BOOK: Raffaella BIANCHI RIVA, Lo scandalo tra alto medioevo e prima età moderna, Itinerari tra dimensione giuridica, politica e sociale (Torino: Giappichelli, 2022), ISBN: 9791221100365

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ABOUT THE BOOK (from the "Introduction")

Scandals offer a good vantage point in order to investigate, from a historical perspective, the dynamics between law, institutions, and society.

In common language, "scandal" refers to an act that arouses concern, provokes outrage, causes disapproval, since it is against the laws of morality and decency. In the past, the term was also synonymous with discord, but that meaning is now obsolete.

In medieval legal sources, the term scandalum was associated with various meanings. In the "language of the law", scandal did not indicate the act, but rather the social reaction to the act (and therefore dissent, disorder, or, according to the meaning no longer in use today, discord).

The sources never provided a definition of the term. Thus, it referred to any conflict within society or between society and institutions (or, in other words, between society and the political power in which institutions were embedded).

Scandal displayed, therefore, many forms: from private ones, such as disagreement and quarrel, to public ones such as protest and turmoil. It must be acknowledged, however, that the communitarian dimension that characterized medieval society often transformed individual disputes into collective phenomena.

Various juridical consequences were attributed to the outbreak of scandals. The study of these juridical consequences allows us to deepen our knowledge of the relationship between institutions, law, and society from a historical-legal perspective, and to focus on the strategies that governments developed in order to preserve order and to maintain consent.

The book follows the paths that scandal has taken during the Middle Ages, taking into account that its legal effects intertwined with its different meanings, and aims both at addressing connections, differences and distinctions between various legal systems, and at focusing on lines of discontinuity as well as continuity between past and present.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Raffaella Bianchi Riva is professor of History of Law, History of Legal Professions, and History of Justice at the University of Milan.

TABLE OF CONTENT

CAPITOLO 1: LO SCANDALO TRA TEOLOGIA E DIRITTO. ISTITUZIONI E SOCIETÀ NELLA CHIESA ALTOMEDIEVALE

1. Dalla teologia al diritto

1.1. Diritto e coscienza sociale

2. Lo scandalo tra valori tutelati dall’ordinamento e valori espressi dalla società

3. Alle origini del diritto penale canonico

3.1. Lo scandalo tra dimensione penitenziale e disciplinare

3.2. La disciplina dei chierici

4. Scandali e consuetudini nella politica di Gregorio Magno

4.1. Consuetudini locali … 

4.2. … e unità dell’ordinamento 

5. Lo scandalo nei canoni sinodali dell’età carolingia

5.1. Scandalo e purgatio canonica

CAPITOLO 2: LO SCANDALO TRA DISORDINE E DISSENSO. I REATI POLITICI NEL DIRITTO GERMANICO

1. Controllo della società e consenso alle istituzioni

2. I Franchi: lo scandalo tra storia e diritto

3. I Visigoti: lo scandalo tra diritto romano e diritto germanico

4. I Longobardi

4.1. Scandali e società

4.2. Scandalum e compositiones pecuniarie

4.3. La repressione penale dello scandalum

4.4. Diffusione e circolazione di modelli legislativi tra alto e basso medioevo

CAPITOLO 3: LO SCANDALO TRA REGOLA ED ECCEZIONE. LA RATIO SCANDALI VITANDI NEL DIRITTO CANONICO CLASSICO

1. Il regime giuridico dell’eccezione nel diritto canonico classico

2. Il Decretum e i decretisti

2.1. La rilevanza giuridica del dissenso tra diritto romano e diritto canonico

2.2. Gli effetti giuridici dello scandalo

2.2.1. Scandalum e dispensatio (gli effetti favorevoli)

2.2.2. Scandalo e diritti/doveri (gli effetti sfavorevoli)

3. Le decretali e i decretalisti 

3.1. Ratio scandali vitandi e ratio peccati vitandi

3.1.1. Scandalo, verità e giustizia

3.1.2. Norme derogabili e inderogabili

3.2. La repressione dei crimini tra regola ed eccezione 

3.2.1. Scandalum e infamia: il processo

3.2.2. La responsabilità dei chierici

3.2.3. L’irregularitas

3.2.4. La deformitas

3.3. Le deroghe al diritto

3.3.1. La ratio scandali vitandi nella disciplina dei benefici ecclesiastici

3.3.2. Scandali dentro (e fuori) i monasteri

3.3.3. La disciplina del matrimonio: società, scandali e consuetudini

CAPITOLO 4: LO SCANDALO TRA TEORIA E PRASSI. DAL DIRITTO CANONICO AL DIRITTO COMUNE

1. La ratio scandali vitandi nell’utrumque ius

2. Retoriche dello scandalo nell’età del diritto comune

2.1. Lo scandalo tra necessitas e publica utilitas

2.2. Scandalum e bonum commune

2.3. Scandalum e pax

3. Lo scandalo nelle fonti consiliari e giurisprudenziali tra tardo medioevo e prima età moderna

3.1. I consilia: uso (e abuso) della ratio scandali vitandi

3.2. Le decisiones: lo scandalo tra arbitrium e stylus curiae

4. Dal diritto comune al common law: scandalo e diffamazione nel diritto inglese

CAPITOLO 5: LO SCANDALO TRA DIRITTO E POLITICA. LA TUTELA DELL’ORDINE PUBBLICO FRA TARDO MEDIOEVO E PRIMA ETÀ MODERNA

1. Per una semantica dello scandalo tra tardo medioevo e prima età moderna

2. L’“eccezione permanente”: lo scandalo nei linguaggi politici del tardo medioevo e della prima età moderna

3. La tutela dell’ordine pubblico

3.1. La discordia tra dimensione pubblica e privata

3.1.1. Scandalum e rixa

3.1.2. Scandalum e tumultus: tra turbamento dell’ordine pubblico e reato politico

3.2. Il disordine come disobbedienza

4. Lo scandalo tra società e istituzioni

4.1. Scandalo e (denegata) giustizia

4.2. Il consenso popolare all’amministrazione della giustizia

4.3. Buon costume e moralità pubblica

Conclusioni

More information can be found here.

