Wednesday,
17th September 2025
Opening
Ceremony
Venue:
Faculty of Law and Criminology, Universiteitstraat 4, 9000 Gent
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17:00-17:15: Opening Remarks by the Director of
the Ghent Legal History Institute, Prof. Dr. Dirk Heirbaut.
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17:15-17:30: Word of welcome by the Organizing
Committee
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17:30-18:00: Keynote speech Bruno Debaenst: The
history of the Annual Forum for Young Legal Historians
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18:00: official opening of the reception by the
Dean of the Law Faculty prof. dr. Michel Tison
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18:15-19:30: Opening ceremony reception
Thursday 18th
September 2025
Panel
sessions
Venue:
Faculty of Law and Criminology, Volderstraat 3, 9000 Gent
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8:30-9:00: Registration day 1
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9:00-10:30: Panel 1, 2, 3
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10:30-11:00: Coffee break
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11:00-12:30: Panel 4, 5, 6
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12:30-14:00: Lunch break
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14:00-15:30: Panel 7, 8, 9
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15:30-16:00: Coffee break
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16:00-17:30: Panel 10, 11, 12
Friday
19th September 2025
Panel
sessions
Venue:
Faculty of Law and Criminology, Volderstraat 3, 9000 Gent
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8:30-9:00: Registration day 2
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9:00-10:30: Panel 13,14,15
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10:30-11:00: Coffee break
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11:00-12:30: Panel 16, 17, 18
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12:30-14:00: Lunch break
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14:00-15:30: Panel 19, 20
Closing
ceremony
Venue:
‘Pacificatiezaal’, Ghent city hall (Botermarkt 1,
9000 Gent)
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18u00: Welcome by the city administration
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Keynote speech
professor Julie Rocheton: Compromis à la Louisianaise
Conference
Dinner
20:00 at
Multatuli (Huidevetterskaai 40, 9000 Gent)
Saturday 20th
September 2025
City tour
through the historical centre of Ghent
Point of
assembly: Faculty of Law and
Criminology, Volderstraat 3, 9000 Gent
Panel
sessions:
Panel
1: Compromise in Islamic and Ottoman Law – Amila Svraka-Imamovic, Rode Zaal
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Afra Uysal: Muamalah
Shar’iyyah: Fraus legis or legal compromise?
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Dawid Szulc: Ottomanism as a
concept legitimizing state and legal reforms in the Tanzimat era (1839–1876)
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Rafał Kaczmarczyk: Forced
compromise: crisis in the Muslim Religious Union in the Republic of Poland
under the government’s management
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Ramez Mahdi Mahmoud Ashour:
Administrative Settlement as a Mechanism for Absorbing Disputes in Hybrid Legal
Systems: The Case of Palestine (TBC)
Panel
2: Compromise and Finance – Elias Dessantis, Blauwe Zaal
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Florenz Volkaert: Tariff
Compromises in the History of International Law (1860-1914)
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Ana Carolina Couto: Legal
Designs of Compromise in Post-Abolition Brazil: Targeted Credit and the
Encilhamento Crisis
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Máté Pétervári: An Agreement
Among Creditors Forcing Disagreeing Minority. The Theory of Compulsory
Non-Bankruptcy Settlement in the Hungarian and German-language Jurisprudence
Panel
3: Compromise in Civil Law Changes – Emanuel van Dongen, Multimedialokaal
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Robin Navez: The Belgian-Dutch
civil codification of 1830: a lawmaking process encouraging parliamentary
compromises?
