BOOK: Jake DYBLE, Managing Maritime Risk in Early Modern Europe (London: Boydell & Brewer, 2025), ISBN 9781837651559 [OPEN ACCESS]

 

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Abstract:

Draws on the rich surviving archives of the Tuscan port of Livorno to explore how General Average worked. Commercial seafaring, both dangerous and with large amounts of capital at stake, was the source of the risk-management institutions that still undergird the global economy today. A key institution of early modern risk management was General Average, a procedure used to redistribute extraordinary costs arising from a maritime venture between all financially interested parties. For example, should one merchant's cargo be jettisoned to lighten a ship in a storm, the loss would be shared pro rata by the shipper and all the cargo-owners. A risk-sharing practice, different from the risk-shifting of marine insurance which became established relatively late, General Average is still in widespread use. This book explores how General Average worked. It reveals the gap between General Average in law and how it worked on the ground. It shows how General Average partitioned a wide array of business costs, thereby performing a significant role in structuring maritime commerce, managing risk and promoting shipping and trade. In addition, the book discusses how far General Average was a feature of a supposedly ancient, universal, customary maritime law, and contributes to debates about the evolution of institutions in economic development.

Read the book here. 

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Copy Editors (Comparative Legal History) [DEADLINE 30 MAY 2025]

 

Journal Comparative Legal History

 

Call for Copy Editors

 

Deadline: 30 May 2025

 

 

The European Society for Comparative Legal History (ESCLH) is seeking applications for the position of Copy Editor of its flagship journal, Comparative Legal History. A maximum of three Copy Editors will be appointed.

 

Evidence of scholarly ability, willingness to learn quickly, and membership (or a commitment to become a member if appointed) of the ESCLH are requirements. Full training in the journal's processes will be provided as needed.

 

You would contribute to the advancement of comparative legal history as part of a supportive and dedicated team.

 

The journal is an official academic forum of the ESCLH. It was first published in 2013 and aims to offer a space for the development of comparative legal history. Based in Europe, it welcomes contributions that explore law in different times and jurisdictions from across the globe.

 

Applications, with a brief cover letter and short CV (no more than 4 pages), should be sent to Merike Ristikivi, (Vice-President of the ESCLH), merike.ristikivi@ut.ee, by 30 May 2025.

 

The ESCLH particularly welcomes applications from people underrepresented in academia generally, and in the ESCLH and the journal particularly.

 

This position is not paid.

 

CONFERENCE: L’Extraterritorialité et le Droit [Journées internationales d'histoire du droit et des institutions] (Tilburg: TextielMuseum, 30-31 MAY 2025)

 

Journées internationales d'histoire du droit et des institutions

Textiel MUSEUM, Goirkestraat 96,

Tilburg, le 30 e 31 mai 2025

                                              « L’Extraterritorialité et le Droit »       

 

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Journées internationales d'histoire du droit et des institutions

TextielMUSEUM, Goirkestraat 96,

Tilburg, les 30 et 31 mai 2025

                                              « L’Extraterritorialité et le Droit »       

 

Programme du vendredi 30 mai 2025

 

9:30     Accueil des participants

 

10:00   Michael Milo (Universiteit Utrecht, Vice-Président de la Société d'histoire du droit et des institutions des pays flamands, picards et wallons) et Emanuel van Dongen (Universiteit Utrecht): Accueil et Introduction aux journées internationales d'histoire du droit et des institutions

           

10.05-11:30 (présidence des sessions à déterminer)

Willem Theus (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)  Extra-jurisdictionality and Extra­territoriality

Ilya Kotlyar (University of Francisco Vittoria, Espagne) Late Medieval Doctrine of Hypothec: A Case of Exterritorial and Extratextual Exchange of Ideas?