SYMPOSIUM: A proposito del pirata. Violenza, anomia, ostilità. Riflessioni a partire da: I.G. Mastrorosa (a cura di), Latrocinium maris. Fenomenologia e repressione della pirateria nell'esperienza romana e oltre (Roma 2018) - Firenze 31 maggio 2023

 

(Source: Storia del diritto)

LECTURES de… : René Cassin, La condition des sujets ennemis en France pendant la guerre (1916) et Cours radiodiffusé sur l’héritage (1938-1939) - 1er juin 2023 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne Site de Port-Royal

 

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Programme

10h

Sous la présidence d'Anne-Marie Leroyer, professeur de droit privé, université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, directrice de l'Institut de Recherche Juridique de la Sorbonne.

 

Xavier Lagarde, professeur de droit privé, université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, directeur de l'Institut d'Etudes à Distance de l'Ecole de Droit de la Sorbonne, Propos introductifs sur la diffusion des savoirs juridiques.

Michel Grimaldi, professeur émérite de droit privé, université Paris-Panthéon-Assas, Existe-t-il un droit à l'héritage ?

Christophe Vernières, professeur de droit privé, université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Les grands principes du droit successoral à travers le cours de René Cassin.

 

14h

Sous la présidence de Nader Hakim, professeur d'histoire du droit, université de Bordeaux, Secrétaire général de la Société pour l'histoire des Facultés de droit.

 

Muriel Ubeda-Saillard, professeur de droit public, université de Lille, La neutralisation des personnes perçues comme dangereuses par la communauté en guerre, préfiguration du droit pénal de l'ennemi.

Sarah Durelle-Marc, maître de conférences en droit public, institut catholique de Lille, La condition des sujets ennemis et les prémices d'un droit des minorités.

Michel Erpelding, chercheur en droit international et européen, université du Luxembourg, René Cassin, la condition des sujets ennemis et l'émergence du juge international comme garant des droits de l'individu.

Nikolas Karmis, doctorant en droit public, université Paris-Panthéon-Assas, « Comme un otage économique pour l'heure du règlement de compte avec nos ennemis » : la possibilité de saisie des biens des civils ennemis.

 

Et en présence de Julien Broch, maître de conférences en histoire du droit, université d'Aix-Marseille.

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Les cours de René Cassin publiés par Julien Broch offrent des témoignages inédits sur l'oeuvre protéiforme d'un géant du droit. Le premier, de 1916, alors que Cassin relève d'une grave blessure, porte sur La condition des sujets ennemis en France pendant la guerre. S'il demeure contraint par les préoccupations du moment, les valeurs du futur prix Nobel s'y révèlent déjà. Le second, sur l'héritage, radiodiffusé en 1938-1939, témoigne d'un souci d'innovation et de large diffusion du savoir juridique.

Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

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75013 Paris

JOURNAL: Rechtskultur - Zeitschrift für Europäische Rechtsgeschichte/European Journal of Legal History/Journal éuropéen d'histoire du droit XI (2022): Law and Reconstruction after crisis

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Table of contens:

 

Sebastiaan Vandenbogaerde (Universiteit Gent) -“A huge task which must be carried out in a flexible and rapid procedure”: Belgium’s Tribunals for War Damages (1918 -1935) as remediator for damages caused by the Great War

          DOI: 10.36213/11-1

   

Maria Lewandowicz (Universität Gdańsk) - Anwendung und Ausübung des Rechts im Lichte des Art. 1 bis 7 des Schweizerischen Zivilgesetzbuches aus rechtshistorischer Perspektive

DOI: 10.36213/11-2

   

William Kerscher (Universität Regensburg) -  Sonderrecht und Sondergerichte im jungen Freistaat Bayern: Die Volksgerichte im Landgerichtsbezirk Eichstätt und das Strafrecht des Ausnahmezustandes im Krisenjahr 1923  

DOI: 10.36213/11-3

 

Sara Moreno Tejada (Universidad Miguel Hernández, Elche) - The fight for equality during the Spanish transition (1975-1981)

DOI: 10.36213/11-4

  

Karin Sein, Merike Ristikivi (Tartu Ülikool) - Restoring rule of law in Estonia 1992-2002: political context and factors of success   

DOI: 10.36213/11-5  

   

Yuliia Tsurkalenko (Staatliche Universität für innere Angelegenheiten Donezk) - Das Verwaltungsrecht der UdSSR und das moderne Verwaltungsrecht der Ukraine: Dorniger Weg von einem totalitären zu einem Rechtsstaat

DOI: 10.36213/11-6

   

Lukas Gschwend (Universität St. Gallen) - Gedanken zur Rechtsgeschichte als Studienfach im dritten Jahrzehnt des 21. Jahrhunderts  

DOI: 10.36213/11-7

The journal Rechtskultur publishes its back-issues in open access here.

Read more here.

