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CONFERENCE PROGRAMME: 7th ESCLH Biennial Conference (Augsburg: Universität Augsburg, 21-23 JUNE 2023)

 

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Organising Committee
Prof. dr. Philipp Hellwege M. Jur (Oxford)
Lehrstuhl für Bürgerliches Recht, Wirtschaftsrecht und Rechtsgeschichte, Universität Augsburg

Sponsors
Duncker & Humblot - Berlin
Erich Schmidt Verlag
LIT Verlag
Nomos Verlag
Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory

Program

Wednesday 21 June 2023

PhD-Workshop
Prof. Dr. Matthew Dyson (Oxford): Progressing from amateur to scholar and scholar to professor 
Prof. Dr. Agustín Parise (Maastricht) / Prof. Dr. Emanuel van Dongen (Utrecht) / Dr. Lorren Eldridge (Edinburgh): Publishing in a Law Journal Prof. Dr. Phillip Hellwege (Augsburg): How to write a thesis in comparative legal history
Prof. Dr. Aniceto Masferrer (Valencia): The relevance of non-legal ideas and sources in the making of legal institutions

Panel 1
The emergence, history, methods and ends of comparative legal studies
Prof. Dr. Dirk Heirbaut (Ghent): Contradictory national historiographies: a boon developing a methodology of comparative legal history?
Prof. Dr. Fernanda Pirie (Oxford): Global legal history: what can be compared, how, and to what ends?
Dr. Piotr Alexandrowicz (Poznań): What can we learn from the early modern comparative law? The case of the Tractatus de comparatione iuris civilis et canonici by Johann Emerich von Rosbach

Panel 2
Popular Legal Literature. A comparative perspective on the Austrian General Civil Code (ABGB)
Prof. Dr. Gerald Kohl (Vienna): Austria(-Hungary)
Prof. Dr. Annamaria Monti (Milano): Lombardy and Venetia
Prof. Dr. Martin Skop (Brno): Bohemia and Czechoslovakia

Panel 3
Comparative constitutional history in Central and Eastern Europe: specificity of conditions in the historical development of the region (Chair: Prof. Dr. Matthias Rossi (Augsburg))
Prof. Dr. Oleksiy Kresin (Kiev / Lausanne): Early modern Ukrainian constitutionalism: comparative prospects
Prof. Dr. Manuel Gutan (Sibiu): The concept of “constitutional imitation” in comparative constitutional history
Prof. Dr. Lóránt Csink (Budapest): The use of historical approaches in comparative constitutionalism Prof. Dr. Michał Gałędek (Gdańsk): National tradition or western pattern? Sources of inspiration for Polish constitutionalism at the beginning of the nineteenth century

Panel 4
The exchange of law books and the role of newspapers in comparative legal history
Prof. Dr. Antonio Annino (Firenze) / Dr. María Teresa Calderón Pérez (Bogotá): A creative reading of Benjamin Constant by a Colombian liberal
Prof. Dr. Laura Beck Varela (Madrid): Creative readings of Heineccius in Mexico
Arthur Barrêtto de Almeida Costa (Firenze): Citation networks in administrative law books from the civil law world (nineteenth century)
Dr. Julie Rocheton (Frankfurt): Newspaper and civil codes. The case of nineteenth-century North America

Panel 5
“Plutarch revisited” (Parallel) biographies in comparative legal history
Chair: Prof. Dr. Annamria Monti (Milano)
Prof. Dr. Orna Alyagon Darr (Sapir Academic College): British and continental heritage in the history of prison visiting in mandatory Palestine: the story of Kalman Kupfer
Dr. Luisa Brunori (Lille): Three jurists between Spain and New Spain: Tomas de Mercado, Juan de Hevia Bolanos, and Diego de Avedano and the differentiation between Spanish law and derecho indiano
Prof. Dr. Assaf Likhovski (Tel Aviv): Religious law and radical politics: the parallel lives of two colonial legal scholars

Panel 6
Religion and Law
Prof. Dr. Łukasz Gołaszewski (Warsaw): Cases about the tithes from Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth before the Sacra Romana Rota. Polish laws and proceedings in the light from the outside
Prof. Dr. Ulrike Müßig (Passau): Comparare est considerare (Leibniz)
Dr. Paolo Astorri (Copenhagen): The protection of fame and reputation in early modern Catholic and Lutheran moral theology. A comparison between Azpilcueta and Horneius