Marco in 't Veld & Marijn Manders (Tilburg University) Territory and the Enforcement of Dordrecht’s Staple Rights (15-16th Century)

Victor Le Breton-Blon (Université Bretagne Sud) Governing trade in an extraterritorial ecosystem. Bills of exchange, financial law, fairs and transnational networks: the case of Simon Ruiz (late 16th century Europe)

Florian Laussucq (Université de Bordeaux) L'extraterritorialité du droit européen au Qatar: entre structuration d'un droit local et instrument d'interprétation.

 

11:30-11:45 Discussion et Café

 

11:45-13:00 (présidence des sessions à déterminer)

Florian Herrendorf  (Tilburg University) Osterlins and the City: Rouen and the Baltic Trade in the Sixteenth Century

Nadège Zenoud (Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3) La construction dans l’Europe médiévale d’un droit commercial à l’encontre de l’extraterritorialité des droits étatiques

François Pierrard (Université catholique de Louvain) De l’humanisme juridique au siècle des Lumières : la transition du ius commune au droit commun des états modérés en passant par les droits nationaux. Le cas des Pays-Bas autrichiens.

Christian Pfister-Langanay (Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale) Exterritorialité, arbitrages et conflictualités: Dunkerque et le traité de libre-échange de 1786

Ambre Jarassier (Université de Nantes) L’Algérie sous le second Empire, une libéralisation progressive du département par sénatus-consultes.

 

13:00-14.00 Déjeuner – Lunch - Noenmaal

 

14:00-15:15 (présidence des sessions à déterminer)

Tatiana Ndjobo (Universite de Douala, Cameroun) De l’extraterritorialité coloniale à la souveraineté juridique : trajectoires croisées du droit français au Cameroun et au Sénégal

Elodie Duhamel (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) L’implantation ineffective de la « propriété » par la procédure d’immatriculation foncière coloniale en Afrique Occidentale Française

Maaike Voorhoeve (Universiteit van Amsterdam) Kolonialisme, recht en gender in La Régence de Tunis (1881-1956)

Paul-Emanuel Babin (Université de Lille) La contribution de la doctrine anticolonialiste minoritaire contre l’extraterritorialité en Algérie. Les discussions juridiques autour du rapport du politiste Lucien Pary (février 1962) sur les bases militaires en Afrique.

Bastiaan van der Velden (Open universiteit) Slavery in the Dutch Republic – Normative Diversity between the Territories of Holland and Zeeland

 

15:15-15:30 Discussion

 

15:30-16:45 (présidence des sessions à déterminer)

Gaëlle Compper (Université des Antilles) Rendre la justice dans les E.P.C1 en Guyane (19e – 20^e siècles). Un cas d’hybridation normative et juridictionnelle

            Xavier François-Leclanché (Société pour l'histoire du droit et des institutions des anciens pays bourguignons, comtois et romands) Les mainmises des puissances alliées sur l'administration française en 1814 et 1815

Caroline Duret (Université de Genève, Suisse) `Régime juridique des terres agricoles (agri vectigales) cédées aux colons par l'État romain (Ier siècle av. J.-C. – IIe siècle ap. J.-C): réflexions sur la notion de cession d’un droit réel

Hugo Neuhauser (Université de Lille) Les traités de travail et l’applicabilité du droit des assurances sociales à l’étranger (1904-1914)

Dave De ruysscher (Universiteit Tilburg & Vrije Universiteit Brussel) Mirroring the monarch: the extraterritorial sovereignty of cities of trade (15th-16th centuries)

 

16:45 -17:00   Discussion

 

19h00  Dîner de la Société au restaurant Kok Verhoeven,- NS Plein 32, Tilburg – pour les personnes préalablement inscrites

 

Programme du samedi 31 mai 2025

 

9:00     Accueil des participants

 

9:15-10.30 (présidence des sessions à déterminer)

Léna Sylvestre (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) UN Translators as Actors of UN-based Normativity

Milcar Jeff Dorce (Université de Bordeaux) L’extraterritorialité contre-hégémonique

Bruno Debaenst (Uppsala Universitet, Suède)  Veni, vici, annexi. Un regard historico-juridique sur l'assimilation de la Flandre française dans et par la France

