JOB: Vacancy for a fulltime historian, project LORDSHIP - Lordship and State Formation in the County of Flanders, 15th - 18th Century (Ghent University/Belgian State Archives, DEADLINE 5 FEB 2020)

(source: Rijksarchief)

The Belgian State Archives recruit a fulltime historian for the BRAIN-be 2.0-project LORD (Lordship and State Formation in the County of Flanders, 15th - 18th C.), under the direction of professors Frederik Buylaert and Thijs Lambrecht (UGent, Department of History).

The application should be drafted in Dutch.

Link to the full vacancy here.

CALL FOR PAPERS: Quaderni Fiorentini per la Storia del Pensiero Giuridico Moderno. V. 49 (2019). Until 15 January

(Source: https://shop.giuffre.it/quaderni-fiorentini-48-2019.html)

Until 15 january, the Quaderni Fiorentini will be receiving articles on the field of legal history. They can be written in English, Italian, Spanish, German, French and Portuguese.

More information: http://www.centropgm.unifi.it/quaderni/redazione.htm 

BOOK: Nicholas KARN, Kings, Lords and Courts in Anglo-Norman England (London: Boydell & Brewer, 2020). ISBN 9781783274864, £60.00

(Source: Boydell & Brewer)

Boydell and Brewer has published a study on the lordship courts in medieval England.

ABOUT THE BOOK

About the year 1000, hundreds and shires were the dominant and probably the only local assemblies for doing legal and other business in England. However, this simple pattern did not last long, for lords established separate courts which allowed them to manage and discipline their dependents without external interference, and therefore to intensify and redefine their claims over their dependents. These can be seen clearly by the early twelfth century, and were the basis from which the later manorial courts, courts leet and honour courts originated.

The appearance of these courts has long been recognised; what is novel about this book is that it shows how they came into being. It argues that lordship courts ultimately originated through subtracting business from the public courts of Anglo-Saxon England, not from the rights inherent in land ownership. It also shows how and when royal justices appeared for the first time as a response to these changes, and how the earliest generation of judges differed from their successors in their roles and functions, which has considerable consequences for how we understand the changing roles of justices in shaping English law. Overall, the changing pattern of assemblies and courts helped to redefine lordship, peasant status and royal authority, and to expectations about how business should be transacted, with widespread implications across Anglo-Norman society, culture and politics

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

NICHOLAS KARN is Associate Professor of History in the University of Southampton.

More info here

WORKSHOP PRESENTATIONS : Stanford Center for Law & History (Stanford, 27 Jan. to 9 Mar. 2020)

Source :  Stanford Law School

Stanford Center for Law and History announces four great legal history workshop presentations that will be taking place there. Coordinated by Professors Amalia Kessler and Robert Gordon.

 
Where :  Room 272 of the Law School's Crown Building, (Stanford, California).

When : on the following Mondays from 4:15 to 6:15 PM.

Programme:

January 27—Allison Powers, Assistant Professor of History, Texas Tech University: “The Specter of Compensation: Mexican Claims Against the United States, 1923-1941.”

February 10—Fahad Bishara, Assistant Professor of History, Assistant Professor of Arabian Peninsula and Gulf Studies, University of Virginia: "Rethinking the Bazaar: Law and the Documentary Infrastructures of Economic Life in the Indian Ocean."

February 24—Lauren Benton, Nelson O. Tyrone, Jr. Professor of History and Professor of Law, Vanderbilt University: “Law in Small Wars, circa 1750: Peacetime Violence and European Legal Regimes.”

March 9—Sam Erman, Professor of Law, University of Southern California Law: “Inventing the Rules of Blood and of Soil: Nineteenth-Century Origins of Birthright Citizenship.”  