Panel 7
Specifics of the constitutional enactment of the right to work in the constitutional documents of the Soviet bloc
Chair: Prof. Dr. Gregor Kirchhof (Augsburg)
Prof. Dr. Gábor Bathó (Budapest): Rights to labour in the Hungarian constitutions during the Soviet-type dictatorships (1919, 1949–1989)
Prof. Dr. Janis Lazdins (Riga) / Prof. Dr. Sanita Osipova (Riga): Right to work – right or duty in Soviet constitutional law
Prof. Dr. Petra Skrejpkova (Prague): The constitutional right to work as a means to state enforcement

Panel 8
The formation of Israeli law from comparative historical perspectives
Chair: Prof. Dr. Daniel Wolff (Augsburg)
Prof. Dr. Nir Kedar (Sapir Academic College): The East-European influence on Israeli law and civic ideas
Prof. Dr. Avid Rubin (Ben-Gurion University): Myths of legal continuity and the resonance of Ottoman law in Israel
Dr. Yair Sagy (Haifa): Chained reactions: historical-comparative perspectives on the Israeli Court for Administrative Affairs

Opening addresses
Prof. Dr. Phillip Hellwege (Augsburg) Organizing Committee
Prof. Dr. Matthew Dyson (Oxford) President of the European Society for Comparative Legal History
Prof. Dr. Ferdinand Wollenschläger (Augsburg) Dean of the Faculty of Law of Augsburg University
Prof. Dr. Peter Welzel (Augsburg) Vice-President of Augsburg University

Keynote 1
Prof. Dr. Rebecca Scott (Ann Arbor): Habeas corpus turned inside out: the dynamics of peremptory enslavement in the nineteenth century Americas
Chair: Prof. Dr. Matthew Dyson (Oxford)

Thursday 22 June 2023
Panel 9
Methodologies in legal history: oral legal history and computational linguistics
Prof. Dr. Karin Sein (Tartu) / Prof. Dr. Merike Ristikivi (Tartu): Choices on the table: oral legal history and comparison of legal systems in reform debates in Estonia in the 1990ties 
Dr. Caroline Laske (UCLouvain): Legal capacity of medieval women: intertextuality and intervisuality in late medieval law texts
Prof. Dr. Jørn Øyrehagen Sunde (Oslo): 60 years of change in Nordic supreme courts – oral history and statistics in contemporary comparative legal history

Panel 10
Prof. Dr. Dave De ruysscher (Tilburg/Vrije Universiteit Brussel): Inter-urban agreements and diplomacy: sixteenth-century international economic law in action
Prof. Dr. Frederik Dhondt (Vrije Universiteit Brussel): Knowledge production in the French King’s foreign office (1757). Antoine Pecquet jr.’s sequel to Montesquieu’s Esprit des Loix
Dr. Stefano Cattelan (Vrije Universiteit Brussel): Maritime neutrality under pressure: French diplomacy in Northern Europe during the Nine Years’ War (1688–1697)
Daisy Turnbull (Portsmouth / Halmstad): A comparative history of eighteenth-century wrecking legislation: problems of legal definitions, jurisdictions, and prosecution in British and Swedish courts

Panel 11
A comparative legal history of human rights
Prof. Dr. David M. Rabban (Austin): Foreign influences on the American law of academic freedom Clemens Beckenberger (Vienna): Judicial independence after the revolutions 1848/49 in Austria and Germany
Prof. Dr. Guy Seidman (Tel Aviv) / Shani Schnitzer (Tel Aviv): Legal protections of human rights as regimes change: the Israeli case in comparative perspective

Panel 12
The administration of justice and procedural law in comparative historical perspectives
Pengfei Su (Edinburgh): Gradual shrinking of ancient jury boxes: comparing trial of high-profile cases by peers in Rome and early
China Richard McBride (Belfast): The failure to modernise the office of the Irish Lord Chancellor (1880–1915): a comparison with the developments in Great Britain
Prof. Dr. Emanuel van Dongen (Utrecht): The emergence and the evolution of the concept of abuse of (procedural) rights in Italy, Germany, the Netherlands and the (lack of this concept in the) United Kingdom

