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10 July 2026

BOOK: Luigi LACCHÈ (ed.), Dal diritto della salute al diritto alla salute Storia, istituzioni, problemi della sanità in Italia tra Otto e Novecento (Roma: Viella Editrice, 2026). ISBN: 9791257012168, pp. 580, 9791257012168

 

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Abstract:

Il volume offre in maniera organica e coordinata un’immagine complessiva e interdisciplinare del diritto sanitario tra Otto e Novecento. Il diritto alla salute si compone anche del diritto della salute, ovvero di quel vastissimo insieme di principî, norme di rango diverso, prassi e procedure che reggono e conformano l’ordinamento sanitario. La ricerca ha inteso indagare perché e come il diritto sanitario ha svolto quello che si potrebbe definire un ruolo “costituente” in grado di disciplinare, organizzare e tutelare il bene salute dal periodo di formazione e di sviluppo dello Stato italiano sino all’età contemporanea. È una storia che – di fronte ad una sanità pubblica che rischia da tempo di essere depotenziata – ci ricorda quanto lungo e difficile sia stato il cammino per edificare e consolidare un’idea di sanità pubblica democratica e solidale.


About the editor:

Luigi Lacchè is Full Professor of Legal History at the Department of Law of the University of Macerata


Table of contents:

Luigi Lacchè, Introduzione

    • I. La formazione del diritto sanitario tra Otto e Novecento
    • Stefano Villamena, I regolamenti comunali di igiene: dalla legge sulla unificazione del Regno agli sviluppi successivi
    • Roberta Braccia, Maura Fortunati, I “codici” senza un codice. L’apporto della dottrina alla sistemazione della normativa in ambito sanitario a fine Ottocento
    • Floriana Colao, Una scienza per la «sanità pubblica». Dagli scritti di diritto amministrativo di Vittorio Emanuele Orlando al «trattato» di Federico Cammeo e Cino Vitta
    • Luigi Lacchè , Silvio Lessona e lo sviluppo del diritto sanitario «da un punto di vista scientifico e sistematico»
    • Raffaella Bianchi Riva, Il medico condotto nella giurisprudenza dall’età liberale al fascismo. L’assistenza sanitaria territoriale tra interesse generale e interessi professionali
    • Daniele Colonna, Alle radici dello Stato sociale: la fondazione dell’infortunistica e il contributo di Lorenzo Borri
  • II. Istituzioni, saperi e spazi della sanità tra Otto e Novecento
    • Lorenzo Sinisi, Da Genova all’Italia: il contributo ligure al riordinamento del servizio sanitario marittimo nel Regno di Sardegna dalla Restaurazione all’Unità
    • Giuseppe Mecca, L’assistenza ospedaliera da Crispi al fascismo, tra beneficenza e intervento pubblico
    • Ronald Car, Salvare l’individuo o la nazione? Influenza istituzionale, professionale e ideologica della scienza medica tedesca sulle politiche sanitario-epidemiologiche di Crispi
    • Davide Rossi, Come un giano bifronte. I primi passi della Croce Rossa Italiana tra sanità civile e sanità militare
    • Filippo Rossi, Tra abusi e silenzi. Casi e dibattiti sulla professione ostetrica tra età liberale e fascismo
    • Marco Castelli, “I due rami essenziali”: la collocazione del servizio pubblico veterinario tra tutela della salute pubblica e sostegno della produzione
    • Monica Stronati, Un’altra idea di salute? Le società di mutuo soccorso tra Otto e Novecento
    • Ninfa Contigiani, La “salute” della città: le trasformazioni degli spazi urbani. Tra soluzioni tecnico-giuridiche di riparazione e progettazioni ideali nell’Italia liberale
    • Gabriel Faustino Santos , La riforma del 1904 tra diritti e autorità: alle basi di un nuovo modello di amministrazione sanitaria nel Brasile repubblicano
  • III. Il diritto alla salute e la sanità in età repubblicana
    • Claudia Storti, La salute nei lavori del Ministero per la Costituente
    • Donatella Morana, Giulio Enea Vigevani, La tutela della salute nell’ordinamento repubblicano: le scelte innovative della Costituente e il laborioso percorso della loro attuazione
    • Enrico Daly, Le riforme mancate delle casse mutue nell’immediato dopoguerra e il neocorporativismo repubblicano
    • Riccardo Ferrante, Legislazione di lotta e di riforma. Dibattito politico e cultura giuridica dalla “legge manicomiale” (n. 36 del 1904) alla “legge Basaglia” (n. 180 del 1978) e oltre
    • Marco Cecili, Il concetto di sanità pubblica nel diritto italiano: una lettura diacronica del bene “salute”
  • IV. Sanità, istituzioni e tutela penale della salute
    • Elio Romano Belfiore , Responsabilità del sanitario e delitti contro la sanità pubblica nei codici penali del 1859 e del 1889
    • Andrea Raffaele Amato, L’incubo della malattia incurabile: repressione della prostituzione e governo igienico-sanitario della sifilide nell’Italia dell’Ottocento
    • Loredana Garlati, Un manicomio, un alienista, le sue perizie. L’attività di Giuseppe Antonini: prime note
    • Marco Nicola Miletti, Tra salute e sicurezza: un profilo storico della sanità carceraria nell’Italia contemporanea
    • Paolo Rondini, La tutela dell’igiene degli alimenti e dei farmaci nell’Italia liberale e fascista
    • Andrea Di Landro, La colpa penale nel settore sanitario: un’analisi comparata col mondo anglosassone
    • Carlo Ruga Riva, La nascita del diritto penale ambientale
  • Indice dei nomi

