JOURNAL: Journal on European History of Law IX (2018), No. 2

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Research articles

Ronnie Bloemberg: The Development of the German Criminal Law of Evidence between 1750 and 1870: from the System of Legal Proofs to the freie Beweiswürdigung – Part 2

Malte Wilke: Recht und Macht in Verfahren gegen Hexen – Zugleich eine Untersuchung zur Entstehung des Inquisitionsprozesses

Kamila Staudigl-Ciechowicz: Die „Säuberung“ der Universitäten 1938 am Beispiel der Wiener Rechtswissenschaftlichen Fakultät

Felix Tilman Wnuck: Rechtspraxis im Protektorat Böhmen und Mähren. Eine Mikrogeschichte des Amtsgerichts in Brünn im Jahre 1942

Raluca Enescu, Leonie Benker: The Birth of Criminalistics and the Transition from Lay to Expert Witnesses in German Courts

Konstantin Krakovsky: Russian Law Faculty in Prague (1922 – 1935)

Sonja Pallauf: Der Weg von der „Donaumonarchie“ zur „Republik Deutschösterreich“ 1918 unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Verhältnisses von Staat und Ländern

Adolfo A. Díaz-Bautista Cremades: The Low-Empire Society in Diocletian’s Legislation

Dmitry Poldnikov: The Functional Method to Study the General Part of Contract Law in Historical Perspective: pro et contra

Jacek Wałdoch: Mikhail Gorchakov – the Viceroy of the Kingdom of Poland and his Actions towards the National Movement in 1861

Tomasz Dolata: Patent Legislation of the Kingdom of Poland from 1817 to 1867

Karol Dąbrowski: Die Distriktskammern, Deutsche Handelskammer für Polen, Handwerksinnungen, Handwerkskammern, Hauptgruppen, Industrie- und Handelskammern, kaufmännische Vereine, Landwirtschaftskammern und Zwangsverbände im Generalgouvernement – Forschungsmethodik

Emese Újvári: Die Haftung und die Rechtsverhältnisse der Mitvormünder im römischen Recht

Zsuzsanna Peres: Marriage Property Rights of the Hungarian Noble Women according to their Prenuptial Agreements

Máté Pétervári: One Empire and Two Ways of Public Administration: The Second Level Administrative Division in Austria-Hungary

Gábor Rokolya: Lawyers, Civil Law Notaries vs. Municipal Scriveners. A Particularity of Hungarian Legal History: the Private Activities of Scriveners

Zsanett Szabó: Legal Practice concerning Counterfeiting as a Crime in Hungary in the Age of Neoabsolutism (1849 – 1861)

Zoltán J. Tóth: The Regulation of Criminal Defamation and Insult in Hungary between 1880 – 1979

Kinga Rigó: Ein Vergissmeinnicht in der ungarischen Rechtsgeschichte – erster Entwurf von József Eötvös

Adam Boóc: Remarks on the New Hungarian Act on Arbitration from a Historical-comparative Perspective

József Pallo: The First Correctional Legislation and Codification Following the Regime Change in Hungary

Jiří Bílý: Some Notes on Cicero’s Plea on behalf of Caecina. Conclusions and Ways Out

Diemut Majer, Wolfgang Höhne: Europäische Einigungsbestrebungen vom Mittelalter bis zur Gründung der Europäischen Wirtschaftsgemeinschaft (EWG) 1957 – Teil III.

Book reviews

Joachim Rückert: Unrecht durch Recht. Zur Rechtsgeschichte der NS-Zeit

Tommaso Beggio: Paul Koschaker (1879–1951). Rediscovering the Roman Foundations of European Legal Tradition

Reports from history of law

Universitätsprofessor Dr. Elmar Wadle 80 Jahre

1918: Untergang der Monarchie und Entstehung der Republik – eine Buchanzeige

Annex: Das Unterschiedliche und das Verbindende

Eszter Cs. Herger: „Das Unterschiedliche und das Verbindende“. Konferenz der Dezső-Márkus-Forschungsgruppe für Vergleichende Rechtsgeschichte in Pécs (22.-23. März 2018)

Andrzej Dziadzio: Vertragsfreiheit in der Donaumonarchie. Das Gesetz für Galizien über das Wucherverbot