More information and registration:  here

REMINDER: Pre-Conference Event Interest Group History of International Law: "The Founding of Solidarity in the International Community" (23-24 APR 2020) (DEADLINE 15 JAN 2020)

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The ESIL Interest Group History of International Law will host a pre-conference workshop on “The Founding of Solidarity in the International Community” for graduate and Ph.D. students as well as early career scholars at the 2020 ESIL Research Forum at the University of Catania. The event is destined at uniting papers from various legal traditions and cultures, across all ages. We also invite contributions from disciplines other than law.
We are especially interested in papers investigating:

• The intellectual genesis of the community of states
• The interplay between religion, philosophy and the foundational utopias of international law
• The political use and instrumentalisation of international law by political actors
• The appropriation and acculturation process of European international legal principles in the age of Western imperialism

(see also ESIL Website)

(source: ESILHIL Blog)

BOOK: Alison ADAM, ed., Crime and the Construction of Forensic Objectivity from 1850 (London: Palgrave, 2020). ISBN 978-3-030-28836-5, 71.39 EUR

(Source: Routledge)

Routledge is publishing a new book on the history of forensic objectivity.  

ABOUT THE BOOK

This book charts the historical development of 'forensic objectivity' through an analysis of the ways in which objective knowledge of crimes, crime scenes, crime materials and criminals is achieved. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, with authors drawn from law, history, sociology and science and technology studies, this work shows how forensic objectivity is constructed through detailed crime history case studies, mainly in relation to murder, set in Scotland, England, Germany, Sweden, USA and Ireland. Starting from the mid-nineteenth century and continuing to the present day, the book argues that a number of developments were crucial. These include: the beginning of crime photography, the use of diagrams and models specially constructed for the courtroom so jurors could be ‘virtual witnesses’, probabilistic models of certainty, the professionalization of medical and scientific expert witnesses and their networks, ways of measuring, recording and developing criminal records and the role of the media, particularly newspapers in reporting on crime, criminals and legal proceedings and their part in the shaping of public opinion on crime. This essential title demonstrates the ways in which forensic objectivity has become a central concept in relation to criminal justice over a period spanning 170 years.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Alison Adam is Professor of Science Technology and Society in the Cultural, Communication and Computing Research Institute at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. She has worked at Lancaster University, UMIST and the University of Salford as well as spending a number of years in industry prior to her academic career. Her research has been located in science and technology studies over a period of nearly forty years. 

More info here

CONFERENCE: Commercial Law in South-eastern Europe: Legislation and Jurisdiction from Tanzimat Times until the Eve of the Great War (Regensburg, 23-24 April 2020)

(Source: Universität Regensburg)

Via Hsozkult, we learned of a conference on 19^th century commercial law in South-eastern Europe at the Universität Regensburg.

“Im 19. Jahrhundert sah sich das Osmanische Reich zu umfassenden Reformen gezwungen. Diese betrafen neben Verfassung und Verwaltung insbesondere auch Zivilrecht und Rechtspflege. Man orientierte sich stark an Frankreich und setzte unter anderem 1850 den Code de Commerce in Geltung, ohne daß die bisher geltenden Regelungen vollständig außer Kraft getreten wären. Im Aufeinandertreffen von überkommenem osmanischem Recht, Gerichtssystem und Gerichtspersonal einerseits und hochmodernem französischem Recht andererseits hat sich ein eigenständiger Rechtskulturraum in Südosteuropa entwickelt [...]“

The full conference program can be found here

BOOK: Nathalie KALNOKY, The Szekler Nation and Medieval Hungary Politics, Law and Identity on the Frontier (London: Bloomsbury, 2019). ISBN 9781788314824, £76.50

(Source: Bloomsbury)

Bloomsbury has published a new book on Medieval Hungarian legal history.

ABOUT THE BOOK

In 13th century, the Szeklers were granted a territory (Terra Sirulorum) on the eastern border of the kingdom of Hungary. These lands were donated by the king to the community as a whole, in exchange for the armed border guard service. The use of Szekler customary law, based on a military-judicial -- and most likely multi-ethnic – clan structure was confirmed by the Hungarian crown.

Based on extensive archival sources from the 13th to 16th centuries, this fascinating book examines how customary law maintains complex structures of clan membership as a condition of access to judicial and military dignities, and how the Szeklers developed rules for land ownership and devolution. These documents recall legal principles in which the clan has pre-eminence over individuals, all free and equal before their laws. In this period, one can observe an evolution towards individual property, a factor of inequality, constantly shaped and limited by the Szeklers' determination to safeguard their freedom.