BOOK: Aldo Andrea CASSI, Le danze di Clio e Astrea. Fondamenti storici del diritto europeo (Torino: Giappichelli, 2023), ISBN: 9791221100662

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ABOUT THE BOOK (from the "Preludio")

Uno spettro si aggira per l’Europa del futuro: è il giurista di domani. La sua pena errabonda non è causata dal sospetto dell’uomo della strada (che imputa ad avvocati, giudici e notai alchimie tecniche care per le sue tasche o lontane dai suoi bisogni) né dall’insofferenza dei management societari (che considerano i consulenti legali come “bastoni tra le ruote” nella speditezza degli affari aziendali), né dall’esser considerato superfluo, se non nocivo, da molti intellettuali (che gli imputano aridità culturale e inerzia nelle riforme) e bistrattato dal legislatore (il quale lo mette alla prova destrutturando l’ordinamento giuridico con estemporanee e continue riscritture di esso). Non è questo il problema: il giurista sa che è da tempo così; sa che il problema non è l’immaginario collettivo su di lui, perché questo appartiene alla sua stessa Storia – e del resto altre categorie professionali non stanno meglio da quel punto di vista ... La questione è ben altra: quale che sia la figura (avvocato, magistrato, notaio, legale aziendale, funzionario amministrativo, insegnante, ecc.) in cui il futuro giurista deciderà di incarnare la propria anima, rischierà di fare una scoperta orrenda: non ce l’avrà più, l’anima. Non avrà più, dopo quasi un millennio, un’anima da giurista, perché gliel’hanno strappata dal luogo dove essa gli sarebbe stata insufflata: l’Università.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Aldo Andrea Cassi è professore ordinario all’Università degli Studi di Brescia, dove insegna antropologia giuridica e storia del diritto medievale e moderno. 

More information and the table of contents can be found here.

ARTICLE: Sandro NOTARI, "Statuta Urbis, 1469. La prima riforma pontificia dello statuto comunale di Roma.Profili storico-giuridici" (Historia et Ius 15 APR 2023) (OPEN ACCESS)

 

Abstract:

In 1469 Pope Paul II, as lord of the city, issued the municipal statutes of Rome (statuta Urbis). The essay examines these statutes, which represent the first reform of the Roman municipal law issued by a pope after the end of municipal autonomy and the establishment of the papal signoria in 1398. The papal statutes of 1469 are compared to the popular regime’s statutes of 1363, which remained in effect until then. The papal reform conforms the statutes to the new system of seignorial government by removing officials and organs elective of the commune. However, Paul II left intact the structure of the statutes of 1363 and introduced few changes to civil and criminal law. Thanks to this reform, many vestiges of medieval legal romanitas were transmitted to later ages: the statuta Urbis, after being revised and modified, remained in effect until the 19th century.

Read the article on Historia et Ius (an open access peer reviewed journal). 

WEBINAR: Dialogues of art, History and Law - venerdì 26 maggio 2023

(Source: Storia del diritto)

BOOK: Paolo GROSSI, Un historiador del Derecho a la búsqueda de sí mismo (México: Tirant lo Blanch, 2023). ISBN: 9788411691420, 120 pp., $ 199.00 MXN

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ABOUT THE BOOK

Series:  Historia del Derecho en América Latina.

El trascurrir intelectual y vital de un historiador del Derecho durante el tránsito de la modernidad a la posmodernidad es revelado con nitidez y pasión en Un historiador del derecho a la búsqueda de sí mismo, publicado en italiano en 2008, antes que su autor fuera nombrado juez de la Corte Constitucional italiana por el presidente Giorgio Napolitano. Se integra con las tres lecciones magistrales que Paolo Grossi dictó durante diciembre de 2006 en el Palacio Strozzi de Florencia a un grupo de juristas y estudiantes, y en las cuales dibujó el magnífico fresco de su vida académica a lo largo de más de tres décadas, y durante las cuales se convirtió no sólo en uno de los más importantes historiadores del Derecho italiano sino en uno de los más lúcidos y críticos juristas contemporáneos. "Fruto de una inquietud intelectual y de una tensión moral nunca latente", las tres lecciones son testimonio, sin duda, de la aguda crisis actual de la ciencia jurídica y, a la vez, camino seguro para superarla desde el taller sapiencial y frente a las nuevas formas que asume el absolutismo jurídico.

 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Paolo Grossi (1933-2022) fue profesor ordinario de Historia del Derecho medieval y moderno; académico de la Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei; doctor honoris causa de diversas universidades europeas y latinoamericanas. Fundador y director del Centro di Studi per la Storia del Pensiero Giuridico Moderno y de los Quaderni Fiorentini. Presidió la Corte Constitucional Italiana.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Índice
Presentación         9
Agradecimiento         21
Primera Lección
1.    Aclaración necesaria        23
2.    El improbable nacimiento de un historiador del derecho        24
3.    Al interior de la «Historia del derecho italiano»: insatisfacciones y frustraciones        26
4.    Un historiador del derecho: a la búsqueda de una identidad        30
5.    Una recuperación para el derecho        34
6.    Una recuperación para la historia        39
Segunda Lección
1.    En coloquio con Emilio Betti        45
2.    Y con Francesco Calasso        50
3.    Primeras líneas de investigación. Mi vena canónica        54
4.    Primeras líneas de investigación: el derecho privado común        60
5.    Y el persistente tema de una treintena de años: la relación hombre/cosa, hombre/tierra        65
6.    Un proyecto cultural y su necesario soporte organizacional: «para la historia del pensamiento jurídico moderno». El Centro de Estudios y los «Quaderni fiorentini»        70
Tercera Lección
1.    En Florencia: un centro de estudios, una revista científica, una comunidad de estudiosos        77
2.    Continua el tema persistente durante treinta años: la relación entre hombre/cosa        79
3.    En particular: Otro modo de poseer        82
4.    El Centro de Estudios para la Historia del Pensamiento Jurídico Moderno y sus iniciativas de congresos. En particular, de dos congresos de los años ochenta: «La cultura de las revistas jurídicas italianas»;Historia social y dimensión jurídica»        865.    Año 1985: La propiedad y las propiedades en el taller del historiador        916.    Año 1988: Epitafio para el absolutismo jurídico        927.    Los años noventa: aproximaciones al absolutismo jurídico        968.    Tiempo de cosecha. Año 1995: El orden jurídico medieval        989.    Tiempo de cosecha. Año 2001: Mitologías jurídicas de la modernidad        10210.    Tiempo de cosecha. Año 2000: Ciencia jurídica italiana        10511.    Tiempo de cosecha. Año 2003: Primera lección de derecho        10712.    Tiempo de cosecha. Año 2006: Sociedad, derecho, Estado        109
13.    Un saludo final        112

