30 November 2021

BOOK: Dave DE RUYSSCHER, Albrecht CORDES, Serge DAUCHY, Stefania GIALDRONI & Heikki PIHLAJAMÄKI (eds.), Commerce, Citizenship, and Identity in Legal History [Legal History Library, 54, eds. C.H. VAN RHEE, Dirk HEIRBAUT & Mathew C. MIROW] (Leiden/Boston: Martinus Nijhoff/Brill, 2021), 232 p. ISBN 978-90-04-47285-3, € 106

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Book abstract:
Legal historians have analysed the characteristics of merchant guilds and nationes (i.e., associations of foreign merchants), as well as the political clout of merchants, including foreign ones. However, how the legal status of citizens related to the merchant class and how its contents were influenced by trade remains largely unclear. Did governments have a policy of citizenship that was tailored to commercial interests? Were foreign merchants belonging to a separate legal category of resident? If so, what defined this category? To what extent could different types of legal status and membership of communities or guilds overlap? And how did all this affect merchants’ identities, their self-images of belonging? This collection of essays provides anwers to these questions.

Table of contents: 

Introduction

1 The Bannum in Italian Bankruptcy Law (Fourteenth-Fifteenth Centuries)
   Marta Lupi

2 “Without regard to foreignness” The Reciprocal Equal Treatment of Foreign Creditors in the Early Modern German Territories
   Remko Mooi

3 Modifying Procedural Practices, Shaping Economic Identities The Middle Class and Negotiated Debt Adjustment in Commercial Courts in Belgium (1883–1914)
   Pieter De Reu

4 Citizenship in Early Modern Amsterdam An Artisanal Identity?
   Marco In ‘t Veld and Maurits den Hollander

5 The Pareres of the Governors of the Frankfurt Exchange Legal Opinions of Frankfurt Merchants in the Eighteenth Century
   Sonja Breustedt

6 Identity, Conflict and Commercial Law Legal Strategies of Castilian Merchants in the Low Countries (Fifteenth–Sixteenth Centuries)
   Gijs Dreijer

7 The Learning Market in Early Modern Antwerp (Seventeenth–Eighteenth Centuries) Circulation of Knowledge within the Context of Private Partnership Contracts
   Patrick Naaktgeboren

8 Family, Religion, and Business Cooperation Jewish Private Partnerships in Eighteenth-Century Amsterdam
   Manon Moerman

9 “Tolerate their religion, but not their usury” Conrad Summenhart on Tolerating Jewish Bankers in an Era of Mass Expulsions
   Joost Possemiers

On the editors:

Dave De ruysscher is Associate Professor at the Department of Public Law and Governance at Tilburg Law School, Tilburg University, The Netherlands, and Associate Professor at the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Law at the Faculty of Law and Criminology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium. Albrecht Cordes is Professor of Medieval and Early Modern Legal History and Civil Law at the Goethe University Frankfurt/Main. His research is especially focused on the history of commercial law, Hanseatic legal history and the history of conflict resolution. Serge Dauchy is Senior Research director at the CNRS and director of the Centre d'Histoire Judiciaire of Lille University, France. He is also Professor at the Faculty of Law of the Université Saint-Louis of Brussels, Belgium. His main research topics are the history of civil procedure, comparative history of central courts and the history of Québec. Stefania Gialdroni is Assistant Professor at the Department of Law at Roma Tre University, Italy. She will soon move to the Department of Private Law and Critical Legal Studies at the University of Padua (Italy), where she has been promoted to the position of full professor. Heikki Pihlajamäki is Professor of Comparative Legal History at the University of Helsinki, Finland, and Academy Professor at the Academy of Finland. He has published extensively on the legal history of Scandinavia, Europe and America, including Conquest and the Law in Swedish Livonia (ca. 1630-1710): A Case of Legal Pluralism in Early Modern Europe (Brill, 2017).

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JOURNAL: Comparative Legal History IX (2021), nr. 2

 

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Editorial (Agustín Parise & Matthew Dyson)

Global legal biography (Philip Bajon, Victoria Barnes & Emily Whewell) (127-153)
DOI 10.1080/2049677X.2021.2001967-  OPEN ACCESS
Abstract:

This article aims to contribute to the growing body of scholarship on legal biography. In Britain and the United States, a long standing tradition is to focus on the lives of judges. Existing studies focus on a subject’s early life and background, showing that this experience had an impact on legal ideas and law-making. Yet, there is now a recent resurgence in interest in legal biography that focusses on legal figures elsewhere in the world. The scholarship on figures in supranational entities, such as the British Empire and the European Union, breaks away from the national view of law and adopts a transnational and comparative focus. Scholars grapple with concepts and approaches of following lawyers who go beyond borders and transcend regions. By critically examining the legal biographies of actors in the former British Empire and the European Union, this article considers the value of a global perspective involving an inter-regional lens and the methodological barriers that remain.

