PHEDRA WINTER SCHOOL: Corporate and mercantile bankruptcy, insolvency and debt: approaches from legal and economic history (Venice, 29-31 OCT 2024)

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