Obras de Paolo Grossi en castellano         115

CALL FOR PAPERS: International Law – Its Heritage as a Response to Modern Problems - Łódź, 16 and 17 May 2024 (DEADLINE: 30.09.2023)

 

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The Chair of International Law and International Relations and the Centre for Anglo-American Legal Tradition of the University of Lodz invites you to participate in the conference "International Law – Its Heritage as a Response to Modern Problems" that will take place 16-17 (Thursday-Friday) May 2024.

Conference’s mission

International law is constantly under attack for its unsuitability in the context of modern international relations and its challenges, the war in Ukraine being one of the most recent and tragic examples. From theoretical negators to cynical politicians, it is said that it is tiger without fangs and claws. Simultaneously, different bodies are constantly searching for new instruments to ensure the stability of today’s world embodied in the rule of law.

We believe, however, that the international legal community already has the answers to this problem, and that there is no need for a revolution. That response is international law’s greatest strength, i.e. its heritage, deeply rooted in legal tradition and consciousness of humans. Whether embodied either in treaties, customary law, or general rules recognised by the civilised nations it bears its values stemmed from the historical experience of nations.

The subject itself is broad but we would like to suggest some key issues that can be discussed during the conference. Among them are: (1) rule of law, (2) constitutional values of states, (3) human rights, (4) war crimes, (5) international justice, (6) influence of national or local laws, (7) protection of national interests v. global governance. However, we are not limiting the scope of proposed papers to the above-mentioned themes.

Because the theme of the conference is so wide and interdisciplinary, we are looking forward to welcoming in Lodz the broadest possible range of scholars, including international lawyers, both scholars and practitioners, legal historians, sociologists of law, specialists in political studies and international relations and more. Especially warmly, we invite young and early career scholars.

Professor Fernanda Pirie (University of Oxford), Professor Malgosia Fitzmaurice (Queen Mary University of London), and Professor Joseph H.H. Weiler (New York University School of Law) have already generously agreed to participate as key speakers at the conference.

Application

Applications can be submitted until 30 September 2023. It should contain:

• Name and surname

• Affiliation

• Short abstract (max 500 words)

• Author’s decision regarding paper / poster form of presentation (posters are predominantly recommended for Young and Early Career Scholars)

The Scientific Committee reserves its right to decide about the final programme until 31 October 2023. Authors of the accepted applications will be asked then to prepare longer abstracts (up to 1500 words) which will be collected in the Book of Abstracts (published by the end of January 2024).

Contact email: Anglo-AmericanLT@uni.lodz.pl

Call for papers: here.

Center for Anglo-American Legal Tradition website.

CALL FOR PAPERS : Le Juge et l'Expert : en quête de vérité (18-20 October 2023, Lille) (DEADLINE : 1 July 2023)

(Source: https://juge-expert.sciencesconf.org/) 

The University of Lille has a call for papers for a colloquium on the role of experts in the judicial system.

La pratique contemporaine a placé l’avis scientifique au cœur des processus de décision. L’expertise judiciaire, définie comme le « recours à un technicien consistant à demander à un spécialiste (…) d’éclairer le tribunal sur certains aspects du procès nécessitant l’avis d’un homme de l’art » (Termes juridiques, Dalloz, 1995, v° Expertise), occupe de nos jours une place centrale dans le domaine de la justice. Ce constat traverse plus généralement les disciplines et les époques : de l’authentification de documents à l’expertise psychiatrique, les conclusions apportées par les experts constituent un recours indispensable pour la justice. Le rôle de ceux, depuis le médecin jusqu’au cyber-analyste, à qui elle est confiée s’est cependant étendu depuis le XIX^e siècle, précisément au moment où les portes des tribunaux leur ont été plus largement ouvertes. Depuis, il semble évident que si les conclusions d’une analyse ne lient pas le magistrat, elles sont toutefois de nature à peser sur la décision judiciaire.

Cela rend légitime l’intérêt porté, dans le cadre de cet appel à communication, à l’évolution des relations entre experts et magistrats, un thème qui constituera l’axe majeur du colloque organisé à l’automne 2023 à l’Université de Lille. Comment ces différents acteurs, s’ils restent tournés vers la manifestation de la vérité, se répartissent pouvoirs et responsabilités ? Cette manifestation scientifique offre l’opportunité de croiser les regards, de questionner l’équilibre entre les apports de l’expert et la décision rendue par le juge, et d’explorer toutes les dimensions de l’expertise, au passé comme au présent.

