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31 March 2022

CONFERENCE: Il notariato nell'Italia meridionale continentale: organizzazione, pratica e attività (secc. XIII-XV) (Napoli - ONLINE, 3-4 maggio 2022)

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PRESENTATION

Il notariato fu un'istituzione protagonista ed essenziale nello sviluppo delle società del tardo medioevo. Le ricerche su questa istituzione, se condotte in maniera comparativa nel contesto del Mediterraneo, consentono di cogliere e approfondire elementi comuni e tratti caratteristici sull'evoluzione del notariato negli ultimi secoli del medioevo. 

La particolare configurazione geo-politica della Corona d'Aragona influì senza dubbio anche sull'istituzione notarile, tant'è che potremmo parlare di un notariato aragonese, catalano, valenziano, napoletano, maiorchino, siciliano, sardo, etc. Questo secondo seminario internazionale organizzato dal progetto "NotMed" si propone di analizzare le origini e lo sviluppo del notariato nell'Italia meridionale continentale, sia nei contesti urbani sia in quelli rurali, approfondendo alcuni aspetti poco indagati dalla tradizione storiografica del Mezzogiorno italiano, come la legislazione, l'organizzazione, le tipologie docmentarie e gli uffici notarili


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30 March 2022

BOOK: Filippo ROSSI (ed.), Consenso e dissenso nelle codificazioni europee. Scioglimento e mantenimento del vincolo contrattuale tra storia giuridica, diritto privato e comparazione (Pisa: Edizioni ETS, 2021), ISBN: 978-8-8467-6-2610


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ABOUT THE BOOK
Il volume raccoglie gli atti del Convegno COnsenso e DIssenso nelle Codificazioni Europee (Milano, 2021) e fa parte di un più ampio progetto di ricerca che analizza, in prospettiva multidisciplinare e diacronica, il mantenimento e lo scioglimento del vincolo contrattuale attraverso la prospettiva del recesso unilaterale.
Con la sua capacità di affievolire la vincolatività dell’accordo e di operare oltre e al di là del diritto comune, il recesso apre una serie di questioni, molte delle quali irrisolte, che si innervano nel rapporto tra principi generali e paradigmi operativi di un sistema contrattuale messo alla prova dal continuo evolvere dei rapporti socio-economici. Di fronte alla complessità delle dinamiche ingenerate dal recesso, il volume offre una lettura ‘plurale’ che possa contribuire al dibattito tra adesione alla termination ed ‘eterni ritorni’ del modello giudiziale, tra ricorso al recesso e regolazione del mercato, tra adeguatezza dei rimedi e gestione delle sopravvenienze, senza trascurare gli aspetti legati alla crisi pandemica.

ABOUT THE EDITOR
Filippo Rossi è ricercatore di Storia del diritto presso la Facoltà di Giurisprudenza dell’Università degli Studi di Milano, ove insegna Storia del diritto medievale e moderno e Storia dei diritti umani. Si è occupato di storia del lavoro, pubblico e privato, nonché di storia del diritto delle obbligazioni, con particolare riferimento allo scioglimento del rapporto contrattuale. Tra le sue pubblicazioni: Il cattivo funzionario nel Regno Lombardo-Veneto (Giuffrè, 2013) e La costruzione giuridica del licenziamento (Giuffrè, 2017).


TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • Introduzione (Giovanni Chiodi)
  • PROFILI STORICO-GIURIDICI
    • ‘… Dissensu contrario dissolvi potest’: spunti dal diritto romano (Francesca Pulitanò)
    • Consenso vs dissenso. Itinerari sullo scioglimento unilaterale del contratto in età moderna e contemporanea (Filippo Rossi)
  • PROFILI DI DIRITTO CIVILE
    • La dichiarazione stragiudiziale di risoluzione per inadempimento come forma di recesso (Matteo Ambrosoli)
    • Il recesso del consumatore tra regolazione del mercato e tutela del soggetto debole (Andrea Dalmartello)
    • Il contratto tra forza di legge e forza maggiore. Il problema delle sopravvenienze alla luce delle recenti normative emergenziali epidemiologiche (Arturo Maniaci)
    • Le clausole sulle sopravvenienze nei contratti di compravendita di partecipazioni sociali (Ilaria Maspes)
  • PROFILI DI DIRITTO COMPARATO
    • Pacta sunt servanda. Il dibattito europeo dopo la pandemia (Carlo Masieri)
  • PROFILI DI DIRITTO DEL LAVORO
    • Consenso e dissenso nel diritto del lavoro: brevi note introduttive (Maria Teresa Carinci)
    • Consenso e dissenso nell’emergenza pandemica: la prospettiva del diritto del lavoro (Francesca Marinelli)

More information can be found here.

