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FOURTH BIENNIAL ESCLH CONFERENCE: Culture, Identity and Legal Instrumentalism (Gdańsk-Gdynia: University of Gdańsk, 28 JUN-1 JUL 2016)

 


Program

Day One: 28 June 2016

9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.               Summer School at the Faculty of Law and Administration 4:00 p.m.                                                registration of participants in European Center of Solidarity

5:30 p.m.                                      meeting with refreshments in the European Center of Solidarity


Day Two 29 June 2016

Artus Court and Main Hall in Old Town of Gdańsk

 

8:00 a.m.                                   registration of participants in Artus Court 9:00 a.m. – 9:40 a.m.                                             official opening of conference

9:40 a.m. 10:40 a.m.            Plenary Session I

 

 

Plenary Session I

Constitutional Instrumentalisation of Old Rights

American Constitutionalism as Common Law Litigation and Polish Republicanism as National Legitimacy

Chair: Prof. Luigi Lacché

Rector of University of Macerata

 

Keynote Speaker: Prof. Ulrike Müßig

University of Passau

Principal Investigator of ERC Advanced Grant in European Constitutional History

 

Commentator: Prof. Dirk Heirbaut

Ghent University

President of the Scientific Committee for Legal History of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Arts and Science

 

 

10:40 a.m. 11:00 a.m.          coffee break

11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.          Panel Session I

 

 

(all panel sessions: 20 min for each paper & 10 min discussions following each paper)

 

Panel 1.1

Panel 1.2

Panel 1.3

Legal  History,  the  Interdisciplinary

The Legal Transplant and the Building

New         Vehicles        and                  Transport

Challenge

of National Legal Identities in Central

Infrastructure

a Discussion on Rights in Time of

Eastern Europe

International                                        Influences                               and

Crises

 

Instrumentalism in Nordic Law,

 

 

1890-1940

 

 

 

Prof. Massimo Meccarelli

Prof. Manuel Gutan

Mr Jussi Sallila

University of Macerata

Lucian Blaga

University of Helsinki

In the Realm of Legal History

University of Sibiu

At the Meeting Point of International

 

The Legal Transplant and the Building

Trade and the National Legal System

 

of the Romanian Legal Identity in 19th

The Making of the Finnish Legislation

 

Century

on Bonded Warehouses

Prof. Paulo Palchetti

Dr Martin Belov

Prof. Mia Korpiola

University of Macerata

University of Sofia

University of Turku

In the Realm of International Law

"St. Kliment Ohridski"

Constructing the Automobile Law of a

 

The Idea of “Europe” as a Factor in the

New Nation

 

Building of the Bulgarian Legal Identity

International  Influences  on  Finnish

 

 

Automobile Regulation, 1917-1939

Prof. Flavia Stara

Dr Michał Gałędek

Mr Markus Kari

University of Macerata

University of Gdańsk

University of Helsinki

In      the      Realm     of          Philosophy       of

Dr Piotr Pomianowski

The  Instrumentalism  of  the  Early

Education

University of Warsaw

Nordic Aviation Law (1919-1939)

 

The National Codification or a French

 

 

Law?

 

 

Discussion on the Reform of Civil Law

 

 

at the Beginnings of Kingdom of Poland

 

 

(1814 1815)

 

 

12:30 a.m. 1:30 p.m.            lunch

1:30 p.m. 3:30 p.m.              Panel Session II

 

 

Panel 2.1

Law, Totalitarianism and the Modern World

Panel 2.2

Vectors      of       Legal      Cultures    and Identities?

Legal Periodicals in Belgium, Estonia and France

Panel 2.3

Thinking about Ourselves

Legal Historiography and Identity

convenors

Dr Stephen Skinner University of Exeter Dr Cosmin Cercel

University of Nottingham

chair

Dr Sebastiaan Vandenbogaerde

Ghent University

 

Dr Stephen Skinner

University of Exeter

Law, Security and Inciting Disloyalty to the State in Interwar Italy and Britain

Dr Sebastiaan Vandenbogaerde

Ghent University

Vectors of a National Legal Culture and Identity?