The law of waste and the law of dilapidations: A comparative history (Richard Helmholz) (154-176)
DOI 10.1080/2049677X.2021.1997375

Abstract:

This article compares the origins and later development of two related remedies – one from the canon law, the other from the English common law. Neither has attracted the sustained attention of legal historians, but both played a part in the growth of English law. Although the evidence is insufficient to show that the relationship between the two was that of a ‘legal transplant’, it does produce both significant parallels and differences between them. The comparison also opens a window on the attitudes and habits characteristic of the lawyers on both sides of the divide between the two legal systems.

The defence of Venetian dominion over the Adriatic Sea: Situating Paolo Sarpi c 1600–1625 (Stefano Cattelan) (177-207)
DOI 10.1080/2049677X.2021.2001968
Abstract:

During the Middle Ages, the Republic of Venice gradually gained control over the Adriatic Sea. Leading medieval jurists argued in favour of Venetian maritime jurisdiction based on Roman law principles and geopolitical realities. However, starting from the end of the fifteenth century, new developments, such as oceangoing navigation, challenged the foundations of the Serenissima’s wealth and power. The 1610s represented a particularly critical conjuncture for Venice, whose dominion over the Adriatic Sea was disputed by powerful actors. In 1609, Hugo Grotius published the famous pamphlet Mare liberum, which advocated the freedom of the sea towards the Indies based on natural law principles and had the potential to endanger Venetian dominance over the Adriatic Sea as well. In this context, Paolo Sarpi, consultant of the Venetian government, elaborated a legal-political defence of Venetian dominion over the Adriatic. His ideas should be read as a reaction but not a direct reply to Mare liberum.

An enlightened shadow? Elements of the intellectual climate at the time of the codification of the Criminal Law of Malta (Mark A. Sammut Sassi) (208-235)
DOI 10.1080/2049677X.2021.1997377
Abstract:

The Criminal Law of Malta was codified in 1854 under British rule. Prior to that, Maltese criminal law was subject to regulation by the Municipal Code of 1784, promulgated by the government of the Knights of St John. In both instances, the Maltese themselves were active in the creation of the legal text, and in both cases, they explicitly referred to the Maltese nation and to law and its notional relationship with the nation and that relationship’s ramifications. The question therefore arises whether codification nationalised criminal law in Malta, where a Frenchified élite that spoke Italian belonged to the ius commune tradition, was alive to the Enlightenment, and sought to resist a complete take-over under the occupation of a ruler whose common-law system mistrusted codificatio

Book reviews

  • The laws of Hammurabi. At the confluence of royal and scribal traditions by Pamela Barmash, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2020, 336 pp., £64 (hbk), ISBN 978-0197525401 (Luca Silquini-Cinelli)
    DOI 10.1080/2049677X.2021.1997378
  • Government use of print. Official publications in the Holy Roman Empire, 1500–1600 by Saskia Limbach, Frankfurt am Main, Vittorio Klostermann, 2021, XVIII + 347 pp., €79 (pbk), ISBN 978-3465044253 (Alain Wijffels)
    DOI 10.1080/2049677X.2021.1997379
  • Knowledge of the pragmatici: legal and moral theological literature and the formation of early modern Ibero-America edited by Thomas Duve and Otto Danwerth, Leiden, Brill, 2020, xiii + 382 pp, €94 (hbk), ISBN 978-9004421622 (Heikki Pihlajamäki)
    DOI 10.1080/2049677X.2021.1997380
  • Cultures of law in urban Northern Europe: Scotland and its neighbours c. 1350–1650 edited by Jackson W Armstrong and Edda Frankot, London and New York, Routledge, 2021, 304 pp, £27,99 (ebook), ISBN 978-0429262869 (Jasmin Hepburn)
    DOI 10.1080/2049677X.2021.1997381
  • Suicide, law, and community in early modern Sweden by Riikka Miettinen, Cham, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, 346 pp, €71,68 (hbk), ISBN 978-3030118440 (Sara M Butler)
    DOI 10.1080/2049677X.2021.1997382
  • Socialism and legal history. The histories and historians of law in socialist East Central Europe edited by Ville Erkkilä and Hans-Peter Haferkamp, London, Routledge, 2020, 199 pp, £96 (hbk), ISBN 978-0367414757 (Dovilė Sagatienė)
    DOI 10.1080/2049677X.2021.2001969
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CONFERENCE: 43. Rechtshistorikertag (Zürich, 8-12 August 2022)

 


The 43th edition of the Rechtshistorikertag will be held in Zürich. More info about the conference will be uploaded on the dedicated conference website.

Rechtsnormen erheben Anspruch auf Verbindlichkeit. Ihre Geltung ist allerdings keine Selbstverständlichkeit. Je nach sozialem, politischem, wirtschaftlichem und kulturellem Umfeld wird Recht in ganz unterschiedlicher Weise beschrieben und durch sehr unterschiedliche Mechanismen für verbindlich erklärt und durchgesetzt. Die Vorträge und Diskussionen des 43. Rechtshistorikertages sollen Vorstellungen und Grenzen von „Rechtsgeltung“ auf verschiedenen historischen Stufen ermitteln, analysieren und vergleichen.