This unique text is vital reading for scholars interested in Hungarian history, medieval law, and clan structures.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Nathalie Kálnoky is a member of the Centre for History and Anthropology of Law, University of Paris Nanterre, France.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction
Part 1: The Structures of the Szekler Community 13th-15th century
Chapter 1. On the Origins of the Military Auxiliary People and their Settling in the Szeklerland
Chapter 2. The Noble Szekler Nation, a Privalleged Community
Part 2: Customary Law, as Practiced and Recorded (15th-16th centuries)
Chapter 3. The Recording of Customary Law
Chapter 4. The Practice of Law, Legal Procedure in the Szeklerland
Chapter 5. Land Ownership
Conclusion
Glossary
Documents
Chronology

More information here

BOOK: Emily WHEWELL, Law Across Imperial Borders : British Consuls and Colonial Connections on China’s Western Frontiers, 1880-1943 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020). ISBN 9781526140029, 105,43 €

(Source: Bookdepository)

Manchester University Press is publishing a new book on law across the imperial borders (focused on Britain and its presence in Western China, Burma and India)

ABOUT THE BOOK

Law across imperial borders offers new perspectives on the complex legal connections between Britain's presence in Western China in the western frontier regions of Yunnan and Xinjiang, and the British colonies of Burma and India. Bringing together a transnational methodology with a social-legal focus, it demonstrates how inter-Asian mobility across frontiers shaped British authority in contested frontier regions of China. It examines the role of a range of actors who helped create, constitute and contest legal practice on the frontier-including consuls, indigenous elites and cultural mediators. The book will be of interest to historians of China, the British Empire in Asia and legal history. -- .

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Emily Whewell is a Senior Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, Frankfurt

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

Part I: The Burma-China frontier
1 Treaty-making and treaty-breaking: transfrontier salt and opium, 1904-1911
2 On the move: people crossing the frontier, 1911-25
3 Consuls and Frontier Meetings, 1909-31

Part II: Through the mountains and across the desert: Xinjiang
4 Isolation and connection: law between semicolonial China and the Raj
5 Administering justice and mediating local custom
6 The British end game in Xinjiang: the decline of consular rights, 1917-39

Conclusion

Key terms
Select bibliography

More information here

BOOK: Filip BATSELÉ, Liberty, Slavery and the Law in Early Modern Western Europe. Omnes Homines aut Liberi Sunt aut Servi [Studies in the History of Law and Justice, eds. Mortimer SELLARS & Georges MARTYN, vol. 17] (Heidelberg: Springer, 2020), 978-3-030-36854-8, 93,8 EUR

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Book abstract:

This book investigates the legal evolution of the “free soil principle” in England, France and the Low Countries during the Early Modern period (ca. 1500–1800), which essentially stated that, as soon as slaves entered a certain country, they would immediately gain their freedom. This book synthesizes the existing literature on the origins and evolution of the principle, adds new insights by drawing on previously undiscussed primary sources on the development of free soil in the Low Countries and employs a pan-Western, European and comparative approach to identify and explain the differences and similarities in the application of this principle in France, England and the Low Countries. Divided into four sections, the book begins with a brief introduction to the subject matter, putting it in its historical context. Slavery is legally defined, using the established international law definition, and both the status of slavery in Europe before the Early Modern Period and the Atlantic slave trade are discussed. Secondly, the book assesses the legal origins of the free soil principle in England, France and the Low Countries during the period 1500–1650 and discusses the legal repercussions of slaves coming to England, France and the Low Countries from other countries, where the institution was legally recognized. Thirdly, it addresses the further development of the free soil principle during the period 1650–1800. In the fourth and last section, the book uses the insights gained to provide a pan-Western, European and comparative perspective on the origins and application of the free soil principle in Western Europe. In this regard, it compares the origins of free soil for the respective countries discussed, as well as its application during the heyday of the Atlantic slave trade. This perspective makes it possible to explain some of the divergences in approaches between the countries examined and represents the first-ever full-scale country comparison on this subject in a book.