Belgium's Legal Periodicals during the Long Nineteenth Century (1830-1914)

Prof. Luigi Lacché

University of Macerata

A new way to understand the nineteenth-century Italian legal culture the Eclectic Canon between national

identity and comparative history

Dr Cosmin Sebastian Cercel University of Nottingham Mapping Dictatorship

Marshal Antonescu’s Dual State and the Law

Prof. Florence Renucci Ing. Isabelle Thiebau University of Lille

Vectors of Empires? Legal Periodicals in French Colonies (1830-1914)

Prof. Ricardo Sontag

Federal University of Minas Gerais

Influences,  transplants  and  similar

concepts or questions for the writing of Brazilian legal history

Prof. David Fraser

University of Nottingham

Criminal Law in Auschwitz: Positivism, Natural Law, and SS Legal Normativity

Dr Merike Ristikivi University of Tartu Vectors of Legal Culture?

The Collapse of the Soviet Union in Estonian Law Journals

Dr Agustin Parise University of Maastricht Comparative Legal History

An Autonomous Discipline that Helps to Evaluate the Instrumentality of Law

Dr Simon Lavis

Open University

Interrogating Law’s Instrumentalization Problematizing Notions of Ideology, Exceptionality and Rupture in the Third Reich

Ms Pascaline le Polain Prof. Nathalie Tousignant

University Saint-Louis in Brussels Vector of the Doctrinal Construction of Customary Low in Belgian Congo during the 1930s?

Bulletin des juridictions indigènes et du droit coutumier congolais

Dr Jacek Srokosz

Opole University

Could     a                 Community’s                 Identity                 be Shaped Through Law?

 

3:30 p.m. 4:00 p.m.              coffee break

4:00 p.m. 5:30 p.m.              Panel Session III

 

 

Panel 3.1

Frontiers of Knowledge in Early and Medieval Law

Panel 3.2

Law, Gender and Local Legal Family

Panel 3.3

Self-conception and Reform in the Early 20th Century

 

 

 

Dr Valerio Massimo Minale

Bocconi University in Milano

Rome's Eastern Frontier and Trade Law in Late Antiquity: Regulating the Market of Silk

Prof. Sanita Osipova

University of Latvia

"The Political Platform of the Latvian People’s Council” of 17 November 1918 of the Republic of Latvia People’s Council as the founder of gender equality tradition in Latvia

within the discourse of European ideas on gender equality

Prof. Marju Luts-Sootak Dr Hesii Siimets-Gross University of Tartu

Legal Act as an Instrument for the Unification of a Nation from Inside Discussions about Estonian Civil Code 1936/40        from        a         Comparative Perspective

Justice Jeroen M. J. Chorus

Amsterdam Court of Appeal

The role of possession under the Libri feudorum

Assoc. Prof. Gwen Hoerr Jordan

University of Illinois

"A Woman of Strange, Unfathomable Presence”

Ida Platt’s Lived Experience of Race, Gender, and Law, 1863-1939

Dr Ewa Kozerska

Opole University

Dr Tomasz Scheffler

University of Wrocław

From the Second to the Third Republic of Poland

Breakthroughs  in  the  Political  and

Legal System as a Relevant Question in the Discussion on the Nature of Law

Ms Anna Clara Lehmann Martins Federal University of Santa Catarina Uses              of      Augustine’s              writings              by Hincmar of Rheims

Shaping  the  legal  identity  of  the

Carolingian               king                                       through transplantation

Dr Zhu Ming-zhe

China University of Political Science and Law

In the Name of the Republic

Theories and Practices of Family Reform in the “Republican Moments"

Ms Veronica Corcodel

Toulouse Institute of Political Science Revisiting Legal Instrumentalism Modern Law and Otherness in Pre-War Twentieth-Century Comparative Legal Thinking

 

5:30 p.m. 7:30 p.m.              debate

 