29 March 2022

BOOK: Fredrik CHARPENTIER LJUNGQVIST, Quantitative Approaches to Medieval Swedish Law (Newcastle upon Tyne, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2002), ISBN: 978-1-5275-8056-5

 


ABOUT THE BOOK

This book presents a novel framework for studying historical legalisation using quantitative methods, with 10 fully-preserved laws from medieval Sweden, written between c. 1225 and 1350, serving as a case study. By applying a systematic classification scheme to each legal provision, it is possible to investigate the major differences and similarities in structure and content between the 10 laws. This, in turn, allows for the re-assessment of many long-standing problems in Swedish and European medieval legal history that have been challenging to address with traditional methods based on text analyses. Over the course of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, major changes in the proportion of legal provisions devoted to different fields of law, and to prescribed consequences, are found. The book shows how the proportions of civil law and public law expanded at the expense of criminal law. Furthermore, a clear transition from casuistic to more abstract law provisions can also be witnessed.


ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist is Associate Professor of both History and Physical Geography at Stockholm University, Sweden. His current research interests range from medieval Scandinavian law to the link between past climate variability and historical harvest yields, the effect of plague outbreaks on the history of European building activity, and socio-political aspects of historical food (in)security. He is the author and co-author of more than 80 peer-reviewed articles and the author of four popular science books, and an experienced university teacher and popular science lecturer. As a Pro Futura Scientia Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, he leads the interdisciplinary project “Disentangling socio-political and climatic factors for food insecurity in early modern Europe (c. 1500–1800)”.


More information can be found here.

28 March 2022

LECTURE: Stella Ghervas, "Conquering Peace: Still Possible? Still Relevant?" - University of Minnesota, March 31, 2022

 

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CALL FOR PAPERS: Towards urban constitutionalism? Exploring constitutional and rule of law challenges in the urban age (Hague Journal on the Rule of Law); DEADLINE 30 APRIL 2022

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The Department of Public Law and Governance (PLG), the Tilburg Center for Regional Law and Governance (TiREG), at Tilburg University are pleased to announce a call for papers for a special issue of the Hague Journal on the Rule of Law exploring the constitutional and rule of law challenges those contemporary urban dynamics bring. 


Background and introduction to the theme of the special issue

By the year 2007 over 50% of the world’s population lived in urban areas and by the year 2050 almost 70% will live in cities. Already, large cities, metropolitan areas and city-regions have become major actors in global governance and economics: they are at the forefront in taking on the world’s wicked challenges, such as climate change, mass migration, health care, energy and water, crime and security, technological innovation (smart cities), and transport and mobility. They are the world’s major economic hubs, home to banks, financial institutions, and large multinational companies. Many of them are also the centers of government. They are global cities, as Saskia Sassen framed them.

The term ‘city’ or urban region may have multiple meanings: it encompasses metropolitan cities or regions such as New York, Mumbai, Lagos or London, but also somewhat smaller cities like Amsterdam, Antwerp or Milan that experience typical urban challenges. Also highly urbanized regions like the German Ruhrgebiet, which consists of several larger and mid-sized urban communities, may be of interest. The city or urban region is thus not just a continuously built environment with ‘high impact’ challenges where many people live ('high density'). It is also a place that attracts people from  exceptionally diverse cultures (‘high diversity’) and which has a complex economy (‘high complexity’).

Whilst the role of global cities and the urban region has been increasing, the political and legal domain of the states, of which these cities or regions constitutionally form part, is continuously shrinking. This is caused by at least two simultaneously occurring trends: the transfer of tasks and responsibilities upwards, to the international and supranational level, through processes of globalization, and a development downwards to the local and regional level (or even the neighborhood or district), through processes of decentralization, and regionalization. These combined trends have been called localization, a process exemplary for the complexity of modern society, in which authority often shifts from hierarchy to networks, and where the central and sovereign state is under pressure. This differentiation and asymmetry might for example give rise to questions about urban representation and involvement at the national, supra-, and international level, the protection of fundamental rights in an urban context, and urban citizenship and urban democracy.