Alexandra Garifullina (Université de Lille) L’apport des juristes soviétiques à la construction du droit de l’espace extra-atmosphérique (années 1930-1960)

David Magalhães (University of Coimbra, Portugal) Ius proprium-Ius Commune, a dichotomy that built Portuguese Private Law

Xavier Gervasoni (l’Université de Saint-Quentin en Yvelines) Un bagne d’Outre-Mer méconnu : le pénitencier d’Obock (1885-1895)

 

10:30-10.45    Café

 

10:45-12.15 (présidence des sessions à déterminer)

Dan Constantin Mata (Université «Alexandru Ioan Cuza» de Iasi, Roumanie) Le droit interprovincial et le problème de l'unification législative dans la Roumanie de l'entre-deux-guerres 20e eeuw

João Paulo Ramos Jacob (University of São Paulo, Brésil) Electoral Justice in Brazil: A History of Institutional Discontinuities in a Contested Democratic Order

Stefanos Gakis (Le Mans Université) Les locaux diplomatiques entre territorialité et extraterritorialité

Sanae Bouyayachen (Université Mohammed V, Maroc) La mise en œuvre extraterritoriale de la responsabilité des entreprises transnationales en matière de droits humains : axe de pivotement du tournant vers la « transition durable » en droit international des investissements ?

Wilfried Meidom (Toulouse) Jusqu’où l’extraterritorialité a-t-elle envahi le droit fiscal?

Daria Astakhova (Avocate au barreau de Paris) La recherche des règles de procédure harmonisées pour les litiges internationaux

 

12 :15 Assemblée générale de la Société

 

Tanguy Le Marc’Hadour (Président de la Société), Conclusions et clôture des Journées  internationales d'histoire du droit et des institutions

 

12:30-13:30    Dejeuner-Lunch-Noenmaal

 

13:30 – 15.00  Visite au Musée du Textile-Rondleiding (pour les personnes préalablement inscrites)

 

	Société d'histoire du droit et des institutions des pays                                 flamands, picards et wallons

 

 

 

Journées internationales d'histoire du droit et des institutions

TILBURG, 30 – 31 mai 2025, MUSEE DU TEXTILE

 

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CONFERENCE: The internationalisation of transport law since the Second Industrial Revolution (Regensburg: Universität Regensburg, 8-9 MAY 2025)

 

The period of high industrialisation in the second half of the 19th century marked the beginning of a new era of transnational circulation of goods on the European continent. The means of transport were initially inland waterway vessels and railways, and later in- creasingly lorries. This internationalisation of the transport sector requires a legal frame- work with regard to the goods being transported, the means of transport and the people carrying out these transports. One source of law here can be standardised contractual agreements, with the help of which the players create their own suitable law. On the other hand, there are international agreements in the area of transport law. Examples include the Convention relative aux transports internationaux ferroviaires (COTIF, 1890) or the Convention relative au contrat de transport international de marchandises par route (CMR, 1956) as almost complete codifications of international transport law, which largely super-sede national law and at the same time internationalise it. Added to this is the establishment of arbitration courts, which are taking the place of ordinary national jurisdiction. This created new areas of action; the national European legal systems experienced a "mobility turn", so to speak, which continues to characterise the law today.

The internationalisation of transport law since high industrialisation will be the subject of a conference to be held in Regensburg in spring 2025. 

Organisational matters:

Prof. Dr. Martin Löhnig, Regensburg
Conference venue: Institut für Ostrecht
Landshuter Str. 4, D-93047 Regensburg
Registration: rechtskultur@ur.de

Conference program:

8 May 2025, 09.00

Martin Löhnig - Introduction

Edmund Flood - The Association of German Railway Administrations1847-1914

David Deroussin - Convention concerning International Carriage by Rail (1890)

Mátyás Szabó - The official activities und function of the European Commission of the Danube (1856-1917) as role model