8:00 p.m.                                      dinner


Day Three 30 June 2016

Pomeranian Park of Science and Technology in Gdynia

8:00 a.m. 8:30 a.m.               buses departures from Gdańsk

 

9:00 a.m. – 9:40 a.m.               General Assembly of ESCLH members 9:40 a.m. – 10:40 a.m.                                   Plenary Session II

Plenary Session II

Pragmatism in law as a trap

Premodern divided ownership in modern legal history of Estonia

Chair

Professor of Legal History Jan Hallebeek

VU University Amsterdam

Keynote Speaker

Professor of Legal History Marju Luts-Sootak

University of Tartu

Commentator

Professor of Comparative Legal History Heikki Pihlajamäki

University of Helsinki

 

10:40 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.          coffee break

11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.          Panel Session IV

(all panel sessions: 20 min for each paper & 10 min discussions following each paper)

 

Panel 4.1

Identity within and across Legal Systems

Panel 4.2

Private Law Movements from Rome to Today

Panel 4.3

Commerce and Craft

 

 

 

Dr Matthew Dyson University of Cambridge Proceed and feedback

legal          procedure                    and                    legal development

Prof. Barbara Biscotti

University of Milano-Bicocca Humanity as Core Issue of Law Post Postmodern Methodologies in Roman

Law

Prof. Steven Robert Wilf

University of Connecticut

Reluctant     Legal      Transplant   Moral Rights and Dignitas in an Age of Artistic

Transformation

Dr Albert Ruda

University of Girona

The change of course concerning legal causation under Spanish law

Rise and demise of a legal transplant?

Dr Aleksander Grebieniow University of Fribourg Unfair Advantage

An Intriguing Example of Legal Transformation in the Swiss Private

Law

Dr Ana Santos Rutschman

Duke University

Translating Intellectual Property into the Digital Environment

Law and Cultural Production in Europe and the United States

Mr Miloš Vukotić

University of Belgrad

Punishment in the Law of Tort

Dr Łukasz Jan Korporowicz

University of Łódź

Influence of the Roman Law in the House of Lords Judgments Regarding Delictual (Tortious) Liability

Mr Sebastian Krafzik

University of Leuven

The historical development of banking regulation in the West European legal tradition (ca. 1800 – 1950)


12:30 p.m. 1:30 p.m.            lunch

1:30 p.m. 3:30 p.m.              Panel Session V

 

Panel 5.1

Codification as Nationalization or Denationalization of Law (I)

Europe and America

Panel 5.2

Commercial Law in Europe

Of Glaciers, Codes, Merchants and Consumers

Panel 5.3

Strategies, Policies and Ideologies in the Field of Public Law

Chair: Prof. Aniceto Masferrer

University of Valencia

Chair: Prof. Dave De ruysscher

Free University of Brussels

 

Dr Isabel Ramos Vázquez

University of Jaén

Legal instrumentalism in the 19th century prison reform (Unites States & Europe)

Dr Sean Thomas

Durham University

English     Commercial                     Law:                     Chasing Shadows

Prof. Harry Willekens University of Hildesheim University of Hannover

How to make the law fit for capitalism? Comparing English and Continental

legal strategies

Prof. Diego Nunes

Federal University of Uberlândia

The “Code Pénal” in the itinerary of the Criminal Codification in Latin America “Influence” and circularity of models

Dr Johannes Flume

Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen

German Commercial Law Rise and Fall

Prof. Marek Maciejewski

University of Wrocław

The leader, the nation and race Ideological premises of                                                    the Nazi concept of law

Dr Gabriela Cobo del Rosal University Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid The influence of the French juridical thought in the development of the concepts of fraud and fault in the

Spanish Criminal code process

Dr Anna Klimaszewska

University of Gdańsk

Code de commerce as an instrument of transformation of the Polish economic reality in the 19th century

Dr Ivan Kosnica

University of Zagreb

Local citizenship on Croatian-Slavonian legal area in the first Yugoslavia (1918-1941)

breakdown of a concept?