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BOOK: Patrick CHARLOT, Nathalie DROIN, Delphine ESPGNO-ABADIE & Anne-Sophie CHAMBOST (dir.), Le socialisme par le droit (fin XIXe-début XXe siècle) [Contextes. Culture du droit, ed. Anne-Sophie CHAMBOST] (Paris: La Mémoire du Droit, 2026), € 47

 

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Abstract:

Comment « abolir la misère par une réforme du droit » ? Cette définition surprenante du socialisme, proposée en 1897 par Charles Andler, ouvre sur une voie méconnue de la pensée sociale : le socialisme juridique. Loin des révolutions violentes et des transformations économiques radicales, ce courant intellectuel mise sur l’État et ses instruments juridiques pour parvenir à la justice sociale. Cet ouvrage collectif explore un moment charnière de l’histoire des idées, ces « années électriques » du tournant du XXe siècle où socialistes et juristes français découvrent, souvent à travers l’œuvre d’Anton Menger, que le droit peut devenir un levier de transformation sociale. Des balbutiements avec les jugements du « bon juge » Magnaud et les travaux de la première Internationale socialiste, aux vives réactions suscitées par cette approche réformiste, jusqu’à l’examen de sa postérité, l’enquête révèle une richesse théorique largement oubliée. Réunissant historiens du droit et spécialistes de la pensée socialiste, cette recherche collective restitue un pan méconnu de la culture intellectuelle française et interroge la capacité du droit à porter un projet de société. Elle éclaire d’un jour nouveau les débats contemporains sur le rôle de l’État social et la portée transformatrice des normes juridiques.

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CLH ARTICLE: Lukasz Jan KORPOROWICZ, The Polish Blackstone: an examination of nineteenth-century Polish scholars’ interpretations of Blackstone and his Commentaries (Comparative Legal History, XIV (2026), nr. 1, pp. 73-96) [OPEN ACCESS]

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Abstract:
The principal goal of this article is to address the reception of William Blackstone's legal thought and the awareness of his contributions within the context of nineteenth-century Polish legal scholarship. Despite the considerable differences between English and Polish legal traditions, the limited proficiency in the English language within Poland, and the relatively gradual evolution of Polish legal thought, Blackstone's works were acknowledged by academic circles in Poland in the nineteenth century. Over time, this awareness manifested in direct engagement with certain aspects of Blackstone's perspectives. Nonetheless, the temporal disparity between Blackstone's period of influence and the evolution of legal scholarship in partitioned Poland significantly limited the practical opportunities for the integration and application of Blackstonian jurisprudence.

To read the article, please click here. The article is available in open access; the full issue is freely accessible online to members of the European Society for Comparative Legal History.

DOI: /10.1080/2049677X.2026.2671597


09 July 2026

BOOK: Xavier PRÉVOST, Rafael RAMIS BARCELÒ, Luigi Alberto SANCHI (eds.), Qu’est-ce que l’humanisme juridique? - Che cos’è l’umanesimo giuridico? - ¿Qué es el humanismo jurídico? (Madrid: Dykinson, 2026). ISBN: 979-13-7047-310-5, 202 p. [OPEN ACCESS]






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Abstract:

El presente libro tiene como objetivo responder a una pregunta fundamental: ¿Qué es el humanismo jurídico? Tras la introducción de Xavier Prévost y Luigi Alberto Sanchi, se recogen las reflexiones de Patrick Arabeyre, Mario Ascheri, Diego Quaglioni, Italo Birocchi, Wouter Druwé y Rafael Ramis Barceló, quienes abordan las cuestiones esenciales desde una amplia perspectiva europea. A continuación, se presentan, como estudios de caso, dos traducciones al francés —realizadas por Philippe Cocatre Zilgien y Théo Crea— de obras de dos célebres humanistas: François Douaren y Eguiner Baron. The present book seeks to answer a fundamental question: What is legal humanism? Following the introduction by Xavier Prévost and Luigi Alberto Sanchi, the volume brings together contributions by Patrick Arabeyre, Mario Ascheri, Diego Quaglioni, Italo Birocchi, Wouter Druwé and Rafael Ramis Barceló, who address the essential issues from a broad European perspective. The book then offers, as case studies, two French translations—prepared by Philippe Cocatre Zilgien and Théo Crea—of works by two renowned humanists: François Douaren and Eguiner Baron.

Table of contents:

Introduction / Xavier Prévost, Luigi Alberto Sanchi (pp. 9-18). -- De quoi le bartolisme est-il le nom? / Patrick Arabeyre (pp. 19-40). -- Umanesimo giuridico e crisi del diritto comune / Mario Ascheri (pp. 41-50). -- Umanesimo giuridico e senso della tradizione / Diego Quaglioni, Saxum Sysyphi (pp. 51-62). -- Il problema della definizione dell’umanesimo giuridico: uno specchio per lo storico del diritto / Italo Birocchi (pp. 63-82). -- L’humanisme juridique dans le contexte des Pays-Bas méridionaux / Wouter Druwé (pp. 83-98). -- El humanismo jurídico: definición, etapas y categorías para su estudio / Rafael Ramis-Barceló (pp. 99-134). -- François Douaren, De docendi discendique iuris ratione (1544) : proposition de traduction / Philippe Cocatre-Zilgien (pp. 135-194). -- La préface De ratione docendi discendique iuris civilis, ad iuventutem écrite par Eguiner Baron / Théo Crea (pp. 195-202)

