(Source: Storia del diritto)
The ESCLH aims to promote comparative legal history and seeks affiliation with individuals and organisations with complementary aims.
30 September 2022
REMINDER VACANCY: Postdoc position in Legal History and Construction History (4 years - Full time) (DEADLINE: 26 October 2022)
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This vacancy fits within the framework of the EOS research project “Construction History, Above and Beyond. What History Can Do for Construction History”, directed by professors Michiel Dehaene (UGent), Dave De ruysscher (VUB, Tilburg University), Rika Devos (ULB), Johan Lagae (UGent), Stephanie Van de Voorde (VUB) and Ine Wouters (VUB). In total, 3 PhD positions and 4 postdoc positions are included in this project (the fourth postdoc mandate will be opened later in 2023). An overview of the full project and all mandates involved can be consulted on: www.vub.be/arch/project/eos.
The EOS research project will set up a dialogue (in terms of sources, methodologies, concepts and cognitive interests) between Construction History and three other fields of history, namely Colonial History, Legal History and Planning History. As such, the project sets out to strengthen the historical dimension of Construction History, while simultaneously demonstrating its relevance and potential to other fields and disciplines. The project overall concentrates on selected aspects in 19th and 20th -century building knowledge and building practice in Belgium and its former colony, with particular attention for tacit knowledge, in order to voice crucial yet underrated actors, sources and types of knowledge.
The individual trajectory of each postdoc researcher is embedded in this larger team, operating in the 3 universities (ULB, UGent and VUB). Intensive exchange and shared outcomes among team members are crucial for the success of the project. The postdoc positions are each situated in one of the 3 fields of dialogue: (1) colonial history – construction history; (2) legal history – construction history and (3) planning history – construction history.
This specific vacancy is issued by the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and engages in the dialogue between legal history and construction history. It is co-supervised by profs. Rika Devos (ULB) and Dave De ruysscher (VUB, Tilburg University).
This postdoc study focusses on the normativity of ‘implicit’ and ‘practical’ knowledge building in Belgium, during the 19th and 20th centuries. This type of knowledge is often enforced through informal rules, in many segments of society. The field of Construction History holds promising opportunities to further disentangle normativity and informal rules, as they can be enforced in the case of harm orconstruction faults. The liability of architects, contractors and even workers was tested against ‘rules of the trade’, which were rules of implicit, practical knowledge. The sources that can be used range from instructional literature to case law, in which the liability of constructors is explored. These sources shed light not only on the appraisal of ‘rules of the trade’ but also on how legal practitioners categorized ‘practical knowledge’.
The post-doc study in the dialogue between Legal History and Construction History explores the types of normativity as found in instructional literature for construction professionals. As such, this research will link up not only with recent developments in Legal History, but also engage with the larger knowledge gaps identified in this project by assessing not only the relation between different types of knowledge engaged in normativity, but also the relations between the actors involved – both professional builders and professional legal actors – and the untapped sources to assess this normativity, including their technical and legal challenges. Legal practitioners and construction practitioners produce very different types of documents, from different viewpoints, in different ‘languages’. How do they interact and integrate the insights of the other field? How can they be understood by the other field and were these sources accessible and used? Do they reflect the standard of building? How and when does practical knowledge turn into a normative set of (implicit or explicit) rules or guidelines? These issues are tested through case studies in the archives of construction companies, such as the private archives of the Blaton archives and Entreprises Louis de Waele.
The successful candidate will be based alternatingly at ULB and VUB, to allow a dynamic interaction with the team members and a full insertion in both institutions.
More information: here
BOOK: Koenraad VERBOVEN & Paul ERDKAMP (Eds.), Law and Economic Performance in the Roman World (Leiden: Brill, 2022). ISBN: 978-90-04-52512-2, €132.50
(Source: Brill)
ABOUT THE BOOK
This book offers critical analyses of the dynamic relation between legal regulations, institutions and economic performance in the Roman world. It studies how law and legal thought affected economic development, and vice versa. Inspired by New Institutional Economics scholars the past decades used ancient law to explain economic growth. There was, however, no natural selection process directing legal changes towards macro-economic efficiency. Ancient rulers and jurists modified institutions to serve or safeguard particular interests—political, social, or economic. Nevertheless both economic performance and legal scholarship peaked at unprecedented levels. These were momentous historical developments. How were they related?
ABOUT THE EDITORS
Koenraad Verboven, PhD (1998) Ghent, Professor of Ancient History at Ghent University, published extensively on ancient social and economic history, including The Economy of Friends (Latomus 2002) and The Impact of Justice on the Roman Empire (co-ed. O. Hekster, Brill 2019)
Paul Erdkamp, PhD (1998) Nijmegen, Professor of Ancient History at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, published extensively on Roman economic history, including The Grain Market in the Roman Empire (CUP 2005) and Climate and Society in Ancient Worlds (co-ed. J. Manning and K. Verboven, Palgrave 2020)
Contributors are: Ulrike Babusiaux, Alberto Dalla Rosa, Paul Erdkamp, Hernán González Bordas, Stefania Gialdroni, Sven Günther, Lina Girdvainyte, Merav Haklai, Philip Kay, Dennis Kehoe, Emilia Mataix Ferrándiz, Peter Sarris, Boudewijn Sirks, Koenraad Verboven.
More information and table of contents with the publisher.
29 September 2022
JOB: Postdoctoral Assistant Legal and Constitutional History (Wien: Universität Wien, DEADLINE 15 OCT 2022)
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The Chair for Globalisation and Legal Pluralism at the Department of Legal and Constitutional History is looking to employ a university assistant (postdoc) as soon as possible for a period of four years. The Chair’s research centres on globalisation processes in law from a historical perspective, with the aim of challenging Europe-centric narratives and putting the focus on complex dynamics of change.