Prof. Juan B. Cañizares-Navarro

CEU Cardenal Herrera University

The infamous penalties in the Spanish Criminal Codes of the 19th century National and/or Foreign Content?

Dr Janwillem (Pim) Oosterhuis

Maastricht University

Dutch Commercial Law

From Commercial Sale to Consumer Sale?

Dr Thomas Mohr

University College Dublin

The Privy Council Appeal and British Imperial Policy, 1833-1939

 

 

3:30 p.m. 3:45 p.m. coffee break

3:45 p.m. 5:45 p.m.              Panel Session VI

 

 

Panel 6.1

Codification                                         as

Nationalization                                       or Denationalization of Law (II) Europe  (France,  Belgium,

Italy and Spain)

Panel 6.2

Marriage in Different Cultures

Panel 6.3

The Flow of Legal Doctrine in Time and Space

Panel 6.4

Mixed Legal Traditions and Identities

 

 

 

 

Prof. Aniceto Masferrer University of Valencia Codification                                       as

Nationalization                                       or Denationalization of Law

A Critical and Comparative Approach to the Spanish Case

Assoc. Prof.

Mišo Dokmanović

Ss.       Cyril            and            Methodius University in Skopje

Law as an Instrument of Social Change

the Transformation of Marriage in             Post-World War             II

Macedonia (1945 1953)

Prof. Arno Dal Ri Jr.

Federal University of Santa Catarina

Mancini in South America The Principle of Nationality on the testing bench of Argentinian and                                   Brazilian legal doctrines

Prof. Nir Kedar

Sapir Academic College Bar-Ilan University

Law as an Agent of Modernization                                and National Identity

The Case of Israel

Prof. Dirk Heirbaut

Ghent University

Codification                                         as

Nationalization                                       or Denationalization

The Belgian Case

Assoc. Prof. Zsuzsanna Peres National University of Public Service in Budapest

The Marriage Property Rights

of the Hungarian Noble Women in Comparative Context

Prof. Assaf Likhovsky

Tel Aviv University

An Elusive Legacy

Polish Lawyers and Israeli Law

Dr Paul Swanepoel University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban

Judicial                       Identities            in Tanganyika, 1920-1961

Prof. Yves Cartuyvels University                            Saint-Louis              in Brussels

The Belgian criminal Code of 1867

a national process under international influence

Mr Omer Aloni

Tel Aviv University

Bigamy, Polygamy and Legal Orientalism in Comparative Study of Early Israeli Law

Prof. Jerzy Kolarzowski University         of                                Natural Sciences & Humanistics in Siedlce

Idea of tolerances in 17th c. Europe

Mr Chiming Zhong University of Edinburgh Human                                Rights, Modernity                                                                and Confucianism

Dr Stefano Vinci

University of Bari Aldo Moro The Italian criminal code of 1889

Originality and influences from the transalpine models

Ms Louisa Stella de Oliveira Coutinho Silva

University of Lisbon

Marring in the Colonial Brazil White,       Black                    and                    Indian Cultures and the Formation of the Brazilian Identity

Ms          Katharina                Isabel Schmidt

Yale Law School Princeton University

A Tale of Two Naturalisms Law’s Instrumentality in the Minds of Early 20th Century German         and        American Alternative Jurists

Ms Zülâl Muslu University of Paris Ouest Nanterre

Max Planck Institute for European Legal History Preventing the Ottoman sovereignty or digging the grave of an Empire? The               Ottoman            mixed commercial courts

The roots of the Nation-state building

 

 

Mr Airton Ribeiro da Silva Júnior

University of Florence

“Evolution of international law”

conceptions of international law in early-twentieth-century Brazil

 


6:00 p.m. – 7:50 p.m. Prominent Polish Jurists and Lawyers Debate & Poster Session

 

Prominent Polish Jurists and Lawyers Debate

Przemiany polskiego prawa i kultury prawnej na przełomie XX i XXI w. w perspektywie porównawczej

[Transformations in Polish Law and Legal Culture at the Turn of 20th and 21th Century in Comparative Perspective]