With this special issue we want to explore several constitutional and rule of law challenges posed by contemporary urban dynamics. To what extent can or should existing constitutional norms and the rule of law be revised or adapted in view of the current questions and challenges confronting the modern megacity?


Contributions

We welcome contributions of a theoretical, historical and/or normative nature, addressing one or more of the following general questions: 

  • To what extent can or should the existing constitutional and rule of law orientation be revised in view of the current questions and challenges facing the modern city?
  • Where do the current frameworks and arrangements pinch or falter with cities’ needs for greater power and the desire to shape and enshrine this constitutionally of with an eye to the rule of law?
  • Which constitutional and rule of law frameworks arrangements can we find specifically for cities, and how can these be explained historically, politically, and socially?
  • How, and to what extent, do these arrangements reflect both the global and local dimensions of urban governance?
  • What kind of new frameworks and arrangements would be desirable or necessary to allow cities to tackle their challenges effectively and legitimately?

Within this general theme, more specific questions may be addressed, such as:

  • How exactly do we determine the boundaries of a city or urban region, which is often internally diverse (international hub versus marginalized neighborhood)?
  • When is a representation structure adequate (who or what belongs to the city or urban region)?
  • How can we find the balance between on the one hand a city that performs and solves urban challenges, and for that purpose is both a locally and globally networking city, and on the other hand a legitimate (i.e., in line with constitutional and rule of law guarantees) and responsive city (open to and supported by the different ‘voices’)?
  • How is the notion of rights – e.g. in relation to participation, citizenship, public and private spaces, living conditions – incorporated in the constitutional arrangements for cities or urban regions?

The special issue takes a combined law and governance perspective, including a distinct historical point of view. It is therefore not limited to contemporary studies, but also welcomes historical analyses. Contributions studying urban constitutionalism beyond the western world and well-known and frequently studied cases of global cities and metropolitan regions are particularly welcomed.


Deadline for paper proposals

30 April 2022


More information regarding the Journal and the submission process can be found here

25 March 2022

NEWS: ERC Consolidator Grant (CaPANES Project – Prof. D. De ruysscher)

 


We learned that the European Research Council has recently decided to fund the CaPANES-project (ERC Consolidator Grant) by Professor D. De Ruysscher.


On 17 March 2022, the European Research Council announced its decision to fund the CaPANES-project. This project is an ERC Consolidator Grant of Prof. Dave De ruysscher, who previously, in 2016, obtained an ERC Starting Grant. The ERC Consolidator Grant is funded for the amount of 1.9 million EUR. The CaPANES-project (Causal Pattern Analysis of Economic Sovereignty), which will last five years, will analyze the legal concept of economic sovereignty from a historical perspective. The present-day notion of sovereignty of states does not adequately capture foreign trade relations, networks or economic clout. These shortcomings have resulted from a historical reduction of the meaning of sovereignty since the 1600s. The project will analyze legal concepts of sovereignty that were developed before that time. Cases will be six networked cities of commerce (Bruges, Southampton, Rouen, Lübeck, Toulouse and Florence) in the period of 1400-1620. These cities were interconnected through trade routes, correspondence and diplomacy. Legal concepts depicting the cities’ sovereignty were crafted bottom-up and were often more encompassing than the legal concept of sovereignty of today, also for economic relations. These concepts absorbed changes taking place within cities and in the economic relations between cities. In the CaPANES-project, agent-based and network methods will be used to track down these changes. Developments at the level of individual cities, which will be analyzed with agent-based models, influenced institutional set-ups, constitutional approaches, the organization of trade and policies of access toward foreigners. At the level of networks between cities, dynamics impacting on sovereignty concepts related to foreign relations and these added legal features that were different from those characteristics that resulted from developments within cities. Network analysis will make it possible to detect the dispersal and weight of sovereignty concepts and whether some concepts underpinned a transnational field of sovereignty. Causal patterns underlying change in the concepts mentioned will be the outcome of the research, and following a comparison of historical with present-day situations, these patterns will be used to propose an updated legal concept of economic sovereignty. The project’s team consists of the principal investigator (Dave De ruysscher), one post-doc and five PhD fellows.