Deadline: 15 October 2022
The Chair for Globalisation and Legal Pluralism at the Department of Legal and Constitutional History is looking to employ a university assistant (postdoc) as soon as possible for a period of four years. The Chair’s research centres on globalisation processes in law from a historical perspective, with the aim of challenging Europe-centric narratives and putting the focus on complex dynamics of change. The holder of the position will work in a committed team that enjoys scientific debate and exchange. The holder of the position will be expected to work on her/his own research project (with the aim of habilitation or a second book), to contribute to developing innovative teaching projects, and to independently teach courses within the Chair’s subject range.
Duration of employment: 4 year/s
Extent of Employment: 40 hours/week
Job grading in accordance with collective bargaining agreement: §48 VwGr. B1 lit. b (postdoc) with relevant work experience determining the assignment to a particular salary grade.
Job Description:
- active participation in research, teaching and administration
- developing and strengthening an independent research profile
- involvement in research projects
- international publications and presentations
- responsibility for project applications and the acquisition of third-party funding
- preparing / writing a (publication-ready) habilitation thesis or second book
- independent teaching of courses as defined by the collective agreement
- supervision of students
- participation in evaluation measures and quality assurance
- involvement in department administration as well as in teaching and research administration
Profile:
- doctoral degree/PhD in legal studies, history or social sciences
- very good knowledge of non-European legal history and corresponding methodological competence in global history
- teaching skills are desired
- high ability to express yourself both orally and in writing
- excellent command of written and spoken English, further language skills are desired
- IT user skills
- ability to work in a team
In addition, we expect the successful candidate to have:
- teaching experience / experience of working with e-learning
- experience of working on research projects
- publications in renowned, subject-relevant media
- international presentation experience
Desirable qualifications are:
- knowledge of university processes and structures
- experience abroad
- experience of supervising students
Application documents:
- letter of motivation
- academic curriculum vitae (including a list of publications, a list of courses and a list of talks given)
- description of research interests and research agenda / of the intended habilitation project (if applicable) or second book
- contact details of people who could provide a letter of reference
Research fields:
Main research field / Special research fields (Importance)
- Law: Legal history (SHOULD)
- Education: Educational institution Educational level Special subject Importance
- University Legal Sciences Legal history (SHOULD)
- University History (CAN)
- University Social Sciences (CAN)
Languages:
Language / Language level (Importance)
- German Excellent knowledge (CAN)
- English Excellent knowledge (SHOULD)
Application
Applications including a letter of motivation (German or English) should be submitted via the Job Center to the University of Vienna (http://jobcenter.univie.ac.at) no later than 15.10.2022, mentioning reference number 13506.
The University pursues a non-discriminatory employment policy and values equal opportunities, as well as diversity (http://diversity.univie.ac.at/). The University lays special emphasis on increasing the number of women in senior and in academic positions. Given equal qualifications, preference will be given to female applicants.
Human Resources and Gender Equality of the University of Vienna
Reference number: 13506
E-Mail: jobcenter@univie.ac.at
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Kontakt
For further information please contact:
Judith Wolfframm
Tel.: +431-4277-34591
E-Mail: judith.wolfframm@univie.ac.at
Lena Foljanty
Tel.: +431-4277-34590
(source: Forum Historiae Iuris; from HSozKult)
ARTICLE: Raúl MORENO-ALMENDRAL, "Independence and Constitution: The Spanish Nationalization of Personal Experience During the Peninsular War and its Aftermath" (European History Quarterly LII (2022), nr. 4, 699-719)
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Abstract:
The deconstruction of the ?War of Independence? (1808?1814) as a Spanish nationalist myth was a necessary step in advancing our knowledge of the history of the Age of Revolutions in Spain and of Spanish nation-building itself. However, it set aside those who had in fact experienced those events through a genuine Spanish nationalized lens. Using a corpus of autobiographical sources written between the 1780s and the 1830s, this paper argues that political concepts of Spanish nationhood were already available before the liberal revolution unleashed by the French invasion, that anti-liberals used the language of nationhood in their ego-documents too, and that ideas of independence and constitution pervaded social cleavages and ideological divides. Arguably, then, the War of Independence had both mythical and real dimensions in terms of the history of national identities. Therefore, the great issue in nineteenth-century Spanish nation-building would have not been a congenital ?lack? or ?weakness? of nationhood but an intense cultural war for its definition along political lines.
Read more here (DOI 10.1177/02656914221120150).
28 September 2022
BOOK: Nicolas BEAUPRÉ & Florian LOUIS, Histoire mondiale du XXe siècle (Paris: PUF, 2022), 1152 p. ISBN 9782130835752
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Abstract:
Guerres, révolutions, effondrement des empires : le xxe siècle semble avoir été un « siècle de l’événement ». L’impression d’accélération de l’histoire qui s’en dégage le rend, malgré sa proximité, peu intelligible. Une cinquantaine d’historiennes et d’historiens se sont attelés à la tâche d’en écrire une histoire véritablement mondiale et totale. Mondiale en ce qu’elle rompt avec les grands récits trop souvent occidentalo-centrés qui en ont été livrés jusqu’à présent. Totale car, sans négliger le politique, elle met en perspective l’histoire du siècle en intégrant les apports des grands champs et renouveaux historiographiques : l’environnement, le genre, la violence… Les auteurs nous guident à travers ce « long xxe siècle » marqué par une déprise de l’Europe, s’accompagnant d’une fragmentation politique et d’une réinvention de l’impérialisme ; par des catastrophes et des traumatismes mais aussi des espérances et de spectaculaires progrès scientifiques et techniques. Le siècle est marqué surtout par la créativité et la capacité de résilience des femmes et des hommes ordinaires, dont la participation à la marche de l’Histoire est ici mise en lumière.