Table of contents:

Introduction
The Legal and Institutional Framework of Slavery
The Development of a Legal Freedom Principle, Ca. 1500–1650
England Ca. 1650–1800: Neither Emancipated nor Fully Enslaved
Strains on French Freedom: Turks and Nègres in Metropolitan France
The United Provinces: Abandoning the Freedom Principle Sub Silentio(?)
A Legal Comparison of the Freedom Principle—Similarities and Differences
General Conclusion—The Soil of Europe: Free or Unfree?

More information with the publisher.

BOOK: Rahela KHORAKIWALA, From the Colonial to the Contemporary Images, Iconography, Memories, and Performances of Law in India’s High Courts (London: Routledge, 2019). ISBN 9781509930654, £70.00

(Source: Bloomsbury)

Bloomsbury is publishing a book on iconography in India’s High Courts during the British colonial era.

ABOUT THE BOOK

From the Colonial to the Contemporary explores the representation of law, images and justice in the first three colonial high courts of India at Calcutta, Bombay and Madras. It is based upon ethnographic research work and data collected from interviews with judges, lawyers, court staff, press reporters and other persons associated with the courts.

Observing the courts through the in vivo, in trial and practice, the book asks questions at different registers, including the impact of the architecture of the courts, the contestation around the renaming of the high courts, the debate over the use of English versus regional languages, forms of addressing the court, the dress worn by different court actors, rules on photography, video recording, live telecasting of court proceedings, use of CCTV cameras and the alternatives to courtroom sketching, and the ceremony and ritual that exists in daily court proceedings.

The three colonial high courts studied in this book share a recurring historical tension between the Indian and British notions of justice. This tension is apparent in the semiotics of the legal spaces of these courts and is transmitted through oral history as narrated by the judges, lawyers and court staff who are interviewed. The contemporary understandings of these court personnel are therefore seen to have deep historical roots. In this context, the architecture and judicial iconography of the high courts helps to constitute, preserve and reinforce the ambivalent relationship that the court shares with its own contested image.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Rahela Khorakiwala is an independent researcher based in Mumbai, India.

More information here

BOOK: Steffen SCHLINKER, Hannes LUDGYA, Andreas BERGMANN (with Martin OTTO & Veris-Pascal HEINTZ) Privatrechtsgeschichte [Juristische Kurzlehrbücher] (München: C.H. Beck, 2019), XXIII + 323 p. ISBN 978-3-406-73124-2, € 26,9

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Book abstract:

Die Neuerscheinung stellt die historische Entwicklung der wesentlichen Institutionen des Privatrechts in Deutschland dar seit der Rezeption des römischen Rechts bis zur Gegenwart. Ausgangspunkt der Darstellung sind dabei die Problembereiche, die für die individualrechtlichen Beziehungen in einem entwickelten menschlichen Gemeinwesen regelungsbedürftig sind. Dabei werden teils eine bemerkenswerte Kontinuität, teils aber auch verschiedenartige Lösungen für identische Probleme aufgezeigt, die unter sozialen und ökonomischen Verhältnissen praktiziert wurden, die von unseren heutigen Lebensbedingungen bisweilen weit entfernt sind.

On the authors:

 Von Prof. Dr. Steffen Schlinker Prof. Dr. Hannes Ludyga und Prof. Dr. Andreas Bergmann Unter Mitarbeit von Dr. Martin Otto und Veris-Pascal Heintz, Rechtsanwalt

(source: C.H. Beck)

BOOK: Mario BRETONE, Histoire du droit romain (trad. Luigi-Alberti SANCHI) [Monde Antique] (Paris: Editions Delga, 2016), 509 p. ISBN 978-2-915854-98-5, € 35

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Book abstract:

Ce livre, qui a déjà fait l’objet de quinze éditions en Italie, trace un profil complètement nouveau de l’histoire du droit romain. L’expérience juridique n’apparaît pas divisée, selon un schéma habituel, en secteurs qui peinent parfois à trouver un point de rencontre : le droit public et privé, le droit pénal, les « sources » de production et de compréhension normative, le procès ; mais elle est étudiée dans ses structures fondamentales et dans les « valeurs » qui la guident, dans sa constitution et ses mutations, des Douze Tables jusqu’à la codification justinienne. Terminus d’un long parcours, la codification justinienne prend place entre un passé et un futur ; elle clôt une his- toire du droit romain, mais est également à la base de la culture juridique byzantine comme de celle de l’Europe médiévale et moderne