BOOK: Raphaël CAHEN, Jérôme DE BROUWER, Frederik DHONDT, Maxime JOTTRAND (eds.), Les professeurs allemands en Belgique. Circulation des savoirs juridiques et enseignement du droit (1817-1914) (Brussel: ASP, 2022), ISBN: 978-9-4611-7-2983

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ABOUT THE BOOK

Cet ouvrage collectif résulte d’une coopération entre historiens, philosophes et juristes belges, français et allemands menée à l’occasion d’une journée d’études organisé par le centre de recherches Contextual Research in Law de la Vrije Universiteit Brussel et le Centre d’Histoire du Droit et d’Anthropologie Juridique de l’Université Libre de Bruxelles. Il vise à combler un vide historiographique relatif à l’étude du phénomène de la migration des professeurs allemands de droit dans les universités belges au XIXème siècle. Il apporte également un éclairage sur les circulations des savoirs juridiques ainsi que sur l’enseignement du droit dans une perspective transnationale et comparatiste. Il présente à la fois quelques figures typiques (Warnkönig, Ahrens) de la circulation académique, mais aussi l’importance des séjours d’études dans la formation des juristes.

Il livre une réflexion plus large sur les circulations transnationales à travers les époques en matière d’enseignement du droit ainsi que sur le recrutement des professeurs étrangers tant en Belgique qu’en Europe, avec des incidences sur le monde entier dans le contexte impérial et colonial.

Avec les contributions de Raphaël Cahen, Jérôme De Brouwer, Pieter Dhondt, Wolfgang Forster, Jean-Louis Halpérin, Maxime Jottrand et Christoph-Eric Mecke.


ABOUT THE EDITORS

Raphaël Cahen (1982) est juriste et historien. Il est chercheur postdoctoral et professeur invité au sein du centre de recherches Contextual Research in Law à la Vrije Universiteit Brussel où il enseigne l’histoire du droit. Ses recherches portent sur l’histoire des idées politiques, du droit public et du droit international dans le long XIXe siècle.

Jérôme de Brouwer (1974) est historien et juriste. Professeur à la Faculté de droit et de criminologie de l’Université Libre de Bruxelles, chercheur au sein du Centre d’histoire du droit et d’anthropologie juridique, il enseigne l’histoire du droit et des institutions. Ses recherches portent principalement sur l’histoire du droit et des pratiques pénales, sur l’histoire des professions juridiques ainsi que sur l’histoire des représentations du monde judiciaire au cours de la période contemporaine.

Frederik Dhondt (1984) est juriste et historien. Il dirige le centre de recherches Contextual Research in Law à la Vrije Universiteit Brussel, et y enseigne l'histoire politique et l'histoire du droit. Ses recherches portent sur l'histoire du droit public et du droit international aux XVIIIe et XIXe siècles.

Maxime Jottrand (1992) est doctorant au sein du Centre d’histoire du droit et d’anthropologie juridique et au sein du centre de recherche Mondes Modernes & Contemporains (Université Libre de Bruxelles). Sa thèse de doctorat porte sur l’histoire de la formation des juristes en Belgique de 1830 à 1914. Ses recherches se concentrent sur l’évolution des relations entre les facultés de droit et le monde professionnel.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

  1. Introduction : Les professeurs allemands en Belgique. Réflexions et pistes de recherche (Raphaël Cahen)
  2. Les circulations transnationales en matière d’enseignement du droit : une perspective globale (Jean-Louis Halpérin)
  3. The appointment of foreign professors in nineteenth-century Belgium in a European perspective: a peculiar or typical approach? (Pieter Dhondt)
  4. Leopold August Warnkönig. Un médiateur européen dans le domaine de la jurisprudence et de la politique des sciences au xixe siècle (Christoph-Eric Mecke)
  5. Belgian origins of Krausism – Heinrich Ahrens in Brussels (Wolfgang Forster)
  6. Les bourses de voyages de l’État, un instrument de circulation des savoirs juridiques ? Exploration sur les séjours d’études dans la formation des juristes belges au xixe siècle (Maxime Jottrand)
  7. Conclusion. La Belgique des juristes allemands au xixe siècle, terre d’accueil et terre de mission (Jérôme de Brouwer)
  8. Annexes Galerie des professeurs allemands dans les facultés de droit en Belgique (1817-1914)