On the authors:
Nicolas Beaupré est professeur d’histoire contemporaine à l’École nationale supérieure des sciences de l’information et des bibliothèques (Centre Gabriel Naudé, Villeurbanne). Florian Louis est agrégé et docteur en histoire. Il enseigne en classes préparatoires littéraires.
(source: PUF)
ARTICLE: Marta CERRITO, "Boundaries between law and religion" (Forum Historiae Iuris 30 AUG 2022)
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Abstract:
The word ‘boundary’ does not only indicate a physical division between different worlds. The border often represents a point of contact. This concept of a ‘boundary’ is particularly critical in the field of legal history because often the plurality of iura contributes not only to the fusion of different cultures but also to the creation of new ones. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relevance and the meaning of expressions of Anathema and curse it’s possible to find in some Latin documents that date back to the Norman period of Sicily. This period is pivotal for the consolidation of the secular and spiritual power of the Church and the use of curses by the lay power highlights a blurred line between the ecclesiastical and the temporal power. This idea of power makes the very strong ecclesiastical character of early political thought understandable. Going through some documents, this paper aims at understanding, from a legal point of view, the meaning of these curses: are they simple notary formulas, without legal significance or, as penalty clauses, a fundamental part of legal documents?
Read more here: DOI 10.26032/fhi-2022-008
BOOK REVIEW: Arduino MAIURI, Laura D’Amati, Dis Manibus (sacrum). La sepoltura nel diritto della Roma pagana (Forum Historiae Iuris 26 SEP 2022) (OPEN ACCESS)
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Abstract:
Il volume, pregevole nella sua rifinitura e ricco di riferimenti interni, si articola in tre macrosezioni, rispettivamente dedicate a La popolazione dell’oltretomba (pp. 1-26), Il rituale funerario (pp. 27-106) e Il sepulchrum e il locus religiosus (pp. 107-172). Quest’ultima ospita anche Qualche riflessione di sintesi (pp. 169-172), in cui vengono enucleati singoli spunti emersi nello sviluppo del discorso. Un ricco e variegato Indice bibliografico (pp. 173-220), una tavola delle Abbreviazioni (p. 221) ed un Indice delle fonti diviso per tematiche (giuridiche, letterarie ed epigrafiche, pp. 223-230) corredano il testo, garantendone una lettura più agile e documentata.
Read more here (open access): DOI 10.26032/FHI-2022-009.
BOOK: Rosamaria ALIBRANDI, Medicina forense e criminalistica nel crinale del moderno (sec. XVI-XIX) (Bonanno Editore: Acireale, 2022) ISBN: 978-88-6318-291-0, pp. 240, 25,00€
(Source: Bonanno Editore)
ABOUT THE BOOK
- Collana: Storie del Diritto
Nel cuore della Controriforma ha inizio la trasformazione della scienza medica. Le pandemie hanno indotto uno sforzo creativo persino all’interno della forma più conservatrice di scrittura medica, il trattato. Il Protomedico Giovan Filippo Ingrassia, formatosi tra Palermo e gli Studia di Padova e Ferrara, compone un testo complesso per delineare la figura del “perito medico”, inaugurando la moderna scienza della medicina legale. Alla riflessione sul retaggio del passato affianca la pratica anatomica, partecipando al dibattito sovranazionale sulla sperimentazione, i cui presupposti sono una rinnovata visione del mondo e un comune linguaggio filosofico-scientifico. Su richiesta delle corti di giustizia segue varie vicende processua- li con un metodo d’indagine – estrapolare analogie dalla massa della teoria medica ed esercitare la pratica dell’esame autoptico – che apre a nuove prospettive. Fondato su una ricca messe di fonti, questo libro offre una lettura comparata della storia della medicina forense, ripercorrendone il viaggio iniziatico dal Rinascimento fino alla polizia medica settecentesca per giungere alla medicina politica dell’Ottocento, ricorrendo all’ineludibile specchio dello storico che, nel riflettere il passato, rimanda immagini attuali delle origini del potere, del suo intreccio con la scienza, e delle sue articolazioni normative.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Rosamaria Alibrandi, dottore di ricerca in Storia delle Istituzioni Politiche e Giuridiche dell'Età Medievale e Moderna, si occupa di storia costituzionale e in particolare di tematiche di common law, di storia della medicina e dei sistemi normativi sanitari di Antico Regime. Ha scritto le monografie Giovan Filippo Ingrassia e le Costituzioni Protomedicali per il Regno di Sicilia (Soveria Mannelli 2011), In salute e in malattia. Le leggi sanitarie borboniche fra Settecento e Ottocento (Milano 2012), Rivoluzione Sovranità Libertà. L'aurora della modernità (Napoli 2015), e numerosi saggi apparsi su riviste italiane e internazionali.
More information with the publisher.
27 September 2022
26 September 2022
BOOK REVIEW: Elisabetta FIOCCH MALASPINA on Virginia AMOROSI, Storie di Giuristi e di emigranti tra Italia e Francia (Forum Historiae Iuris, 29 JUL 2022) (OPEN ACCESS)
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First paragraph:
Virginia Amorosi restituisce voce a quelle storie dimenticate, segnate da profondi sacrifici e sforzi che hanno contraddistinto l’esistenza dei lavoratori italiani emigrati, destinati a svolgere le mansioni più umili e faticose e rimanendo anche vittime di episodi di violenza e di razzismo. Il volume si apre infatti con un fatto di cronaca: il massacro di Aigues-Mortes. Nel 1893 presso le saline francesi di Aigues-Mortes ci fu un cruento scontro tra gli emigranti italiani e i francesi, che ebbe una significativa risonanza internazionale, non solo per quanto riguarda l’opinione pubblica ma anche nel campo giudiziario, diplomatico e per la formazione progressiva della disciplina del diritto internazionale del lavoro.
