The conference organizers invite
papers exploring how legislative strategies of early modern colonial empires
affected each other, what they had in common, and how colonial laws
emanating both from Europe and the colonies themselves developed into different
directions. Conference papers will look at early modern
colonial legislation of the empires in multiple contexts: medieval
inheritance of ius commune and legal pluralism; early modern
transformations of legal orders, such as the growth of police regulation; and
not the least, the local colonial realities and normativities.
Connected to the last point,
contributions investigating local readings of “foreign” legal literature
will also be welcome. One may ask what role legal literature had in the
circulation of legal rules and concepts, and in confronting societal
challenges. Examples from court practice and legislative bodies highlight these
complex processes. “Legal literature” will not be understood in the sense of
being strictly dogmatic or methodological, but in the broad sense of personally
constructed texts on law, written for legal practitioners, both academically
trained lawyers and laymen.
This conference will bring together
legal scholars, historians, and social scientists to explore the complex
entanglements of early modern colonial laws.
Confirmed keynote speakers are professors Thomas Duve (Max Planck Institute
for Legal History and Legal Theory, Frankfurt) and Andréa Slemian (University
of São Paulo).
The conference is organized jointly
by two projects, Comparing Early Modern Colonial Laws: England, the
Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain (Academy of Finland, University of
Helsinki) and Reading Law Glocally: Local
Readings of Foreign Legal Literature in a Globalized World (Seventeenth to
Early Twentieth Centuries) (Centre National de la Recherche
Scientifique / France, Ghent University, University of Helsinki, Universidad Autónoma de
Madrid). The conference committee consists of professors Laura Beck (Universidad
Autónoma de Madrid), Serge Dauchy (Centre National de
la Recherche Scientifique), Georges Martyn (Ghent University) and Heikki Pihlajamäki
(University of Helsinki).
Please send, in one file, your
abstract (max. 300 words) and short CV to the address: heikki.pihlajamaki@helsinki.fi. The
language of the conference is English. There is no registration fee. The
organizers will consider applications for reimbursement of travel costs and/or
accommodation for junior researchers presenting papers. Participation online
will be possible, and publication of the conference papers is foreseen.
The deadline for submissions is March
31, 2022.
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