PHEDRA WINTER SCHOOL
Corporate and mercantile bankruptcy, insolvency and debt:
approaches from legal and economic history
Venice, 29-31 October 2024
Palazzi Minelli e Contarini - Sestiere Cannaregio, 3536
Free entry
Program
October 29th
12h00-13h15 Lunch
13h15 Welcome words, introduction – Dave De ruysscher – Vrije Universiteit Brussels-Tilburg
University and Luisa Brunori – Cnrs/École Normale Supérieure.
13h30-14h10 Albrecht Cordes – Goethe-Universität Frankfurt: The debtor's coat. Provisions on
insolvency, bankruptcy and debtor protection in the law of Lübeck in the XIIIth century
14h10-14h50 Giuseppe Speciale – Università di Catania: The relationship between ius commune and
statutory law: bankruptcy procedures and the revocatory action
14h50-15h10 Coffee
15h10-15h50 Alarico Barbagli – Università della Magna Grecia: The "consilia" about insolvency and
bankruptcy in the XIVth-XVth centuries
15h50-16h30 Fleur Stolker – University of Cambridge: The forgotten history of bankruptcy, 1543-
1624
16h30-17h10 Jérôme Sgard – SciencesPo Paris: Insolvency proceedings in England (XVIIth-XVIIIth
centuries)
Drink at Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani
20h30 Dinner
October 30th
9h00-9h40 Ron Harris – Tel Aviv University: The corporate attribute of limited liability in the XIXth
century and its interaction with bankruptcy law
9h40-10h20 Pierre-Cyrille Hautcœur – Paris School of Economics/EHESS: Bankruptcy history from
the point of view of economic history
10h20-10h40 Coffee
10h40-11h20 Annamaria Monti – Università Statale di Milano: Insolvency and bankruptcy in
XIXth and early XXth-century Italian legal doctrine
11h20-12h00 Cristina Ciancio – Università del Sannio: Insolvency and bankruptcy in the Kingdom
of Italy. Codes and commercial courts (XIX-XXth centuries)
12h00-12h40 Justine Chauvel – Université Paris Est Créteil Val de Marne: The landlord's pledge over
the commercial tenant's goods. A comparative study of its influence on tenant's bankruptcy in French,
German, and English territories (XVIIIth-XIXth centuries)
12h40-14h00 Lunch
14h00-14h40 Thomas Max Safley – University of Pennsylvania – Law and institutions in early modern
bankruptcy
14h40-15h20 Maurits den Hollander – Tilburg University: Early modern insolvency legislation in
Amsterdam
15h20-15h40 Coffee
15h40-16h20 Roberto Ganau – New York University: Imprisonment for debt and bankruptcy in
Revolutionary England
16h20-17h00 Mona Bouquin – Université de Dijon: Insolvency Law in the XIXth and XXth centuries:
a Franco-German comparison
17h00-17h40 Rodrick Van der Smissen – Vrije Universiteit Brussels: Roman law and the formative
interpretation of history in the nineteenth-century insolvency law
19h00 Dinner
October 31st
9h00-9h40 Francesca Fusco – Università di Padova: Italian insolvency and bankruptcy terms from the
Middle Ages to the XXIst century
9h40-10h20 Emanuela Fugazza – Università di Pavia: A crime in search of definition: The bankruptcy
of the merchant from the Ordonnance du Commerce to the Bankruptcy Law of 1942
10h20-11h00 Thomas Telfer – Western University: Justifying a provincial bankruptcy and
insolvency power for municipalities: An analysis of Ladore v Bennett (1939) and its divergence from
twentieth century federalism jurisprudence in Canada
11h00-11h20 Coffee
11h20-12h00 Virginia Torrie – Western University: The influence of Saskatchewan and Alberta in
the development of the Canadian bankruptcy and insolvency law
12h00-12h40 Juma Noah Omollo – Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory:
Legal transfer of the English fraud doctrine for the regulation of bank failure to the Uganda Protectorate
c. 1885-1965
12h40-13h20 Máté Pétervári – University of Szeged: The compulsory non-bankruptcy settlement
procedure in the practice of the Royal Regional Court of Kalocsa (1915-1929)
13h30 Lunch
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Scientific committee:
Dave De ruysscher – University of Tilburg/VUB dave.de.ruysscher@vub.be
Luisa Brunori – École Normale Supérieure / CNRS luisa.brunori@ens.psl.eu
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