e siècle, des Lumières et des Révolutions (GEDLER) de la Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres ainsi que par le Centre liégeois d'histoire du droit, de l'UR CITÉ (Faculté de Droit, de Science politique et de Criminologie) et qui profite d'un soutien logistique des Archives de l'État de Liège.

LAUNCH EVENT: EUTopia Connected Learning Community Legal History: Labour Migration: Prof. Cristiana BASTOS, "Across Empires: Plantation Labour in the Aftermath of Abolition" (TEAMS, 21 OCT 2022)

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Prof. Cristiana Bastos (Lisboa, ERC Advanced Grantee) will hold this year's opening lecture for the EUTopia Connected Learning Community Legal History: Labour Migration. The topic is "Across empires: plantation labour in the aftermath of abolition".

Background reading can be found on Prof. Bastos' project website, and will be shared at registration.

The Connected Learning Community Legal History: Labour Migration brings together the VUB, UPF Barcelona, Ljubljana, Warwick, Nova Lisboa and CY Paris. Five to eight students per institution work together on the common theme of Labour Migration. 

The event will take place on Friday 21 October at 15:30 Brussels Time.

Registration is mandatory with dr. Elisabeth Bruyère (Elisabeth.bruyère@vub.be).

REMINDER ONLINE SEMINAR: on Martti Koskenniemi's book "To the Uttermost Parts of the Earth: Legal Imagination and International Power, 1300-1870" (Cambridge University Press, 2021) - 6th September 2022 - organised by the Journal of the History of International Law (on ZOOM)

On 6 September 2022, the Journal of the History of International Law is organising an online evening symposium (CET 20.00h-22.00) to celebrate the publication of Martti Koskenniemi's book 'To the Uttermost Parts of the Earth: Legal Imagination and International Power, 1300-1870 (Cambridge University Press, 2021). The event will take place on Zoom.

This is the program:

Chair: Dr. Inge Van Hulle (Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory)

20.00h: Welcome by Prof. Randall Lesaffer (KU Leuven/Tilburg University) 

20.05h: Presentation of book by Prof. Martti Koskenniemi (University of Helsinki)

20.30h: Comments by Prof. Koen Stapelbroek (James Cook University): 'Commerce, capitalism and the law of nations'

20.45h: Comments by Prof. Jennifer Pitts (University of Chicago): 'The struggle between statehood and civil society'

21.00h: Comments by Prof. Wim Decock (UCLouvain): 'Theology and the justification of sovereignty and property'

21.15h: Response by Prof. Martti Koskenniemi

21.30h: Open discussion and questions

Please register by sending an email to: vanhulle@lhlt.mpg.de

ONLINE SEMINAR: on Martti Koskenniemi's book "To the Uttermost Parts of the Earth: Legal Imagination and International Power, 1300-1870" (CUP, 2021) - 6 September 2022 - organised by the Journal of the History of International Law (on ZOOM)

 

On 6 September 2022, the Journal of the History of International Law is organising an online evening symposium (CET 20.00h-22.00) to celebrate the publication of Martti Koskenniemi's book 'To the Uttermost Parts of the Earth: Legal Imagination and International Power, 1300-1870 (Cambridge University Press, 2021). The event will take place on Zoom.

This is the program:

Chair: Dr. Inge Van Hulle (Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory)

20.00h: Welcome by Prof. Randall Lesaffer (KU Leuven/Tilburg University) 

20.05h: Presentation of book by Prof. Martti Koskenniemi (University of Helsinki)

20.30h: Comments by Prof. Koen Stapelbroek (James Cook University): 'Commerce, capitalism and the law of nations'

20.45h: Comments by Prof. Jennifer Pitts (University of Chicago): 'The struggle between statehood and civil society'

21.00h: Comments by Prof. Wim Decock (UCLouvain): 'Theology and the justification of sovereignty and property'

21.15h: Response by Prof. Martti Koskenniemi

21.30h: Open discussion and questions

Please register by sending an email to: vanhulle@lhlt.mpg.de

BOOK: Cristiano PAIXÃO & Massimo MECCARELLI (Eds.), Comparing Transitions to Democracy. Law and Justice in South America and Europe (New York: Springer, 2021). ISBN: 978-3-030-67501-1, pp. 323, EUR 137

 

(Source: Springer)

ABOUT THE BOOK

This present book examines some of the key features of the interplay between legal history, authoritarian rule and political transitions in Brazil and other countries from the end of 20th Century until today. This book casts light on these aspects of the role of law and legal actors/institutions. In the context of transition from authoritarian rule to democratic state, Brazil has produced a significant literature on the challenges and shortcomings of the transition, but little attention has been given to the role of law and legal actors/institutions. Different approaches focus on the legal mechanisms, discourses and practices used by the military regime and by the players involved in the political transition process in Brazil. A comparative perspective that takes into account different political transitions – and their legal consequences – in Europe and Latin America complements the analysis.