Read more here.
CALL FOR BLOGGERS: European Society for Comparative Legal History (DEADLINE 15 OCTOBER)
The blog of
the European Society for Comparative Legal History (established in 2010) is a reference for all
those seeking reliable information on publications, calls and vacancies in the
broad interdisciplinary field of comparative legal history. Its readership
spans the globe, with almost two million visits (approx. 14 000 per month). Lawyers,
historians, sociologists and philosophers aim to understand the categories of
legal thinking and practical manifestations of human behaviour across
jurisdictions and traditions.
The blog is
not an automated creation, but human-made. It thrives thanks to the efforts of
volunteers who are ready to add content and correspond with submitting
publishers or scholars. It is vital for our blog to remain up-to-date, and to
reflect the real diversity within and outside of European academia. We aim to
publish on a daily basis and maintain the uninterrupted stream of news.
Therefore, the Society actively encourages young or established scholars
to join the current team of bloggers.
Serving as
a blogger contributes to your visibility in the world of legal history. It requires
a limited amount of your time, and can also be intermittent. In any case, you
will be part of a team.
Proposals
can be sent (cover letter + cv) to esclhblog@gmail.com by 15 October. We will
inform applicants of the outcome as soon as possible.
REMINDER ONLINE SEMINAR: Journal Comparative Legal History - Dialogues on Teaching Comparative Legal History - 19 October 2022: 17:00-18:00hs (CEST) [on Zoom]
Journal Comparative Legal History
Dialogues on Teaching Comparative Legal History
19 October 2022 – 17:00-18:00hs (CEST)
The journal Comparative Legal History is an official academic forum of the European Society for Comparative Legal History. It was first published in 2013 and aims to offer a space for the development of comparative legal history. Based in Europe, it welcomes contributions that explore law in different times and jurisdictions from across the globe. Submissions are currently welcome and are being assessed on a rolling basis.
The journal will host a one-hour public session to discuss the necessity and practicality of including comparative legal history in the law school curriculum. Editors (past and present) will present exploratory points and all attendees will be invited to join in a general discussion. Ought comparative legal history be routinely taught at schools of law? The presence of comparative legal history in the classroom may have an impact on the development of disciplinary autonomy and invite the revisiting of uncontested dogmas. It may further offer a forum for future generations to gain interest in the evolution of law across time and space. Does the teaching in this field have the potential to include new or otherwise marginalised perspectives? How would it fit within the framework of a demanding curriculum, often linked to regulatory requirements inherent to a profession? How would this teaching interplay with doctrinal studies? These and other questions will be explored during this public session.
The event is free and open to the public, and it will take place via Zoom.
Registration is required by sending an email to clhdialogues@gmail.com.
SEMINAR SERIES: Ethnologies juridiques en contextes précolonial, colonial et postcolonial (Temps modernes - XX e siècle) - Université de Bordeaux [also on ZOOM]
SÉMINAIRE:
Ethnologies juridiques en contextes précolonial, colonial et postcolonial (Temps modernes-XX e siècle)
Laetitia GUERLAIN, Université de Bordeaux, IUF
Florence RENUCCI, CNRS, IMAF
Baudouin DUPRET, CNRS, LAM
Séance 1 - 3 octobre 2022, 10h-12h (salle Manon Cormier).
Timothy COLLIER (CNRS, IMAF, ANR AMIAF), L'École coloniale et l'ethnologie juridique: une contribution à la réflexion sur les droits coutumiers africains
Séance 2 - 22 novembre 2022, 10h-12h (salle Manon Cormier).
Marie-Albane DE SUREMAIN (Université Paris-Est Créteil, CESSMA), Ethnologie juridique en contexte post-colonial à l'université d'Abidjan. Années 1960-années 1980
Séance 3 - 5 décembre 2022, 10h-12h (salle Manon Cormier).
Léon BUSKENS (Leiden University, NIMAR), Des deux côtés du Rapenburg. Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje et Cornelis van Vollenhoven, et l’ethnographie du droit islamique et coutumier
Séance 4 - 6 février 2023, 10h-12h (salle Manon Cormier).
Marie RODET (Université de Londres, School of Oriental and African Studies) et Elara BERTHO (CNRS, LAM), Écrire l'histoire précoloniale à partir des sources juridiques: l'inventaire des coutumes dans le tapuscrit de Djiguiba Camara (1928-1955)
Séance 5 - 6 mars 2023, 10h-12h (salle Manon Cormier).
Julie MARQUET (Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale, UR 4030 HLLI), Le droit des castes à Pondichéry au XIX e siècle, entre coutumes indiennes et droit colonial
Séance 6 - 3 avril 2023, 10h-12h (salle Manon Cormier).
Jean-Philippe DEQUEN (Ministry of International Relations and Francophonie of Quebec), L'anthropologie au service des transferts de droit : le cas de l'Inde coloniale, XVIII e -XIX e siècles
Séance 7 - 15 mai 2023, 10h-12h (salle Manon Cormier).
Adam BELKADI (Université de Bordeaux, IRM), L'œuvre de Louis Milliot : matrice de l'invention coloniale du droit chérifien
Séance 8 - 5 juin 2023, 10h-12h (salle des actes).