Eszter Cs. Herger: Die Bedeutung des vertraglichen ehelichen Güterrechts in der Modernisierung des ungarischen Privatrechts

Patrícia Dominika Niklai: Die Modernisierung des Volksunterrichts in Ungarn. Umsetzung des Gesetzes über den Volksunterricht im Komitat Baranya nach 1868

Orsolya Falus: The Antecedents of Civil Modernization. A Historical Example of Freedom of Religion during the Turkish Occupation in Hungary

Krisztina Korsósné Delacasse: Der Betrug in der ungarischen Strafrechtskodifikation an der Schwelle des 19. Jahrhunderts

Marian Małecki: Transformations of the Habsburg Monarchy Based on Relics of Legal Culture in Galicia

Yuko Shimada: Modernisierung der japanischen Beschäftigungspraxis. Hatte der Westen einen Einfluss darauf?

Dan Sato: Die Rechtsmodernisierung in Japan. Unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der mitteleuropäischen Einflüsse

Marcin Kwiecień: Habsburgische Verfassungsentwürfe vom Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts. Das Großherzogtum Toskana und die galizische Charta Leopoldina

Kinga Császár: The Constitutional Rights of Women and the Objectives of the Hungarian Women’s Movements (1867 – 1918) 

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BOOK: Karen O’BRIEN, Petitioning for Land: The Petitions of First Peoples of Modern British Colonies (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018). ISBN 9781350010703, $129.60

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Bloomsbury is publishing a book on petitions for land by First People in British colonies.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Petitioning for Land is the first book to examine the extent of First Peoples political participation through the use of petitions. Interpreting petitions as a continuous form of political articulation, Karen O'Brien considers petitioning for recognition of prior land ownership as a means by which to locate First Peoples petitioning for change within the broader narrative of historical and contemporary notions of justice.

The book follows the story of First Peoples' activism and shows how they actively reform discourse to disseminate a self-determined reality through the act of petitioning. It discloses how, through the petition, First Peoples reject colonialism, even whilst working within its confines. In a reconfiguration of discourse, they actively convey a political or moral meaning to re-emerge in a self-determined world. Taking a socio-legal and historical approach to petitioning, the book questions the state domination of First Peoples, and charts their political action against such control in the quest for self-determination.

By uniquely focusing on the act of petitioning, which places First Peoples aspirants centre-stage, O'Brien presents fresh and innovative perspectives concerning their political enterprise. From early modern colonial occupation to contemporary society, the hundreds of petitions that called for change are uncovered in Petitioning for Land, shedding new light on the social and political dynamics that drove the petitions.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Karen O'Brien is Senior Lecturer in Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Petitioning and Challenging Colonial Power
2. Petitioning for Land
3. Treatises and Petitions
4. Challenging Treatises
5. Contemporary Petitioning
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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WORKSHOP: Formation des juristes, professions judiciaires. Débats historiographiques et perspectives de recherches (France - Belgique, 19e-20e siècles) (Brussels: ULB/Sciences Po, 14 DEC 2018)

Jean-François Gerkens (Université de Liège) : L’influence de l’Ecole historique allemande : son impact sur la formation des juristes en Belgique

Marie Linos (Université libre de Bruxelles) : Intégrer le droit dans les sciences sociales : le cas de l'Encyclopaedia of the social sciences (1930-1935)

Guillaume Richard (Université Paris Descartes): Enseignement du droit et accès aux carrières administratives en France à la fin du XIXe siècle

Nathalie Tousignant (Université Saint-Louis), Sebastiaan Vandenbogaerde (Université de Gand) : L’apport des revues juridiques à la formation en droit et la professionnalisation des juristes.

Maxime Jottrand (Université libre de Bruxelles) : Une histoire de la formation des juristes en Belgique : une histoire comparée des Facultés de droit.

Catherine Fillon (Université de Lyon) : Confectionner une base de données prosopographique dédiée aux professeurs dedroit, les leçons de l’expérience SIPROJURIS

François Muller, Xavier Rousseaux (Université catholique de Louvain) : Etudier les professions judiciaires à l’ère numérique. L’apport et les défis de la plate-forme Digithemis.be.

Discutants : Kenneth Bertrams (ULB), Renaud Bardez (ULB), Margaux Elmer (ULB), Cécile Vanderpelen(ULB).