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Germans Pavlovskis: Legitimacy
of the Roman Law Sources after the Adoption of the Codification of Baltic
Private Law of 1864
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Magdalena Ossowska-Tutaj: The
Elusive Compromise of Abandoning Immovable Property in Polish Law
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Michal Tutaj: Compromise or
Dictate? Two Different Paths of Lawmaking: The Case of Polish and Turkish
Obligation Law after World War I
Panel
4: “At the Crossroads of Revolution and Compromise” – The Legacy of the
Conference of the justice of the Realm
of 1861 in Hungary – Dawid Szulc, Rode Zaal
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Imre
Képessy: “The Long and Winding Road” leading to the Approval of the Provisional
Judicial Rules
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Balázs
Rigó: The Compromise in the Teaching of European and Hungarian Legal History at
the Royal University of Pest in 1861
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Gábor
Bathó: Criminal Law on the Agenda of the Conference of
the Justice of the Realm
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Orsolya Papik: The Provisional
Judicial Rules as a Gateway Between Constitutionalism and Modernisation (TBC)
Panel
5: Fundamental Rights: No Place for Compromise? - James Hannaford, Blauwe Zaal
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Patricia Plana de Juan: Public
Morality in Spanish Law (TBC)
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Felix Dröll: Compromise and
the exercise of rights - Japanese legal history between westernization and
societal values
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Linda Lielbriede: Right to
Defense, Fair Trial, and Legal Compromise in Authoritarian and Transitional
Regimes
Panel
6: (Post-)Colonial Compromises – Stephen Hewer, Multimedialokaal
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Ilaria Masseroni: Polygamy as
Colonial Compromise: Legal Pluralism and Missionary Governance in the Congo
Free State (1885–1908)
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Kato
Desaever: Colonial concession regime as ‘compromis à la Belge’ between State
& concessionaire
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Pietro Reginato Costa Callado:
Achieving Consensus in a Polarized World: The Role of Compromise in the
Adoption of UNGA Resolution 1803 (XVII)
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Daglié Colaço: Compromises in
the Age of Empires: Belgian Presence on Brazil’s Western Frontier (1880–1914)
Panel
7: Compromises in Function of Social Protection – Bruno Debaenst, Rode Zaal
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Caroline Desbois: From One
Master to Another: The Mobility of Apprentices and Their Contacts in Parisian
Compagnonnage During the 17th and 18th Centuries
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Louis Debersaques: When it
rains, it pours. The compromise of safety by operating outside the agreed
period in public construction works (c. 1875)
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Elizaveta Stetsenko: Defects
in provision of medical care: legal ways to find a compromise
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Marcelo Muñoz Perdiguero -
Heinrich Pesch and the quest for compromise and middle way
Panel
8: Crime and Punishment – Stephen Hewer, Blauwe Zaal
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Letizia Solazzi: The third
school of criminal law: an Italian compromise
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Wang Sarinai: The concept of
collective responsibility in ancient Mongolian law
Panel
9: Compromises in the Creation of Criminal Legislation – Ana Paula Zappellini
Sassi, Multimedialokaal
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Benedek Varga: The
Criminalization of Tax Fraud in Interwar Hungary: A Dogmatic and Historical
Analysis of Act XXXII of 1920
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Edouard Delrée: Undying or
Walking Dead? Scope and Trajectories of Two Major Long-Term Legal Compromises
in Belgian Criminal Procedure (19th-21st centuries)
Panel
10: Canon Law and Compromise – Antoine Leclère, Rode Zaal
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Shiri Roelofs: Robert
Bellarmine (1542-1621) on Money Exchange: The Role of Canon, Roman, and Natural
Law
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Emilie Gérard: Pleading for
tolerance: Charles Ancillon’s advocacy for the reinstatement of the Edict of
Nantes
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Łukasz Gołaszewski: Effective,
ineffective and even informal compromise. Conflict resolution by way of
settlement in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the light of records of
noble and ecclesiastical courts from Podlasie
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Ana
Luiza Ferreira Gomes Silva: Teaching the Libri Feudorum in Leuven Across Three
Centuries: Compromising Interpretation with Changing Contexts?
Panel
11: State Responsibilities during and after Times of War – Florenz Volkaert,
Blauwe Zaal
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Benedict Vanlanduyt: the
restitution of movable and immovable goods in peace treaties between
1482-1715
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Louise Martens: Political
Incivism of Belgian Lawyers on The Verge of The Repression
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Michał Stokowski: Retaliation
or reconciliation - responsibility for the crimes of the World War II on the
example of legislation Poland and Belgium
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Stefano Cattelan: Maritime
Neutrality in the 18th Century: Seeking a Compromise Between the Rights of
Belligerents and Neutrals
Panel
12: The Contrasting Roles of Compromise in Emancipation – Kaat Cappelle, Multimedialokaal
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Ana Paula Zappellini Sassi:
The discipline of female sexual honour within sexual crimes: the "honest
woman" concept as a crossing-borders patriarchal compromise?
(Italy—Brazil, 1889-1930)
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David Karacsony:
Discrimination and disadvantaged social groups in Roman law
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Wang Jing: Title TBD (TBC)
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Laura Rodriques: Compromise
and Democratic Transition in the “Convenção Nacional do Negro Brasileiro”
(1945-1951) (TBC)
Panel
13: Contractual Compromises in Roman Law – Niels Fieremans, Rode Zaal
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Michael
Binder: Pactum de non petendo: A Compromise?
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Yüce Tunay: The role of Bonus
Vir in Conflicts Arising from Commercial Activities in Roman Law with a
comparison of Ottoman Islamic Law and Turkish Modern Law
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David Magalhães: “Transactio”.