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BOOK: Davide LO PRESTI, Davide ROSSI (eds), Nazionalizzazione e amministrazione tra le due Guerre. Il Ministero per le Terre Liberate tra tensioni politiche e crisi istituzionali (Milano, Franco Angeli, 2021), ISBN 978-8835-1-3533-3

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ABOUT THE BOOK

Il Ministero per le Terre Liberate dal Nemico venne istituito con il precipuo intento di dirigere e coordinare in maniera unitaria la ricostruzione del sistema economico e produttivo delle cosiddette Nuove Province, ossia Trento con l'Alto Adige e Trieste con l'Istria, la Venezia Giulia e il Quarnaro. Con il tempo furono attribuite ulteriori funzioni, tra cui la stabilizzazione degli oltre 600.000 profughi, la gestione dei risarcimenti dei danni di guerra subiti dai cittadini dei territori acquisiti, la riedificazione delle opere pubbliche nelle zone direttamente coinvolte nei conflitti.
Un compito delicato quanto ambizioso. La Grande guerra aveva, infatti, amplificato quelle tensioni sociali e la crisi del sistema della rappresentanza politica che ormai serpeggiavano dalla fine dell'Ottocento.
Fin da subito il contesto in cui si trovò ad operare il Ministero per le Terre Liberate si rivelò un terreno particolarmente scivoloso, che implicava la capacità di uniformare gli statuti giuridici senza perdere le peculiarità locali - a ciò si aggiunga che gran parte della legislazione bellica rimase in vigore anche a conflitto concluso, alimentando le connessioni tra regime ordinario e quello emergenziale.
Non mancarono inchieste parlamentari, scandali e tentativi di boicottaggio.
Pagine di storia istituzionale che si ripeteranno più volte nel Novecento italiano. Tra nazionalizzazione e amministrazione, per l'appunto.


ABOUT THE EDITORS

Davide Lo Presti, avvocato e dottore di ricerca in Diritto ed Economia dell'Impresa Discipline Interne ed Internazionali, ha all'attivo svariati scritti relativi all'Alto Adriatico, tra cui la curatela (con Davide Rossi), per Cedam-Wolters Kluver, Quarant'anni da Osimo.

Davide Rossi insegna Storia e Tecnica delle Codificazioni e Costituzioni Europee all'Università degli Studi di Trieste. Recentemente, per i tipi della Cedam-Wolters Kluver, ha curato La città di vita cento anni dopo. Fiume, D'Annunzio e il lungo Novecento Adriatico.


TABLE OF CONTENTS

    • Giuseppe de Vergottini, Premessa. Un ministero inesplorato;
    • Davide Lo Presti, Davide Rossi, Introduzione. Il dibattito attorno al Ministero per la Ricostruzione delle Terre Liberate dal Nemico: un'esperienza "Salata" o riuscita?;
    • Davide Lo Presti, Le ragioni della creazione di un unicum: il Ministero per le Terre Liberate;
    • Ester Capuzzo, Il Ministero delle Terre Liberate dal Nemico (1919-1923);
    • Giovanni Zucchini, La figura di Cesare Nava quale Ministro per le Terre Liberate dal Nemico;
    • Alessandro Agrì, "Ai fini di restaurare la ricchezza nazionale": assistenza, ricostruzione e risarcimenti durante e dopo la Grande guerra;
    • Emanuele Bugli, Il ripristino delle arginature dei fiumi e le opere idrauliche nell'opera del Ministero per le Terre Liberate;
    • Marco Panato, Profili risarcitori ed esonero dalle imposte per le terre liberate nel primo dopoguerra (1918-1923);
    • Lorenzo Salimbeni, Una pessima replica. Il Ministero delle Nuove Province e delle Terre Liberate in Albania (1941-1943);
    • Alberto Sciumè, Guerra e dopoguerra nella dinamica ordine/eccezione nel Novecento italiano. Primi spunti di riflessione.

    More information can be found here.