Andreas Maurer - Privatization in maritime law

8 May 2025, 14.00

Andrea Massironi - Italian Jurists Facing the Internationalisation of Air Law: The First International Juridical Congress for the Regulation of Air Locomotion

Kamila Staudigl - Warsaw Convention of 1929

Paolo Rondini - Protection of public health in international transport. The first International Sanitary Conventions on rail, maritime and air transport

Hiram Kümper - Transnational Interest Groups and the Development of European Transport Law: 'Rheinkammerunion' and 'UECC'

9 May 2025, 09.00

Anna Moszynska - Convention on the Contract for the International Carriage of Goods by Road (1956)

Zsolt Bujtár - The CEE and Asian railway alternative - the Agreement on International Railway Freight Communications (SMGS)

Christian Franke - The End of the Internationalisation of Transport Law: A Turning Tide of Supranational Law in the 1980s/90s?

Andreas Maurer - Multimodal transport under German law - some problems 

Martin Löhnig - Closing remarks

BOOK: Erika GRAHAM-GOERING, Jim VAN DER MEULEN & Frederik BUYLAERT (eds.), Lordship and the Decentralised State in Late Medieval Europe [Proceedings of the British Academy] (Oxford: OUP, 2025), 316 p. ISBN 9780197267844, 130 USD

 

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Table of contents:

List of Figures and Maps
List of Tables
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Foreword Justine Firnhaber-Baker
Introduction: Lordship and the Decentralised State in Late Medieval Erika Graham-Goering, Jim van der Meulen, and Frederik Bulaert
1. Lordship and the State: Alloy or Emulsion?, John Watts
Part I Case Studies of Lordship in France and the Low Countries
2. Integrative Approaches to (Co-)Lordship in Late Medieval Languedoc, Erika Graham-Goering
3. Rehabilitating Norman Lordship: The Fief of Hauberk and its Judicial Rights in the 15th and 16th Centuries, Yasline Bourgine De Meder
4. (De)Centralising Governance in Late Medieval France: Actors and Mechanisms, Georg Jostkleigrewe
5. Seigneurial Lordship and the State in the County of Flanders (c. 1350-1550), Frederick Buylaert
6. Pursuit of Nobility and the Priorities of Political Representatives in Early 15th-Century Flanders, Wim Blockmans
7. Lordship in Medieval Holland and Zeeland, Rombert Stapel and Arie van Steensel
8. Urban Political Elites and Seigneurial Lordship: Antwerp and its Hinterland (c. 1400-1550), Janna Everaert and Sieben Feys
9. The Seigneurial Landscapes of Riverine Brabant and Guelders (15th-16th Centuries), Mario Damen and Jim van der Meulen
Conclusions to Part I: Lordship, Commonwealth, Variegated Polities, and the State, Elizabeth A. R. Brown
Part II European Historiographies of Lordship
10. Lordship and State Formation in Late Medieval England, Chris Given-Wilson
11. Lordship and State Formation in Scotland, 1300-1500, Alice Taylor
12. Lordship and State Formation in the Holy Roman Empire, 1300-1550, Hillay Zmora
13. A Land of Lords: Lordship and State Formation in the Italian Peninsula, Francesco Bozzi
14. Jurisdiction: The Crooked Leg of Lordship? State Formation in Castile in the 15th Century, José Antonio Jara Fuente
15. Lordship and State in Scandinavia, c. 1300-1500, Hans Jacob Orning
Conclusions to Part II: State and Lordship: Concluding Remarks, Jean Philippe Genet
Index

On the editors:

Erika Graham-Goering, Associate Professor, University of Oslo,Jim van der Meulen, Postdoctoral Researcher, Ghent University,Frederik Buylaert, Full Professor, Ghent University Erika Graham-Goering is Associate Professor in the Department of Archaeology, Conservation, and History at the University of Oslo. Jim van der Meulen is a social historian at Ghent University with a broad specialisation in the Low Countries between 1300 and 1700, combining expertise in political, socio-economic, cultural, and environmental history. Frederik Buylaert, Professor of History at Ghent University, is a social historian of the Low Countries with a side interest in comparative history and the history of historiography. 