(source: Editions Delga)

JOURNAL: Tijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis/Revue d'Histoire du Droit/The Legal History Review LXXXVII (2019), nr. 3

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De viering van het 100-jarig bestaan van het Tijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis/Le centenaire de la Revue d’Histoire du Droit/The Centennial of the Tijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis (De Dagelijkse Redactie/Le Comité de rédaction/The Editorial Committee)

Open access (Dirk Visser) OPEN ACCESS

Le centenaire de la Revue d’histoire du droit (Laurens Winkel) OPEN ACCESS

100 years of the Legal History Review (Laurens Winkel) OPEN ACCESS

Zur Methodologie der Rechtsgeschichte in Deutschland zwischen 1918 und 2018 (Hans-Peter Haferkamp)

Journal publishing in the 21st century (Martti Huetink)

Peer review (Martijn Kemerink)

Copyright and scientific publications, Recent German experiences (Louis Pahlow)

Read more with Brill.

BOOK: Michèle BÉGOU-DAVIA, Florence DEMOULIN-AUZARY et François JANKOWIAK (dir.), Rerum novarum ac veterum scientia Mélanges en l’honneur de Brigitte Basdevant-Gaudemet [Presses universitaires de Sceaux] (Paris: Mare & Martin, 2020), 1 400 p. ISBN 978-2-84934-472-9, € 89 (before 31 JAN 2020), € 110 (afterwards)

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Book abstract:

Somme de contributions de 76 collègues et amis du professeur qui abordent des thèmes variés allant de l’histoire du droit biblique au régime contemporain de la propriété intellectuelle, illustrant ainsi l’ampleur de l’oeuvre scientifique de celle à qui elles sont dédiées.

Subscription form here.

A list of contributors can be found here.

(source: Storia Del Diritto)

CALL FOR PAPERS: Interactions, Exchanges, and Transformations: European Legal Traditions and their impact on the Construction of Gender in a Global Context (Vancouver, 20-23 February 2021) (DEADLINE: 31 January 2020)

(Source: SFU)

We learned of a call for papers for a conference of the international research network “Gender differences in European legal cultures”. Here the call:

We are pleased to announce a call for papers for a conference titled Interactions, Exchanges, and Transformations: European Legal Traditions and their impact on the Construction of Gender in a Global Context to be held in Vancouver, Canada, in 20 - 23 February 2021. The conference is the 11^th conference of the international research network Gender Differences in European Legal Cultures  with the collaboration of Simon Fraser University, the University of British Columbia, and the University of Northern British Columbia.

The conference seeks to examine the interactions between varied European legal cultures and their impact on gender dynamics, in both local and global contexts. It will explore how legal traditions overlapped and collided, shaped and displaced each other within Europe and how European legal cultures were exported around the world. Some of the themes that our conference seeks to cover are the codifications experienced in Europe and beyond that included the borrowing of elements from diverse legal traditions, the imposition of European legal regimes onto colonized societies, or the voluntary wholesale adoption of certain codes often during “modernization” drives in such diverse states as the Ottoman Empire, Japan, Egypt, and Latin America. Our goal is to explore these interactions in Europe and the broader world and their impact on the development and transformation of law and gender constructions.

The organizers hope to be able to cover travel and accommodation expenses for all participants dependent upon available funding. In case that is not possible scholars from outside North America and in the early stages of their careers (graduate students, recent PhDs) will receive priority.

We welcome contributions from all geographic areas and from comparative perspectives, as well as contributions reflecting on methodological and theoretical issues. Proposals should include:

1. the title of the presentation and a 150-word abstract;

2. a short (max 150 word) academic bio containing contact information for the presenter.

Proposals should be emailed in Word format to the following conference address:

VancouverLawGender2020@gmail.com

Deadline for submission: 31 January 2020

For questions please contact the organizing team:

Dana Wessell Lightfoot, Assistant Professor, University of Northern British Columbia (Dana.WessellLightfoot@unbc.ca)

Evdoxios Doxiadis, Associate Professor, Simon Fraser University

(edoxiadi@sfu.ca)

John Christopoulos, Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia (john.christopoulos@ubc.ca)

BLOGGING BREAK: No posts between 24 DEC and 6 JAN

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There will be no new posts between 24 December and 6 January 2020.

