BOOK: Matthijs LOK, Europe Against Revolution. Conservatism, Enlightenment, and the Making of the Past (Oxford, OUP, 2023), 384 p. ISBN 9780198872139, 100 GBP

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Book presentation:

Contemporary Europe seems to be divided between progressive cosmopolitans sympathetic to the European Union and the ideals of the Enlightenment, and counter-enlightened conservative nationalists extolling the virtues of homelands threatened by globalised elites and mass migration. This study seeks to uncover the roots of historically informed ideas of Europe, while at the same time underlining the fundamental differences between the writings of the older counter-revolutionary Europeanists and their self-appointed successors and detractors in the twenty-first century. In the decades around 1800, the era of the French Revolution, counter-revolutionary authors from all over Europe defended European civilisation against the onslaught of nationalist revolutionaries, bent on the destruction of the existing order, or so they believed. In opposition to the new revolutionary world of universal and abstract principles, the counter-revolutionary publicists proclaimed the concept of a gradually developing European society and political order, founded on a set of historical and - ultimately divine - institutions that had guaranteed Europe's unique freedom, moderation, diversity, and progress since the fall of the Roman Empire. These counter-revolutionary Europeanists drew on the cosmopolitan Enlightenment and simultaneously criticized its alleged revolutionary legacy. Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, these ideas of European history and civilisation were rediscovered and adapted to new political contexts, shaping in manifold ways our contested idea of European history and memory until today.

On the author:

Matthijs Lok studied European history at the Universities of Liverpool, Leiden, and Yale, followed by a brief career as a policy advisor. In 2009 he took his PhD at the History Department of the University of Amsterdam. In 2011 Lok received tenure as an universitair docent and in 2015 he became senior university lecturer. Lok was appointed a senior fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study NIAS (2019-20) and held visiting positions at the Lichtenberg Kolleg & Moritz Stern Institut Göttingen, Germany (2021-22) and the KU Leuven, Belgium (2022). 

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BOOK: Landi SAURO, Le regard de Machiavel. Penser les sciences sociales au XVIe siècle [Histoire] (Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2021), 238 p. ISBN 9782753582156, € 24

 

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Book abstract:

Le regard que Machiavel porte sur la réalité lui permet de voir des choses que ses contemporains ne voient pas, comme la nature des comportements collectifs, le caractère mental des liens politiques et religieux ou l'importance de l'opinion dans le gouvernement des États. Le fil conducteur de cette « biographie cognitive » est l'enquête de Machiavel : sa manière d'identifier et de construire dans le temps des objets de recherche. Il ne s'agit plus de questionner Machiavel sur son identité politique ou religieuse mais de comprendre comment, en interprétant la réalité, il contribue à l'émergence d'une connaissance spécifiquement consacrée à l'homme en société.

On the author:

Landi Sauro, spécialiste de l'Italie moderne, est professeur à l'université Bordeaux-Montaigne. Il a notamment publié aux PUR Naissance de l'opinion publique dans l'Italie moderne. Sagesse du peuple et savoir de gouvernement de Machiavel aux Lumières. 

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COURSE: Fonti giuridiche medievali - project FONTES (FOstering iNnovative Training in the use of European legal Sources) - University of Palermo, 9 March 2023 - 19 May 2023

 

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The course on medieval legal sources will take place on 9 March - 19 May 2023.

The programme of the copurse is available here.

CFP CONFERENCE: Entstehungs- und Wirkungsgeschichte der Kindschaftsrechtsreform 1998 - Herbst 2023, Regensburg [DEADLINE: 15 APR 2023]

 

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Die Universität Regensburg (Veranstalter: Prof. Dr. Martin Löhnig) lädt ein, Vorträge für die Tagung "Entstehungs- und Wirkungsgeschichte der Kindschaftsrechtsreform 1998" einzureichen.

Die Kindschaftsrechtsreform 1998 war das Ergebnis eines jahrelangen kontroversen rechts- und gesellschaftspolitischen Diskurses, der auch nach Inkrafttreten des Reformgesetzes nicht vollständig zum Erliegen kam. Untersucht werden sollen Entstehungs- und Wirkungsgeschichte dieser Reform aus multidisziplinärer und vergleichender Perspektive.