Cette journée se tiendra le vendredi 14 décembre à partir de 9h45 au Centre d'histoire du droit et d'anthropologie juridique de l'ULB, av. Jeanne 58-60 – 1050 Bruxelles (Accès :http://chdaj.ulb.ac.be/contact/). 

Renseignements : ibettens@ulb.ac.be/ 02.650.36.13

CALL FOR PAPERS: International Organizations throughout the 20th and 21st Centuries: Successes, Failures, Transformations, and Challenges - Special issue of Acta Universitatis Carolinea Studia Territorialia (Deadline: 15 January 2019)

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Via Hsozkult, we learned of a call for papers on the history of international organizations in the 20^th and 21^st century for a special issue of the Czech academic journal AUC Studia Territorialia:

The upcoming centenary of the foundation of the League of Nations and associated international bodies represents an invitation for historians, sociologists, political scientists, economists, legal experts, and anthropologists to reflect on the origins of the contemporary system of international organizations, its transformations over the past 100 years and the various challenges it faces today […]

The full call for papers can be found here  

PHD DEFENSE: Hugo BEUVANT, Les réformateurs des républiques sœurs face au modèle juridique français (1795-1806) (Rennes: Université de Rennes-1, 27 NOV 2018)

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Hi-D announced the PhD defense of Hugo Beuvant (Rennes-1) .

Jury:

M. Victor Monnier, Professeur à l’Université de Genève; Mme Karen Fiorentino, Professeur à l’Université de Bourgogne; M. Jacques Bouineau, Professeur à l’Université de La Rochelle; M. Fred Stevens, Professeur émérite de l’Université catholique de Louvain; M. Francesco Di Donato, Professeur à l’Université Parthénope de Naples; M. Sylvain Soleil, Professeur à l’Université de Rennes 1, directeur de thèse

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CALL FOR PAPERS: The Legacy of the League of Nations, Leicester Law School, 31 January 2019 (DEADLINE: 30 November 2018)

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We learned of a call for papers on the League of Nations at Leicester Law School. Here the call:

We invite proposals of early career researchers for papers to the conference ‘The Legacy of the League of Nations’ to be held at Leicester Law School on 31 January 2019.

We welcome submissions that engage with various aspects of the work of the League of Nations. 

Doctrinal and interdisciplinary papers are equally welcome.

Possible topics for the conference include, but are not limited to:

• The League of Nations and the theory of sources of international law
• The legacy of the Permanent Court of International Justice
• The past, present and future of collective security
• The League of Nations and the protection of refugees
• The League of Nations and the development of international organisations law
• The Covenant and the Charter: the seeds of international constitutionalism?
• Rethinking the United Nations in the twenty-first century: lessons learnt from the League of Nations’ experience and proposals for the future

Confirmed speakers

• Professor William Schabas (Middlesex University)
• Professor Jean d’Aspremont (University of Manchester)
• Professor Nicholas Tsagourias (University of Sheffield)
• Dr Richard Collins (University College Dublin)
• Dr Rose Sydney Parfitt (University of Kent)
• Dr Rossana Deplano (University of Leicester)

Keynote speech delivered by Professor Nigel White (Professor of International Law, University of Nottingham).

Deadline for submissions: 30 November 2018

Abstracts of 500 words should be sent via email to Dr Rossana Deplano. Abstracts must include the institutional affiliation of the author.

For more information, please see our call for papers.

The conferenceis funded by the Society of Legal Scholars (SLS).

CALL FOR PAPERS: Law, Culture and Modern Vehicles, 1820-1960, 26-28 February 2019, University of Turku (DEADLINE: 19 December 2018)

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We learned of a conference on vehicles, law and culture in the modernizing world. Here the call: 

CFP: Conference

“Law, Culture and Modern Vehicles, 1820-1960”

26-28 February 2019,

Faculty of Law, University of Turku, Finland

The technological revolution of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries gave impetus to the development of vehicles based on engines and steam. Steamboats and trains altered permanently global transport systems that until then had mostly relied on wind and animal power. Even if the velocipede required human pedalling power, it was also considered one of the technological wonders of modernity, the era of machines. As such, it heralded the coming of the automobile some decades later, while the following step was to conquer the heavens.