Die Plenarvorträge fragen nach Typen und Formen von Rechtsgeltung in Antike, Mittelalter, Früher Neuzeit und Moderne.

Demgegenüber richtet sich der Blick in den Sektionen des Rechtshistorikertages auf besondere Kontexte und Problemlagen von Rechtsgeltung. Mit dem Rechtspluralismus wird dabei die vieldiskutierte Frage nach dem Neben- und gegebenenfalls auch Miteinander von Geltungsansprüchen unterschiedlicher Rechtsnormen untersucht. In der Sektion Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit rücken die Geltung von Rechtsnormen und ihre Anwendung jenseits staatlicher Herrschaft in den Vordergrund. In der Sektion religiöse Rechte wird danach gefragt, wie und in welcher Weise Rechtsgeltung im Zusammenhang religiöser Verbände, unter Umständen in Konkurrenz zu weltlicher hoheitlicher Herrschaft, entsteht. Die zwischenstaatliche Sphäre von Rechtsgeltung ist Gegenstand der Sektion Völkerrechtsgeschichte. Der wechselseitigen Abhängigkeit von Rechtsgeltung und den medialen Gestaltungen von Recht ist die Sektion Medienwandel und Recht gewidmet. Die Bedeutung spezialisierten Rechtswissens für die Geltung von Recht wird schliesslich in der Sektion Expertenkulturen des Rechts zum Gegenstand der Betrachtung gemacht.

Rechtsgeltung, ihre Grundlagen, ihre Grenzen und ihre Inhalte sind in der Gegenwart immer wieder fraglich geworden. Auch und gerade diesen Debatten bietet der 43. Rechtshistorikertag 2022 einen breit angelegten historischen Horizont der Reflexion.

 

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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Turin Humanities Programme - 2nd Call for Applications, 2021 - 2022-2024 Research Cycle: “Political Thought and the Body: Europe and East Asia, ca. 1100-1650” (deadline 15 February 2022)

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TURIN HUMANITIES PROGRAMME

 2nd CALL FOR APPLICATIONS - 2021 

2022-2024 RESEARCH CYCLE 

“Political Thought and the Body: Europe and East Asia, ca. 1100-1650” 


INTRODUCTION 

Fondazione 1563 per l’Arte e la Cultura della Compagnia di San Paolo (hereinafter “Fondazione 1563”) has since 2013 supported research and advanced training in the field of the humanities. In a wider effort to pursue this goal, in 2020 Fondazione 1563 has launched the Turin Humanities Programme, a research initiative that allows junior scholars to work on interrelated research projects under the guidance of especially appointed Senior Fellows. THP aims at promoting two-year research projects about relevant global history topics. Under THP in 2020 Fondazione 1563 launched a first call for application for research on the Enlightenment legacy: the rights of man in a global perspective. 

SUBJECT OF THE CALL 

Fondazione 1563 is now pleased to launch the second call for applications to award up to 4 two-year fellowships for advanced studies on Political Thought and the Body: Europe and East Asia, ca. 1100-1650. 

The Director of Studies for this programme (2022-2024) will be Serena Ferente, Professor of Medieval History at the University of Amsterdam. For information and questions please email: info@fondazione1563.it

Applicants are invited to submit research projects of a maximum of 3000 words, plus bibliography. Projects are expected to engage with one or more aspects of the general research framework Political Thought and the Body: Europe and East Asia, ca. 1100-1650. Proposals are expected to focus on the symbolic use of the body in political discourse through the analysis of texts, objects and images produced in the Euro-Mediterranean and/or East Asian world during the period between ca. 1100 and ca. 1650. Proposals should also contain an illustration of the different project phases, the relevant sources and methodologies and the expected outcomes, which will be considered an integral part of the project itself. Details of the research framework can be found here. 

In addition to the research proposal, applicants must submit their Curriculum vitae et studiorum and: - an article-length piece of writing, published or unpublished, which demonstrates innovative thinking (written in English, French, German, Italian, or Spanish) and - the contact information of two scholars familiar with the applicant’s work and willing to act as their referees (one of whom can be their PhD supervisor); only the referees of shortlisted candidates will be contacted by the Fondazione 1563. Successful candidates will carry out their individual research projects under the supervision of the Director of Studies. They will also collaborate to the organization of activities such as seminars, conferences, exhibitions and summer schools, during which they will be invited to share their research projects with a wider community of academics as well as students and the general public. 

ELIGIBLE APPLICATIONS 

The call is open to applicants holding a doctorate in History or in any discipline in the Humanities. Applicants who will be awarded their doctoral title before 31 July 2022 are also eligible to apply. Applicants should normally be within 7 years of the award of their Ph.D. They must be fluent in English, both spoken and written. English will be the working language of THP. There are no nationality requirements. Fondazione 1563 encourages applications from scholars of all backgrounds. We welcome diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive work environment. 