The enduring Roman roots of settlement of controversies by agreement
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Adrien Mociulschi: Compromises
in commercial matters: the example of intuitu personae consensualism in
contract law in Rome
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Ahmet Arslan: The Role of
Compromise in German Contract Law: Balancing Interests under Clausula Rebus Sic
Stantibus and the Doctrine of Impossibility
Panel
14: Compromise and the Circulation of Ideas – Sebastiaan Vandenbogaerde, Blauwe
Zaal
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Katarzyna Latek: "When
French books were Belgian'- the role and influence of Belgian contrefacon in
shaping the legal thought in Europe
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Ryo Mochizuki: Censorship
conducted by universities in early modern Germany: Negotiation and compromise
between the duke of Bavaria, the University of Ingolstadt, and its subjects
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Joana Noguiera de Freitas: The
Circulation of Notarial Forms in The Portuguese Empire during The Late
Eighteenth Century
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Marco Castelli: Technical
Choice or Editorial Compromise? Early Editions of the Commentaries on the Liber
Extra (TBC)
Panel
15: Compromise and Dispute Resolution – Imre Képessy,
Multimedialokaal
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Amila Svraka-Imamovic:
Compromise as a Dispute Resolution Mechanism in Shari'ah Law: Theoretical
Foundations and Practical Applications
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Sonja Dieckman: The role of
compromise in Rome
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Tea Dularidze: The Tradition
of Compromise in Antiquity (TBC)
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Przemysław Gawron & Jan
Jerzy Sowa (TBC): A compromise in the land criminal law of the
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth at the turn of the sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries
Panel 16: Compromise and Judicial Organisation – Marie
De Beul, Rode Zaal
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Mariusz Mohyluk: On Justices
of the Peace in the Second and Third Polish Republics: Seeking Compromise
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Kacper Górski: Compromise or
Noble Supremacy? The Municipal-Castrensial Mixed Court (iudicium mixtum) in
Early Modern Poland
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Wojciech Wydmański:
Arbitration Courts in Lodz in 1918-1939 (TBC)
Panel 17: Pardons and Amnesties – Julie Rocheton,
Blauwe Zaal
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Louis Bremond: Amnesties:
Concealing the Chaos
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Elias Dessantis: Between
Memory and Amnesia: World War II and the Belgian Amnesty
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James Hannaford: The Politics
of the Pardon: The Use of the Royal Prerogative of Mercy in Extradition Cases
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Mihai Dragumirescu: The Gentle
Hand of the Despot: State Forgiveness in Communist Romania
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Grigorij Tschernjawskyj:
Compromise in a divided Republic: Amnesty in Weimar Germany
Panel 18: Liberalism vs. Compromise – Sebastiaan
Vandenbogaerde, Multimedialokaal
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Wout Vandermeulen: No more
compromises? The legal historical roots of art. 101-102 TFEU in German
Ordoliberalism
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Damian Szczepaniak: Between
liberalism and socialism. Right to property in the work on the Polish March
Constitution of 1921
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Delphine Sirks: Mutual marine
insurances in early modern Friesland and Groningen
Panel
19: Compromise in Constitutional History – Wouter De Rycke, Rode Zaal
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Giulia Mannarini: Compromise in the evolution of
history and political-constitutional thought
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Lawrence Whitworth: Does the
gradual evolution of the legal process create compromise in legal
decision-making, and, if so, does slow progression enhance the legal
decision-making process by providing continuity or undermine the legal
decision-making process through its inherent laggardness?
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Antoine Leclère: The Liège
Revolution and the Electoral Congress of Frankfurt (1790): A Constitutional
Compromise in Question
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Maksymilian Francuz: “The
switch in time that saved nine” – the compromise at the heart of the
“constitutional revolution” of 1937 in and around the Supreme Court of the
United States
Panel
20: Ownership and Inheritance – Louis Bremond, Blauwe Zaal
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Fangfang Tian: Possession,
Ownership, and Fiction: Compromise in the Roman Law of Res
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Yanwen Wang: Jurisprudence of
Exception: The Soldier’s Will and Legal Compromise in Roman Inheritance Law
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Vincent Van den Eynde: Between
legal certainty and testamentary freedom: regulating testamentary
inalienability clauses and third-party rights in the early modern southern
Netherlands (c. 1500-1600)
VeVenue: Ghent University Aula Campus (Voldersstraat/Universiteitstraat, 9000 GHENT, Belgium).

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