More information and open access PDF available here

BOOK: Ignazio ALESSI & Gavino SCALA (eds.), Law and Literature. An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Medieval Texts [Interdisciplinary Studies in Medieval Legal Sources, ed. Ignazio ALESSI; 1] (Turnhout: Brepols, 2026), 243 p. ISBN 9782503620343, € 80

 

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Abstract:

Throughout history, law and literature have always been in constant dialogue, sharing significant connections and exerting mutual influences. Both are artificial creations, products of human imagination that use language and metaphors to build meanings and shape the world around us. In the Middle Ages, the proximity of these two genres is even more pronounced. This is not only because many literary figures were also jurists, but also because medieval legal texts can be classified as a distinct literary genre known as ‘legal literature’. Additionally, medieval jurists did not hesitate to draw upon literary texts, understood as genuine sources of law (‘auctoritates morales’), to fill gaps in their legal knowledge. The contributions collected in this volume examine precisely this intersection between law and literature in medieval literary and legal texts. The volume follows four axes: law in literature, law as literature, literature in law, and literature as Law. The volume aims to raise awareness of the proximity of two apparently distant worlds and to provide a perspective for interdisciplinary analysis that transcends traditional rigid barriers.

Table of contents: 

Foreword Sara MENZINGER Introduction Ignazio ALESSI and Gavino SCALA ‘Par bataille ou par juise’. Ordeal by Combat in Thirteenth-Century Arthurian Prose Romances Claudio LAGOMARSINI La fiction judiciaire amoureuse (XIIe-XVe s.). Enjeux procéduraux Cassandre CRESPIN (Don’t) call me by your name. Lexical Gleanings of Droit Non Marta MILAZZO Procès du loup, procès de l’homme. La justice dans ‘Le valet aus douze femes’ Federico NOVELLO Le meurtre de Lancelot Ier dans la fin particulière des témoins Paris, Ars. 3348 et New Haven, Beineke Library, MS 227 de l’Estoire del Saint Graal. Une vendetta à l'épreuve du droit féodal Davide NOVATI Acoustic Effects and Kinesic Imagination in Archbishop Wulfstan of York’s Legal Writing Chen CUI Exploring Legal and Linguistic Dimensions in Late Medieval English Jurisprudence. William Lyndwood’s Provinciale and Inheritance Practices Matthew CLEARY Conclusions. Literature as a Field of Legal Experimentation Noëlle-Laetitia PERRET and Adrien WYSSBROD

On the editors:

Ignazio Alessi is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge, and a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Trinity Hall. He holds a joint Ph.D. in legal history from the EHESS in Paris and the University of Palermo. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the Universities of Fribourg and Geneva, and a visiting scholar at the Centre Relais Culture Europe in Paris and at Wolfson College, University of Oxford. Gavino Scala is a postdoctoral researcher at University of Geneva. He has a joint Ph.D. in Romance Philology at University of Siena and University of Zurich. He was postdoctoral researcher at University of Fribourg (CH).

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08 July 2026

CALL FOR PAPERS: Oral sources and Non-traditional legal sources [45th Annual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Law and History Society] (Christchurch, New Zealand: University of Canterbury, 3-5 DEC 2026) [DEADLINE 20 JUL 2026]

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Dates:  3 – 5 December 2026

Location: The University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

Conference theme: ‘Oral sources and Non-traditional legal sources’

Legal historians have traditionally looked to cases, statutes, and juristic literature. Yet the history of law has never been confined to such conventional legal sources. The use of oral sources and non-traditional materials raise important methodological questions for legal historians: what counts as a legal source? and how might law and history be written differently?

The 2026 conference theme invites consideration of oral sources and non-traditional legal sources, in every sense, in the context of law and history. Some conference streams will focus specifically on oral sources, including oral testimony, oral history, memory, storytelling, folklore, and intergenerational transmission. The theme invites participants to reconsider the sources of law and history.

Oral sources are especially important for histories of Indigenous law. We invite papers on tikanga Māori, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander customary law, and practices grounded in kinship, place, obligation, authority, and procedure. Such work may examine how colonial legal systems have misunderstood, appropriated, suppressed, or transformed Indigenous legal knowledge.

The conference also invites engagement with non-traditional legal sources more broadly, including newspapers, petitions, letters, council decisions, archival records, folklore, family histories, demographic material, and socio-economic data. Newspapers, for example, were forums in which trials were reported, in which the reputations of parties could be sensationalised, and by which communities could engage with the law. In essence, newspapers and other non-traditional sources can illuminate how law was experienced in everyday life.

This conference invites participants to explore oral and non-traditional legal sources. Themes may include: the challenges of using oral and non-traditional sources; customary law; the relationship between memory and the law; and the role of non-traditional sources to explore law and society.

Papers are welcome from all periods, jurisdictions, disciplines, and methodological approaches. We also welcome papers that are outside of the conference theme.

This conference is a co-hosted event supported by Monash University and the University of Canterbury.

Call for Paper Guidelines

On behalf of ANZLHS, the Conference Organising Committee cordially invites papers from any period or geographical area, and from all disciplines and fields, including but not limited to law, legal theory, history, political science, indigenous studies, gender studies and law and literature.

Papers are invited on any topic, but the conference organisers particularly welcome abstracts addressing the conference theme of ‘Oral Sources and Non-Traditional Legal Sources’.

Please note presenters must be members of ANZLHS before their papers are presented. You can join or renew here: https://anzlhs.org/join-us/.