 

Prof. Ewa Łętowska

First Polish Commissioner for Citizens' Rights Emeritus Justice of the Polish Constitutional Tribunal

Emeritus Justice of the Polish Supreme Administrative Court Full Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Justice Jerzy Stępień

Emeritus President of the Polish Constitutional Tribunal Vice-Rector of Łazarski University in Warsaw

 

 

Poster Session

 

Ms Victória Gyönki

Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest

’Verðr sekr’ Different Narrations of Outlawry in Medieval Icelandic Sources

Dr Jiri Brňovják                                                    Dr Marek Starý

University of Ostrava                                           Higher School of Finance and Administration in Prague

Changes in the Legal Institution of the Inkolat in the Bohemian Crown Lands during the Early Modern Period as a Reflection of Changing Political Circumstances and Modernization of State and Society

Dr Sara Pilloni

University of Trieste

The evolution of (contractual) “third-party” notion beyond the relativity of contracts’ principle the contribution of Legal History in the identification of a methodological approach

Ms Alexandra Aytova

University of Sofia "St. Kliment Ohridski"

Culture identity of Bulgarian legal system (1878 1912)

Ms Raquel Razente Sirotti

Federal University of Santa Catarina

Between monument and instrument

the criminal codes of 1830 and 1890 and the built of criminal legal identities in Brazil

Ms Alba Moreira Salles

Federal University of Minas Gerais

Jose Hyginos's Translation of "Lehrbuch des deutschen Strafrerchts" by Franz von Liszt's A History of Relations between Brazilian and German Criminal Law Culture

Mr Wojciech Bańczyk

Jagiellonian University

Whose right to own mineral resources? Analysis of the right of the state, the landowner and the community on the example of Agri South Africa v. Minister for Minerals and Energy (2013) in a comparative legal history perspective

 

8:00 p.m.          dinner


Day Four 1 July 2016

Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Gdańsk in Gdańsk-Oliwa

 

8:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.                                                buses departure from Gdańsk 9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.                      Panel Session VII

(all panel sessions: 20 min for each paper & 10 min discussions following each paper)

 

Panel 7.1

Functional Constitutionalism (I) High Points in the Low Countries

Panel 7.2

19th          Century                    Private                    Law ‘Modernisation’

Panel 7.3

Migrations of People, Ideas and Legal Power

 

 

 

Prof. Frederik Dhondt Free University of Brussels Ghent University/FWO

Legal Literacy and Political Activism From Below

the Case of Jan Joseph Raepsaet (1787-1815)

Prof. Heikki Pihlajamäki

University of Helsinki

Law and the new world

codification and modernization in the nineteenth century

Prof. Francesca De Rosa University of Naples Federico II Prof. Francesco Mastroberti University of Bari Aldo Moro The policy of migrations in Italy continuity or discontinuity?

Dr Klaas Van Gelder

Ghent University/FWO

Legal Threat versus Constitutional Opportunity

The Treaty of The Hague (1790) and its Reception in Brabant and Flanders

Assoc. Prof. Dmitry Poldnikov Higher                    School      of                    Economics                    in Moscow

Why generalize contract law?

Debates around some key arguments in the 19th century France, Germany and Russia

Assoc. Prof. Balázs Pálvölgyi Széchenyi                             István                             University                             in Budapest

Migration policy without room for manoeuvre

Direct impact on Hungarian migration policy of the 1870 Agreement on Citizenship between US and Austria-

Hungary (1880s-1914)

Dr Brecht Deseure

Free University of Brussels Passau University

The Radical Potential of the Ancient Constitution in the Belgian Revolution

Ms Julie Rocheton

University Pantheon-Assas Paris 2

An endeavor to improve the legal reality

the 19th century United-States Civil Codes

Dr Virginia Amorosi

University of Naples Federico II European Legal Culture and Workers Issues

The Construction of a Modern Western Knowledge to Keep Control

 

10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.          coffee break

11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.         Panel Session VIII

 

 

Panel 8.1

Axiological Constitutionalism (II) 19th Century Identity Building

Panel 8.2

Culture, Conformity and Coding in Legal Phenomena

Panel 8.3

Law and Democracy

 

 

 

Dr Imre Képessy

Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest Széchenyi István University in Győr National Modernization through the "Constitutional Revolution" of 1848 Pretext and Context

Ms Caroline Laske

Ghent University

Language as carrier of culture comparative                                        and                                        historical perspectives

Assoc. Prof.