Afin de pouvoir utilement guider les personnes intéressées par la thématique du colloque, les organisateurs mettent à leur disposition plusieurs pistes de réflexion qui pourront constituer les différents axes développés dans le cadre de cet évènement (I). Dans le même temps, une sélection bibliographique a été constituée afin d’orienter les choix qui pourront être faits dans la détermination des propositions de communication (II). Il est enfin proposé que ces dernières puissent être déposées en ligne sur le site du congrès afin de pouvoir finaliser, dans les meilleurs délais, les propositions d’intervention de même que les échanges avec les organisateurs. A cette fin, des recommandations et instructions sont fournies dans la rubrique vade-mecum (III).

 

More info as well as the link to submit a proposal can be found here. 

ARTICLE: Eileen DENZA & Lauge POULSEN, "Settling Russia's Imperial and Baltic Debts" (American Journal of International Law Advance Article)

 

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Abstract:

The 1918 Soviet default is the longest and most complex sovereign debt dispute in history. The first settlement with a major western power came with the United Kingdom in 1986. It followed a settlement almost twenty years earlier for claims arising from the Soviet annexation of the Baltic states. We show how the two negotiations became intertwined and prompted both states to take pragmatic positions on international law. Whereas the Soviet Union showed little interest in legally justifying its inconsistent positions on debt succession, the United Kingdom developed contested legal arguments on state recognition to justify using gold belonging to the Baltic States to settle Soviet claims. In addition, we document how UK government lawyers admitted internally that Britain’s involvement in the Russian Civil War had been illegal, which in turn justified very limited compensation to British claimants.

Read the article here (DOI 10.1017/ajil.2023.23). 

LECTURE: James GORDLEY, “The Eclipse of Classical Thought in China and the West”, ONLINE/Louvain-la-Neuve 24 May 2023, 14:30”

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Description:

James Gordley specializes in comparative law, contract law and legal history. He has been a professor at Tulane Law School since 2007, which he joined from the University of California, Berkeley, where he had been a law faculty member since 1978. He was a fellow at the Institute of Comparative Law at the University of Florence, an associate with the Boston firm of Foley Hoag & Eliot and an Ezra Ripley Thayer Fellow at Harvard before beginning his teaching career. Gordley has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a Fulbright Fellow, a Senior NATO Fellow and a fellow of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. He has been a visiting professor at the Universities of Fribourg, Regensburg, Munich, Milan and Universita Commerciale Luigi Bocconi; a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Law in Hamburg, the European University Institute in Fiesole and the University of Cologne; and the Jean Monnet Distinguished Professor in Comparative Law at the University of Trent. He received the UC Berkeley Distinguished Teaching Award in 1984 and the Rutter Award for Teaching Distinction in 2001. Tulane Law School’s graduating class of 2010 selected him for the Felix Frankfurter Distinguished Teaching Award. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a fellow of the European Law Institute, a titular member of the International Academy of Comparative Law and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. He is the author of several books, including The Eclipse of Classical Thought in China and the West (Oxford, OUP, 2022), An Introduction to the Comparative Study of Private Law (Cambridge, CUP, 2021, with Hao Jiang and Arthur von Mehren); The Jurists: A Critical History (Oxford, OUP, 2013); Foundations of Private Law (Oxford, OUP, 2006), The Enforceability of Promises in European Contract Law (Cambridge, CUP, 2001), and The Philosophical Origins of Modern Contract Doctrine (Oxford, Clarendon, 1991). His next book, Foundations of American Contract Law, is forthcoming with OUP.

Agenda: 

Mardi 23 mai 2023 de 14h à 15h (Salle Dabin) : Foundations of American Contract Law - Conférence Mardi 23 mai 2023 de 15h à 17h (Salle Dabin) : Private Law and Legal History - Masterclass Mercredi 24 mai 2023 de 14h30 à 15h30 (Salle Dabin) : The Eclipse of Classical Thought in China and the West - Conférence 

More information here.

GIORNATE DI STUDIO: 'Bergamo, Brescia e Crema nella Lombardia Veneziana' - 19 Maggio, 16 settembre e 10 ottobre 2023

 

BOOK: Damián FERNANDEZ, Molly LESTER, Jamie WOOD (eds.), Rome and Byzantium in the Visigothic Kingdom Beyond Imitatio Imperii (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2023), ISBN: 9789463726412

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ABOUT THE BOOK

This volume interrogates the assumption that Visigothic practices and institutions were mere imitations of the Byzantine empire. Contributors rethink these practices not as uncritical and derivative adoptions of Byzantine customs, but as dynamic processes in dialogue with not only the Byzantine empire but also with the contemporary Iberian context, as well as the Roman past. The goal of the volume is to approach Visigothic customs not as an uncritical adoption and imitatio of contemporary Roman models (an "acculturation" model), but as unique interpretations of a common pool of symbols, practices, and institutions that formed the legacy of Rome. The contributors argue that it is necessary to reconsider the idea of imitatio imperii as a process that involved specific actors taking strategic decisions in historically contingent circumstances.

ABOUT THE EDITORS

Molly Lester is Assistant Professor of History at the United States Naval Academy. She is a historian of late antique and early medieval Christianity and has published on orthodoxy and heresy, liturgy, and canon law in Visigothic Iberia. Her current book project is The Word as Lived: Orthodoxy and Liturgy in Early Medieval Iberia.