The ESCLH Blog Team wishes you all the best for 2020 !

JOURNAL: Glossae XVI (2019) (OPEN ACCESS)

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On the journal:

GLOSSAE is currently indexed in SCOPUS, SJR-2018 is 0.101, Q4 on Law & History. It can be found in several catalogues' systems: DICE, RESH, ERIHPlus, LATINDEX Catálogo v2.0 (2018- ), CARHUS Plus+ 2018: Group A, CIRC: Group C, MIAR (ICDS de 7.3.). It is available on the following databases: SCOPUS, HEINONLINE-Law Journal Library, Directory of Research Journals Indexing (DRJI), DIALNET, etc

Articles:

Un intento de formación de élites criollas: La compañía de Caballeros Americanos de las Guaridas de Corps (Juan Francisco Baltar Rodríguez, Manuel Andreu Gálve)
Tutela mulierum y sus diferentes categorías (María Elisabet Barreiro Morales)
The sources of the procedural roman-canonical law before Clemens V (Javier Belda Iniesta, Michela Coretti)
The Legal Status of foreigners ad the ‘Albinaggio’ Right in the Intermediate Age: Between Doctrine and Practice (Tiziana Ferreri)
Francisco de Vitoria y la Leyenda Negra (Jaime García Neumann)
Una controversia legislativa en 1848: blasfemias, dicharachos de calle… y los faroles de la escalera (Julián Gómez de Maya)
From Protections for miserabiles personae to Legal Privileges for International Travellers: The Historical Development of the Medieval Canon Law regarding Pilgrims (Atria A. Larson)
Definición de furtum y expansión jurisprudencial de los supuestos de hurto en el Derecho romano clásico. Relectura del Diritto penale de Ferrini (José L. Linares Pineda)
Ius mercatorum and statutes of Florence during the 14th and 15th centuries: The case of bankruptcy, (Marta Lupi)
Una “puella habens spiritum phytonis” e un presunto esorcismo: Alcune considerazioni (Anna Maria Mandas)
La correspondencia humanista entre Melchor de Valencia y Antoine Favre durante la crisis diplomática de Monferrato (1613-1614) (Maruci Pérez Simeón)
Ius commune e ius consuetudinarium no direito de edificar junto ao muro urbano na Lisboa medieval (Sandra M.G. Pinto)
Proceso inquisitorial en “El Santo Oficio” de Arturo Ripstein (Erika Prado Rubio)
Entre el ordenamiento del reino y la doctrina canonista: La participación del indígena en el Derecho natural y de Gentes (s. XVI) (Radael Sánchez Domingo)

Book reviews

Alicia Valmaña Ochaíta, Los discursos de Catón y Lucio Valerio en el 195 a. C., Cartagena: Autor-Editor, 2019, pp. 135 [ISBN: 978-84-09-09299-4; EAN: 9788409092994], pp. 365-367 Juan Alfredo Obarrio Moreno
Álamo Martell, María Dolores, El Regente de la Real Audiencia de Canarias, Madrid: Mercurio Editorial (Colección Universidad, nº 8), 2015, 285 pp. [ISBN 978-84-944637-0-9], pp. 368-369 Dionisio A. Perona Tomás
A Locatio-conductio: influencia nos dereitos atuais: Atas do XX Congresso Internacional e do XXIII Congresso Ibero-Americano de Direito Romano, Coord. António dos Santos Justo, Oporto, 2018, pp. 890 [ISBN: 978-989-640-223-5], pp. 370-377 Juan Alfredo Obarrio Moreno
Belén Malavé Osuna, Ciudad tardorromana, élites locales y patrimonio immobiliario. Un análisis jurídico a la luz del Código Teodosiano. Prólogo del Profesor Antonio Fernández de Buján. Ed. Dykinson. Colección Monografías de Derecho romano y Cultura clásica, Madrid, 2018, pp. 299 [ISBN: 978-84-9148-937-5; ISBN electrónico: 978-84-1324-024-4], pp. 378-382 Juan Alfredo Obarrio Moreno

News

In Memoriam. Antonio Manuel Hespanha (Manuel A. Bermejo Castrillo);
How did the French Criminal Code influence the European and Latin-American Codification?; (Aniceto Masferrer); GERN 2020-2021: The birth of penal positivism in Europe and Latin-America: rise and resistances (Yves Cartuyvels); Congreso Internacional: La mujer en la Literatura y en la Jurisprudencia. De Roma a la Actualidad (José Miguel Piquer Marí)

Read all articles in open access here.