An Early Career Researcher (ECR) session will be held on Thursday 3 December 2026. Details will follow.

If you are an ECR, please indicate your interest in attending the session when submitting your abstract. Graduate students may apply for Kercher Scholarships to support their attendance at the conference. Please contact the Organising Committee at anzlhs2026@gmail.com by Monday 6 July 2026 to express interest in this scholarship. Graduate students and other ECRs may also wish to enter for the Forbes Society Prize (see https://anzlhs.org/francis-forbes-society-for-australian-legal-history-annual-prize/). Please notify the conference conveners of your intention to apply for the scholarship at the time of submitting your abstract.

The Society’s peer-reviewed journal law&history (see https://anzlhs.org/journal/) will consider submissions from those who present papers at the conference.

Registration details and accommodation options in Christchurch will follow.

Abstracts should be no more than 300 words and should be accompanied by a short biography (100 words). Panel submissions are also warmly encouraged. Submissions should be sent to anzlhs2026@gmail.com.

We look forward to receiving your abstracts by Monday 20 July 2026. Acceptances will be communicated by 17 August 2026.

AWARD: Honorary Doctorate for Prof. em. dr. Jean-Louis HALPÉRIN (ENS Paris) (Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh, 8 JUL 2026)

 

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The University of Edinburgh decided to award an honorary doctorate to Prof. em. dr. Jean-Louis HALPÉRIN (ENS Paris). The ceremony took place on 8 July 2026.

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CALL FOR PAPERS: „Junge Juristen entlang der Donau" - Rechtsvergleichende Konferenz zwischen den Donauregionen, Győr, 16-18. November 2026, Deadline for applications: 25. August 2026

 


Call for papers – Aufruf zur Einreichung von Beiträgen

„Junge Juristen entlang der Donau“
Rechtsvergleichende Konferenz zwischen den Donauregionen
Győr, 16.–18. November 2026

Veranstaltungsort:
Széchenyi István Universität Győr

Organisatoren:
Deák Ferenc Fakultät für Staats- und Rechtswissenschaften der Széchenyi Universität Győr, Magyar-Német Ifjúságért Egyesület – Deutsch-Ungarisches Jugendwerk e.V., Institut für Ostrecht

Partner:
Universität Regensburg, Universität Passau, Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften Hof, Universität Augsburg, Universität Wien, Andrássy Universität Budapest, Deutsch-Ungarischer Jugendrat

Das Deutsch-Ungarische Jugendwerk hat letztes Jahr das erste Deutsch-Ungarische Jugendparlament veranstaltet. Dieses Jugendparlament hat sich u.a. die Realisierung eines juristischen Forschungsprojekts für Jugendliche entlang der Donau zum Ziel gesetzt. Das Jugendwerk möchte dieses Vorhaben mit den Partneruniversitäten Regensburg, Augsburg, Passau, Wien, Győr und der Andrássy Universität Budapest sowie der Hochschule Hof und dem vom Jugendwerk gegründeten Deutsch-Ungarischen Jugendrat verwirklichen und so junge Rechtsstudierende zusammenbringen, um gemeinsam ein Verständnis für die verwandten Rechtssysteme zu erarbeiten.

Die Rechtsordnungen Deutschlands, Österreichs und Ungarns teilen gemeinsame europäische Ideen und Wurzeln, weisen jedoch in ihrer Struktur und der aktuellen rechtspolitischen Dynamik deutliche Unterschiede auf. Diese Unterschiede werden in der öffentlichen Debatte häufig diskutiert, während ein direkter fachlicher Austausch zwischen jungen Studierenden bislang nur vereinzelt stattfand. Insbesondere mit Blick auf gesamteuropäische Herausforderungen besteht ein wachsender Bedarf an Verständnis für die jeweiligen Systeme sowie an rechtsvergleichender Expertise. Diese rechtsvergleichende Konferenz bietet eine multilaterale Plattform, um einen strukturierten und wissenschaftlich fundierten Austausch zu ermöglichen.

In diesem Rahmen können unter Anleitung der fachlichen Experten und Expertinnen mehrere Rechtssysteme der Vergleichenden Rechtswissenschaft erarbeitet und nachvollzogen werden. Dadurch sollen außerdem die rechtsvergleichenden Kompetenzen der Teilnehmenden gestärkt sowie eine zukünftige Netzwerk-Plattform geboten werden.

Ziel der Organisatoren ist auch die spätere wissenschaftliche Veröffentlichung der Ergebnisse der Konferenz. Damit dient die Veranstaltung nicht nur als fachliches Treffen, sondern auch als Ausgangspunkt einer längerfristigen wissenschaftlichen Zusammenarbeit und eines jungen Juristennetzwerks.

Die Organisatoren halten es für wichtig, den wissenschaftlichen Dialog durch die Einbeziehung von Vertretern verschiedener wissenschaftlicher Disziplinen und geografischer Regionen, die mit dem breiten Thema in Verbindung stehen, zu stärken. Dabei ist es ein wesentliches Ziel, auch den interdisziplinären Austausch zu fördern und Perspektiven aus verschiedenen Rechtsgebieten, der Politik sowie den benachbarten Disziplinen zu eröffnen.

Das Programm der Konferenz baut auf thematischen Sektionen auf, in denen die jungen Teilnehmenden ihre Forschungen in Form von Kurzvorträgen präsentieren können.