    24 March 2022

    BOOK: Francesco BOZZI, Le spire della vipera. Le aderenze viscontee fra Tre e Quattrocento (Milano, Franco Angeli, 2021), ISBN: 978-8835-1-3503-6

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    ABOUT THE BOOK

    Nella seconda metà del Trecento fecero la loro comparsa, in maniera più o meno diffusa in larga parte della penisola, i trattati di aderenza. Legami elastici e flessibili, le adherentie coordinavano fra di loro due poteri asimmetrici, solitamente una "potenza grossa" (come Milano, Venezia, Firenze, e così via) e realtà minori, come signorie o comunità. Le adherentie avevano, di per sé, schiette connotazioni militari: per mezzo di esse il principalis riceveva sostegno militare e logistico, mentre l'adherens otteneva protezione e differenti forme di legittimazione. Nota ma non ancora indagata a fondo, l'aderenza è un osservatorio privilegiato per esaminare le pratiche politiche bassomedievali in tutta la loro complessità.

    I Visconti, come e più di altre potenze, fra Tre e Quattrocento fecero costante ricorso a tale forma pattizia per gestire tanto i processi di costruzione statale che li videro impegnati, quanto le relazioni interstatali (pacifiche o conflittuali che fossero) con le altre potenze della penisola. Lo studio sull'aderenza nella sua "forma viscontea" permette così, da una parte, di apprezzare le caratteristiche e le peculiarità impresse al legame dai signori (e poi dai duchi) di Milano, mentre dall'altra consente di analizzare, sotto nuovi punti di vista, temi ampi e nodali come quelli inerenti ai processi di costruzione statale, alla nascita e allo sviluppo delle relazioni interstatali, allo scoppio dei conflitti, ai processi di pace, e molto altro ancora. Tematiche che, ancora oggi, continuano a dimostrare tutta la loro rilevanza.


    ABOUT THE AUTHOR

    Francesco Bozzi è professore a contratto presso l'Università degli Studi di Milano. Si occupa di temi inerenti alla storia politica e istituzionale bassomedievale, in particolare in merito agli spazi lombardi.


    TABLE OF CONTENTS

    • Premessa
    • I primi sviluppi dell'aderenza viscontea (L'elenco del 1351; La pace di Sarzana del 1353; Per riassumere: all'inizio del legame)
    • Le aderenze in una signoria bicefala (Bernabò Visconti e i suoi aderenti; Le aderenze subalpine di Galeazzo II Visconti; Elenchi e aderenti a confronto; Per riassumere: due strumenti per due signori)
    • L'aderenza tra signoria e ducato (Di padre in figlio; Tra continui conflitti: gli sviluppi dell'aderenza (1385-1395); Le aderenze del primo duca; Per riassumere: un legame per fare la guerra, un legame per fare lo stato)
    • L'aderenza tra crisi e ricostruzione (Legami lacerati; La rinascita di un potere centrale; Per riassumere: come sopravvivere a una crisi)
    • L'aderenza nell'età di Filippo Maria Visconti (Il ritorno del duca; Scenari frammentati: l'aderenza viscontea in Piemonte; La vipera, il giglio e il leone; Un idealtipo dell'aderenza viscontea; Il crepuscolo dell'aderenza viscontea; Per riassumere: l'aderenza nel lungo ducato di Filippo Maria)
    • Epilogo
    • Appendice

    More information can be found here.

    23 March 2022

    JOB: University Researchers: Law and the Uses of the Past (Helsinki) (DEADLINE: 27 March 2022)

     


    We learned of a job offer at the University of Helsinki. Here the call:

    he Faculty of Social Sciences invites applications for the position of

    UNIVERSITY RESEARCHER, LAW AND THE USES OF THE PAST

    for a three-year fixed term period from 1 May 2022 onwards (or as agreed) to contribute to the subproject Law and the Uses of the Past of the Centre of Excellence (CoE) in Law, Identity and the European Narratives (EuroStorie, www.eurostorie.org).

    The CoE is a part of the interdisciplinary Centre of European Studies. The purpose of the CoE is to launch a new, third generation inquiry that critically explores the emergence of narratives of Europe as responses to the crises of the twentieth century and how these narratives have shaped the ideas of justice and community in Europe. It studies the foundational stories that underlie the contested idea of a shared European heritage in law and culture, such as the ideas of rule of law, equality, tolerance, pluralism and the rejection of totalitarianism, and their relevance for current debates on identity and history. The CoE is divided into three subprojects. For descriptions of the subprojects and their aims, please see https://www.helsinki.fi/en/researchgroups/law-identity-and-the-european-....