The technological advances in transport titillated the imagination of progressives and stimulated artists, but also inspired awe. The speed and noise of the new vehicles and the risks caused by the novel technology challenged the traditional legal systems. These could require introducing innovations into traditional fields of law. On the other hand, law could be linked to conservative ideologies and act as a factor of stability.

This conference explores many facets of vehicles, law and culture in the modernizing world. We invite twenty-minute papers on various aspects of these phenomena, e.g.:

• how modern vehicles were perceived as threats/inspiration by groups or individuals in society
• how modern vehicles influenced (legal) culture or (legal) culture vehicles 
• how risks caused by machine-driven vehicles could be minimized
• who were the influential individuals behind the vehicles/norms
• how vehicles were represented in popular culture
• how vehicle-related risks and accidents were presented in popular culture or the media
• law as tool for progressive/conservative ideologies vis-à-vis the new transport technology.

Confirmed keynote lectures will be given by Doctor Tiina Männistö-Funk (Chalmers University of Technology) and Professor Miloš Vec (University of Vienna).

Proposal Submissions and Further Information: 

For more information about the conference or to submit a proposal (about 200 words), please contact Professor Mia Korpiola (mia.korpiola[at]utu.fi, Faculty of Law, University of Turku). Participants are expected to cover their own travel expenses and lodging. The deadline for submitting paper proposals is 19 December 2018. Please feel free to share and circulate this CFP.

BOOK: William POMERANZ, Law and the Russian State: Russia’s Legal Evolution from Peter the Great to Vladimir Putin (London: Bloomsbury, 2018). ISBN 9781474224222, £76.50

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At the end of December, Bloomsbury is publishing a new book on Russian legal history from Peter the Great to Vladimir Putin.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Russia is often portrayed as a regressive, even lawless country, and yet the Russian state has played a major role in shaping and experimenting with law as an instrument of power. In Law and the Russian State, William E. Pomeranz examines Russia's legal evolution from Peter the Great to Vladimir Putin, addressing the continuities and disruptions of Russian law during the imperial, Soviet, and post-Soviet periods along the way. The book covers key themes, including:

* Law and empire

* Law and modernization

* The politicization of law

* The role of intellectuals and dissidents in mobilizing the law

* The evolution of Russian legal institutions

* The struggle for human rights

* The rule-of-law

* The quest to establish the law-based state

It also analyzes legal culture and how Russians understand and use the law. Including a useful glossary and a detailed bibliography, this is an important text for anyone seeking a sophisticated understanding of how Russian society and the Russian state have developed in the last 350 years.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

William Pomeranz is the Deputy Director of the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies of the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C., USA. In addition, Dr Pomeranz teaches Russian law at the Center for Eurasian, Russian, and East European Studies, Georgetown University, USA. He has written numerous journal articles on post-Soviet legal developments, including Russian foreign investment laws, judicial review, federalism, and corruption. He is also a frequent commentator on developments in Russia, with appearances on C-Span, Sky News, CNN, NPR, VOA, Bloomberg, and several other media networks. His editorials have appeared with Reuters, the National Interest, and CNN International.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. Law and Empire under Peter the Great

2. The Expansion of Russian Legality

3. The Judicial Reforms of 1864 and the Modernization of Russian Law

4. Law, Politics, and Revolution

5. Filling in the Blanks: The Creation of Socialist Law

6. Socialist Legality and Illegality

7. Russia's Long Constitutional Crisis: 1985-1993

8. The 1993 Constitution and Russia's Liberal Experiment

9. Vladimir Putin and the Restoration of State and Law

Conclusion

Bibliography

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JOURNAL: Droits 66/1 2017/2 [Special issue: impérialisme]

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Articles:

• Annie Lacroix-Riz, Impérialisme français et partenaires dominants dans la construction européenne
• Michel Elperding, La notion de civilisation dans la pratique conventionnelle des États aux xixe et xxe siècles
• Olivier Jouanjan, Justifier l’impérialisme : Carl Schmitt et le droit des gens national-socialiste
• Robert Charvin, L’impérialisme et le devenir du droit international
• Alexis Le Barbier, Impérialisme et monnaie : de la livre sterling au dollar
• Benjamin Torterat, Miguel Angel Asturias, un écrivain face à l’impérialisme capitaliste
• Alexandre Desrameaux, Impérialisme et orientalisme dans l’œuvre d’Edward Saïd : le choc des consciences
• Sébastien Darbon, La diffusion des sports et du système sportif via l’impérialisme anglo-saxon