FELLOWSHIP GRANTS 

Each of the 4 Fellowships consists of an overall grant of € 50.000 (before taxes) to be paid according to the terms and conditions available here. The grant will last two years, starting on September 1, 2022 until August 31, 2024. These grants may not be held in conjunction with any other award. Fellows will be requested to reside in Turin for the duration of the fellowship and Fondazione 1563 will provide accommodation according to the terms and conditions available here. If the fellow is awarded any other grant during the THP fellowship, Fondazione 1563 reserves the right to withdraw and cancel the remaining part of the grant to be disbursed. For any further information on the grants please refer to the THP Terms and Conditions of Grant, that can be found here. 

HOW TO SUBMIT A PROPOSAL 

Applications must be submitted online by filling out the form available on the website of Fondazione 1563 at www.fondazione1563.it/application-form-thp-2021/ under THP/Call for applications/THP-2021. Applications submitted by other means will not be considered. For the application instructions please visit the following page. 

Applications must be submitted by February 15, 2022 (11.00 PM CET).

EVALUATION CRITERIA 

The Scientific Committee of the THP and the Director of Studies of the second research cycle of the THP will evaluate eligible applications according to the applicant’s qualifications and the quality and feasibility of the research project proposed. The committee will make its decisions on the basis of a comprehensive evaluation of the dossiers. The research proposals will be evaluated based on the following criteria (in no particular order): 1) coherence with the call and the research framework; 2) originality, quality, and scientific relevance of the research proposal; 3) clarity of the research questions, methods, and expected outcomes; 4) contribution to the geographical and chronological remit of the project; 5) appropriate planning in terms of research and implementation. Applicants shortlisted after the first selection will be contacted by email in order to arrange online interviews that will focus on the research proposal and the applicant’s curriculum. The interviews will be held in English and will take place remotely in early March 2022. Once the interview has been scheduled, it will not be possible to reschedule it. Candidates who do not attend the interview will be deemed to have withdrawn. 

HOW THE FELLOWSHIPS ARE AWARDED 

The fellowships will be awarded by the Scientific Committee of the THP, by the Director of Studies of the second research cycle and with the approval of the Board of Directors of Fondazione 1563. Successful applicants will be notified in writing via email and will be required to fill out and return the fellowship acceptance form, accepting the terms contained therein, within 7 working days from the notification. Candidates who do not return this form will be deemed to have withdrawn.


More information is available here.

29 November 2021

BOOK: Martin LÖHNIG (ed.), Beginn der Gegenwart. Studien zur juristischen Zeitgeschichte der 1980er Jahre (Bonn: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2021), 333 p., ISBN 978-3-8471-1329-4, € 39,99

 

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Abstract:
Rearmament and the peace movement, economic crisis and unemployment, census and surveillance state, AIDS and the end of sexual freedom, dying forests and dead rivers, Chernobyl and Wackersdorf, immigration and xenophobia, left-wing and right-wing extremist terrorism, shoulder pads and perms, squatters, drug deaths. The 1980s were by no means a boring "waiting period" between the end of the social-liberal reform era and the revolutions of 1989/90, but an experimental field for pluralism and individualism, for critical consciousness, protest and distinction, which massively transformed West German society and its law.

On the editor:

Martin Löhnig is Full Professor for Civil Law, Legal History and Canon Law at the University of Regensburg.

Read more here with the publisher. 

BOOK: William E. Butler & Oleksiy V. Kresin (Eds.), Discovering the Unexpected: Comparative Legal Studies in Eastern and Central Europe (Clark, New Jersey: Talbot Publishing, 2021).p. ISBN: 9781616196554, pp. 562, $ 150


ABOUT THE BOOK

A title in the JCL Studies in Comparative Law, Second Series. 

Comparative lawyers from Belarus, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Russia, Ukraine and the United States explore the contributions of Eastern and Central European comparatists mostly unknown outside the region in 25 essays addressing individuals, processes and institutions from the sixteenth century to recent times. Most names will be unfamiliar to comparative lawyers not from the region; some overlap in their geographical affiliation and the boundaries of the region itself are controversial. Several contributors give attention to Slavic law and its place within historical comparative studies. New light is cast on the development of comparative legal studies during the Soviet era and some of the principal personalities involved. 

ABOUT THE EDITORS

William E. Butler is the John Edward Fowler Distinguished Professor of Law, Dickinson School of Law, Pennsylvania State University; Emeritus Professor of Comparative Law, University of London (University College London); Foreign Member, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine. 

Oleksiy Kresin is a leading Ukrainian comparative lawyer; Head, Center of Comparative Jurisprudence, Koretsky Institute of State and Law, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; Secretary-General, Ukrainian Association of Comparative Jurisprudence; President, Ukrainian National Committee, International Association of Legal Sciences; Associate, International Academy of Comparative Law. 


