CONFERENCE: Annual Forum Young Legal Historians, "Compromis à la belge" (Ghent: UGent, 17-20 SEPT 2025)

 

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Wednesday, 17^th September 2025

Opening Ceremony

Venue: Faculty of Law and Criminology, Universiteitstraat 4, 9000 Gent

-          17:00-17:15: Opening Remarks by the Director of the Ghent Legal History Institute, Prof. Dr. Dirk Heirbaut.

-          17:15-17:30: Word of welcome by the Organizing Committee

-          17:30-18:00: Keynote speech Bruno Debaenst: The history of the Annual Forum for Young Legal Historians

-          18:00: official opening of the reception by the Dean of the Law Faculty prof. dr. Michel Tison

-          18:15-19:30: Opening ceremony reception

Thursday 18^th September 2025

Panel sessions

Venue: Faculty of Law and Criminology, Volderstraat 3, 9000 Gent

-          8:30-9:00: Registration day 1

-          9:00-10:30: Panel 1, 2, 3

-          10:30-11:00: Coffee break

-          11:00-12:30: Panel 4, 5, 6

-          12:30-14:00: Lunch break

-          14:00-15:30: Panel 7, 8, 9

-          15:30-16:00: Coffee break

-          16:00-17:30: Panel 10, 11, 12

Friday 19^th September 2025

Panel sessions

Venue: Faculty of Law and Criminology, Volderstraat 3, 9000 Gent

-          8:30-9:00: Registration day 2

-          9:00-10:30: Panel 13,14,15

-          10:30-11:00: Coffee break

-          11:00-12:30: Panel 16, 17, 18

-          12:30-14:00: Lunch break

-          14:00-15:30: Panel 19, 20

Closing ceremony

Venue: ‘Pacificatiezaal’, Ghent city hall (Botermarkt 1, 9000 Gent)

-          18u00: Welcome by the city administration

-          Keynote speech professor Julie Rocheton: Compromis à la Louisianaise

Conference Dinner

20:00 at Multatuli (Huidevetterskaai 40, 9000 Gent)

Saturday 20^th 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

-          Afra Uysal: Muamalah Shar’iyyah: Fraus legis or legal compromise?

-          Dawid Szulc: Ottomanism as a concept legitimizing state and legal reforms in the Tanzimat era (1839–1876)

-          Rafał Kaczmarczyk: Forced compromise: crisis in the Muslim Religious Union in the Republic of Poland under the government’s management

-          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

-          Florenz Volkaert: Tariff Compromises in the History of International Law (1860-1914)

-          Ana Carolina Couto: Legal Designs of Compromise in Post-Abolition Brazil: Targeted Credit and the Encilhamento Crisis

-          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

-          Robin Navez: The Belgian-Dutch civil codification of 1830: a lawmaking process encouraging parliamentary compromises?

-          Germans Pavlovskis: Legitimacy of the Roman Law Sources after the Adoption of the Codification of Baltic Private Law of 1864

-          Magdalena Ossowska-Tutaj: The Elusive Compromise of Abandoning Immovable Property in Polish Law

-          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

-          Imre Képessy: “The Long and Winding Road” leading to the Approval of the Provisional Judicial Rules

-          Balázs Rigó: The Compromise in the Teaching of European and Hungarian Legal History at the Royal University of Pest in 1861

-          Gábor Bathó: Criminal Law on the Agenda of the Conference of the Justice of the Realm

-          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

-          Patricia Plana de Juan: Public Morality in Spanish Law (TBC)

-          Felix Dröll: Compromise and the exercise of rights - Japanese legal history between westernization and societal values

-          Linda Lielbriede: Right to Defense, Fair Trial, and Legal Compromise in Authoritarian and Transitional Regimes

Panel 6: (Post-)Colonial Compromises – Stephen Hewer, Multimedialokaal

-          Ilaria Masseroni: Polygamy as Colonial Compromise: Legal Pluralism and Missionary Governance in the Congo Free State (1885–1908)

-          Kato Desaever: Colonial concession regime as ‘compromis à la Belge’ between State & concessionaire

-          Pietro Reginato Costa Callado: Achieving Consensus in a Polarized World: The Role of Compromise in the Adoption of UNGA Resolution 1803 (XVII)

-          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

-          Caroline Desbois: From One Master to Another: The Mobility of Apprentices and Their Contacts in Parisian Compagnonnage During the 17th and 18th Centuries