Part 1 (4 essays) discusses some of the central issues of political transition and legal history in contemporary Brazil, focusing on the time of the transition (and its effects on transitional justice) with different perspectives, from racial and gender issues to constitutional reform and police repression. Part 2 (3 essays) brings the comparative studies on South American experiences. Part 3 (4 essays) analyses different cases of transition to democracy in Chile, Portugal, Spain and Italy. Part 4 (3 essays) proposes a historiographical and methodological approach, considering the politics of time involved in the interplay between political transitions and legal history.

ABOUT THE EDITORS

Cristiano Paixão in Professor of legal history at the University of Brasília Law School. Doctor in Law degree from Federal University of Minas Gerais, with post-doctoral studies in historiography at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales de Paris and in modern history at Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. He was a visiting professor at Macerata University School of Law and at the Master’s Program in Constitutional Law at Seville University, and has published extensively about constitutional history. He was a member of the Brazilian Amnesty Committee (Ministry of Justice), was one of the coordinators of the Anísio Teixeira Memory and Truth Commission (University of Brasília). His main research interests are constitutional history, law and literature, and interdisciplinary studies in law.

Massimo Meccarelli is Professor of Legal History at the University of Macerata (Italy), and affiliate researcher of the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History (Frankfurt am Main). He was visiting professor at: Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt am Main, Universität Wien, Universität Luzern. He is author of several works on history of legal thought, history of justice, historiography and methodology of legal history. Most recently research interests: law and diversity, legal pluralism, constitution making process, time and law, law and humanities.

More information with the pubisher.

CONFERENCE: Legal Response to Mass Migration Between the 19th Century and the WWII - 27/28 gennaio 2022 - Università di Napoli Federico II

(Source: Storia del diritto)

BOOK: Mikael SCHINAZI, The Three Ages of Commercial Arbitration [Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law, eds. Larissa VAN DEN HERIK & Jean d'ASPREMONT] (Cambridge: CUP, 2021)

 

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Book description:

Drawing on a wide range of previously unpublished sources, this unique history of international commercial arbitration in the modern era identifies three periods in its development: the Age of Aspirations (c. 1780–1920), the Age of Institutionalization (1920s–1950s), and the Age of Autonomy (1950s–present). Mikaël Schinazi analyzes the key features of each period, arguing that the history of international commercial arbitration has oscillated between moments of renewal and anxiety. During periods of renewal, new approaches, instruments, and institutions were developed to carry international commercial arbitration forward. These developments were then reined in during periods of anxiety, for fear that international arbitration might be overstepping its bounds. The resulting tension between renewal and anxiety is a key thread running through the evolution of international commercial arbitration. This book fills a key gap in the scholarship for anyone interested in the fields of international arbitration, legal history, and international law.

On the author:

Mikaël Schinazi is an international dispute resolution lawyer and a visiting lecturer at Sciences Po Law School, Paris. A member of the New York Bar, he holds a BA magna cum laude with highest honours from Harvard University, an LLB from the University of Cambridge (John Eliot Scholar), an LLM from Columbia Law School (Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar), and a PhD in law from the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po).

Read more with the publisher. 

WEBINAR SERIES: Political prisoners in the Modern World. Imprisonment, Deportation and Public Commitment - 3 online seminars on recent books - December 2020: Ca' Foscari University, Venice

 

(Source: Unive)

BOOK: Laurent JALABERT (Ed.), Les prisonniers de guerre (XVe-XIXe siècle). Entre marginalisation et reconnaissance (Rennes: Presses Universitaires, 2018). ISBN: 9782753556713, pp. 298, € 29,00

(Source: PUR)

ABOUT THE BOOK

La thématique des prisonniers de guerre reste peu connue pour l’époque moderne, au moment où les armées connaissent massification et nationalisation de leurs effectifs. Le présent livre aborde divers aspects de cette question et le cheminement jusqu’au moment où se développent et s’institutionnalisent droits et statuts des prisonniers de guerre, du XVe au XIXe siècle.

ABOUT THE  EDITHOR

Laurent Jalabert est maître de conférences habilité en histoire moderne (université de Lorraine, CRULH EA 3945). Ses recherches initiales concernent l’histoire confessionnelle du XVIIe au XIXe siècle dans l’Empire et s’orientent à présent vers l’histoire militaire et celle des petits États, ainsi que les questions de mémoire et d’identité.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction  

Première partie - Le prisonnier en discours et représentation    

Deuxième partie - Le droit et les statuts

Troisième partie - Conditions de captivité

Les auteurs

The complete table of contents can be downloaded here.

More information with the publisher.