Das am 1. Juli 1998 in Kraft getretene Gesetz zur Reform des Kindschaftsrechts brachte eine grundlegende Neuregelung dieses Rechtsgebietes und löste endlich das Postulat aus Art. 6 Abs. 5 GG, „unehelichen Kindern […] durch die Gesetzgebung die gleichen Bedingungen für ihre leibliche und seelische Entwicklung und ihre Stellung in der Gesellschaft zu schaffen wie den ehelichen Kindern“ (weitgehend) ein. Das am 1. Juli 1970 in Kraft getretene bundesdeutsche Gesetz über die rechtliche Stellung der nichtehelichen Kinder hatte nur einige punktuelle Veränderungen vorgenommen, während im Gegensatz dazu in der DDR schon deutlich früher eine weitreichende Beseitigung der rechtlichen Unterscheidung zwischen ehelichen und nichtehelichen Kindern erfolgt war. Flankiert wurde das Gesetz zur Reform des Kindschaftsrechts durch zwei weitere Gesetze, das Beistandschaftsgesetz, das ebenfalls zum 1. Juli 1998 in Kraft trat, und das bereits ab 1. April 1998 geltende Erbrechtsgleichstellungsgesetz.
Seither unterscheidet die deutsche Rechtsordnung nichtmehr zwischen ehelichen und nichtehelichen Kindern, sondern kennt lediglich noch einige Regelungen für Kinder nicht miteinander verheirateter Eltern; der über Jahrhunderte hinweg die Familienordnung prägende Statusunterschied ist damit entfallen. Die Ehe hat im Zuge der Reform ihre das Kindschaftsrecht strukturierende Funktion verloren, es kommt allein auf die gemeinsame Elternschaft an, entscheidendes Kriterium ist das Kindeswohl. Dies gilt insbesondere für die neuen Regeln über die elterliche Sorge bei Trennung und Scheidung und über das Umgangsrecht. Neben der Neuordnung des gesamten elterlichen Sorgerechts hat die Reform auch eine komplette Umstellung des Abstammungsrechts (Abschaffung der Ehelichkeitsanfechtung) und des Kindesnamensrechts gebracht. Hinzukommt die Abschaffung der Beistandschaft für unverheiratete Mütter, die nur mehr als freiwillige Beistandschaft, beschränkt auf die Themen Feststellung der Vaterschaft und Geltendmachung von Unterhaltsansprüchen, existiert. Im Bereich des Erbrechts ist ebenfalls eine weitreichende Gleichstellung ehelicher und nichtehelicher Kinder durch Abschaffung des 1969 eingeführten Erbersatzanspruchs erfolgt.
Die Kindschaftsrechtsreform war das Ergebnis eines jahrelangen kontroversen rechts- und gesellschaftspolitischen Diskurses, der auch nach Inkrafttreten des Reformgesetzes nicht vollständig zum Erliegen kam. Untersucht werden sollen Entstehungs- und Wirkungsgeschichte dieser Reform aus multidisziplinärer und vergleichender Perspektive.

Themenvorschläge (max. 3000 Zeichen) mit kurzem CV werden bis 15. April 2023 an martin.loehnig@ur.de erbeten. Die ausgewählten Themen (Nachricht erfolgt bis 30. April 2023) sollen auf einer Tagung, die im Wintersemester 2023/24 an der Universität Regensburg stattfindet, präsentiert und diskutiert werden; die hiernach überarbeiteten Texte werden in einem Tagungsband publiziert. Reise- und Übernachtungskosten werden erstattet.

More information can be found here.

CONFERENCE: Hans Kelsen nella scienza giuridica italiana - Roma 3-4 Aprile 2023

 

(Source: Storia del diritto)

The programme is available in PDF version here.