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LECTURE: Barbara STOLLBERG-RILINGER on the Logic of Autocracy [The 2025 George Rousseau Lecture] (Oxford: Magdalen College, 30 APR 2025)

 

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Abstract:

What happens if a person who rejects all rules and conventions finds himself in the position of the ruler? The Prussian ‘Soldier King’ Frederick William I (1688-1740), father of Frederick the Great, is a legendary figure of German history. He is known for state reforms, the vast expansion of his army, and for almost sentencing his son to death. Frederick William I demonstratively challenged almost all political, legal, moral, and aesthetic norms of the time: he humiliated the elites, distrusted his officials, avoided the company of women, and traumatized his son. Contemporaries such as Montesquieu regarded him as a ridiculous outsider and a pathological despot. Later historians, however, transformed him into the ‘educator of the German people.’ This bizarre case can serve as an example of the social logic of autocracy and the power of retrospective rationalization.

On the speaker:

Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger (Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin / Institute of Advanced Study). Se was, from 1997 to 2021, Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Münster, where she led collaborative research groups on ‘Symbolic Communication and Social Value Systems’ and ‘Religion and Politics.’ Since 2018 she is Rector of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin / Institute of Advanced Study. She is a member of various academies and a Fellow of the British Academy. Her field of research is the constitutional, political and cultural history of Europe from the 16th century to the 18th, especially the Holy Roman Empire. Her main research focus is on political rituals and procedures, metaphors and symbols.

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BOOK: Emanuele CONTE & Louis GENTON (eds.), Lire le droit du Moyen Âge. Comprendre et utiliser les sources juridiques (XIIe-XVe siècles) (Napoli: Palumbo Editore), ISBN 9788868899493, € 25

 

Abstract:

L’histoire du droit présente le défi intellectuel de ne pas considérer les normes juridiques actuelles comme les seules solutions possibles pour organiser une société. D’autres systèmes juridique sont existé et d’autres surgiront à l’avenir. Pour comprendre pleinement nos théories et pratiques contemporaines du droit, il est crucial de se tourner non seulement vers ce qui existe, mais aussi vers ce qui a disparu. La recherche en droit prend ainsi un sens nouveau : il ne s’agit pas seulement de retracer l’évolution des idées juridiques, mais aussi de redécouvrir ce qui n’existe plus et de lui donner une place dans notre réflexion actuelle. Pour cela, il est indispensable de revenir aux sources. Codirigé par Emanuele Conte, historien du droit médiéval, et Louis Genton, historien du Moyen Âge, cet ouvrage propose une exploration des sources médiévales, offrant une lecture essentielle des textes qui éclairent les théories et pratiques juridiques de l’époque. Il se situe à l’intersection d’une histoire du droit, sensible à la matérialité des sources et aux pratiques sociales, et du champ des pratiques de l’écrit qui envisage les sources juridiques comme un élément-clé de la gouvernementalité médiévale. À la fois guide méthodologique et outil réflexif, ce livre propose aux étudiants, chercheurs et passionnés d’histoire et de droit, des clés d’analyse et d’interprétation des archives juridiques médiévales. Accompagné d’une version numérique en libre accès, il permet d’approfondir l’étude des textes et de découvrir des ressources documentaires interactives, offrant ainsi de nouvelles perspectives sur l’influence durable du droit médiéval.

Contributors:

 Emanuele Conte Paolo Napoli Beatrice Pasciuta Guido Rossi Joanna Frónska Gero Dolezalek Marta Cerrito Anna Floris Kacper Górski Maciej Mikula Raphaël Eckert Marie Bassano Rosalba Sorice Silvia Di Paolo Attilio Stella David De Concilio Corinne Leveleux-Teixeira Florent Garnier Jesús Velasco Sandro Notari Noëlle-Laetitia Perret Adrien Wyssbrod Massimo Vallerani Sarah White Louis Genton

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ARTICLE PRIZE: Rabiat AKANDE, "An Imperial History of Race-Religion in International Law" (American Journal of International Law) CXVIII (2024), nr. 1 (Jan), 1-40 [Francis Deák Prize] [OPEN ACCESS]

 

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The Francis Deák Prize of the American Society of International Law ("younger author for meritorious scholarship published in AJIL") was awarded to Rabiat Akande's article, "An Imperial History of Race-Religion in International Law".