Ausgewählte Schwerpunktthemen – Titel der Sektionen

  1. Welchen Rahmen setzen die Verfassungen für die internationale Kooperation entlang der Donau?
    – Prof. Dr. Dr. Herbert Küpper, Andrássy Universität Budapest, Institut für Ostrecht (Regensburg)
  2. In der Tradition des ius commune: vom römischen Recht zum heutigen Privatrecht in Europa.
    – Prof. Dr. Sebastian Martens, Universität Passau
  3. Die Grenzen der Plattformregulierung in der Europäischen Union – ein ausgewogenes Verhältnis zwischen Meinungsfreiheit, Marktmacht sowie digitaler Verantwortung und Souveränität.
    – Prof. Dr. Beatrix Weber, Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften Hof
  4. Gleiche Regeln, unterschiedliche Gesellschaften: die Umsetzung der UN-völkerrechtlichen Konventionen in verschiedenen Ländern.
    – Dr. László Knapp, Széchenyi István Universität Győr
  5. Strafe vs. Entrechtung – Rechte des Gefangenen im Strafvollzug, in Geschichte und Gegenwart.
    – Prof. Dr. Arnd Koch, Universität Augsburg
  6. Minderheitenrecht mit besonderer Berücksichtigung des Rechtsstatus von Vertriebenen in Ungarn und in Deutschland nach dem II. Weltkrieg.
    – Prof. Dr. Miloš Vec, Universität Wien

Wir sind auf der Suche nach Beiträgen, die sich aus möglichst vielfältigen fachlichen Blickwinkeln heraus den Sektionsthemen nähern. Das geplante Forschungssymposium bietet Gelegenheit, aktuelle Forschungsarbeiten zu den Themenfeldern der jeweiligen Sektionen zu präsentieren und zu diskutieren.

Teilnahmebedingungen

Der Aufruf zur Einreichung von Abstracts richtet sich an Studierende und junge Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler, die am Anfang ihrer akademischen Karriere stehen. So freuen wir uns auf Einreichungen von Studierenden und Promovierenden zwischen 18 und 35 Lebensjahren.

Für die Vorträge sind jeweils Zeitfenster von 15–20 Minuten vorgesehen, den Vorträgen folgt eine fachliche Diskussion. Die Präsentationen finden auf Deutsch statt. (Wir bieten ungarischen Muttersprachlern die Möglichkeit, komplexe Fragen mithilfe eines Übersetzers zu beantworten.)

Anschließend ist eine Publikation in Form einer wissenschaftlichen Studie (25.000–40.000 Zeichen) geplant, die die Konferenzergebnisse zusammenfasst.

Die Veröffentlichungen werden voraussichtlich in den folgenden Fachzeitschriften erscheinen:

  • Studien des Instituts für Ostrecht
  • Schriftenreihe der Universität Győr
  • Hofer Schriften zum Recht in Nachhaltigkeit, Compliance und IT (Sektion 3)

Geplanter Ablauf (Stand 08.07.2026, Änderungen vorbehalten)

Montag, 16.11.2026

  • am Nachmittag individuelle Anreise der Teilnehmer
  • anschließend Stadtführung und Get-together (VIP-Abendessen)

Dienstag, 17.11.2026

  • 10:00–10:30 Uhr: Begrüßung
  • 10:30–11:30 Uhr: Keynotes – Eröffnende wissenschaftliche Vorträge
    • Dr. Márta Görög, Justizministerin von Ungarn (angefragt)
    • Georg Eisenreich MdL, Staatsminister der Justiz (angefragt)
  • 12:00–13:30 Uhr: Mittagspause
  • 13:30–17:30 Uhr: Vorträge der jungen Studierenden und Promovierenden sowie Austausch in den jeweiligen Sektionen

Mittwoch, 18.11.2026

  • am Vormittag individuelle Abreise der Teilnehmer

Unterkunft, Verpflegung und Reisekosten

Für Unterkunft und Verpflegung während der Konferenz ist gesorgt. Die Reisekosten werden nach der Konferenz erstattet und können in folgender Höhe übernommen werden:

  • Teilnehmende aus Deutschland: bis maximal 250 €
  • Teilnehmende aus Österreich: bis maximal 100 €
  • Teilnehmende aus Ungarn: bis maximal 25 €

Wir empfehlen ausdrücklich die Anreise mit nachhaltigen Verkehrsmitteln wie Zug oder Fernbus. Wir können leider keine Kostenerstattung bei der Anreise mit dem Auto übernehmen.

Bitte beachten Sie außerdem, dass der Abschluss einer ausreichenden Kranken-, Haftpflicht- und Unfallversicherung sowie die Gültigkeit der benötigten Ausweisdokumente (Personalausweis/Reisepass) in der Verantwortung der Teilnehmenden liegen.

Bewerbung

Bitte senden Sie bis zum 25. August 2026 ein Abstract (max. 500 Wörter, Kurzbeschreibung des Forschungsprojekts und thematische Zuordnung zu einem der genannten Schwerpunkte) sowie eine kurze Biografie (max. 100 Wörter) an die E-Mail-Adresse:

donaukonf@sze.hu

Eine Rückmeldung über die Teilnahme erfolgt bis Mitte September.

Wir freuen uns auf interessante Vortragsideen und darauf, Sie im Herbst 2026 in Győr begrüßen zu können. Bei Rückfragen zur Ausschreibung stehen wir Ihnen unter donaukonf@sze.hu zur Verfügung!

Deák Ferenc Fakultät für Staats- und Rechtswissenschaften der Széchenyi Universität Győr

Magyar-Német Ifjúságért Egyesület – Deutsch-Ungarisches Jugendwerk e.V.