BOOK: Margarent MCGLYNN, The King's Felons: Church, State and Criminal Confinement in Early Tudor England (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023), 400 pp., ISBN 9780192887689, £110

 

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Book description: 

The King's Felons examines the subtle but intentional development of criminal confinement as an alternative to capital punishment in early Tudor England. As the judicial establishment looked for ways to enhance law and order without provoking political opposition, they increasingly turned to two traditional mitigations of criminal punishment: benefit of clergy and sanctuary.

Often reviled as corrupt clerical rights which served to undermine secular authority and the rule of law, benefit of clergy and sanctuary in fact provided the justices with room to manoeuvre, allowing them to punish a larger number of felons less harshly while avoiding political scrutiny. The King's Felons explores the evolution of this approach over a period of sixty years, allowing us to see not only the internal development of both law and process, but the ways in which the judicial system responded to external pressures.

The dissolution of the monasteries between 1536 and 1540, together with the steady erosion of the wealth and power of the bishops, meant that the institutional and financial foundations on which the justices built this system began to crumble as it was reaching fruition. Over the next two decades they scrambled, with limited success, to secure some small vestiges of the system they had built. The epilogue connects the state of the system in the aftermath of this collapse to our existing understanding of the system in the later part of the century.

Providing the first detailed study of criminal justice in the early Tudor period, The King's Felons highlights the role of the Church in the administration of criminal justice and reframes our understanding of many significant acts of the Reformation parliament. This book is a must-read for students and scholars of Tudor history, legal historians and those interested in the role of the church with regard to politics, law, and crime.

Table of contents: 

Introduction
Part One: The Foundations
1:Benefit of Clergy: Common Learning
2:Sanctuary: Common Learning
3:Processes and Records at the End of the Fifteenth Century
Part Two: Building a Bureaucracy
4:Benefit of Clergy in the Reign of Henry VII
5:Sanctuary in the Reign of Henry VII
6:Benefit of Clergy 1509-1529
7:Sanctuary 1509-1529
Part Three: The Limits of a Quiet Evolution
8:Sanctuary and Benefit of Clergy 1529-39
9:Sanctuary and Benefit of Clergy after 1540
Epilogue

About the author: 

Margaret McGlynn is Professor of History and the Vice-Provost of Academic Planning, Policy and Faculty at Western University. Her research and administrative work both focus on the ways in which policy and regulation intersect with cultural norms during periods of rapid change, as well as the ways in which the adaptation of old policies can support or modify the introduction of new ones.

More information can be found here. 

BOOK PRESENTATION: S. Cassese, A. Melloni, A. Pajno (curr.), I presidenti e la presidenza del Consiglio dei ministri nell'Italia repubblicana - presentazione del volume - martedì 28 marzo 2023, ore 15.30 - Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza"

 

(Source: Storia del diritto)

BOOK: Adrian MASTERS, We, the King: Creating Royal Legislation in the Sixteenth-Century Spanish New World (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023), 342 pp., ISBN 9781009315418, £85

 

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Book description: 

We, the King challenges the dominant top-down interpretation of the Spanish Empire and its monarchs' decrees in the New World, revealing how ordinary subjects had much more say in government and law-making than previously acknowledged. During the viceregal period spanning the post-1492 conquest until 1598, the King signed more than 110,000 pages of decrees concerning state policies, minutiae, and everything in between. Through careful analysis of these decrees, Adrian Masters illustrates how law-making was aided and abetted by subjects from various backgrounds, including powerful court women, indigenous commoners, Afro-descendant raftsmen, secret saboteurs, pirates, sovereign Chiriguano Indians, and secretaries' wives. Subjects' innumerable petitions and labor prompted – and even phrased - a complex body of legislation and legal categories demonstrating the degree to which this empire was created from the “bottom up”. Innovative and unique, We, the King reimagines our understandings of kingship, imperial rule, colonialism, and the origins of racial categories.