Bérengère PIRET (Université Saint-Louis – Bruxelles/ Archives générales du Royaume de Belgique), « Fournir un guide à ces centaines de juridictions créées ». Le Bulletin des juridictions indigènes, vecteur des coutumes judiciaires
Le séminaire se tiendra à la Faculté de droit et de science politique de l’université de Bordeaux et en zoom : ID de réunion : 975 4028 1399 - Code secret : 220881
23 September 2022
22 September 2022
CONFERENCE: "Enseigner le droit hors des frontières nationales (XIXme - XXme siècles) - IIIe journée d'études: Enseignants de droit hors de métropole 30 settembre 2022 - Faculté de droit d'Aix-Marseille
(Source: Calenda)
SUMMARY
Depuis quelques décennies, l’histoire de l’enseignement du droit à l’époque contemporaine est, en France, un chantier en plein essor. En témoigne la création de la Société pour l’histoire des facultés de droit en 1983, qui a permis la coordination et le développement d’un champ de recherches jusqu’alors délaissé. Le progrès de l’histoire de l’enseignement du droit est par conséquent substantiel pour ce qui concerne la période contemporaine. Ce cycle de journées d’étude entend profiter de ces nouveaux acquis pour poursuivre le travail déjà accompli en interrogeant un phénomène peu investi jusqu’alors : l’histoire de l’enseignement du droit hors des frontières nationales aux XIXe et XXe siècles.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Présentation
Depuis quelques décennies, l’histoire de l’enseignement du droit à l’époque contemporaine est, en France, un chantier en plein essor. En témoigne la création de la Société pour l’histoire des facultés de droit en 1983, qui a permis la coordination et le développement d’un champ de recherches jusqu’alors délaissé. Cependant, cette histoire des facultés de droit est longtemps restée une histoire des doctrines qui y étaient enseignées et des écoles qui s’y affrontaient. Il a fallu attendre une période plus récente pour que l’historiographie se saisisse des lieux de l’enseignement du droit en eux-mêmes, dans le cadre d’une socio-histoire attentive au fonctionnement de l’institution, à son personnel, ses étudiants, ou encore ses ressources budgétaires. Alors que de telles études fleurissaient déjà dans d’autres disciplines (v. par exemple les travaux de Charles, 2004 ; Picard, 2007 ; Singaravelou, 2009 ; Ferté et Barrera, 2010), les initiatives se sont multipliées ces dernières années chez les juristes, parfois en lien avec les débats actuels liés à l’autonomie des universités ou la rénovation de l’enseignement du droit dans un contexte de globalisation (Ancel et Heuschling, 2016 ; Jamin et Van Caeneghem, 2016).
Ce renouvellement des approches s’est fréquemment adossé à la question des disciplines juridiques. Il a également emprunté le chemin d’un intérêt pour le collectif enseignant. Siprojuris, la base de données bio-bibliographique des professeurs de droit français entre 1804 et 1950, rassemblant 600 individus, a vu le jour, fruit d’un travail collectif coordonné par Catherine Fillon. Ouvrant de nouvelles perspectives pour l’histoire sociale des élites juridiques, cet important déport prosopographique s’est doublé d’un renouvellement de la biographie intellectuelle des professeurs de droit, désormais moins préoccupée de décréter l’existence de « grands juristes » que de décrypter les mécanismes concrets d’accession à la « grandeur intellectuelle ». Enfin, cette nouvelle histoire des facultés de droit s’est souvent concentrée sur des aires géographiques particulières, ce qui a donné lieu à la création, en 2008, du Réseau européen pour l’histoire de l’enseignement du droit.
Le progrès de l’histoire de l’enseignement du droit est par conséquent substantiel pour ce qui concerne la période contemporaine. Ce cycle de journées d’études entend profiter de ces nouveaux acquis pour poursuivre le travail déjà accompli en interrogeant un phénomène peu investi jusqu’alors : l’histoire de l’enseignement du droit hors des frontières nationales aux XIXe et XXe siècles. Certes, l’époque contemporaine est marquée, par rapport au Moyen Âge, notamment, par une incontestable nationalisation du droit et de son enseignement, amorcée à l’époque moderne. A priori, l’on pourrait penser que le temps des pérégrinations académiques est révolu. À y regarder de plus près, toutefois, rien n’est moins sûr. Empruntant des formes variées, une dilatation certaine de l’espace académique français peut également être observée à l’époque contemporaine (Audren et Halpérin, 2013).
– Dans le cadre de l’expansion militaire ou coloniale tout d’abord, la métropole entend plaquer son modèle d’enseignement du droit dans le cadre d’institutions dédiées (facultés de droit dans les départements annexés par l’Empire napoléonien ; École de droit d’Alger, expansion universitaire vers le Levant avec les Écoles de droit du Caire ou de Beyrouth, École de droit d’Hanoï, etc.).
– En dehors du cadre « autoritaire » des régions militairement occupées ou colonisées ensuite, nombreux sont les professeurs de droit, surtout à partir de l’entre-deux-guerres, à promouvoir le droit français à l’étranger, dans le cadre d’une diplomatie culturelle bien comprise (conférences, cours au sein d’instituts culturels, etc.).
Cette appréhension transnationale de l’enseignement du droit se situe par conséquent à l’articulation d’un triple questionnement : la réflexion similaire venue des historiens d’autres disciplines, qui se sont également saisis de cette question ; le tournant historiographique vers l’histoire globale ou connectée, ainsi que vers la question des circulations, qui entend interroger, voire dépasser les cadres nationaux habituellement retenus pour écrire l’histoire ; la problématique actuelle de la dénationalisation/ globalisation de l’enseignement du droit, qui agite la doctrine.