    The subproject Law and the Uses of the Past studies the emergence of the idea of a shared legal past in Europe. Its emphasis is on the history of legal and political thought and concepts central to the idea of Europe such as community and belonging, subsidiarity and federalism, centre and periphery, as well as memory and tradition. It utilizes methods from scientific fields as diverse as legal history, Roman law, political science, legal anthropology, the history of philosophy, intellectual history, the history of ideas, and historiographical theory. We invite unconventional projects that combine legal, historical and theoretical angles, as well as historical narratives from antiquity to the twentieth century. Projects with linkages with and relevance in other subprojects of the CoE are highly encouraged. We welcome applicants with a multidisciplinary academic background and experience in conducting high-level research in interdisciplinary groups. We offer an exciting and stimulating multidisciplinary research community.

     

    More info about this offer can be found here

    JOURNAL: História do Direito, v. 2, n. 3

    (Source: https://revistas.ufpr.br/historiadodireito/issue/view/3267)

     
       Artigos

    Paolo Grossi

    Pietro Costa

    Paolo Cappellini

    Christian Edward Cyril Lynch

    Tatiana De Souza Castro, Gabriel Faustino dos Santos

    Alfons Aragoneses, Jordi Cerdà Serrano

    Luis Rosenfield

    Victor Hugo Criscuolo Boson

    Francisco Rogério Madeira Pinto

    Mário André Machado Cabral

    Eric Palma González, Francisco Zuñiga Urbina

    Heloisa Fernandes Câmara

    Cristiano Paixão, Claudia Paiva Carvalho

    André Del Negri


        Resenhas
    Walter Guandalini Junior, Lívia Solana Pfuetzenreiter de Lima Teixeira

     

    22 March 2022

    BOOK: Dimitrios KYRITSIS & Stuart LAKIN (eds.), The Methodology of Constitutional Theory [Hart Studies in Constitutional Theory] (London/Oxford: Bloomsbury/Hart, 2022), 464 p. ISBN 9781509933853, 85 GBP

     

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    Abstract:

    What sort of methods are best suited to understanding constitutional doctrines and practices? Should we look to lawyers and legal methods alone, or should we draw upon other disciplines such as history, sociology, political theory, and moral philosophy? Should we study constitutions in isolation or in a comparative context? To what extent must constitutional methods be sensitive to empirical data about the functioning of legal practice? Can ideal theory aid our understanding of real constitutions? This volume brings together constitutional experts from around the world to address these types of questions through topical events and challenges such as Brexit, administrative law reforms, and the increasing polarisations in law, politics, and constitutional scholarship. Importantly, it investigates the ways in which we can ensure that constitutional scholars do not talk past each other despite their persistent - and often fierce - disagreements. In so doing, it aims systematically to re-examine the methodology of constitutional theory.

    Table of contents:

    The Methodology of Constitutional Theory – Introduction
    Dimitrios Kyritsis, University of Essex, UK and Stuart Lakin, University of Reading, UK
    I. Background
    II. The Scope of the Volume
    III. The Chapters and Thematic Groupings

    SELF-UNDERSTANDINGS
    1. The Significance of the Common Understanding in Legal Theory
    NW Barber, University of Oxford, UK
    I. Adherence to the Common Understanding
    II. Paying Attention to the Common Understanding
    III. The Limitations of the Common Understanding
    IV. Conclusion
    2. In Defence of Traditional Methodologies
    Jeffrey Goldsworthy, Monash University, The University of Melbourne, and The University of Adelaide, Australia
    I. Introduction
    II. The Orthodox Understanding
    III. Judicial Pragmatism
    IV. Confusion between the Common Law and Other Kinds of Law
    V. Constitution-making by Judges
    VI. Legal Philosophy
    VII. Parliamentary Sovereignty Today
    3. Constitutional Methodology and Brexit: Adopting a Model-Theoretic Approach
    Alison L Young, University of Cambridge, UK
    I. Defining Model-Theoretic Approaches
    II. What is Distinctive about a Model-Theoretic Approach to Constitutional Theory?
    III. Why Adopt a Model-Theoretic Approach to Constitutional Theory?
    IV. Brexit and Parliamentary Sovereignty
    V. Conclusion