Jamie Wood is Professor of History and Education at the University of Lincoln. He has published extensively on Isidore of Seville’s historiography, bishops in Visigothic Hispania, and the social functions of violence. His current project explores political, economic, and religious connections between the Iberian Peninsula and the Byzantine world in late antiquity.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction (Damián Fernández, Molly Lester, and Jamie Wood);

1. Visigothic Spain and Byzantium. The story of a special (historiographical) relationship (Céline Martin);

2. The development of the Visigothic court in the hagiography of the fifth and sixth centuries (Ian Wood);

3. Experiments in Visigothic Rulership: Minting and Monetary Reforms under Alaric II (Merle Eisenberg);

4. A comparison of Roman and Visigothic Approaches towards Exile (Margarita Vallejo Girvés);

5. The Roman Jewel in the Visigothic Crown: A Reassessment of the Royal Votive Crowns of the Guarrazar Treasure (Cecily Hilsdale);

6. Capitalhood in the Visigothic Kingdom (Damián Fernández);

7. Making Rite Choices: Roman and Eastern Liturgies in Early Medieval Iberia (Molly Lester);

8. Ethnicity and Imitatio in Isidore of Seville (Erica Buchberger);

9. Re-imagining Roman Persecution in the Visigothic Passions (David Addison);

10. Romanness in Visigothic Hagiography (Santiago Castellanos);

11. Empire and the Politics of Faction: Mérida and Toledo Revisited (Graham Barrett);

12. The agents and mechanics of connectivity: The Mediterranean world and the cities of the Guadiana valley in the sixth century (Jamie Wood);

13. Staying Roman after 711? (Ann Christys).

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BOOK PRESENTATION: "Diritti, costituzione, democrazia: una tensione irrisolta" - martedì 23 maggio 2023, Verona (anche in collegamento da remoto) 19/5/2023 Foto "Lombroso e il Sud. La questione meridionale nella prospettiva dell'antropologia criminale tra Otto e Novecento" - giovedì 26 maggio 2023, Catania (anche in collegamento da remoto)

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ARTICLE: Roman CUTTAT, "La constitution de l'Edit de 1570 à Genève" (Forum Historiae Iuris, OCT 2022) (OPEN ACCESS)

 

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Abstract:

Despite the independence gained from the Duke of Savoy, Geneva, which took on the name Republic in the first half of the XVIth century, is no less, in its new constitutional form as in the exercise of power, dependent on an oligarchic political arrangement of which the "Eidguenots" are partly the instigators. Thus, there is less of an abrupt turnaround in the genesis of the Civil and Political Edicts of 1543 than an aristocratic model. Evidence of this is the Edict of 1570, which illustrates the unstoppable and explicit dispossession of the people in legislative matters. Although originally authorized by the Franchises of Adhémar Fabri to decide the weight of taxation, in 1570 the General Council ceded the permission to the patriciate for the right to levy taxes, but such delegation is part of singular circumstances. Indeed, this concession makes sense according to the bourgeoisie and citizens only because of imperative conditions, which are essentially due to external threats and to the situation of an economically cornered Geneva. In addition to appearing politically characteristic of an oligarchic inflection, the 1570 Edict was the subject of an ambivalent reception during the constitutional crises of the first half of the XVIIIth century, under the emergence, among others, of Natural Law, which served as a real political reason both for the bourgeoisie and citizens, as well as the patriciate. If, in many respects, the 1570 Edict reveals the oligarchic conditioning characteristic of the Geneva of the Ancien Régime, the whole issue will involve measuring the exact scope of this delegation, the ultimate purpose of which lies in this synthetic question: Whom does the power belong to?

Read the full article in open access here: DOI  10.26032/fhi-2022-13.

SYMPOSIUM: Le Università libere nella Storia dell'Università e della cultura giuridica - venerdì 19 maggio 2023, Camerino

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ARTICLE: Rafael RAMIS BARCELÓ, "Egresados hispanos en el Colegio de Doctores de Nápoles (1584-1699)" (Memoria y civilización XXVI (2023/1), 147-180) (OPEN ACCESS)

 

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Abstract:

This paper studies the presence of Spaniards in the Doctoral Colleges of Naples, from its erection in 1584 to 1699. The characteristics of the Colleges and the sociology of the doctors are explained and the graduates who declared themselves as Spaniard and those who were originally from Spain are studied. This provides a more accurate profile of the presence of Spaniard Doctors in Naples and allows new prosopographical studies.

Read the whole article in open access on the journal's website (DOI 10.15581/001.26.004)

LECTURE: Roman law and Scandinavia in early modernity: Reading Arthur Duck, De usu et Authoritate Iuris Civilis II, 13-14 - Padova 19 maggio 2023

 

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ARTICLE: Mathilde LEMÉE, "Les juristes publicistes du XIXe siècle et l’idée de droit administratif sous l’Ancien Régime" (Historia et Ius, 1 MAY 2023) (OPEN ACCESS)

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 Abstract:

The dispute over the existence of administrative law under the Ancien Régime is well known. Its origins, however are much less so. Yet, since the Mon- archy of July, many authors have attempted to investigate the history of adminis- trative law. Research on these ideas enables the understanding of the evolution of administrative law itself. It shows that while some authors highlight elements of continuity with the Ancien Régime, others insist upon the fondamental nature of the revolutionary breakage

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BOOK: Immi TALLGREN (ed), Portraits of Women in International Law: New Names and Forgotten Faces? (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023), 560 pp, ISBN 9780198868453, £140

 

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Book description: 

Current histories seem to suggest that men alone have been capable of the development of ideas, analysis, and practice of international law until the 1990s. Is this the case? Or have others been erased from the collective images of this history, including the portrait gallery of notables in international law?

