Sixth Postgraduate Conference in Comparative Legal History:
“The Making of Law: Perspectives and Methods of Comparative Legal History”
3–5 May 2026, Valencia University, Spain
Call for Papers
The European Society for Comparative Legal History (ESCLH) is pleased to announce its Sixth Postgraduate Conference. The conference will be held from 3 to 5 May 2026 at Valencia University, Spain. The ESCLH wants to overcome the narrow nationalism and geographical segregation of legal history in contemporary European scholarship and professional organisations. The society, thus, aims to promote comparative legal history, the explicit comparison of legal ideas and institutions in two or more legal traditions. The Postgraduate Conferences of the ESCLH give advanced PhD students and post-doctoral-researchers who work in the field of comparative legal history the opportunity to present their research to a panel of experts. Furthermore, the conference will give all participants the opportunity to build academic networks.
This conference is organized by Aniceto Masferrer on behalf of the European Society for Comparative Legal History (ESCLH), with the support of the The Alan Watson Group: The Making of the Western Law, the Institute for Social, Political and Legal Studies, and the research project entitled “Tradición e influencias extranjeras en la Codificación penal española: contribución de la jurisprudencia en la evolución de la Parte General (1870-1995)” (PID2023-148177NB-I00) (funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation.
Sunday Dinner, at 20:45: Restaurante Santa Rita, c/ Zurradores 10 46001 Valencia
Monday 4 May 2026
9:00 Opening of the conference Prof. Dr. Matthew Dyson (Univ. Oxford, England; European Society for Comparative Legal History, Former President)
Chair: Prof. Dr. Matthew Dyson (Univ. Oxford, England)
9:10 Julia (Weiyao Han) (Univ. Cambridge) A Constitution for the Oceans? Prize Courts and the Divided Origins of Maritime Legal Order
9:50 Wojciech Wydmański (Univ. Varsaw – Silesia) The codification of arbitration law in Poland during the Second Polish Republic (1918–1939): A Comparative Approach
10:30 Emmanuel Leroux (Univ. Paris Panthéon-Assas) How did the Congress of Vienna establish a new European legal order? (1814-1815)
11:10 Coffee break
Chair: Prof. Dr. Alessia Di Stefano (Univ. Catania, Italy)
11:30 Inés García Barrachina (Univ. Valencia) University as a Forum or an Ideological Actor? A Historical-Comparative Study of Political Struggles over University Autonomy (France, the United States and Spain)
12:10 Matthew Parish (Univ. Cambridge) The European and Civilian Influence on English Law’s Turn to Systematisation in the Eighteenth Century
12:50 Helene Hu (Univ. Lille) The legal aspects of the French concession in Shanghai
13:30 Lunch break (Restaurante Galileo Club Gastronómico, Avda. de los Naranjos s/n, Valencia)
Chair: Prof. Dr. Janwillem (Pim) Oosterhuis (Univ. Maastricht, The Netherlands)
15:30 Giulio Biaggini (Univ. Zurich) Redefining Normativity: The Making of International Law in the Swiss-Allied Washington Accord of 1946
16:10 Francesco Fonte (Univ. Macerata) Uncovering Hidden Vectors in Science and Practice. A Bibliometric analysis of ‘La Rivista del diritto commerciale e del diritto generale delle obbligazioni’ and its transnational influences in Liberal Italy (1903-1922)
16:50 Umberto De Luca (Univ. Macerata) Who Makes the Court? Legal Transfer and the Contested Making of Juvenile Justice in Italy (1890 - 1922)
20:15 Dinner (Restaurante Casa Eulogio, c/ Cerrajeros 3, 46001 Valencia
Tuesday 5 May 2026
Chair: Prof. Dr. Aniceto Masferrer (Univ. Valencia)
9:00 Marie De Beul (Univ. Ghent) The Justice of the Peace as a Proximity Judge: Past, Present and Future
9:40 Benedek Varga (Univ. Szeged) From Market Freedom to State Intervention: A Comparative Doctrinal and Case-Law Analysis of Overpricing Misdemeanors
10:20 Pawel Kazmierski (Univ. Krakow – Jena) Anti-religiosity in the first instance? Religious issues in the divorce jurisprudence in the German Democratic Republic and People’s Poland on the example of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (1945-1958) and Pomorze Zachodnie (1945-1956)
11:00 Coffee break
Chair: Prof. Dr. Varga Norbert (Univ. Szeged, Hungary)
11:20 Giorgia Bucaria (Univ. Cambridge) The Toolbox of English Lawyers: Res Corporales and Res Incorporales in Late Medieval Land Law
2:00 Błażej Bawolik (Univ. Varsaw) The Doctrine of Statism in the Practice of Law-Making and Law Application in Central and Eastern Europe (1935–1939): The Case of the Second Polish Republic and the Kingdom of Romania
12:40 Mathias Boussemart (Univ. Paris-Nanterre) Printed Knowledge and the Making of Law: Parliamentary Libraries in Revolutionary and Post-Revolutionary Europe
13:20 Closure of the conference
13:30 Lunch (Restaurant, Faculty of Law)
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