Abstract:

More than half a century after the UN's adoption of the International Convention on the Prohibition of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, a debate has emerged over whether to extend the Convention's protections to religious discrimination. This Article uses history to intervene in the debate. It argues that racial and religious othering were mutually co-constitutive in the colonial encounter and foundational to the making of modern international law. Moreover, the contemporary proposal to address the interplay of racial and religious othering is hardly new; iterations of that demand surfaced in the earlier twentieth century, as well. By illuminating the centrality of race-religion othering to the colonial encounter and chronicling failed attempts by Europe's “others” to secure international legal protections, this Article makes a case for crafting an attuned response in the present.

On the author:

Rabiat Akande joined the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law in 2024. She works in the fields of legal history, law and religion, constitutional and comparative constitutional law, Islamic law, international law, and (post)colonial African law and society. Professor Akande is the author of Entangled Domains: Empire, Law, and Religion in Northern Nigeria (Cambridge University Press, 2023), a work that has received several honors including Special Mention, the International Society of Public Law (ICON-S) Book Prize; Honorable Mention, the Canadian Law and Society Association Wesley Pue Book Prize; and Finalist, African Studies Association Book Prize. Her work has also appeared in the American Journal of International Law, where her January 2024 article, “An Imperial History of Race-Religion in International Law,” was the subject of a symposium issue in AJIL Unbound. She is author of “Centering the Black Muslimah: An Agenda for Intersectionalizing the Study of Islamophobia” in Anver Emon ed., Systemic Islamophobia Anthology (University of Toronto Press, 2023), a volume that was named to The Hill Times’ 100 Best Books of 2023. She has also published in the Journal of Law and Religion, Law and History Review, the Supreme Court Review, and in volumes by Cambridge University Press, University of Toronto Press, and University of Virginia Press. Currently, she is co-editing an encyclopedia of law and religion (Elgar Publishing: under contract), an African international law reader, and a volume on African international legal history. She is also at work on a book exploring Malcolm X’s intellectual legacy titled Malcolm X, Black Globalism, and the Human Rights Critique of Imperialism. Professor Akande chairs the international legal history project at the African Institute of International Law in Arusha with the support of the African Union and the Gerda Henkel Foundation, among other institutions. She joined Maryland Carey Law from Osgoode Hall Law School where she was an assistant professor and nominated to a York Research Chair in Law and the Histories of Empire. Before Osgoode, Professor Akande was an Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies from 2019 to 2021. She has taught at Harvard Law School as a Clark Byse Fellow, and at Northeastern University School of Law. Professor Akande received her Doctor of Juridical Science (SJD) degree from Harvard Law School in 2019 with her dissertation, “Navigating Entanglements: Contestations over Religion-State Relations in British Northern Nigeria, c. 1890-1978,” receiving the Law and Society in the Muslim World Prize. She obtained her Bachelor of Laws from the University of Ibadan, graduating with First Class Honors and at the top of her class, and from the Nigerian Law School with First Class Honors. Professor Akande’s research has been supported by several fellowships and grants, including by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council, the Gerda Henkel Foundation, the US National Science Foundation (as part of a Law and Society Association International Research Collaborative), the Cravath International Research fellowship, the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs fellowship, and the Harvard Program on Law and Society in the Muslim  World research grant, among others. She serves on the International Journal of Law in Context editorial board. She co-chairs the American Society of International Law’s Africa Interest Group and is chair of the African Studies Association Islam in Africa Study Group. She is also active in the American Society for Legal History and the Law and Society Association. 