Table of contents: 

List of figures
List of tables
Acknowledgments
Prelude: A Peruvian pestizo at the Spanish Court
Introduction: the collective making of an empire
1. Paper ceremonies for a global empire: Gobierno petitions and the collective work of Voluntad
2. The co-creation of the Imperial Logistics Network
3. Distant kings, powerful women, prudent ministers: the gendered creation of the Council of the Indies
4. Lawmaking in a portable council: Gobierno decision-making technologies before 1561
5. 'Bring the Papers:' Royal decision-making and the power of archives in Madrid, 1561–1598
6. Creating the royal decree: format, phraseology, and petitioners' transformation of Indies law
7. Pedro Rengifo's epilogue: subjects of chance
Conclusions
Index.

About the author: 

Adrian Masters is Director of the University of Trier's GloVib: Global Entanglements Project. Raised in rural Costa Rica, he has written several award-winning articles on Spanish imperial history.

More information can be found here. 

INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM: Power on Trial: Public Opinion and Political Legitimacy from the Enlightenment to the Napoleonic Era and its Modern Implications - The Franke Institute for the Humanities, University of Chicago - April 14-15, 2023

 

Power on Trial: Public Opinion and Political Legitimacy from the Enlightenment to the Napoleonic Era and its Modern Implications

International Colloquium at the University of Chicago

April 14-15, 2023

The Franke Institute for the Humanities

1100 East 57^th Street, JRL S-102

Chicago, IL 60637

Day 1 (April 14, 2023)

 

-        Panel 1: 9:30-10:30am

Theme: Public Opinion and Social Cohesion/Opinion publique et lien social

Chair: Jan Goldstein (University of Chicago: Norman and Edna Freehling Professor Emerita of History, the Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science, and the College)

Susan Maslan (University of California, Berkeley: Associate Professor of French): “Transformations of the social bond on the revolutionary stage: equality, judgment, affect”

Agathe Meridjen (Université Paris Nanterre : Doctorante en Sociologie): “Les discours aliénistes face à l’opinion publique à la fin du XVIIIe, entre promesses de réorganisation de la société, révolutionnaires pathologiques et assurances contre de « Nouvelles Bastilles »”

 

-        Panel 2: 10:30am-11:30pm

Theme: Trickery and Deception: Twisted Opinion/Tromperie et déception: l’opinion travestie

Chair: Colin Jones (Queen Mary University of London: Emeritus Professor of Cultural History; University of Chicago: Visiting Professor of History)

Doina Harsanyi (Central Michigan University: Professor of History, World Languages, and Cultures): “Wrongful Praising: flattery and strategies of survival in Napoleonic Italy”

Robert Morrissey (University of Chicago: Benjamin Franklin Professor of French Literature, and the Committee on Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities): “Mystification et Victimisation : Diderot le « Trickster » des Lumières.”

 

-        Lunch: 11:30-1:30pm

 

-        Panel 3: 1:30-2:30pm

Theme: Opinion on Trial: Legislation and Legalization/L'opinion en procès : législation et légalisation

Chair: Paul Cheney (University of Chicago: Professor of European History, Fundamentals, and the College)

Ryan Brown (University of Chicago: PhD Candidate in French and Francophone Studies): “The Autobiographer as Jurist: Rousseau's Confessions, the Practice of Judicial Proof, and the Court of Public Opinion”

Raphaël Cahen (JLU Giessen: Senior Researcher; Vrije Universiteit Brussel and École Pratique des Hautes Études: Guest Lecturer): “Les jurisconsultes du Ministère des affaires étrangères et l’opinion publique (1789-1830)”

 

-        Panel 4: 2:30-3:30pm

Theme: Representing and Measuring Public Opinion: Revolutionary Fever and its Excesses/Représenter et mesurer l'opinion publique : la fièvre révolutionnaire et ses excès

Chair: William H. Sewell Jr. (Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Political Science and History)

Maximilien Novak (University of Chicago: Humanities Teaching Fellow): “Le thermomètre de l'opinion publique : mesure de la fièvre sociale au tournant du 19ème siècle en France.”

Andrei Pop (University of Chicago: Allan and Jean Frumkin Professor, Committee on Social Thought, Art History, and the College): “‘The King’s Head or Bust’: aesthetic and political representations of popular mob beheadings”

 

-        Coffee Break: 3:30-4pm

 

-        Keynote address: 4-5pm

Keith Baker (J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor in Humanities and Professor, by courtesy, of French and Italian): “Public Opinion: Reason or Will?”