Other articles (outside of the special issue):

• Frédéric Charlin, Isabelle Moine-Dupuis, La « religion d’État » dans le droit pénal moderne, de l’ordre moral à la tranquillité publique
• Caroline Cohen, Autonomie de la volonté, prévisibilité et droit international privé (réflexions sur les règles permissives)
• Maël Notez, Anthropologie de l’aliéné au point de vue de la sanction pénale
• François Bonneville, Le capitalisme : fin ou moyen de l’État ?
• Marie-Aimée Bastid-Latournerie, Retour sur l’idée de primaire citoyenne

Access all the articles on CAIRN.

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PhD DEFENSE: Remi FAIVRE, Le droit de superficie. Des glossateurs aux premiers commentateurs du code civil (XIIe- XIXe siècle) (Paris: Paris II Panthéon-Assas, 16 NOV 2018)

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Dr. Rémi Faivre succesfully defended his dissertation Le droit de superficie. Des glossateurs aux premiers commentateurs du code civil (XIIe- XIXe siècle) on 16 November 2018 at the University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas.

Jury:

Laurent Pfister (directeur de thèse), Professeur à l’Université Panthéon-Assas - Paris II, Jean-Louis Halpérin (rapporteur), Professeur à l’ENS Emanuele Conte (rapporteur), Professeur à l’Université de Rome III, Aude Laquerrière-Lacroix , Professeur à l’Université de Reims Franck Roumy, Professeur à l’Université Panthéon-Assas - Paris II, Marta Peguera Poch, Professeur à l’Université de Lorraine.

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BOOK: Xavier PREVOST, Les premières lois imprimées. Étude des actes royaux imprimés de Charles VIII à Henri II (1483-1559) [Mémoires et documents de l’École des chartes] (Paris: Ecole des Chartes, 2018), 340 p. ISBN 9782357231009, € 34

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Book abstract:

L’affermissement du pouvoir monarchique constitue l’un des principaux facteurs de transformation du droit en France à la Renaissance, notamment à travers la promulgation croissante de lettres patentes, qui commencent à être imprimées à l’unité à la fin du XVe siècle. Si l’initiative revient d’abord aux imprimeurs-libraires, les institutions monarchiques s’aperçoivent rapidement des bénéfices d’une telle reproduction et amorcent la régulation de ce marché par l’attribution de privilèges de librairie. La protection ainsi accordée se double du contrôle d’une activité qui touche à une prérogative essentielle du roi : faire loi.Outre ses effets sur le marché du livre juridique, la mise sous presse des lois royales ne reste pas sans incidence sur le processus législatif lui-même, introduisant un certain nombre d’innovations et d’expérimentations. Si le cas des originaux imprimés retient en particulier l’attention, la très grande majorité des pièces imprimées demeure néanmoins constituée de copies privées à destination d’un public de juristes et d’érudits. L’intensification de l’impression des lois à partir du règne de François Ier permet alors le développement d’un mode non institutionnel de diffusion et de conservation grâce à la formation de collections d’actes royaux imprimés, qui constituent encore aujourd’hui une ressource inépuisable pour la connaissance de la législation monarchique.Tout en offrant un panorama des textes législatifs, cette histoire matérielle de la loi à l’aube de l’État moderne dévoile ainsi des aspects méconnus des formes du droit par le recours à l’histoire du livre.

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CONFERENCE REGISTRATION: Joseph-Marie Portalis (1778-1858): Diplomate, magistrat et législateur (Paris: Court of Cassation/Council of State, 13-14 DEC 2018)

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The organizers of the Conference on Joseph-Marie Portalis (1778-1858): Diplomate, magistrat et législateur, to be held in the Parisian Court of Cassation and Council of State on 13 and 14 December, communicate that the registration has now been moved to the website of the Court of Cassation (www.courdecassation.fr > Événements > Colloques > Colloques ouverts à inscription > Décembre 2018) and the Council of State (click here).