Il nous a semblé qu’un tel questionnement relatif à l’enseignement du droit hors des frontières nationales était de nature à combler un vide historiographique important, tout en éclairant certains enjeux actuels de la globalisation de l’enseignement du droit. Par ailleurs, les contributions de collègues étrangers pouvant offrir un éclairage similaire dans leurs pays seront particulièrement appréciées. Ces trois journées d’études seront divisées thématiquement :
1) Lyon, 22 novembre 2018 – « Les lieux et les formes de l’enseignement juridique hors de la métropole »
La première journée d’études est consacrée aux diverses modalités structurelles de l’enseignement du droit en dehors du cadre métropolitain. Si, dans ses colonies, un État peut finir par envisager de créer des facultés calquées sur le modèle de la métropole, il lui faut généralement faire preuve de davantage d’inventivité dans les territoires étrangers demeurés maîtres de leur souveraineté où, par surcroît, il peut être en concurrence avec d’autres États tout aussi désireux de promouvoir leur influence politique et juridique. L’éventail des multiples formes retenues, ponctuelles ou plus pérennes (des tournées de conférences, à la main-mise sur des écoles locales, en passant par la création d’instituts culturels…) mérite d’être précisé, mais aussi cartographié. Où ? Suivant quelles formes ? Selon quels partenariats et avec quels financements ? sont autant de questions auxquelles cette première journée souhaite apporter des réponses plus précises.
2) Bordeaux, 13 mars 2020 – « Contenu et objectifs de l’enseignement juridique hors de la métropole »
Cette deuxième journée d’études se concentrera sur la question des cours de droit dispensés hors de la métropole. Quels sont les objectifs de tels enseignements ? (former des élites locales ; apporter une connaissance du droit local aux étudiants français ; acculturer les populations conquises au droit français ; promouvoir la « grandeur » du droit français à l’étranger, etc.). En fonction des différents buts de ces cours, leur contenu diffère-t-il ? Enseigne-t-on de la même manière, par exemple, le droit civil français dans les colonies, dans les pays militairement conquis ou encore dans les instituts culturels à l’étranger ? Autrement dit, les professeurs de droit opèrent-ils une adaptation du contenu de leurs cours en fonction du contexte et/ ou du public auquel ils s’adressent ? C’est, par conséquent, la question des modalités intellectuelles de l’enseignement juridique hors de la métropole qui sera ici abordée.
3) Aix-Marseille, 30 septembre 2022 – « Les acteurs de l’enseignement juridique hors de la métropole »
Enfin, cette troisième journée d’étude s’intéressera aux acteurs, qu’ils soient enseignants ou étudiants. Du côté des professeurs, les questionnements concernent, comme souvent dans les problématiques de l’exil durable ou temporaire, la question des profils, des parcours et des raisons, lorsqu’elles existent, qui encouragent à partir. Quelles sont les motivations de ces enseignants ? Matérielles ? Personnelles ? Idéologiques ? Qu’est-ce que l’expérience étrangère nous raconte de ces hommes et de ces femmes : est-elle la preuve d’une plus grande ouverture d’esprit ? A-t-elle des incidences sur leur façon de concevoir et d’enseigner le droit ? Peut-elle avoir un sens politique ?… En parallèle, des interrogations similaires se posent pour les étudiants, en tant qu’individus, mais également en tant que groupes. Les migrations estudiantines peuvent notamment avoir des conséquences sur les équilibres sociaux et culturels des États ou encore sur la circulation des savoirs. Afin de ne pas enfermer ces acteurs du droit dans des spécificités qui pourraient s’avérer trompeuses, nous encourageons leur remise en perspective dans le monde plus global de l’enseignement supérieur, ainsi que les approches comparées.
Programme
30 septembre 2022, Aix-en-Provence
Faculté de droit d’Aix-Marseille
Salle des Actes bis (3.3 - espace Cassin)
9h30 : Accueil des participants
9h45 : Ouverture de la journée par Eric Gasparini, directeur du CERHIIP
Matin – Parcours individuels
- 10h : Guillaume Boudou (IHD, Université Panthéon-Assas), Terminus Alger, le parcours universitaire d’Alfred Dain (1880-1892)
- 10h20 : Timothy Collier (IMAF, Aix-Marseille Université), L’itinéraire ultramarin de Jean Poirier : une rencontre entre le droit et l’ethnosociologie
10h40 : Pause (20 minutes)
- 11h00 : Charles Guillorit (IRM, Université de Bordeaux/Université de Prague), L’enseignement du droit à l’étranger pour formation politique : Hubert Beuve-Méry, jeune professeur de droit à l’Institut français de Prague (1928-1939)
- 11h20 : discussion générale animée par Silvia Falconieri (IMAF, CNRS)
12h20 : Pause déjeuner
Après-midi – Penser les enseignants en collectifs
- 14h : Catherine Fillon (CLHDPP, Université de Lyon), Les aventuriers du rayonnement juridique français au Moyen-Orient
- 14h20 : Annamaria Monti (Università Bocconi, Milano), Les professeurs italiens enseignant à l’étranger (XIXe-XXe siècles)
- 14h40 : discussion générale animée par Silvia Falconieri (IMAF, CNRS)
15h20 : pause (10 min)
15h30 Présentation et débat autour de l’actualité éditoriale sur l’histoire de l’enseignement du droit avec les auteur·es
- Les professeurs allemands en Belgique, Academic and Scientific Publishers, 2022, par Raphaël Cahen (CORE, Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
- American legal education abroad. Critical histories, NYU Press, 2021, par David Sandomierski (Western University, London, Ontario, Canada) et Susan Bartie (University of Tasmania, Australia)