 

-        Dinner: 7pm

 

Day 2 (April 15, 2023)

 

-        Panel 5: 1-2pm

Theme: Public Opinion and Publicity: From Impostures to Posters/Opinion publique et publicité : de l'imposture aux posters

Chair: Robert Morrissey (University of Chicago: Benjamin Franklin Professor of French Literature, and the Committee on Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities)

Antoine Lilti (Collège de France: Chaire “Histoire des Lumière, XVIIIe siècle – XXIe siècle): "Charlatanism and imposture : the philosophes and the challenge of publicity"

Laurent Cuvelier (Université de Tours: Maître de conférence en histoire moderne): Walls speak : Advertisement and public opinion through 18th Century Parisian posters 

 

-        Panel 6: 2pm-3pm

Theme: New Perspectives: the development of questions around race and disability/Nouvelles perspectives : la question de la mise en valeur de la question raciale et des invalides

Chair: Yann Robert (University of Illinois Chicago: Associate Professor French and Francophone Studies)

Christy L. Pichichero (George Mason University: Associate Professor of History and French with affiliations in African and African American Studies, Women and Gender Studies, and War and the Military in Society Programs): “Public Opinion and Empire: a Black Epistemological Approach”

Thomas Ramonda (Aix-Marseille Université: Doctorant en histoire): “Prendre les invalides pour témoins : l’instrumentalisation du sort des militaires en Espagne dans le procès du système politique napoléonien”

 

-        Coffee break: 3-3:30pm

 

-        Final Roundtable: 3:30pm-4:30pm

Theme: “Public Opinion Today”

Moderator: Colin Jones (Queen Mary University of London: Emeritus Professor of Cultural History; University of Chicago: Visiting Professor of History

Participants: TBD (Open Invitation)

 

-        Concert: 6-7:30pm

Pianist: Pierre Delignies Caldéron

Location: Fulton Recital Hall (University of Chicago Campus) 5845 S. Ellis Ave, Chicago, IL, 60637

SEMINAR: Penser le droit par nos à priori, Jean-Sylvestre Bergé - 31 mars 2023 (on Zoom)

 

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Conférence et cycle: Penser le droit par nos à priori

Programme

 

13h00 : Intervention de Jean-Sylvestre Bergé

15h00 : Fin

  

Lien ZOOM : https://univ-cotedazur.zoom.us/my/hania.kassoul

Organisée par Hania Kassoul pour la Faculté de droit, Université de Côte d'Azur, le GREDEG, le CERDP, RDDPHI

BOOK: PAolo ALVAZZI DEL FRATE, Alfonso ALIBRANDI & Gianmarco PALMIERI (cur.), Fonti per il corso di storia delle codificazioni moderne (Torino: Giappichelli, 2023). ISBN: 9791221100945, pp. 184, 19,00 €

 

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The table of contents and more information are available with the publisher.

BOOK: Christian G. FRITZ, Monitoring American Federalism. The History of State Legislative Resistance [Studies in Legal History, ed. Lisa FORD, Thomas MCSWEENEY, Reuel SCHILLER & Taisu ZHANG] (Cambridge: CUP, 2023), ISBN 9781009325578, 39,99 USD

 

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Abstract:

Monitoring American Federalism examines some of the nation's most significant controversies in which state legislatures have attempted to be active partners in the process of constitutional decision-making. Christian G. Fritz looks at interposition, which is the practice of states opposing federal government decisions that were deemed unconstitutional. Interposition became a much-used constitutional tool to monitor the federal government and organize resistance, beginning with the Constitution's ratification and continuing through the present affecting issues including gun control, immigration and health care. Though the use of interposition was largely abandoned because of its association with nullification and the Civil War, recent interest reminds us that the federal government cannot run roughshod over states, and that states lack any legitimate power to nullify federal laws. Insightful and comprehensive, this appraisal of interposition breaks new ground in American political and constitutional history, and can help us preserve our constitutional system and democracy.