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JOURNAL: Revista Historia y Justicia, 2021 - 16 (open access)

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ABOUT THE JOURNAL
  • La Revista Historia y Justicia es una publicación bianual que se ocupa del encuentro entre los campos científicos de la historia y de la justicia. Nace de preocupaciones compartidas por historiadoras/es es que trabajan desde archivos judiciales y legales entre otras, en Chile y otros países de habla castellana, y cubre un amplio periodo: desde fines del siglo XVI hasta tiempos actuales. Sin limitarse a dicha área cultural, ni a la historia de la justicia en sentido estricto, se concibe como un espacio de publicación de textos inéditos que contribuyen a pensar la articulación entre historia y justicia, es decir, que analicen sus problemáticas, actores y prácticas a través del tiempo, desde la época moderna o inicio del periodo colonial, hasta el presente. Su dimensión internacional se orienta hacia el conjunto de los países hispanoparlantes. Apoyada en el trabajo profesional de evaluadores pares anónimos, la revista publica resultados de investigación bajo la forma de dossiers temáticos o artículos autónomos.
  • TABEL OF CONTENTS
  • Aude Argouse / Ignacio Ayala Cordero

ONLINE SEMINAR: Critical Legal Theory Today. Lesson from the UK and Europe – with Costas Douzinas - 14 December 2021, 15:00 Buenos Aires (GMT -3)

 


Seminario Permanente del Grupo de Estudios Críticos en Política, Derecho y Sociedad (PoDeS) – 14 de diciembre de 2021, 15.00 hs, Buenos Aires (GMT-3) 

Inscripciones aquí.

26 November 2021

SEMINAR: «Les Corses, acteurs "internationaux" au Moyen Âge(XIIIe-XVe s.)» - Paris, jeudi 2 décembre 2021, de 14h à 16h

 

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 Dans le cadre des conférences de Stéphane Péquignot

Relations internationales et diplomatie (1300-1700)


Vannina Marchi van Cauwelaert (Université de Corse) présentera unecommunication intitulée : « Les Corses, acteurs "internationaux" au Moyen Âge(XIIIe-XVe s.) ». La séance aura lieu au 54 boulevard Raspail, en salle 17(niveau - 1), le jeudi 2 décembre 2021, de 14h à 16h.

Le séminaire est ouvert à tous, dans le respect des consignes sanitaires (port dumasque obligatoire)

Contact: stephane.pequignot@ephe.psl.eu

CALL FOR ARTICLES: Rechtskultur XI (2022) - XII (2023)

 
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The peer reviewed open access-journal Rechtskultur foresees two extra calls for articles. 

-  The 2021 call (Legal Gender Studies) is closed, a new issue is foreseen for December 2021
- The 2022 call (Law and Reconstruction after Crisis) is open until October 2022
- The 2023 call (Shaping Europa) has a deadline on October 2023


More information on the journal's website.

PRIZE: The Van Caenegem Prize 2022

 The European Society for Comparative Legal History (ESCLH) President and Executive Council are pleased to present the ESCLH Van Caenegem Prize competition. The prize will be awarded to a young legal historian deemed to have written the best article published in Comparative Legal History, the ESCLH journal, in 2020 and 2021 or on comparative legal history in another journal in the same two calendar years.



Art. 1: Name of the prize

The Van Caenegem prize is named in honour of Raoul Charles Van Caenegem, a pioneering author in the field of comparative legal history.

Art. 2: The best article in the field of comparative legal history

(1)           The Van Caenegem prize is awarded to the young legal historian(s) in the meaning of Art. 3 who wrote the best article in the field of comparative legal history.
(2)          Every article by a young legal historian published in the Society's journal (Comparative Legal History) in the two calendar years preceding the year in which the Society's Conference is held at which the prize is to be awarded will automatically be considered for the prize.
(3)           The Van Caenegem Prize Committee may consider articles in the field of comparative legal history which are published in the same years in other journals in the English language for the prize.
(4)           Authors and third parties may submit articles in the meaning of paragraph (3) to be considered for the prize. Submission should be made by 1 January of the year in which the Society’s Conference is held at which the prize is to be awarded. The submission must be made by email to the President of the ESCLH. The submission must include a pdf of the published article and a statement indicating that the author fulfils the requirements of Art. 3.

Art. 3: Young legal historian(s)

(1)   A legal historian is regarded to be a young legal historian in the meaning of these rules if he or she is in his or her early career. Accordingly, a legal historian is eligible for the prize if on 1 January of the year of the award ceremony he or she is still within eight years after completing his or her PhD; the Prize Committee can, in exceptional cases and on application, grant an extension of this period. Normally, a legal historian fulfilling the requirement of sentences 1 and 2 will not be eligible if he or she is already a full professor.
(2)   A legal historian who has previously received the prize is not eligible to receive the prize a
second time.
(3)   In case of co-authorship all co-authors must fulfil the requirements set out in Art. 3(1) and (2). Co-authors share the prize.