Portraits of Women in International Law: New Names and Forgotten Faces? investigates the slow and late inclusion of women in the spheres of knowledge and power in international law. The forty-two textual and visual representations by a diverse team of passionate portraitists represent women and gender non-conforming people in international law from the fourteenth century onwards around the world: individuals and groups who imagined, developed, or contested international law; who earned their living in its institutions; or who, even indirectly, may have changed its course.

This rich volume calls for a critical identification of the formal and informal institutional practices, norms, and rituals of (white) masculinities, both in the past and in the research of international law today. By abandoning reductive histories, their biased frames, and tacit assumptions, this work brings previously unseen glimpses of international law and its agents, ideas, causes, behaviour, norms, and social practices into the spotlight.

Table of contents: 

Foreword: Looking at Portraits, Karen Knop
I. OPENING THE EXHIBITION
1:Re-curating the Portrait Gallery of International Law: The Objectives, Process, and Floorplan of the Exhibition, Immi Tallgren
II. THE VESTIBULE OF THE LEGENDARY ANCIENTS
2:Christine de Pizan: The Law of Warfare as Seen by a Medieval Woman, Franck Latty
3:Olympe de Gouges: Beyond the Symbol, Anne Lagerwall and Agatha Verdebout
4:The Reign of Order and the Rights of Siege According to Rosa Luxemburg, Deborah Whitehall
5:Maria van Reigersberch: Wife of Hugo Grotius, Henk Nellen
III. FIGUREHEADS OF FIGHTING FOR PEACE
6:Bertha von Suttner: Locating International Law in Novel and Salon, Janne E. Nijman
7:Jane Addams: Positive Peace from the Everyday to the International, Kate Grady and Gina Heathcote
IV. THE WINTER GARDEN OF ABOLITION AND RESISTANCE: WOMEN AGAINST SLAVERY, RACISM AND IMPERIALISM
8:Anna Julia Cooper: A Voice from the (Global) South, Christopher Gevers
9:Homelands of Mary Ann Shadd, Sarah Riley Case
10:Avabai Wadia: A Gentle Rebel of (Other) Nations?, Vasuki Nesiah
V. THE HALL OF DIVERSITY OF FEMINIST ACTIVISM IN INTERNATIONAL LAW
11:Ghénia Avril de Sainte-Croix: Abolitionism and the League of Nations, Frédéric Mégret
12:Yayori Matsui: Challenging the Silences of International Law through Pan Asian Feminist Solidarity, Keina Yoshida
13:Canonizing the Memory of Annie Ruth Jiagge in the Global Efforts Toward Gender Equality, Michael Addaney
VI. THE HALL OF WOMEN FOR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT BY INTERNATIONAL LAW: A NORDIC DREAM?
14:Alva Myrdal: The Rise and Fall of Social Democratic Internationalism, Anne Orford
15:Ester Boserup: Women and Development on the Margins, Miriam Bak Mackenna
16:Helvi Sipilä: Advocating Women's Rights at the UN, Raimo Lintonen
VII. THE BREAKERS OF THE GLASS CEILING: THE 'FIRST AND ONLY' IN INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS
17:Suzanne Bastid: The First of the 'Firsts', Immi Tallgren and Antoine Buchet
18:Marguerite Frick-Cramer: A Life Spent Shaping the Geneva Conventions, Boyd van Dijk
19:Vijayalakshmi Pandit: Gendering and Racing against the Postcolonial Predicament, Parvathi Menon
20:The Timing of Felice Morgenstern, Jan Klabbers
21:Paula Escarameia: Envisioning the Humane Face of International Law in the Twenty-first Century, Ana Caldeira Fouto, António Pedro Barbas Homem, and Pedro Caridade de Freitas
VIII. THE OTHER GROUP PICTURES IN INTERNATIONAL LAW
22:Forgotten Female Actors in Private International Law: The International Social Service, Roxana Banu
23:Female Staff in the Legal Section of the League of Nations, Benjamin Auberer
24:The 'Indigenous Women' Behind the 'Other' Beijing Declaration, Bérénice K. Schramm
25:The Women's Caucus for Gender Justice: Writing Gender into International Criminal Law, Anna van der Velde
IX. THE MISSING FACES OF THE FACULTY CORRIDORS
26:Sarah Wambaugh: Life at the Frontiers of International Law, Imogen Saunders
27:Exile and Access: Lilly Melchior Roberts and the Infrastructures of International Law, Alexandra Kemmerer
28:Lea Meriggi: A Fighter For the Wrong Cause, Serena Forlati
29:Isabella Diederiks-Verschoor: (A Life) Creating Spaces, Christiaan Verwer and Anna van der Velde
30:Gezina van der Molen: A Journey from Universalism to Pluralism, Sarah MH Nouwen and Wouter Werner
31:Elisabeth Mann Borgese: Ecology, Relationality, and Law of the Sea, Sara Seck
32:Marie Theres Fögen: The Universalization of a Rotten Deal, Reut Paz
33:Kalliopi Koufa: First Greek Female Academic of Public International Law, Marilena Papadaki
X. THE ROOF-TOP GALLERY OF DIPLOMACY AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
34:Thomas Baty in Japan: Seeing through the Twilight, Shinya Murase
35:Zheng Yuxiu and the Diplomacy of Nationalism and Feminism, Margaret Kuo
36:Marjorie M. Whiteman: Not Flowers but a Medal, Hatsue Shinohara
37:Aleksandra Kollontai: 'New Woman', Sergey Vasiliev
38:The Role of International Law in Paulina Luisi's Activism, Andrei Mamolea
39:Working from 'Rooms of Their Own': For a Realistic Portrait of Joyce Gutteridge CBE and Other Trailblazing Women, Luiza Leāo Soares Pereira
XI. PORTRAITS OF ARTISTS, JOURNALISTS AND VISIONARIES OF INTERNATIONAL LAW
40:"If Only They Listened to Simone Weil": From Rights to Roots, Outi Korhonen
41:Helene Halperin-Ginsburg: The Social Function of International Law, Ksenia Shestakova
42:Human Rights and Communist Internationalism: On Inji Aflatoun and the Surrealists, Mai Taha
43:Fearless Speech: A Portrait of UN Typist Shirley Hazzard , Dianne Otto
Epilogue: Exit through the Gift Shop, Hilary Charlesworth