 On the author:

Christian G. Fritz is Emeritus Professor of Law at the University of New Mexico School of Law. He is the author of American Sovereigns: The People and America's Constitutional Tradition Before the Civil War (2008).

Table of contents;:

Introduction 1. The riddle of federalism and the genesis of interposition 2. Early state use of interposition: testing the powers of the new national government 3. State interposition and debates over the meaning of the Constitution 4. The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions and Madison's report of 1800 5. State interposition during the Jefferson and Madison presidencies 6. State challenges to the Supreme Court's control over constitutional interpretation 7. The transformation of interposition: the theory of nullification emerges 8. State interposition and nullification on the path to secession 9. State interposition during and after the Civil War 10. Modern interposition by states and 'nullification' Epilogue. 

(Source: Law & Humanities Blog) 

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VACANCY: Assistant Professor in Foundations of Law (broadly conceived) (Maastricht: Maastricht University, DEADLINE 16 APR 2023)

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Presentation:

The Department of Foundation and Methods of Law offers courses in the field of philosophy of law, legal history, and legal theory, as part of our LL.B. and LL.M. programs. Members of the department analyze the foundations of law from a legal-philosophical, legal-theoretical and legal-historical perspective. The department is embedded in the Faculty of Law that offers an international classroom with students from over 40 different nationalities.

Job description:

Applications are invited for an appointment as Assistant Professor (‘Universitair Docent’), in the field of Philosophy of Law, Legal History, and/or Legal Theory. The starting date is 1 August 2023 or as soon as possible thereafter. This is a full-time position, consisting of 65% teaching time and 35% research time. The initial contract is for 18 months, followed by a permanent contract subject to satisfactory performance. To complement the competences and academic interests of the current staff, we are looking for candidates who are capable of building bridges between disciplines within our department, e.g., combining legal philosophical and legal historical approaches and topics, or capable of building bridges between one of our disciplines and one (sub)field in private or public law. The appointee will be expected to contribute to the development and delivery of teaching in the Faculty’s LL.B. and LL.M.programs. They will also be expected to make a significant contribution to the Faculty’s research profile by producing high-quality research, to be a cooperative member in the Department, to write research proposals, and to fulfill administrative duties. We particularly welcome applications from candidates belonging to groups that have been traditionally under-represented in our discipline.

 Requirements:

expertise in Legal History, Legal Theory, and/or Philosophy of Law;

• the capability to build bridges between disciplines within our department, e.g., combining legal philosophical and legal historical approaches and topics, or between one of our disciplines and one (sub)field in private or public law;
• PhD degree in either of these or adjacent fields (or having obtained a PhD degree at the time of appointment);
• experience and skills in academic teaching, not only in one’s own academic field but also in the more general legal (skills) courses;
• having obtained University Teaching Qualification (UTQ) or be willing to obtain this UTQ soon;
• excellent research skills, preferably as shown in peer reviewed publications;
• excellent organizational skills;
• fluency in spoken and written English at an academic level;
• the ability to teach and grade in Dutch is strongly preferred but is not a formal requirement. However, if employed permanently, the Maastricht University expects basic proficiency in Dutch after a certain period – and provides free language training;
• the ability to work both independently as well as in a team, with a solution-oriented attitude and a healthy dose of academic curiosity.

 Conditions of employment:

A salary initially based on scale 11 of the collective labour agreement of the Dutch Universities depending on qualifications and work experience (minimum € 3,974 maximum € 5,439 gross per month for a full-time job). An annual 8% holiday and an annual 8.3% year-end allowance is also provided. While the position is a permanent one, the initial contract will be for 18 months for any candidate employed by Maastricht University for the first time. Candidates will be required to acquire a university teaching qualification within two years (on-the-job) if still needed. Start: 1 August 2023 or as soon as possible thereafter. The terms of employment of Maastricht University are set out in the Collective Labour Agreement of Dutch Universities (CAO). Furthermore, local UM provisions also apply. For more information look at the website www.maastrichtuniversity.nl > About UM > Working at UM.