Panel 13
Legal theory, comparative methods, and legal education
Chair: Prof. Dr. Annamaria Monti (Milano)
Prof. Dr. Agustín Parise (Maastricht): Cossio’s theory, Wigmore’s quest, and a Pan-American circulation of legal ideas (1944–1963)
Dr. Miriam Gassner-Olechowski (Vienna): Methodological transfer and migration of Austrian legal scholars to the US 1933–1945 by the example of Helen Silving-Ryu
Ariel Engel Pesso (São Paulo): Brazilian and German legal education in the nineteenth century: a brief comparative study

Panel 14
Aspects of commercial legal history in comparative perspectives
Gilles Hebben (Lille): The Levant company, the East India Company, and the Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie: a comparison of two systems of corporate governance and two legal systems during the seventeenth century
Dr. Filippo Contarini (Paris): Comparing legal history from below: Swiss merchants and French trade law (1673‒1791)
Mariane Tenorio Alves Nunes (Lille): Singularities of Brazilian commercial law in América Portuguesa (sixteenth to nineteenth centuries)

Panel 15
Legal history and mass migration. Integration, exclusion, and criminalization of Migrants in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Chair: Prof. Dr. Michele Pifferi (Ferrara)
Dr. Alessia Maria Di Stefano (Catania): The effects of exclusionist legislation on Italian emigrants in the United States between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Prof. Dr. Francesco Rotondo (Naples): Italian criminal anthropology in Argentina: a short-circuit between migration, law, and literature
Prof. Dr. Eliana Augusti (Salento): Ius migrandi: between sovereignty and hospitality. States prerogatives and international law in Europe between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

Panel 16
A comparative history of succession law
Dr. Philipp Scholz (Hamburg): Revocation by marriage and revocation by divorce: a historical and comparative analysis of English and German succession law
Dr. Dr. Christoph Schmetterer (Halle): The development of allograph testaments in Germany and Austria
Dr. Jonathan Brown (Stirling): Challenging orthodoxy in comparative succession law: a Scoto-Austrian study

Panel 17
Public welfare, public health and the law in comparative perspectives
Dr. David Schorr (Tel Aviv): A tale of two cities: public welfare and private rights in wartime London and Tel Aviv
Prof. Dr. Marton Varju (Vienna) / Judit Sándor (Vianna): Protecting human health in state socialist Central Europe: a common aim and disparate laws?
Dr. Ely Aaronson (Haifa): Transnational configurations of the criminalization-racialization nexus and the historical origins of cannabis prohibitions

Panel 18
The contribution of case law to the making of sexual crimes (1870‒1970): rape and adultery in comparative perspective
Chair: Prof. Dr. Martin Sunnqvist (Lund) Prof. Dr. Aniceto Masferrer (Valencia): The making of adultery in Spain: the contribution of the Supreme Court (1870‒1978)
Prof. Dr. Maria Clara da Cunha Calheiros de Carvalho (Minhos): Gender, sex, and marriage on trial: the criminalization of adultery in Portugal throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries 
Prof. Dr. Janwillem Oosterhuis (Maastricht): The Dutch Supreme Court on rape and sexual assault between 1886 and 1991 
Prof. Dr. José Franco-Chasán (Valencia / Madrid): Statutory rape as the backbone of dishonest offences in the framework of Spanish criminal case law (1870‒1995)

Panel 19
A comparative history of private law
Prof. Dr. Joao de Oliveira Geraldes (Lisbon): Promises, causa (consideration), and abstraction 
Christoph Resch (Frankfurt): Contractual entire agreement clauses in the common and the civil law tradition 
Igor Krzysztof Adamczyk (Warsaw): Favor debitoris. Protection of the debtor in the performance of obligation in the European legal tradition 
Prof. Dr. Filippo Rossi (Milano): The past is not a foreign land. nineteenth-century codes as a (supposed) watershed between old and new

Panel 20
Sovereignty in comparative perspectives
Dr. Charlotte Johann (Cambridge): Friedrich Carl von Savigny, the conflict of law, and the problem of imperial sovereignty
Prof. Dr. Luna Sabastian (London): Conquest, sovereignty, and the law in British India 
Dr. Imre Képessy (Budapest): The influence of the provisional judicial rules on Transylvania and Croatia-Slavonia