 Read the article in open access: DOI 10.1017/ajil.2023.58.

CALL FOR PAPERS: The Mixed Courts of Egypt, 1876-1949: between imperial internationalism and shared legal knowledge (Frankfurt: MPILHLT, 23-24 FEB 2026) [DEADLINE 1 JUL 2025]

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How did the Mixed Courts of Egypt impact legal knowledge and societies on both sides of the Mediterranean? 150 years after these once highly influential institutions heard their first cases, the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory will dedicate a workshop to this question.
The event will take place in Frankfurt am Main on 23-24 February 2026. It is organized by Dr. Michel Erpelding, head of the newly constituted Max Planck research group ‘The hidden heritage of the European Union: the legacy of the law of the League of Nations’, and Mrs Aya Bejermi, whose work as a researcher within that group focusses on mixed courts established in semi-colonial contexts.

Topics of interest
The organizers have issued a call for papers (available in three languages) inviting submissions on topics such as the normative production and environment of the Mixed Courts, their relation to the political context during the time of their operation, and the sociology of actors involved with them.
The call welcomes papers based on archival sources and/or on doctrinal writings and the case law of Mixed Courts.

Submission details
Abstracts of no more than 500 words, written in English, French or Arabic and including the author’s name, e-mail address and a short curriculum vitae, should be submitted to erpelding@lhlt.mpg.de by 1st July 2025. Successful applicants will be notified via e-mail by 1st September 2025 and are expected to produce a summary draft paper by 31st January 2026.
The event will be held in person with no conference fee. Financial support for travel and accommodation is available. For more information, please contact Dr. Michel Erpelding.

BOOK: Sophie SÉDILLOT & Georges FAURÉ (dir.), Vieillir chez soi de l'antiquité à nos jours. Regards sur le maintien à domicile des personnes âgées en perte d'autonomie [Colloques] (Paris: Eyrolles, 2025), 396 p. ISBN 9791097323172, € 20

 

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Abstract:

Vieillir dans un environnement familier est aujourd'hui, plus que jamais, le souhait exprimé par une large majorité des Français. Mais, encore faut-il qu'il soit possible de "bien vieillir" chez soi! En effet, ce choix se révèle bien trop souvent un véritable parcours du combattant, pour la personne âgée en perte d'autonomie et ses proches. Les défaillances du système actuel de maintien à domicile (MAD), faute d'accompagnement global et continu, témoignent de l'insuffisance des politiques publiques, menées jusqu'alors, en dépit du grand virage domiciliaire annoncé depuis plusieurs années.

Les analyses des juristes, des historiens du droit, des sociologues, des médecins, des philosophes et des designers ont ainsi permis d'interroger dans une démarche diachronique et comparatiste le maintien à domicile Français, qu'ils s'agisse de sa genèse, des outils juridiques mis en oeuvre, de ses acteurs bénéficiaires ou de ses enjeux. A l'heure où la loi du 22 juillet 2024 sur l'autonomie vient de reconnaître le bien vieillir, il est nécessaire de repenser collectivement le MAD de demain.

Editors:

Sophie Sédillot, Maître de conférences en histoire du droit à l'UPJV et Georges Fauré, Professeur de droit privé à l'UPJV

Contributions 

by Georges Fauré, Sophie Sédillot, Cédric Glineur, Farah Thomas, Rémi Faivre-Faucompré, Xavier Baki-Mignot, Emmanuelle Santinelli-Foltz, Nicolas Belorgey, Élodie Créteau-Albert, Charlotte Broussy, Olivier Ryckebusch, Jean-Baptiste Masméjan, Christophe Capuano, Cécile Manaouil, Marion Girer, Valéria Ilieva, Ludivine Delattre, Frédéric Bloch, Alain de Broca, Nathalie Ducarme, Valérie Avisse, Margaux Taccoen, Olivier Balin, Guillaume Rousset, Jeanne, Jingyue Xing-Bongioanni, Jun Chu, Lisa Triplet, François Vialla.

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