Art. 4: Van Caenegem Prize Committee

(1)           The Society awards the prize to the winner as determined by the Van Caenegem Prize Committee.
(2)           The Committee shall be appointed by the Society’s Executive Council in the year before the award ceremony. The Committee consists of a president and four further members:
(a)           At least two members (including the president of the committee) shall belong to the Society's Advisory Board.
(b)           Two members shall be chosen from the organisers of the Young Legal Historians Forum which took place within two years of the appointment of the Prize Committee. These two members should not currently be supervised for doctoral work by any other member of the committee. If the Young Legal Historians Forum did not have a conference in the two years period or if it ceases to exist or if for any other reason it is not possible to appoint two members from the organisers of the Young Legal Historians Forum, the Executive Council must chose two members who are themselves young legal historians within the meaning of
Art. 3(1).
(c)            The last member of the Committee shall be chosen from the international community of scholars in comparative legal history.
(d)           No member may be affiliated to the same institution as another member. No member’s institution may be in the same country as another member’s institution. 
(5)  The Society's president can, by appointment, fill a vacancy on the Prize Committee.
(6)  After reviewing the articles, a majority of votes determines the winner. The committee may decide that the prize is shared between two authors.
(7)  A member cannot vote if the vote concerns a relative within the fifth degree, a co-author of a publication or co-applicant of a project or the author is or has been an employee or grantholder at the same institution.

Art. 5: The award of the prize

The prize is awarded by the Society's president at the Society's Conference. The winner will be announced in the issue of the Comparative Legal History following the conference.

Art. 6: Prize money and certificate

The prize consists of a sum to be determined by the Executive Council and a certificate. The Prize Committee will write a one page report, detailing the academic qualities and importance of the article. The president and the further members of the Committee cannot communicate with those outside the Committee in any other way about their decision.

Art. 7: Dispute resolution


Any dispute in respect of a Van Caenegem Prize must be submitted to the president of the Society whose determination is final. 

Potential authors should consult the submission information on Comparative Legal History.

Past winners
2014 (Macerata Conference)

Bram Delbecke (KULeuven) for his article "The Political Offence and the Safeguarding of the Nation State: Constitutional Ideals, French Legal Standards and Belgian Legal Practice, 1830–70", Comparative Legal History I (2013), 45-74 (article link)

2016 (Gdańsk Conference)

Frederik Dhondt (VUB/UGent) for his article "‘Inter ruinas publicas scriptum’: Ernest Nys, a legal historian in defence of Belgian tax payers during the Great War", Comparative Legal History III (2015), 131-151 (article link)


2018 (Paris conference)

Shavana Musa (Manchester) for her article "Victims of maritime conflict, compensation claims and the role of the admiralty court in the early modern period", Comparative Legal History V (2017), 125-141 (article link)

2020 (Lisbon conference/postponed)

Nadeera Rupesinghe (Sri Lanka National Archives) for her article "Do you know the ninth commandment? Tensions of the oath in Dutch colonial Sri Lanka", Comparative Legal History VII (2019), 37-66 (article link)

BOOK: Oleksiy V. KRESIN, Comparative Law In Warsaw, 1800-1835 (Edited and Translated by William E. Butler) (Clark, New Jersey: Talbot Publishing, 2021). ISBN: 978-1-61619-658-5, pp. 242, $ 95

ABOUT THE BOOK

A title in the JCL Studies in Comparative Law, Second Series. 

The Partitions of Poland (1772, 1793, 1795) and Napoleon’s invasions of Central and Eastern Europe (1806–1813) made the territories of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth an unexpected recipient of legal traditions and substantive law imposed by conquering neighbors. At the same time the science of comparative law was beginning to develop. Influenced by these events and a keen interest in German legal thought and French codification, Polish jurists debated the appropriate balance of imported versus autochthonic law, the proper role of legal education, the development of a legal consciousness and the social role of the jurist. This is the first comprehensive study in English to examine the genesis of comparative legal studies in Poland, and Polish contributions to that field, during this decisive era in European history.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Oleksiy Kresin is a leading Ukrainian comparative lawyer; Head, Center of Comparative Jurisprudence, Koretsky Institute of State and Law, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; Secretary-General, Ukrainian Association of Comparative Jurisprudence; President, Ukrainian National Committee, International Association of Legal Sciences; Associate, International Academy of Comparative Law.

William E. Butler is the John Edward Fowler Distinguished Professor of Law, Dickinson School of Law, Pennsylvania State University; Emeritus Professor of Comparative Law, University of London (University College London); Foreign Member, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine.


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BOOK: Luisa BRUNORI & Cristina CIANCIO (Eds.), Italia-Francia allers-retours: influenze, adattamenti, porosità (Roma: Historia et ius, 2021). ISBN: 978-88- 946376-2-5, pp. 228, (open access)