Panel 21
Homosexuality and the law from comparative historical perspectives
Alicia Haripershad (Frankfurt): Colonial and missionary shaping of sexuality – a comparative analysis of criminalizing homosexuality in British Uganda and Southern Rhodesia (present day Zimbabwe) circa 1890 to 1950
Van Phuc Nguyen (Macerata): Concept of law and the (in)visibility of same-sex relations in the legal systems of Confucianist countries: a comparative study of imperial China and Vietnam

Panel 22
The Role of the judiciary and jurisprudence in the making of modern criminal law (1870‒1970)
Chair: Prof. Dr. Aniceto Masferrer (Valencia)
Tatiana Alekseeva (Moscow): Jurisprudence in the Russian Empire, the RSFSR and the USSR: influence on general and special criminal law provisions
Prof. Dr. Michał Gałędek (Gdansk) / Paulina Kamberov (Gdansk): The influence of jurisprudence in the making of a criminal law in twentieth-century Poland
Prof. Dr. Martin Sunnqvist (Lund): Case law between two criminal codes

Panel 23
A comparative history of private law
Dr. Vincent van Hoof (Nijmegen): Publicity of security rights in movables and path dependency
Paweł Kaźmierski (Krakow): Toward socialism: the evolution of divorce law in East Germany and the Polish People’s Republic from 1945 to the mid-1960s
Dr. Dorota Miler (Augsburg): Contractual revocation of a contract in Germany and Poland during the interwar period of the twentieth century: a history of an improved legal transplant
Dr. Asya Ostroukh (Barbados): The evolution on emphyteusis in Quebec civi law: Roman, French, or independent?

Panel 24
Aspects of international law from comparative historical perspectives
Aviram Shahal (Ann Arbor): Posthumous citizenship and the immortality of the nation
Prof. Dr. Sebastiaan Vandenbogaerde (Antwerp / Ghent): A nation’s responsibility? Legal instruments to reconstruct Europe after World War One
Prof. Dr. Budislav Vukas (Rijeka): Establishment of a new state through an international agreement as a modality for resolving international disputes between Italy and Yugoslavia in the twentieth century

Friday 23 June 2023

Panel 25
Pluralistic governance: researching Hanse cooperation beyond classical concepts of “nation-state”
Prof. Dr. Ulla Kypta (Hamburg): Functional changes in the governance of merchants: the case of the Bruges kontor
Prof. Dr. Sören Koch (Bergen): The case of the Bergen kontor
Prof. Dr. Johann Ruben Leiss (Oslo): Polycentric jurisdictions in the Hanse and in contemporary international law

Panel 26
Comparative histories of criminal law
Alan Wruck Garcia Rangel (São Paulo) / Gregório Schroder Sliwka (Porto Alegre): Circulation of legal models in the nineteenth century: the construction of the house of correction in Brazil (1830–1850)
Oscar Karlsson (Portsmouth / Halmstad): English hulks and Swedish fortresses – a comparison of improvised imprisonment circa 1700–1850
András Biczó (Debrecen): Exploring the traces of foreign legal impressions in a Hungarian criminal jurisprudential work in the middle of the eighteenth century

Panel 27
Comparative histories of labour law
Prof. Dr. Piotr Pomianowski (Warsaw): Corvée and recht der zucht in the Duchy of Warsaw and in the Congress of Poland
Jasper van de Woestijne (Ghent): Balancing law and labour: the history of specialised labour courts in Belgium and France
Nina Cozzi (Frankfurt): Equal pay in Italy and France: a legal historical analysis of divergent implementations of EU law

Panel 28
Prof. Dr. Valdis Blūzma (Riga): The constitutional law of the Baltic States in the interwar period: from liberal democracy to authoritarian regimes (1918–1940)
Dr. Geetanjali Srikantan (Bangalore): Understanding responses to imperial constitutional design in interwar Indian constitutional reform: an examination of evidence in the Simon Commission Report
Dr. Judit Beke-Martos (Bochum): The historical, the sacred, the pompous, and the constitutional: the constitutional relevance of King Charles III Coronation in 2023

Keynote 2
Prof. Dr. Kentaro Matsubara (Tokyo): Comparison, confrontation, and co-optation: a history of improvising legal systems in a global context?
Chair: Prof Dr. Matthew Dyson (Oxford)

Annual General Meeting
Chair: Prof. Dr. Matthew Dyson (Oxford)


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