Institut für Ostrecht

 

NEW RESOURCE AND COMMUNITY INVITATION: Oxford Bibliographies in Legal History

 
(image: Chained books in Duke Humfrey’s Library, Bodleian Library, Oxford. Photo: Philip Opher. Source: History of the Bodleian illustrated brochure, p. 8).

Oxford University Press has launched Oxford Bibliographies in Legal History, a new online resource edited by Gautham Rao.


The project aims to provide scholars and students with authoritative guides to the central themes, methods, and literature of legal history. According to Oxford University Press, the field of legal history now encompasses not only courts, lawyers, and doctrine, but also institutions, governance, power relations, social and family relations, identities, ideology, and the lived experiences of social, religious, and cultural minorities.


Oxford Bibliographies in Legal History forms part of the broader Oxford Bibliographies platform, a curated collection of research guides that is continuously updated by a community of scholars and researchers. The Legal History module is intended to offer accessible introductions, selected bibliographies, and guidance on both classic and recent scholarship in the field.


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BOOK: Lucien RIGAUX, La solidarité en Belgique. Une histoire des mécanismes juridiques de redistribution entre personnes et territoires (Wavre: Anthémis, 2026), 660 p. ISBN 978-2-8072-1598-6, € 119

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On the author:
Pourquoi payons-nous des impôts ? Pourquoi la solidarité est-elle devenue un droit… et une obligation ? De la charité volontaire à l’État social, cet ouvrage retrace l’histoire fascinante de la solidarité en Belgique et interroge son avenir à l’heure des crises, du fédéralisme et de la mondialisation. Aux origines de nos impôts, de notre sécurité sociale et des transferts entre territoires : un principe essentiel, celui de la solidarité. Comment la Belgique est-elle passée d’un modèle de charité libre et volontaire à un régime de solidarité structuré, fondé sur des droits et des obligations ? Quels événements, quels choix politiques et économiques ont façonné notre système de redistribution entre personnes et entre territoires ? Issu d’une thèse de doctorat en droit saluée pour son originalité et la richesse de sa documentation historique, juridique et économique, cet ouvrage retrace les grandes transformations de la solidarité en Belgique, des origines aux défis contemporains. Lucien Rigaux explore les moments de ruptures – crises économiques, guerres, montée du libéralisme, revendications nationalistes – qui ont redéfini les contours de la redistribution, tout en mettant en lumière les dynamiques paradoxales qui traversent l’État belge : désintégration fédérale d’un côté, intégration européenne de l’autre. À travers une plongée passionnante dans les mécanismes fiscaux, les dispositifs de sécurité sociale et les transferts interterritoriaux, l’auteur interroge les rapports entre capacités contributives et besoins sociaux, tout en se livrant à l’exercice ambitieux de mettre en perspective la solidarité interpersonnelle et la solidarité interterritoriale. À travers l’étude des régimes de solidarité, il offre ainsi une lecture vivante et nuancée de l’histoire sociale, économique et institutionnelle de la Belgique, et surtout une réflexion plus large sur le rôle de la redistribution dans une économie de marché mondialisée où les interdépendances se renforcent, mais où persistent des défis majeurs : concurrence fiscale, soutenabilité des systèmes sociaux, replis identitaires et quête de justice sociale. Destiné aux juristes, économistes, chercheurs en sciences sociales ainsi qu’à tout lecteur curieux de comprendre les inégalités et les outils dont nos sociétés disposent pour y répondre, ce livre propose des clés précieuses pour appréhender les enjeux actuels de la solidarité et imaginer ses évolutions possibles. Au-delà des chiffres et des normes, il invite à réfléchir sur ce qui, collectivement, nous relie.

On the author:

Lucien Rigaux s'est vu décerner le Prix Joseph Hubert HELSEN en mai 2025. Plus qu'une analyse technique, son étude a été récompensée pour sa vision novatrice et son engagement en faveur du progrès humain, offrant des pistes de réforme audacieuses pour l'évolution de notre société.

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07 July 2026

BOOKS: Violet SOEN, Wouter DRUWÉ, Wim FRANCOIS & Ralph DECONINCK (eds.), Innovationes Lovanienses: Arts, Law and Theology at the University of Louvain (1425–1797) and Students, Scholars and Their Books at the University of Louvain (1425–1797) [Lectio, ed. Pieter D'HOINE/Studium Lovaniense, ed. Violet SOEN] (Turnhout: Brepols, 2026) [OPEN ACCESS]

 

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Two open access volumes on the University of Leuven/Louvain in the late Middle Ages and Early Modern Age have been published recently.

Innovationes Lovanienses: Arts, Law and Theology at the University of Louvain (1425–1797) (eds. Violet Soen, Wouter Druwé, Wim François & Ralph Deconinck)
DOI 10.1484/M.LECTIO-EB.5.145524
Abstract:

Throughout the first centuries of its existence, the University of Louvain functioned as a crossroads for the transmission of texts, ideas, and even images from Antiquity, across the Middle Ages, and through the Renaissance. From its foundational bulls between 1425 and 1432, the university was established as a prototypical studium generale, drawing inspiration from earlier institutions in Paris and Cologne and adopting elements from contemporary universities like Rostock and Geneva. Situated at the heart of Europe, the University of Louvain quickly became a pivotal center for the reception and dissemination of both ancient and contemporary knowledge across the continent, and later, the Habsburg Empire. This volume examines how teachers and students examined old and innovative ideas across various constituent bodies of the university, including the Faculty of Arts or the College of the Three Tongues, or neighboring institutions, like the Jesuit College. Contributions span the Faculties of Law, adopting insights on the newly promulgated Tridentine decrees or novel moral economies, to the Faculty of Theology, a hotbed of the controversies surrounding grace, free will, and salvation in post-Tridentine Catholicism. Of the many scholars that were active in Louvain, special attention is devoted to the philologist Petrus Nannius, the theologians Michael Baius and Jacobus Janssonius, the lawyers Petrus Peckius and Johannes Wamesius, and the Jesuits Robertus Bellarminus and Leonardus Lessius, along with the lectures they gave at the Louvain house of their Order.

