ONLINE LECTURE SERIES: talks by Aniceto MASFERRER, Dirk HEIRBAUT, Wim DECOCK, Tommaso BEGGIO - Czasopismo Prawno-Historyczne (CPH; Legal History Journal) (OCT 2024 - JAN 2025)

(Source: CPH)

The oldest Polish journal of legal history, Czasopismo Prawno-Historyczne (CPH; Legal History Journal), published by the Faculty of Law and Administration at AMU since 1948, is organizing a second series of online lectures. The editor-in-chief of CPH, Maksymilian Stanulewicz, warmly invites all interested scholars and students to participate in our online lectures and to submit papers to CPH. The series is organized by the Editorial Secretary of CPH, Piotr Alexandrowicz (piotr.alexandrowicz@amu.edu.pl) within the Institute for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences and Humanities at AMU.

The second lecture series in legal history organized by CPH includes four lectures related to both European legal tradition and comparative legal history. Our distinguished speakers will offer fresh insights on a variety of topics, providing a complex framework for assessing the value of comparative legal history for legal science in general. The first lecture by Aniceto Masferrer will provide us with a bird’s-eye view of legal history and its relevance for law and legal science. The second lecture by Dirk Heirbaut will be a masterclass in comparative legal research on the classic issue of codes and codification over the last two hundred years. With the third lecture by Wim Decock, we will delve into the complex realm of the early modern period, exploring its entanglement of canon law, Roman law, and moral theology. In the concluding contribution by Tommaso Beggio, we will have an opportunity to follow the development of the idea of punishment by prison and the use (or misuse) of Roman law in the European legal tradition.

After each open lecture, there will be a follow-up closed seminar for interested early career researchers (graduate students, PhD candidates, postdocs). If you would like to participate in one of these seminars, please contact the organizer.

Below you can find the list of the lectures, for more information on the series, please visit the website.

Lecture 1

Aniceto Masferrer: The contribution of history to the understanding of law.

Date: October, 10th, 2024, 4:00 pm CEST.

Link to the online meeting: https://bit.ly/legalhistory2-1 

Chair: Michał Gałędek

Lecture 2

Dirk Heirbaut: Redefining codification: a proposal based on comparative legal history

Date: November, 12th, 2024, 4:00 pm CEST

Link to the online meeting: https://bit.ly/legalhistory2-2 

Chair: Jan Rudnicki

Lecture 3:

Wim Decock: Usus theologicus pandectarum: on theologians’ use of Roman law

Date: December, 4th, 2024, 4:00 pm CEST

Link to the online meeting: https://bit.ly/legalhistory2-3 

Chair: Wojciech Dajczak

Lecture 4

Tommaso Beggio: A return to ancient Roman models: some remarks on the development of the idea of prison as a punishment from a historical-comparative perspective

Date: January, 16th, 2025, 4:00 pm CEST

Link to the online meeting: https://bit.ly/legalhistory2-4 

Chair: Maciej Jońca