BOOK: Joëlle ALAZARD, Céline BORELLO, Camille DESENCLOS & Fabien SALESSE (dir.), Communautés et mobilités en Méditerranée de la fin du XVe siècle au milieu du XVIIIe siècle [AHMUF/APHG, collection Amphi] (Paris: Bréal, 2023), ISBN 9782749552934, € 18

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Abstract:

Faisant suite à la Journée organisée par l'APHG le 17 novembre 2022, cet ouvrage propose des articles sur la question d'histoire moderne au programme l'agrégation externe d’histoire 2023 : Communauté et mobilités en Méditerranée de la fin du XVe siècle au milieu du XVIIIe siècle. Les lecteurs, étudiants, enseignants et grand public pourront découvrir les contributions des spécialistes du sujet. L'ouvrage indispensable pour la préparation de l’agrégation mais aussi un ouvrage de référence. Ces textes sont réunis par Joëlle Alazard, par Céline Borello, Camille Desenclos et Fabien Salesse.

On the editor:

Vice-présidente de l'APHG, l'association des professeursd'histoire-géographie, et professeure d'histoire en classes préparatoireslittéraires au lycée Faidherbe de Lille, Joëlle Alazard a développé les cafévirtuels de l'association, qui sont désormais bien ancrés dans les agendas desprofesseurs d'histoire-géographie.

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CONFERENCE: Journées internationales de la société d’Histoire du droit des pays flamands, picards et wallons: Boire et manger (Lille: Hospice Comtesse, 19-20 MAY 2023)

 

(La victorieuse et triomphante campagne du Roy dans les conquestes des villes de Lille Douay Courtray et et Autres, Almanach Royal 1668; source: BnF/Gallica)

Journées internationales de la société d’Histoire du droit des pays flamands, picards et wallons- Internationale rechtshistorische dagen

 

Lille 19 et 20 mai 2023- Rijsel 19 en 20 mei 2023

« Drinken en Eten »-« Boire et Manger »

 

Vendredi 19 mai 2023

 

9h 30 : Accueil des participants à l’Hospice Comtesse, 32 rue de la Monnaie, Lille

10 h : Présentation des journées par Florence Raymond, cheffe de conservation du Musée de l’Hospice Comtesse, Christian Pfister, Pascal Hepner et Tanguy Le Marc’hadour

10h 30 : Session 1 - La nourriture, une arme de guerre 

Laury Renart (France) Université de Lille

Une dernière sucrerie : la crainte des armes chimiques alimentaires pendant la Première Guerre Mondiale

 

Pierre-Emmanuel Babin (France) Université de Lille

Ne pas manger : une arme pour la reconnaissance politique des détenus algériens ?  Les prisons du Nord dans la guerre d'Algérie (1954-1962)

 

11h 30 : Pause-café

 

11 h 45 : Reprise de la session

 

Antonio Grilli (Belgique)

 La faim en Allemagne ? Hambourg sous l'occupation napoléonienne 1811-1813

 

Stefano Cattelan (Belgique) Vrije Universiteit Brussel

 “Weaponizing Food Supply: the War against French Trade during the Nine Years’ War (1688-1697)”

 

12 h 45 : Repas (inscription obligatoire)

 

14 h 15 : Session 2 - La police de la nourriture

Frederik Dhondt (Belgique) Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Qui nourrit l’Etat après la Paix d’Utrecht ? Fiscalité et constitution chez Goswin de Wynants (1661-1732)

 

Renaud Gahide (Belgique) Université libre de Bruxelles

À la table des échevins. L’exemple de l’hôtel de ville de Warneton et de sa conciergerie
 au XVII^e siècle - Aan tafel met de schepenen. Het voorbeeld van het stadhuis van Waasten en zijn conciërgerie in de 17de eeuw

 

15 h 15 : Pause

15 h 30 : Reprise de la session

 

Robin Rose Southard (Belgique) Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Shaping food rules from below? Petitions as a means of influencing regulation in 18th century Brussels - Façonner les règles alimentaires par le bas ? Les pétitions comme moyen d'influencer la réglementation à Bruxelles au 18e siècle.

 

Dennis de Vries (Belgique) Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Towards a society of consumers? Regulating the meat market in late- and post-corporative Brussels (1770-1860).

 

Pierre Bodineau (France) Université de Bourgogne

Entre diplomatie et gastronomie : le dîner de Prague du 16 décembre 1996

 

16h 30 : Visite du Musée de l’Hospice Comtesse

 20 h : Banquet annuel de la société (inscription obligatoire)

 

Samedi 20 Mai 2023

 

9h 30 - Séance 3 : La nourriture et la Justice

François Pierrard (France-Belgique) Université d’Artois

Boire et manger dans les Pays-Bas autrichiens à l’aune des premières idées sur la reformation des loix criminelles de Goswin de Fierlant (1735-1804)

 

Arnaud Dujardin (France) Université de Lille

« Tout reffuser et singulièrement à la brasserie y contredire par tous moyens » : l'affaire de la brasserie des dominicains de Douai à la fin du XVe siècle »

 

10 h 30 : Pause-café

 

11h 45 : Reprise de la session

 

François-Xavier Gervasoni (France), Université de Versailles – Saint-Quentin

 Le régime alimentaire en milieu carcéral dans le Doubs au XIX^e siècle

 

Jean-Pierre Royer (France) Université de Lille

Empoisonneurs et empoisonnés de l’Antiquité à nos jours

 

12 h : Repas libre

 

14 h : Assemblée générale de la société

Information on attendance with prof. T. Le Marc'hadour, president.

 

 

 

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. 

Read more here. 

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

 

(Source: Fontes)

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]

 

(Source: UR)   

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)

 

(Source: Univdroit)

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 €

 

(Source: Giappichelli )

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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