About the author: 

Immi Tallgren is Adjunct Professor of International Law at the University of Helsinki and Senior KONE Research Fellow at the Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights. She has previously worked at the Finnish MFA, the Legal Affairs Unit of EUROPOL, the European Space Agency, and the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg. Her research interests are primarily in international criminal law, history of international law, law and cinema, and feminist approaches to international law. Her recent publications include The Dawn of a Discipline: International Criminal Justice and its Early Exponents (with Frédéric Mégret, CUP, 2020) and Retrials: The New Histories of International Criminal Law (with Thomas Skouteris, OUP, 2019).

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SEMINAR: Premodern Composite Polities and Their Importance for the Post-national State (19.05.2023, hybrid form)

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The Coordination Board of the research platform „Hector. Heritage, Culture, Norms”, invites for the first seminar of the project entitled “Premodern Composite Polities and Their Importance for the Post-national State”. 

„HECTOR: Heritage, Culture, Norms” is an innovative, interdisciplinary, international research platform project. It aims to provide a proper venue for academic discussion on a wide range of topics on legal heritage: from transforming fundamental/universal values into norms, through the consolidation of the latter ones into artifacts, to their current presence as well as their role in the future. This research was funded by the Priority Research Area Heritage under the program Excellence Initiative – Research University at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow.

The invited guests are Prof. Julia Burkhardt of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, and Dr. Paul Srodecki of Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel.

Programme

13.00-13.15 Opening Addresses

13.15-13.40 Dr Paul Srodecki (Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel): Composite Polities: Terminology & Historiography

13.40-13.55 Coffee break

13.55-14.20 Prof. Julia Burkhardt (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München): Objects, Rituals and Symbolic Communication in Premodern Europe

14.20-14.50 Discussion

14.50-15.00 Conclusions

The event will be held in a hybrid format: on-site in the conference room at the JU Student Zone (Strefa Studencka UJ) (św. Anny Street 6 in Cracow) and via the MS TEAMS platform - on the 19th May 2023.

If you are interested in taking part in this seminar fill in the registration form: https://forms.office.com/e/TxLwAPSDuk

For more information on the project visit the website: https://lhlab.wpia.uj.edu.pl/platform.

Contact email: hector.office@uj.edu.pl.

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BOOK: Yanna YANNAKAKIS, Since Time Immemorial: Native Custom and Law in Colonial Mexico (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023), 352 pp, ISBN 9781478016984, $104.95

 

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Book description: 

In Since Time Immemorial Yanna Yannakakis traces the invention of Native custom, a legal category that Indigenous litigants used in disputes over marriage, self-governance, land, and labor in colonial Mexico. She outlines how, in the hands of Native litigants, the European category of custom—social practice that through time takes on the normative power of law—acquired local meaning and changed over time. Yannakakis analyzes sources ranging from missionary and Inquisition records to Native pictorial histories, royal surveys, and Spanish and Native-language court and notarial documents. By encompassing historical actors who have been traditionally marginalized from legal histories and highlighting spaces outside the courts like Native communities, parishes, and missionary schools, she shows how imperial legal orders were not just imposed from above but also built on the ground through translation and implementation of legal concepts and procedures. Yannakakis argues that, ultimately, Indigenous claims to custom, which on the surface aimed to conserve the past, provided a means to contend with historical change and produce new rights for the future.

Table of contents: 

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction  xiii
Part I. Legal and Intellectual Foundations: Twelfth through Seventeenth Centuries
1. Custom, Law, and Empire in the Mediterranean-Atlantic World  23
2. Translating Custom in Castile, Central Mexico, and Oaxaca  45
Part II. Good and Bad Customs in the Native Past and Present: Sixteenth through Seventeenth Centuries
3. Framing Pre-Hispanic Law and Custom  73
4. The Old Law, Polygyny, and the Customs of the Ancestors  109
Part III. Custom in Oaxaca’s Courts of First Instance: Seventeenth through Eighteenth Centuries
5. Custom, Possession, and Jurisdiction in the Boundary Lands  139
6. Custom as Social Contract: Native Self-Governance and Labor  171
7. Prescriptive Custom: Written Labor Agreements in Indian and Spanish Jurisdictions  199
Epilogue  229
Notes  237
Bibliography  273
Index  305

About the author: 

Yanna Yannakakis is Associate Professor of History at Emory University, author of The Art of Being In-Between: Native Intermediaries, Indian Identity, and Local Rule in Colonial Oaxaca, and coeditor of Indigenous Intellectuals: Knowledge, Power, and Colonial Culture in Mexico and the Andes, both also published by Duke University Press.

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