 More information:

For more information on these vacancies, please contact: Prof. Dr Roland Pierik, professor of Philosophy of Law and Chair of the Department of Foundations and Methods of Law, via r.pierik@maastrichtuniversity.nl, or +31 (0) 43 3882866. If you recognize yourself in the profile and are interested in this position, we look forward to receiving your application.

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BOOK: Mónica GARCÍA-SALMONES ROVIRA, The Necessity of Nature. God, Science and Money in 17th Century English Law of Nature [Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law, ed. Larissa VAN DEN HERIK & Jean d'ASPREMONT; 179] (Cambridge: CUP, 2023); ISBN 9781009332149, 120 GBP

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Book description:

To understand our current world crises, it is essential to study the origins of the systems and institutions we now take for granted. This book takes a novel approach to charting intellectual, scientific and philosophical histories alongside the development of the international legal order by studying the philosophy and theology of the Scientific Revolution and its impact on European natural law, political liberalism and political economy. Starting from analysis of the work of Thomas Hobbes, Robert Boyle and John Locke on natural law, the author incorporates a holistic approach that encompasses global legal matters beyond the foundational matters of treaties and diplomacy. The monograph promotes a sustainable transformation of international law in the context of related philosophy, history and theology. Tackling issues such as nature, money, necessities, human nature, secularism and epistemology, which underlie natural lawyers' thinking, Associate Professor García-Salmones explains their enduring relevance for international legal studies today.

On the author:

Mónica García-Salmones Rovira is Global Law Fellow in the Alvaro d'Ors Global Law Chair, ICS, at the University of Navarre, and a Senior Fellow at the Erik Castrén Institute of International Law, University of Helsinki. She is the author of The Project of Positivism in International Law (2013) and co-editor of Cosmopolitanisms in Enlightenment Europe and Beyond (2013) and International Law and Religion (2017). 

Table of contents:

Table of Contents:

Introduction

I Altering the Perception of Nature

II Nature and The Light of Nature

III Needs, Politics and Money

IV Necessity and Liberalism

IV Outline of Chapters

• 1. A Christian Science: Searching for the Common Good and the Public Good

1.1 Deism, Neoplatonism and the Light of Reason

1.2 Scepticism and Moral Righteousness

1.3 Hobbes and Locke versus Filmer on Political Economy

1.4 The New Oeconomies: Household – State – Nature

• 2. Hobbes's Doctrine of Necessity

2.1 Hobbes's Doctrine of Necessity and Existence

2.2 Necessitarian Metaphysics and (Human) Body in Avicenna and Hobbes

• 3. Necessities, Natural Rights and Sovereignty in Leviathan

3.1 Hobbes's Necessity, Theology and Natural Laws

3.2 The Doctrine of Necessity in Leviathan

• 4. Reformers on the Necessary Knowledge

4.1 Useful Knowledge as the Only Necessary Knowledge: Benjamin Worsley in Context

4.2 All-Encompassing Human Necessities

• 5. Necessity, Free Will and Conscience: Robert Sanderson

5.1 Logician and Theologian

5.2 The Mechanical Conscience

• 6. The Grand Business of Nature

6.1 The Oeconomy of Nature

6.2 The Fact of Man

6.3 The Grand Business of Nature

• 7. Robert Boyle, the Empire over Nature

7.1 Nothing Is Necessary: Benjamin Worsley Revisited

7.2 The Transmutator of Nature

7.3 Undoing Nature

• 8. Locke's Early Writings

8.1 Independent Judgment of Conscience, Public Order and Public Interest

8.2 Undoing Conscience

• 9. Medicine, Oeconomy and Needs

9.1 The Oeconomy of Needs

9.2 Physicians and Oeconomia

• 10. Money and the Doctrine of Necessities

10.1 Locke's Doctrine of Necessities

10.2 Usury, Interest and Science

• 11. The Scientification of Money

11.1 The Science of Interest

11.2 The Morality of Capital

• 12. The Doctrine of Necessities and the (Public) Good

12.1 Necessity and Necessities in Knowledge and Morality: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

12.2 Necessities, Dominion and Money in the Two Treatises of Government

• Conclusions 

(source: ESIL IGHIL)