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ABOUT THE BOOK

Il volume raccoglie i contributi di un primo gruppo di lavoro riunito nell’ambito del nostro progetto France-Italie: allers-retours nato nel 2018. Si tratta di un progetto che si propone come luogo di incontro aperto agli storici del diritto italiani e francesi interessati ad approfondire le influenze reciproche esercitate dalle due culture giuridiche, come dalle loro legislazioni e prassi concrete. Il punto di partenza di questa iniziativa è stato il Convegno internazionale organizzato a Benevento nel settembre del 2018 con il contributo dell’Università del Sannio, del CNRS-Université de Lille e dell’Università Franco-Italiana e intitolato: Italia-Francia allers-retours: influenze, adattamenti, porosità. Dopo una prima sessione dedicata all’umanesimo giuridico, il convegno si è articolato in altre sessioni ciascuna dedicata ad una diversa disciplina giuridica, dal diritto commerciale al diritto penale, dal diritto costituzionale a quello civile nel corso delle quali si sono confrontati uno storico del diritto italiano ed uno francese con le conclusioni di un discussant. Dal ricco dibattito tra relatori, discussant e altri colleghi intervenuti per assistere ai lavori è emersa l’idea di questo volume, aperto alla partecipazione di tutti gli interessati e che, a distanza di circa due anni, accoglie i saggi di chi ha voluto cogliere quegli spunti per affrontare un tema di ricerca storico giuridica in chiave di comparazione e circolazione di esperienze italiane e francesi.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Indice
Premessa di Luisa Brunori e Cristina Ciancio p. 1
L’umanesimo giuridico
Giovanni Rossi, Imprestiti, scambi, influenze reciproche tra Italia e Francia: a proposito dell’umanesimo giuridico p. 5
Xavier Prévost, La méthode française est-elle italienne ? La formation de l’humanisme juridique à la Renaissance : bref aperçu historiographique p. 17
Il diritto commerciale
Alessia Legnani Annichini, Il mediatore di commercio tra professione privata e pubblico ufficio (secc. XVI-XVIII) p. 31
Victor Simon, La référence aux juristes italiens dans la doctrine commercialiste française (XVIe-XVIIIe siècle) p. 45
Annamaria Monti, Letture incrociate. Tra le pagine della Rivista del diritto commerciale e delle Annales de droit commercial (1903-1914) p. 57
Florent Garnier, Le fait et le droit : regards croisés à propos de la nullité de la société irrégulière en France et en Italie (fin XIXe s. - début XXe s.) p. 73
Il diritto penale
Cristina Ciancio, Secolarizzare la morte tra influenze francesi e resistenze italiane. Il reato di violazione di sepoltura di fronte alle sfide della laicità e una polemica tra Francesco Carrara e Francesco Buonamici p. 87
Nicolas Derasse, Entre bienveillance, attention et progrès: le regard des criminalistes français sur le Code Zanardelli de 1889 et la réforme pénitentiaire en Italie p. 137
Stefano Vinci, La Cassazione penale di Napoli e la giurisprudenza francese (1809-1815) p. 153
Elio Tavilla, Italie - France, allers et retours : le voyage du droit pénal entre religiosité et laïcité p. 177
Il diritto civile
Sylvain Soleil, La doctrine française face au nouveau code civil italien de 1865 p. 183
Francesco Mastroberti, Il progetto editoriale di Angelo Lanzellotti nel dibattito costituzionale nelle Due Sicilie tra il 1812 e il 1821 p. 209

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JOURNAL: Dossier sobre el Mar, Historia Naval, Historia Militar y la Historia de las Relaciones Civiles-navales en Venezuela e Hispanoamérica de los siglos XVII, XVIII, XIX y XX - Revista de Historia y Ciencias Sociales Tiempo y Espacio - Julio-Diciembre, 2015 VOL XXXIII


Presentación ..................................................................................................... 13-17