Chapters

  • Innovationes Lovanienses. What Is New about the ‘Old’ University of Louvain (1425–1797)? (Violet Soen)
  • The Old and the New. Scholastic Elements in the Works of Petrus Nannius (1496–1557), Professor of the Collegium Trilingue in the First Half of the Sixteenth Century (Aline Smeesters)
  • Diagrammatic Innovations in Louvain Logic Notebooks (Seventeenth-Eighteenth Centuries) (Lorenz Demey)
  • The Role of Legal Practice in Louvain’s Legal Education (c. 1550–1650) (Wouter Druwé)
  • What Makes a Legal Commentary? . Louvain Professors on Liber Extra and Liber Sextus (Sixteenth-Eighteenth Centuries) (Piotr Alexandrowicz)
  • Teaching Canon Law after Trent. Mapping Juridical Sources in the Lectures of Petrus Peckius (1529–1589) (Ana Luiza Ferreira Gomes Silva)
  • When the Sun Stopped Setting. Louvain Lawyers & Theologians on Issues of Monopolies and Competition (1500–1670) (Wout Vandermeulen)
  • Knowledge of Nature and Scripture at the Threshold of Modernity. Michael Baius’s (1513–1589) Louvain Lecture on Romans 1 (Jarrik Van Der Biest)
  • The Internal Act of Faith in the Commentaries on the Summa theologiae. Produced in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-century Louvain (with a Comparison with Previous Iberian Commentators) (Lidia Lanza)
  • The Jesuit College and Knowledge Transmission: Robert Bellarmine’s Lectiones Louanienses (1570–1576) and the Spanish Scholastic Legal-Economic Thought (Shiri Roelofs)
  • Ex nudo Dei beneplacito. On Concord and Discord between Luis de Molina’s Concordia (1588) and Leonardus Lessius’s De gratia efficaci (1610) (C.J. (Niels) De Bruijn)
  • Vision, Love, and Joy. The Louvain Jesuit Leonard Lessius (1554–1623) on Beatitude (Patrícia Calvário)

Students, Scholars and Their Books at the University of Louvain (1425–1797) (eds. Violet Soen, Wouter Druwé, Wim François & Ralph Deconinck)
DOI 10.1484/M.LECTIO-EB.5.145522
Abstract:

Integrating prosopographical, cartographical, and book-historical data, this collective volume on the first University of Louvain (1425–1797) contributes to ongoing interdisciplinary inquiries into the intellectual productions of students, scholars, and printers in the Early Modern era. The ten contributions examine the state of the art at the University of Louvain, whose output was supported by the vibrant printing presses of the Low Countries and the continual mobility of its scholars across continental Europe. The essays first unravel the transregional circuits of Louvain’s students, scholars, and printers, built upon their geographical mobility throughout Europe. The second part explores how early modern students at Louvain created their study materials by compiling lecture notes, rearranging the contents, and binding them into codices, often adorned with drawings or printed engravings – a practice that remained prevalent until the eighteenth century. Further contributions trace the introduction of the handpress to the city of Louvain, which, beginning in 1473, brought new opportunities for producing textbooks for broader markets, as typography and physical features transformed handbook production. Louvain’s publication network was especially dense in the sixteenth century, and publication rates remained high through the eighteenth century. This volume offers new insights into the hybrid world of oral teaching, handwritten note-taking, and printed textbook production by students, scholars, and printers at one of Europe’s intellectual crossroads.

Chapters

  • From Magister Dixit to STUDIUM.AI. New Perspectives on Students, Scholars and Their Books at the University of Louvain (1425–1797) (Violet Soen)
  • Louvain Scholars on the Move. Networks and Mobility Patterns at the Early University of Louvain. An Analysis of Academic Mobility (1425–1797) (David de la Croix & Maria Vitale)
  • From Transregional Recruitment to Self-reproduction. Building a Teaching Staff at the University of Louvain in Its First Two Decades (1425–1443) (Christiaan Engberts)
  • Who’s Who in STUDIUM.AI. New Linked Data about Students, Scholars and Printers at the Early Modern University of Louvain (1425–1797) (Violet Soen Yann Ryan)
  • The Louvain Lecture Halls during Theological Controversy. The Benedictine Student Stephanus Puelincx and His Notes on the Lectures of Jacobus Janssonius (c. 1607) (Linde Van den Eede)
  • In the University Classroom. Seventeenth-century Notebooks of Arts Students at the Universities of Louvain and Leiden (1651–1700) (An Smets)
  • Drawing Practices as Learning and Recreational Processes in Louvain Student Notebooks (Seventeenth–Eighteenth Centuries) (Gwendoline de Mûelenaere)
  • Honesti et probi adolescentes. Pardon Letters and Student Violence at the Early Modern University of Louvain (Sixteenth–Seventeenth Centuries) (Gert Gielis, Luke Giraudet & Quintin Verreycken)
  • The Importance of Typography in Knowledge Transfer. The Materiality of Louvain Printed Philosophy Textbooks (1474–1562) (Dieter Cammaerts)
  • Shedding (More) Light on Sixteenth-century Mapping Practices. Pieter Pourbus’s Application of Gemma Frisius’s Triangulation Methods (Jan Trachet & Hendrik Hameeuw)
  • Integrating Library and Prosopographical Data in the Early Modern Publication Network of the University of Louvain (1501–1797) (Rossana Scebba & Margherita Fantoli)
Both books can be read in open access with Brepols