-          Louis Debersaques: When it rains, it pours. The compromise of safety by operating outside the agreed period in public construction works (c. 1875)

-          Elizaveta Stetsenko: Defects in provision of medical care: legal ways to find a compromise 

-          Marcelo Muñoz Perdiguero - Heinrich Pesch and the quest for compromise and middle way

Panel 8: Crime and Punishment – Stephen Hewer, Blauwe Zaal 

-          Letizia Solazzi: The third school of criminal law: an Italian compromise

-          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

-          Benedek Varga: The Criminalization of Tax Fraud in Interwar Hungary: A Dogmatic and Historical Analysis of Act XXXII of 1920 

-          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

-          Shiri Roelofs: Robert Bellarmine (1542-1621) on Money Exchange: The Role of Canon, Roman, and Natural Law

-          Emilie Gérard: Pleading for tolerance: Charles Ancillon’s advocacy for the reinstatement of the Edict of Nantes

-          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

-          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

-          Benedict Vanlanduyt: the restitution of movable and immovable goods in peace treaties between 1482-1715 

-          Louise Martens: Political Incivism of Belgian Lawyers on The Verge of The Repression

-          Michał Stokowski: Retaliation or reconciliation - responsibility for the crimes of the World War II on the example of legislation Poland and Belgium

-          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

-          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)

-          David Karacsony: Discrimination and disadvantaged social groups in Roman law

-          Wang Jing: Title TBD (TBC)

-          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

-          Michael Binder: Pactum de non petendo: A Compromise? 

-          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

-          David Magalhães: “Transactio”. The enduring Roman roots of settlement of controversies by agreement

-          Adrien Mociulschi: Compromises in commercial matters: the example of intuitu personae consensualism in contract law in Rome

-          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

-          Katarzyna Latek: "When French books were Belgian'- the role and influence of Belgian contrefacon in shaping the legal thought in Europe

-          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

-          Joana Noguiera de Freitas: The Circulation of Notarial Forms in The Portuguese Empire during The Late Eighteenth Century

-          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

-          Amila Svraka-Imamovic: Compromise as a Dispute Resolution Mechanism in Shari'ah Law: Theoretical Foundations and Practical Applications 

-          Sonja Dieckman: The role of compromise in Rome

-          Tea Dularidze: The Tradition of Compromise in Antiquity (TBC)

-          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

-          Mariusz Mohyluk: On Justices of the Peace in the Second and Third Polish Republics: Seeking Compromise

-          Kacper Górski: Compromise or Noble Supremacy? The Municipal-Castrensial Mixed Court (iudicium mixtum) in Early Modern Poland

-          Wojciech Wydmański: Arbitration Courts in Lodz in 1918-1939 (TBC)

 

Panel 17: Pardons and Amnesties – Julie Rocheton, Blauwe Zaal

-          Louis Bremond: Amnesties: Concealing the Chaos

-          Elias Dessantis: Between Memory and Amnesia: World War II and the Belgian Amnesty

-          James Hannaford: The Politics of the Pardon: The Use of the Royal Prerogative of Mercy in Extradition Cases

-          Mihai Dragumirescu: The Gentle Hand of the Despot: State Forgiveness in Communist Romania

-          Grigorij Tschernjawskyj: Compromise in a divided Republic: Amnesty in Weimar Germany

Panel 18: Liberalism vs. Compromise – Sebastiaan Vandenbogaerde, Multimedialokaal

-          Wout Vandermeulen: No more compromises? The legal historical roots of art. 101-102 TFEU in German Ordoliberalism

-          Damian Szczepaniak: Between liberalism and socialism. Right to property in the work on the Polish March Constitution of 1921 

-          Delphine Sirks: Mutual marine insurances in early modern Friesland and Groningen

Panel 19: Compromise in Constitutional History – Wouter De Rycke, Rode Zaal

-          Giulia Mannarini: Compromise in the evolution of history and political-constitutional thought

-          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?

-          Antoine Leclère: The Liège Revolution and the Electoral Congress of Frankfurt (1790): A Constitutional Compromise in Question

-          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

-          Fangfang Tian: Possession, Ownership, and Fiction: Compromise in the Roman Law of Res

-          Yanwen Wang: Jurisprudence of Exception: The Soldier’s Will and Legal Compromise in Roman Inheritance Law

-          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).