20 November 2018

CONFERENCE : ‘Law and Economic Performance in the Roman World’. (Brussels, 13-15 December 2018)


(Source: sdep.ugent.be)

Organised by Koenraad Verboven (UGent) and Paul Erdkamp (VUB) in the framework of research network ‘Structural Determinants of Economic Performance in the Roman World’ (SDEP) and the ‘Committee for Legal History’ of the Royal Academy.

Participation is free but for practical reasons please register before 1 Dec. Koen.Verboven@ugent.be
The conference will take place in the ‘Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and Arts’ in Brussels on Thursday 13 December (afternoon) and Friday 14 December (all day), and in the Free University of Brussels on Saturday 15 Dec. (10-12h). See below for the full programme and our website for all other details (http://www.sdep.ugent.be/events/law-and-economic-performance-in-the-roman-world)

Thursday 13 Dec. 2018
Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and Arts (
http://www.kvab.be/en)
Ockeghem-room
13:30 Paul Erdkamp and Koenraad Verboven, Legal institutions and economic performance
14:00 Stefania Gialdroni, Levin Goldschmidt: how and when commercial law history became important for lawyers
14:30 Dennis Kehoe, Private property rights and public claims on land in the Roman Empire
15:00 Discussion
15:30 Coffee
16:00 Alberto Dalla Rossa, Choosing the best exploitation model for an imperial property: regional, economic and political considerations
16:30 Marco Maiuro, The legal status and implications of the patrimonium Caesaris
17:00 Hernán González Bordas, New data about the imperial administration and land tenure in Roman Imperial Estates in North Africa
17:30 Discussion

Friday 14 Dec. 2018
Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and Arts (
http://www.kvab.be/en)
Ockeghem-room
9:30 Peter Candy, Rome’s Economic and Legal Transformation: The Development of Roman Maritime Law in the Late Republic.
10:00 Philip Kay, The effectiveness of the early Roman law of contract for bankers. An economic historian’s view
10:30 Discussion
11:00 Coffee
11:30 Boudewijn Sirks, The partes in the societates publicanorum: transferable?
12:00 Emilia Mataix Ferrándiz, The Roman law of obligations and the scripta commercii. Confronting material and textual evidence
12:30 Discussion
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Peter Sarris, <Legal contracts in banking and credit in late antiquity>
14:30 Merav Haklai (in absentia), The pretium in numerata pecunia controversy and Jewish debate over the acquisition of movables
15:00 Discussion
15:30 Coffee 
16:00 Elisabeth Hermann-Otto, Legal regulations of manumission and the economic interests of patrons and heirs: correspondence and contrast
16:30 Lina Girdvainyte, Roman citizens in the legal economy of a Greek polis
17:00 Discussion

Saturday 15 Dec. 2018, Free University of Brussels (VUB),
Humanities, Sciences & Engineering Campus, Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussel
Building E, Room  E0.04
10:00 Taco Terpstra, “The Law is the Public Conscience.” Social aspects of the efficacy of Roman Law
10:30  Sven Günther, Creating Socio-economic and Legal Frames – Cicero’s Pro Quinctio
11:00 Discussion
11:30 Coffee
12:00 End of the workshop

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