 

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SYMPOSIUM: Privacy before Privacy Law: Law and Humanities in Dialogue for a Digital Age (Copenhagen: Faculty of Theology/Centre for Privacy Studies, 25-26 JUN 2026)

 


A symposium was held at Copenhagen University on 25 and 26 June. 

Day 1: Thursday 25th June

Location: Centre for Privacy Studies, University of Copenhagen, South Campus, Karen Blixens Plads, 16, 2300 København S, Room: 6B.1.62

8.30 – 9.00

REGISTRATION AND WELCOME COFFEE

Centre for Privacy Studies

 

9.00 – 9.30

OPENING REMARKS

 

Introducing the Centre for Privacy Studies

Mette Birkedal Bruun, University of Copenhagen

 

Introducing the Symposium 

Paolo Astorri & Patrick O’Callaghan

 

9.30 – 11.00

SESSION I — PRIVACY IN MEDIEVAL AND REINASSANCE IMAGINATIONS

Chair: Bastian Felter Vaucanson, University of Copenhagen

Privacy as a Condition of Cognitive Liberty in Petrarch’s Writings  

Patrick O’Callaghan, University College Cork

The Private Autonomous Mind: Female Strategies of Inward Agency in Shakespeare’s Roman tale The Rape of Lucrece

Anni Haahr Henriksen, Kaberghus, Copenhagen

The Violation of Privacy in Renaissance Texts: A Prefiguration of Modern Challenges

Daniela Carpi, University of Verona (Online))

 

 

Coffee Break

11.00 – 11.15

 

11.15 -12.30

SESSION II — PRIVACY AND THE REFORMATIONS

Chair: Søren Frank Jensen, University of Copenhagen

 

The Space of Interiority and its Regulation in Thomas Bartholin’s Orationes

Lars Cyril Nørgaard, University of Copenhagen

Privacy in Anglo-American Law: From the Reformation to the Enlightenment

Peter Winn, University of Washington

 

 

Lunch

12.30 – 13.30

 

13.30 – 14.45

SESSION III — PRIVACY BETWEEN JURISDICTION AND CORRESPONDANCE

Chair: Ulrike Müssig, University of Passau

 

Arcana and Curiositas: Ahasver Fritsch and the Boundaries of Knowledge in Early Modern Germany

Paolo Astorri, University of Copenhagen

‘His Dearest Property’: Private Papers and Secrets in 18th Century Common Law

TT Arvind, University of York

 

 

Coffee Break

14.45 – 15.15

 

15.15 -16.00

 

08.15-09.00

(CDT)

SESSION IV — TEMPORAL CROSSINGS: PRIVACY IN TRANSITION

Chair: Johannes Ljungberg, University of Linköping

Lockean Liberalism, Religious Liberty, and the Foundations of Intellectual Privacy

Marc J. Blitz, Oklahoma City University (Online)

 

 

16.00 -16.45

CONCLUDING DAY 1

Group Discussion

 

 

Wine Reception

Centre for Privacy Studies

17.00 – 18.00

Day 2: 26th June

Location: Centre for Privacy Studies, University of Copenhagen, South Campus, Karen Blixens Plads, 16, 2300 København S, Room: 6B.1.62

8.30 – 9.00

ARRIVALS AND WELCOME COFFEE

 

09.00 – 10.15

SESSION V — PRIVACY AND THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY IMAGINATION

Chair: Lars Cyril Nørgaard, University of Copenhagen

 

Privacy Spaces in Dutch Nineteenth-Century Society: From Sara Burgerhart to Major Frans

Bert-Jaap Koops, Tilburg University

 

Reserve and Revelation: Modern Conceptions of Privacy in the Novels of Jane Austen

Róisín á Costello, Trinity College Dublin

 

 

Coffee Break

10.15 – 10.45

 

10.45 – 12.00

SESSION VI: PRIVACY, PERSONALITY, AND MODERN LAW

Chair: Patrick O’ Callaghan, University College Cork

The Rise of the Right to Private Life: Between Civil Liability and Droit D’Auteur

Giovanni Chiodi, University of Milan Bicocca (Online)

 

Dignity Reconsidered: An Analysis of its Inviolability’s Instrumentalization Ulrike Müssig, University of Passau

 

 

Lunch

12.00 – 13.0

 

13.00 – 15.45

SESSION VII: TAKING STOCK

Chair: Natalie P. Koerner, University of Copenhagen

 

Privacy and Utopian Thinking

Bart Van Der Sloot, Tilburg University

Privacy Between Past and Present

Tamar Herzog, Harvard University

General Discussion

Moderated By Paolo Astorri & Patrick O’Callaghan

 

 

Guided Excursion

Regensen Kollegium and Trinitatis Kirke

Store Kannikestræde, 2 Copenhagen

16.00 17.30

For more information, contact dr. Paolo Astorri.