Judithanne Scourfield McLauchlan

University of South Florida

The     Impact     of      Decisions             of                 the European Court of Human Rights on

Legal and Judicial Reform in the Republic of Moldova

Mr Stefan Huygebaert

Ghent University

Comparative Legal Iconography

the Decisive Constitutional Moment as an Analytical Tool for Constitutional History

Dr Vanessa Duss Jacobi University of Lucerne Coding Cultures

parallelisation patterns in forming of collective identities

Assoc. Prof.

Vladimir Valeryevich Kochetkov International Slavonic Institute in Moscow

The Russian Values and Constitutional Democracy

Dr Judit Beke-Martos

Ruhr University in Bochum

Restoring the Historical Constitutional Order with a Coronation in 1867

Mr Henrik Forshamn

Uppsala University

Swedish legal education, Roman law and legal history

Assoc. Prof. László Komáromi

Pázmány Péter Catholic University in Budapest

Transplantation of Direct Democracy? The Case of Oregon

 

 

12:30 p.m. 1:30 p.m.            lunch

1:30 p.m. 3:30 p.m.              Panel Session IX

 

 

Panel 9.1

‘Public’ as Identity and as Locus of Change

Panel 9.2

Institutions and Politics

Panel 9.3

Constitutional History, Authoritarian Rule and Transition to Democracy in

Brazil and Comparative Perspectives

 

 

 

Prof. Bart Wauters

IE University in Madrid Segovia

Liberty, Equality and Property

Property as an instrument of liberty and equality in an age of Revolution

Assoc. Prof. Sunita Jogarajan

University of Melbourne

The Role of the League of Nations in the  Development  of  Double  Tax

Agreements

Prof. Cristiano Paixão

University of Brasilia

Constitutional History and Transitional Justice in Contemporary Brazil

Towards a Politics of Time

Prof. Valdis Bluzma

Turiba University in Riga

The Peasant Laws of Baltic Governorates in XIX Century and Their Role in Formation of Latvian and Estonian Nations

Dr Tzung-Mou Wu

Academia Sinica in Taipei City Comparative Legal History for the Rights of Indigenous People

Dr Leonardo Barbosa

University of Brasilia

Constitutional      Politics                                   during             the Brazilian Civil-Military Dictatorship The             Constitution     as             a                    Tool             for Authoritarian Reform and for Political

Transition

Dr Paulo Potiara del Alcantara Veloso Regional Community University Chapecó Faculty Cesucs in Florianopolis Migration, Law Innovation and the Infidel World

the instrumental face of European civilizing                          presumptions                     under                          the

universalized ius gentium of Francisco de Vitoria

Mr Francesco Campodonico

University of Genoa

The recall of MPs in Great Britain: may a legal institute be the end of a secular political culture?

Ms Claudia Paiva Carvalho

University of Brasilia

Transitional Justice and Sexual Crimes in Latin America

An Analysis of Brazil and Comparative Perspectives

Ms Kamila Staudigl-Ciechowicz

University of Vienna

How to deal with inconvenient scholars? Public services law and the creation of national identity

Ms Marjorie Carvalho de Souza

University of Naples Federico II

The Creation of the Court of Auditors in the First Republic in Brazil and its Interaction  with  European  Legal

Systems

Ms Maria Pia Guerra

University of Brasilia

Social     Conflict     and     the           Brazilian Transacted Transition

 

 

3:30 p.m. 4:00 p.m.              buses departures from Gdańsk-Oliwa to Old Town of Gdańsk





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