Artículos

Geniber Cabrera
La legislación española frente a todo acto de corso-piratería americana: el mar como
escenario de confrontaciones ............................................................................ 18-44
Rafael I. Dávila P.
La sal: objetivo codiciado por Holanda en las provincias de Nueva Andalucía y
Venezuela durante el siglo XVII ....................................................................... 45-71
Laura I. Snijder Ruan
Reconstrucción del tercer viaje del navío San Ignacio de la Compañía Guipuzcoana
(1738) .............................................................................................................. 72-93
Alejandro Cardozo U.
Del poder en los mares al poder en tierra fi rme: los ofi ciales de la real compañía
guipuzcoana de Caracas y el nacimiento de una nueva élite .............................. 94-113
Ebert Cardoza Sáez
Fortifi cación y defensa de la barra de Maracaibo en la provincia de Mérida
..................................................................................................................... 114-129
Vanessa Ávila Sánchez
El castillo de San Felipe como llave de defensa de las costas de la provincia de Venezuela
en el siglo XVIII ............................................................................................ 130-153
Adriam Camacho Domínguez
El trasfondo religioso de la devolución de la Habana inglesa .......................... 154-167
Andrea Noria
La travesía de San Calixto II: El gran huracán de 1780 en la Capitanía General de
Venezuela ..................................................................................................... 168-191
Eder Antonio de Jesús Gallegos Ruiz
La artillería Novohispana ante el fantasma de invasión naval, 1762-1808
..................................................................................................................... 192-216
María C. Viana del B.
La Hidrometeorología en la navegación sin motor en la cuenca del Orinoco crecientes
y corrientes ................................................................................................... 217-242
Gerardo Vivas Pineda
La península regalada: el olvido marítimo en las negociaciones por la Guajira, 1833-
1891 ............................................................................................................ 243-286
José Miguel Arias Neto
A centralização do estado imperial e a Marinha de Guerra do Brasil, 1841-1868
..................................................................................................................... 287-316
Cristina Roda Alcantud
La Maestranza Naval en los arsenales españoles: siglos XVIII y XIX ............... 317-330
Xochitl Martínez González
La enseñanza primaria e instrucción del soldado del Ejército Permanente mexicano
en la primera mitad del siglo XIX ................................................................. 331-350
Germán José Guía Caripe
Carbón y hierro: fuerza marítima que consolida la Armada Nacional durante la
regeneración guzmancista (1873-1876) ........................................................ 351-382
Valentina Verbal Stockmeyer
El 21 de mayo de 1879 en la prensa chilena. Los diez primeros días .............. 383-404
Argenis Agüero / Alexandra Romero
Apuntes históricos sobre la navegación entre los ríos Cojedes y Orinoco ........ 405-427
Víctor M. Pineda
La navegación por buques a vapor en el lago de Tacarigua durante la segunda mitad del
siglo XIX (1851-1898) ............................................................................. ....428-440
Arturo Martínez Martínez
El Caribe, como concepto de mare nostrum en la teoría de Alfred Th ayer Mahan
..................................................................................................................... 441-460
Sindy Pérez Guette
Venezuela y Colombia en el combate naval de río de La Hacha (1899-1901)
..................................................................................................................... 461-474
Alexis Palencia Hernández
Escuadra venezolana en tiempos de Castro (1902-1903) ............................... 475-490
José Gregorio Maita Ruiz
Los destructores clase Nueva Esparta. Acercamiento a su historia operacional
..................................................................................................................... 491-508
Luis Alberto Buttó
El golpismo se viste de blanco: insurrecciones navales contra la naciente democracia
venezolana .................................................................................................... 509-544
María Eugenia Arias Gómez
Historia Militar y Naval mexicana del siglo XIX (1988-2013). Un estudio introductorio
..................................................................................................................... 545-581
Rodrigo Lazo
Historia cartográfi ca de isla de Aves .............................................................. 582-601

Reseñas
..................................................................................................................... 602-606

BOOK: Giuseppe GUIZZI, Il «caso Balzac». Storie di diritto e letteratura (Bologna: Il Mulino, 2021). ISBN: 8815290915, pp. 296, € 25.00

 

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ABOUT THE BOOK

A centosettant'anni dalla morte del suo autore, la «Comédie humaine» continua a esercitare un'irresistibile attrazione: per gli scrittori, non meno che per gli storici e gli economisti. La critica letteraria più recente ha, d'altronde, ripetutamente messo in luce la duplice vocazione di Balzac, il suo essere, a un tempo, un «peintre» e un «penseur», capace di descrivere la realtà in tutti i suoi aspetti e di riflettere su di essi. Strumento privilegiato di conoscenza, i romanzi di Balzac esercitano un fascino irresistibile anche per gli studiosi del diritto. Rappresentando la società francese nella prima metà dell'Ottocento, segnata dall'avvento del capitalismo e, in campo normativo, delle codificazioni napoleoniche, essi offrono l'occasione per mettere a fuoco alcuni problemi fondamentali dell'esperienza giuridica. Contratto e successioni; credito e mercato finanziario; iniziativa economica, concorrenza, insolvenza; crisi della giustizia: la penna di Balzac non manca mai di coglierne i tratti essenziali, i nodi universali e inevitabilmente irrisolti. Leggendo le pagine della «Comédie» e la riflessione intorno al diritto ad esse affidate, è allora possibile compiere, oltre a una straordinaria esperienza estetica, anche e soprattutto un'esperienza di verità.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Giuseppe Guizzi è Professore ordinario di diritto commerciale dell’Università di Napoli “Federico II”. Componente effettivo dell’Arbitro per le Controversie Finanziarie (ACF) della Consob. E’ membro della direzione della Rivista del diritto commerciale e del diritto generale delle obbligazioni, de Il Corriere giuridico, dell’Osservatorio del diritto civile e commerciale, di RdS-Rivista del diritto societario.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Premessa

I. Balzac e l’esperienza giuridica

II. L’autonomia negoziale e l’ingiustizia del contratto: Il curato di Tours, Gobseck e Le Cousin Pons

III. Captes astutus ubique testamenta senum: lotte per la successione in Ursule Mirouët e Le Cousin Pons

IV. Il denaro è una merce: credito, usura e lettres de change nella Comédie humaine

V. Agli albori della rivoluzione industriale: iniziativa economica e concorrenza in César Birotteau e Illusioni perdute

VI. Storie di insolvenza e fallimento: Eugénie Grandet e César Birotteau

VII. Papà Grandet e Frédéric de Nucingen: la speculazione finanziaria al tempo della Restaurazione

VIII. Un cattivo accomodamento vale più di un buon processo: Balzac e la crisi della giustizia

A modo di congedo…

Bibliografia

Indice dei romanzi


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