- Le dictionnaire des juristes. Colonies et Outre-mer, XVIIIe-XXe, PUR, 2022, par Florence Renucci (IMAF, CNRS)
- Enseigner le droit hors des frontières nationales (XIXe-XXe), Cahiers Jean Moulin, 2021, vol. 1, par Laetitia Guerlain (IRM, Université de Bordeaux, IUF)
17h30 : présentation de la suite du projet et clôture de la journée
BOOK: Scritti di Diego QUAGLIONI - scelti e raccolti da Lucia Bianchin, Giuliano Marchetto, Cecilia Natalini, Christian Zendri (Foligno: Il Formichiere, 2022). 2 volumes, pp. 1419, 90,00 €
(Source: Il Formichiere)
ABOUT THE BOOK
Lucia Bianchin, Giuliano Marchetto, Cecilia Natalini e Christian Zendri hanno raccolto una parte dei lavori di Diego Quaglioni in due volumi cartonati con sovra coperta a colori, f.to 16,8×24,0 cm, pp. XLIX-1370
La presente raccolta di scritti, apparsi in svariate sedi scientifiche in un arco di tempo che va dalla seconda metà degli anni Settanta fino ai giorni nostri, rappresenta solo una parte dei lavori di Diego Quaglioni. La scelta, di fronte alla vasta produzione scientifica dell’Autore, è stata orientata dal desiderio di offrire ai lettori un panorama di ricerche che fin dai primi studi era rivolto alle fonti dottrinali caratterizzanti lo sviluppo della storia giuridica occidentale, con un’estensione che dal Tardo Antico giunge all’età contemporanea, ma che ha il suo centro nel lungo Medioevo del diritto, con attenzione costante per il problema del rapporto tra giustizia e potere, come lascito fondamentale dell’età intermedia al mondo moderno.
Con questa raccolta, preparata nell’occasione del suo settantesimo compleanno, si è inteso offrire un momento di riflessione che supera nel suo insieme i singoli contributi e che mette in rilievo i motivi comuni di una lunga esperienza di ricerca nel confronto con le altre discipline storiche.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Diego Quaglioni (Tempio Pausania, 1951) è stato ordinario di Storia delle dottrine politiche nell’Università di Sassari e di Storia del diritto medievale e moderno nell’Università di Trento, dove ha diretto il Dipartimento di Scienze Giuridiche ed è stato preside della Facoltà di Giurisprudenza. Dopo gli studi liceali a Sassari e quelli universitari a Cagliari è stato borsista nell’Istituto italiano di studi storici (Napoli) e ricercatore presso il Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche e nell’Università di Roma “La Sapienza”. Ha tenuto corsi e seminari presso l’Université Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne), l’Ecole Normale Supérieure di Lione, il Max-Planck Institut für europäische Rechtsgeschichte di Francoforte, la Rechtswissenschaftliche Fakultät dell’Università di Salisburgo e la Faculté des Sciences Juridiques, Politiques et Sociales dell’Università di Lille, dove tiene un corso di Histoire des Systèmes juridiques européens. È stato inoltre visiting researcher presso la Robbins Collection a Boalt Hall (Berkeley, California) e ha tenuto lezioni e conferenze in America, in Cina e in tutta Europa. I suoi studi riguardano principalmente il pensiero giuridico e politico dell’età intermedia e della prima modernità. Tra i suoi lavori più recenti c’è l’edizione commentata della Monarchia di Dante nei “Meridiani” (2014, 2015) e negli “Oscar Classici” Mondadori (2021).
More information with the publisher.
21 September 2022
20 September 2022
JOB: 3 PhD candidates in legal history (Tilburg Law School) (DEADLINE: 15 October 2022)
(Source: Career5)
Tilburg Law School has 3 vacancies for PhD
candidates in legal history for the CaPANES project on the historical use of
sovereignty concepts in cities of commerce.
Department:
Public Law & Governance
Location: Tilburg
Scientific area: Legal History
Full time equivalent: 0.8-1.0 FTE (32-40 hours per week)
Duration of employment contract: two years, with possible extension
Monthly full-time salary: €2,541 - €3,247 gross
Closing date vacancy: October 15, 2022
The department of Public Law and Governance
(PLG) is looking for 3 PhD Candidates who will be working within the project
‘Causal Pattern Analysis of Economic Sovereignty’ (CaPANES), which is funded by
the European Research Council (ERC, ERC Consolidator Grant 2021, nr 101044356).
PLG is a large, diverse and interdisciplinary department, home to nearly 100
academic staff and a range of legal and social science disciplines. You will
develop and grow in research, both individually and as part of a team of ambitious
scholars.
Job Description
As PhD Candidate in legal history, you will analyze the historical use of
sovereignty concepts in cities of commerce. The CaPANES project hypothesizes
that in the early modern period cities of commerce, even within states, had
foreign relations of their own and made strategic use of legal terms that
defined their economic sovereignty. The CaPANES project pursues
legal-historical analysis of both the domestic context of cities of commerce
and of their interactions with other cities and states. The CaPANES combines
qualitative and quantitative methods (social network analysis, modelling), and
aims to yield conclusions that are relevant also for discussions on present-day
economic sovereignty. The PhD Candidates will analyze the law, institutions and
correspondence of six cities of commerce (Florence, Toulouse, Rouen, Bruges,
Southampton and Lübeck). The first PhD position is concerned with Bruges and
Southampton (c. 1400-c. 1520), the second PhD position with Rouen and Lübeck
(c. 1450-c. 1620) and the third one with Florence and Toulouse (c. 1400-c.