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PRIVACY LECTURE: Privacy and Concurrence of Norms in the 'Age of Ambiguity' - 17 April 2023, 13:00-15:00, Copenhagen

Details

Time: 17 Apr. 2023, 13:00-15:00

Place: Room 6B.1.62 - South Campus (University of Copenhagen)

Organizer: Centre for Privacy Studies

Registration

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Abstract by Professor Hillard von Thiessen

The Center for Privacy Studies examines how notions of privacy and the private shape relations between individuals and society in the early modern period. Partially, privacy may be regarded as the place of an individual in the social sphere – not yet (theoretically) secluded from the public world, but already constituting a field of action with particulars values, norms and rules. The lecture will contextualize the notions, the significance and the dynamics of social norms in early modern latin-Christian societies. In those societies, normative demands were aimed at individuals with increasing vigour from a variety of authorites: the church, the secular authorities, and social groups like the family, the neighbourhood, the guild, the peer group and so on. It will be discussed how early modern individuals navigated in such a demanding and complex normative field, in which occasions and with what arguments individuals were in the position to fend off certain normative demands, how social as well as religious and political dynamics were set off and how cultural ambiguity came out as a – wílly-nilly and precarious – result of the concurrence and competition of norms.

Bio

Hillard von Thiessen studied at the Universities of Kiel, Edinburgh and Freiburg, where he was awarded a doctoral degree with a dissertation on the Capuchins between confessionalization and popular culture in the early modern period in two German cities. Since 2000, one of his topics of investigation is the history of foreign relations in the early modern period with particular regard to the approaches of New Diplomatic History. After having obtained the habilitation degree at the University of Berne in 2007 with a study on diplomacy and patronage, he worked as substitute professor for Early modern history at the University of Cologne, until he was appointed professor for Early modern history at the University of Rostock in 2013. Currently, his principle field of research is the history of norms and values in premodern Europe. With regard to this topic, he published the monograph Das Zeitalter der Ambiguität. Vom Umgang mit Werten und Normen in der Frühen Neuzeit (The Age of Ambiguity. On Norms and Values in the Early Modern Period) in 2021.

CONFERENCE: 'Diplomatie et droit à travers l'histoire' - Cycle de conférences lorraines d'histoire du droit - Nancy, 5 Avril 2023

 

Dans le cadre du cycle des conférences lorraines d’Histoire du Droit, l'Institut François Gény vous propose une nouvelle conférence sur le thème "Diplomatie et droit à travers l'histoire".

PROGRAMME

Introduction aux rapports entre Diplomatie et Droit aux XIXe et XXe siècles

par Monsieur Hugo STAHL, Maître de conférences à l’Université de Lorraine, Faculté de Droit, Économie et Administration de Metz, Institut François Gény (UR 7301)

La négociation du Traité de Paris du 30 mars 1856

par Monsieur Yves BRULEY, Maître de conférences à l'École Pratique des Hautes Études, (UR 4116 Savoirs et Pratiques du Moyen Âge au XIXe siècle)

De l’action réformatrice de la diplomatie au XIXe siècle. Exemples d’analyse, d’inspiration et de création de la norme étrangère

par Monsieur Jean-Romain FERRAND-HUS, Maître de conférences à l’Université de Lorraine, Faculté de Droit, Sciences économiques et Gestion de Nancy, Institut François Gény (UR 7301)

La diplomatie non officielle : le statut juridique des espions de la fin du XIXe au milieu du XXe siècle

par Madame Claire de BLOIS, Docteure en Droit, ATER à l’Université Paris-Cité, IHD (UR 2515)

Le diplomate et le droit

par Monsieur Jean-Pierre VIDON, Ancien ambassadeur, Ministre plénipotentiaire honoraire

ENTRÉE LIBRE

Cette conférence est organisée avec le soutien de l'Institut François Gény (UR7301) et de la Ville de Nancy.

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