BOOK: Alfred H.A. SOONS (ed.), The 1713 Peace of Utrecht and its Enduring Effects [Nova et Vetera Iuris Gentium; Vol. 31] (Leiden/Boston: Martinus Nijhoff/Brill, 2019), 224 p. ISBN 978-90-04-35157-8, € 176

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Book abstract:

The 1713 Peace of Utrecht and its Enduring Effects, edited by Alfred H.A. Soons, presents an interdisciplinary collection of contributions marking the occasion of the tercentenary of the Peace of Utrecht. The chapters examine the enduring effects of the Peace Treaties concluded at Utrecht in 1713, from the perspectives of international law, history and international relations, with cross-cutting themes: the European Balance of Power; the Relationship to Colonial Regimes and Trade Monopolies; and Ideas and Ideals: the Development of the International Legal Order. With contributions by: Peter Beeuwkes, Stella Ghervas, Martti Koskenniemi, Randall Lesaffer, Paul Meerts, Isaac Nakhimovsky, Sundhya Pahuja, Koen Stapelbroek, Benno Teschke, Jaap de Wilde

Table of contents:

Preface Notes on Contributors 
Behaviour of Negotiators   Paul Meerts and Peter Beeuwkes 
Part 1 The Peace of Utrecht: the European Balance of Power 
1 Balance of Power: Adversarial Pair of Scales or Associational Arch?   Jaap de Wilde 2 Envisioning Europe after Utrecht: Voltaire and the Historiography of the Balance of Power   Isaac Nakhimovsky 3 The Peace of Utrecht, the Balance of Power and the Law of Nations   Randall Lesaffer 
Part 2 The Peace of Utrecht: Relationship to Colonial Regimes and Trade Monopolies 
4 “The Long Peace”: Commercial Treaties and the Principles of Global Trade at the Peace of Utrecht   Koen Stapelbroek 5 The Social Origins of 18th Century British Grand Strategy: a Historical Sociology of the Peace of Utrecht   Benno Teschke 6 Public Debt, the Peace of Utrecht and the Rivalry between Company and State   Sundhya Pahuja 
Part 3 The Peace of Utrecht: Ideas and Ideals; the Development of the International Legal Order 
7 Peace of Utrecht (1713) and the “Crisis of European Conscience”   Martti Koskenniemi 8 In the Shadow of Utrecht: Perpetual Peace and International Order, 1713–1815   Stella Ghervas 
Subject Index Name Index 

On the editor:

Alfred H.A. Soons is professor emeritus of public international law at Utrecht University 

(source: ESILHIL Blog)

BOOK: Dietmar WILLOWEIT & Steffen SCHLINKER, Deutsche Verfassungsgeschichte Vom Frankenreich bis zur Wiedervereinigung Deutschlands Ein Studienbuch. Mit einer Zeittafel und einem Kartenanhang [Juristische Kurz-Lehrbücher] (München: C.H. Beck, 2019), XXXVII /+ 497p. ISBN 978-3-406-72635-4, € 28,9

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Book abstract:

Diese Darstellung der deutschen Verfassungsgeschichte zeichnet in vier Teilen die verfassungsrechtliche Entwicklung Deutschlands vom Ausklang der Spätantike im fränkischen Reich bis zur aktuellen Gegenwart nach. Dabei beschränkt sich der Autor nicht auf die Behandlung verfassungsrechtlicher Institutionen, sondern berücksichtigt auch die gesellschaftlichen Verfassungsebenen.

On the authors:

Dietmar Willoweit, Weiland Präsident der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften; Prof. dr. Steffen Schlinker 

(source: C.H. Beck)