1550). 20% of the appointment may be dedicated to teaching and/or
administration.
More info and full call here.
EVENT: Book launch Security and Credit in Roman Law (Nijmegen, 19 October 2022)
(Source: Eventbrite)
We learned of a book launch of the monograph
Security and Credit in Roman Law organized by Nijmegen’s Onderzoekscentrum
Onderneming & Recht.
Onlangs is het boek Security and
credit in Roman law van prof. Rick
Verhagen verschenen. Het boek is opgenomen in de Oxford Studies in Roman Society
& Law en is het eerste uitgebreide Engelstalige werk over zekerheidsrechten
in het Romeinse recht. Ter ere van de verschijning van het boek, vindt op 19
oktober a.s. om 15:30 uur de boekpresentatie plaats. Het inhoudelijke
programma, met o.a. prof. Willem Zwalve, dr. Nathalie de Haan en prof. Ben
Schuijling, duurt tot ongeveer 17:00 uur, waarna een borrel en buffet worden
aangeboden. De bijeenkomst is Nederlandstalig.
U bent van harte uitgenodigd deze bijeenkomst bij te wonen. U kunt zich
aanmelden via de knop hiernaast.
Aanwezigen kunnen het boek met korting bestellen. Meer informatie daarover
treft u in de bevestigingsmail.
Aanmelden kan tot 16 oktober a.s.
Wij hopen u te mogen verwelkomen op 19 oktober a.s.!
Vriendelijke groeten, mede namens het bestuur van het OO&R,
Feben van der Linden van Sprankhuizen
Secretaris van het Onderzoekcentrum Onderneming
& Recht
Registration link here.
19 September 2022
CALL FOR EDITORS: Comparative Legal History (DEADLINE 10 OCT 2022)
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The European Society for Comparative Legal History (ESCLH) is seeking applications for the position of Articles Editor of its flagship journal, Comparative Legal History.
Evidence of scholarly ability, experience in editing or a willingness to learn quickly, and membership (or a commitment to become a member if appointed) of the ESCLH are requirements. Full training in the journal's processes will be provided as needed.
You would contribute to the advancement of comparative legal history as part of a warm, supportive, and dedicated team.
The journal is an official academic forum of the ESCLH. It was first published in 2013 and aims to offer a space for the development of comparative legal history. Based in Europe, it welcomes contributions that explore law in different times and jurisdictions from across the globe.
Applications, with a brief cover letter and short CV (no more than 4 pages) should be sent to Matthew Dyson, matthew.dyson@law.ox.ac.uk (President of the ESCLH) by 10 October 2022.
This
position is not paid.
BOOK: Peter CANE, Lisa FORD & Marc MCMILLAN (eds.), The Cambridge Legal History of Australia (Cambridge: CUP, 2022), 814 p. ISBN 9781108633949, 120 GBP
(image source: CUP)
Abstract:
Featuring contributions from leading lawyers, historians and social scientists, this path-breaking volume explores encounters of laws, people, and places in Australia since 1788. Its chapters address three major themes: the development of Australian settler law in the shadow of the British Empire; the interaction between settler law and First Nations people; and the possibility of meaningful encounter between First laws and settler legal regimes in Australia. Several chapters explore the limited space provided by Australian settler law for respectful encounters, particularly in light of the High Court's particular concerns about the fragility of Australian sovereignty. Tracing the development of a uniquely Australian law and the various contexts that shaped it, this volume is concerned with the complexity, plurality, and ambiguity of Australia's legal history.
On the editors:
Peter Cane, University of Cambridge Peter Cane has written widely in areas of public law, private law and legal theory. He is co-editor (with H. Kumarasingham) of The Cambridge Constitutional History of the United Kingdom and author of Controlling Administrative Power: An Historical Comparison (2016). He is a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy and a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. Lisa Ford, University of New South Wales, Sydney Lisa Ford is Professor of History at UNSW, Sydney. A prize-winning legal historian whose work explores jurisdictional politics in the United States and the British Empire to 1850, she is author of The King's Peace (2021) and Settler Sovereignty (2010), and co-author (with L. Benton) of Rage for Order (2016). She is a Fellow of the Academy of Humanities in Australia. Mark McMillan, RMIT University, Melbourne Dr Mark McMillan is a Wiradjuri man from Trangie in New South Wales who was NAIDOC scholar of the year in 2013. Dr McMillan has published widely on the achievement of human rights for Australian Indigenous people, recovering Indigenous self-governance and promoting settler recognition for Indigenous law in Australia.
Contributors:
Peter Cane, Lisa Ford, Mark Macmillan, Shaunnagh Dorsett, David Lieberman, Spiers Williams, Bruce Kercher, Ann Curthoys, Jessie Mitchell, Lim, Cheryl Saunders, Tim Rowse, Jennifer Green, Daryle Rigney, Denis Rose, Alison Vivian, Miriam Jorgensen, Steve Hemming, Shaun Berg, Kirsty Gover ,Eddie Cubillo, Miranda Johnson and Cait Storr, Coel Kirkby, Lisa Ford, David Andrew Roberts, Maureen Tehan, Amanda Kearney, Jason Behrendt, Sean Brennan, Ruth A Morgan, Judith Jones, Terri Libesman, Katherine Ellinghaus, Paul Gray, Alecia Simmonds, Amanda Nettelbeck, Anne O'Brien, Gary Foley and Crystal McKinnon, Bongiorno, Rayner Thwaites, David Andrew Roberts, Andy Kaladelfos, Alana Piper, Mark Finnane, Mark Lunney, Diane Kirkby, Kathy Bowrey, Nicole Watson, Shino Konishi
More information with CUP.
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