BOOK: Stanislas HORVAT, Belgian Courts-Martial. Prosecution of Military Law Offences during World War (Brussels: ASP/VUBPress, 2018), 404 p. ISBN 9789057188305, € 34,95

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Book abstract:

This publication is the first in-depth study of the Belgian military court during World War I. Martial law application and procedures are described in detail and evaluated on the basis of a comprehensive study of previously unexamined archive documents from the Attorney General's Office and the Military Court, including more than 300 Attorney General's circulars, about 5,500 judgments and nearly 1,000 Military Court cases. Criminal procedure, from inquiry to execution, is fully explained through statutes, jurisprudence, circulars and a large number of scientific publications. Martial law practice and its significance for the soldiers are briefly presented and analysed through a number of key questions addressing the language issue and social relations in the army, but also the legal impact of the war, the roles played by military authorities, the relationship between armed forces, etc. This volume contains an enlightening study for all those who want an insight into the prosecution of the military law crimes during World War I.

On the author:

Dr. Stanislas Horvat is professor and head of the Chair of Law at the Belgian Royal Military Academy and affiliated researcher at the Faculty of Law and Criminology of the Free University of Brussels (Vrije Universiteit Brussel). He is member of the board of directors and director of publications of the International Society for Military Law and the Law of War, member of the managing board of the Belgian Military Law and the Law of War Centre and secretary of the Scientific Committee of Legal History of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts. 

 More information here.
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OBITUARY: Yasuaki ONUMA (+ 16 OCT 2018)

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Professor Yasuaki ONUMA (University of Tokyo), an acclaimed and worldwide appreciated scholar of international law, has left us three weeks ago. Dr Aiko Nakai (Kyoto University) was so kind as to compose the following obituary, recalling his major works:

Yasuaki ONUMA, professor emeritus of the University of Tokyo, passed away of cancer on October 16. Born in Yamagata. Author of A Transcivilizational Perspective on International Law (Brill (Pocket Books of the Hague Academy of International Law, 2010), Le droit international et le Japon: Une vision trans-civilisationnelle du monde (Pedone, 2016), International Law in a Transcivilizational World (Cambridge University Press, 2017), etc. Editor of A Normative Approach to War: Peace, War, and Justice in Hugo Grotius (Clarendon Press,1993). 

Professor Onuma also contributed lectures to the UN Audiovisual Library of International Law. These lectures remain on the internet and are accessible through Youtube.

(source: ESILHIL Blog).

BOOK: Olivier DEVAUX and Florent GARNIER, Le livre d’or de la faculté de droit de Toulouse (Paris: LGDJ, 2018). ISBN 978-2-36170-181-9, € 20.00

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LGDJ has published the University of Toulouse Faculty of Law’s livre d’or (on World War I)

ABOUT THE BOOK

Dès les premiers temps de la Grande Guerre, le nombre de morts au combat et de disparus est considérable. De multiples institutions entreprennent d'en dresser progressivement la liste et, à la fin du conflit, seront publiés des Livres d'or destinés à honorer, au même titre que les monuments aux morts, la mémoire de ceux qui se sont sacrifiés.

La Faculté de droit de Toulouse a participé à ce mouvement avec pour ambition première d'y faire figurer non seulement ceux de ses étudiants et anciens étudiants qui avaient perdu la vie, mais aussi leurs camarades survivants dès lors qu'ils avaient été blessés. La notice consacrée à chacun d'eux devait aussi être accompagnée d'une photographie. Mais son Livre d'or, qui n'existe qu'en un seul exemplaire, n'a jamais été publié.

Les auteurs, s'appuyant essentiellement sur des documents d'archives, en même temps qu'ils retracent la procédure d'élaboration de ce document et présentent des extraits de lettres de combattants ou de leurs parents, ont eu pour ambition de combler cette lacune en enrichissant les notices établies, il y a un siècle, par les autorités de la Faculté.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Olivier DEVAUX est Professeur d'Histoire du droit et des institutions à l'Université Toulouse Capitole, auteur de nombreux ouvrages et articles

Florent GARNIER est Professeur d'Histoire du droit et des institutions à l'Université Toulouse Capitole. Il mène des recherches dans les Institutions urbaines médiévales, la fiscalité au Moyen Âge (droits savants et pratique), la doctrine commerciale (XIXe-XXe s.), la norme et le droit du patrimoine culturel.

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