    HOW DO FACTS MATTER?
    4. Slaying the Misshapen Monster: The Case for Constitutional Heuristics
    TT Arvind, University of York, UK and Lindsay Stirton, University of Sussex, UK
    I. Introduction 3
    II. Facts, Theories and Traditions: Making the Constitutional World
    III. A Methodology for Constitutional Theory
    IV. Heuristics and the Limits of Rhetoric
    V. Conclusion
    5. Why Common Law Constitutionalism is Correct (If It Is)
    Stuart Lakin, University of Reading, UK
    I. Introduction
    II. Two Accounts of the British Constitution
    III. What Makes GO or CLC Correct?
    IV. GO and CLC as Rival Interpretations of British Constitutional Practice
    V. Conclusion
    6. Methodological Pluralism and Modern Administrative Law
    Sarah Nason, Bangor University, UK
    I. Subordinating Administrative Law to Constitutional Law
    II. New Methods of Administrative Law Theory
    III. Challenges and Opportunities of Methodological Pluralism in Administrative Law

    MORALITY
    7. The Constitution of Legal Authority
    David Dyzenhaus, University of Toronto, Canada
    I. Hart on the Constitution of Authority
    II. Approaching Natural Law? 5
    III. The Legal Man vs. the Legal Subject
    IV. Acceptance, Legitimacy, and the Social Contract
    8. Constitutional Law as Legitimacy-Enhancer
    Dimitrios Kyritsis, University of Essex, UK
    I. Introduction
    II. Moral Force and Settlement
    III. Legitimacy vs. Justice
    IV. Two Moralised Methodologies for Constitutional Theory
    V. Conclusion
    9. A Positivist and Political Approach to Public Law
    Michael Gordon, University of Liverpool, UK
    I. Introduction
    II. A Basis for Positivist and Political Public Law
    III. The Nature of Positivist and Political Public Law
    IV. The Value of a Positivist and Political Approach to Public Law
    V. Conclusion

    SOCIAL THEORY
    10. The Material Study of the Constitutional Order
    Marco Goldoni, University of Glasgow, UK
    I. The Legal Theory of the Material Study
    II. The Political Theory of the Material Study
    III. Thematising the Constitutional Order as Legal Organisation
    IV. Case Study: Constitutional Change
    V. Conclusion
    11. The British Constitution as an Improvised Order
    David Howarth, University of Cambridge, UK
    I. Introduction
    II. Spontaneous Order, Improvisation and Design
    III. Theoretical Implications
    IV. Interaction between Improvisation and Design
    V. The Conflictual Side of Improvisation
    VI. Assessing Improvisations
    VII. Distinguishing Improvisation from Non-improvisation
    VIII. Constitutional Improvisations
    IX. Good or Bad Improvisations?
    X. Improvising Better
    XI. Improvisation and Constitutional Theory

    COMPARISONS
    12. A Proposal for Defining and Classifying Systems of Constitutional Government
    Paul Yowell, University of Oxford, UK
    I. Introduction
    II. On Constitutional Government and its History
    III. The Characteristics of Constitutional Government
    IV. Types of Constitutional and Non-constitutional Government
    V. Conclusion
    13. The View from Nowhere in Constitutional Theory: A Methodological Inquiry
    Silvia Suteu, University College London, UK
    I. Introduction
    II. The Comparative Turn in Constitutional Theory
    III. Constitutional Theory and Comparative Constitutional Change
    IV. Conclusion

    ADMINISTRATIVE LAW
    14. Common Understandings of Administrative Law
    Matthew Lewans, University of Alberta, Canada
    I. Introduction
    II. The Puzzle of Administrative Law
    III. Legality and Constitutional Formalism
    IV. Dicey on the Absence of Administrative Law
    V. Common Understandings of Administrative Law
    VI. Conclusion
    15. Methodology in Constitutional Theory: The Case of the Administrative State
    Kristen Rundle, University of Melbourne, Australia
    I. Introduction
    II. Constitutionalising the Administrative State: Delineating the Object of Inquiry
    III. Constitutionalising the Administrative State: The 'Status' Intervention
    IV. Constitutionalism and the Administrative State: Reflections from Australia
    V. Constitutional Theory Revisited? The Provocation of the Administrative State

    VI. Conclusion

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