EXHIBITION: Connaissez-vous Jean-Jacques-Régis de Cambacérès ? (Paris: place Vendôme, 3 JUN - 12 JUL 2024)

(Image source: Ministère de la Justice français)

Du 3 juin au 12 juillet 2024, la place Vendôme, à Paris, accueille une exposition avec accès gratuit dédiée à Jean-Jacques-Régis de Cambacérès (1753-1824) à l’occasion du bicentenaire de sa mort. 

Proposée dans le cadre de la programmation culturelle du ministère de la Justice, cette exposition gratuite est une invitation à découvrir le parcours de ce personnage oublié qui a pourtant marqué l’histoire de la justice.

Les dix panneaux de l’exposition retracent la vie de Cambacérès, de ses origines montpellieraines à son ascension politique sous l’ère napoléonienne. Vous pourrez saisir combien son action et ses qualités de juriste ont contribué à l’affirmation de l’État de droit au sortir de la tourmente révolutionnaire. Avocat, puis conseiller de cour souveraine, député, ministre de la Justice, deuxième consul, archichancelier… Habile sur le plan politique, Cambacérès aura réussi à se maintenir sous tous les régimes de 1792 jusqu’en 1815, date de la chute de Napoléon. 

More information can be found here.

EXHIBITION: "What Not to Wear: Fashion and the Law" (Harvard Law School Library, through August 12, 2016)

WHAT What Not to Wear: Fashion and the Law, exhibition

WHEN through August 12, 2016, 9:00-5:00

WHERE Harvard Law School Library, Harvard University

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Though law and fashion may not initially seem like overlapping domains, given the central nature of each of these fields it is no surprise that they do have an impact on one another. Over the years, fashion has been important to decisions about how jurists visually demonstrate their expertise and law has served to circumscribe how fashion is created, distributed, and consumed.

This exhibit looks at some of these intersections of fashion and the law from historic laws setting strict class distinctions for fashion to modern intellectual property law’s approach to protecting those who design and create fashion. 

What Not to Wear: Fashion and the Law, curated by Mindy Kent, Meg Kribble, and Carli Spina, is on view in the HLS Library Caspersen Room daily 9am-5pm through August 12, 2016.

EXHIBITION: "Wenn Bücher Recht haben/When books lay down the law" (St. Gall, until November 8 2015)

WHAT Wenn Bücher Recht haben. Justitia und ihre Helfer in Handschriften der Stiftsbibliothek St.Gallen/When books lay down the law. Law and lawmakers in the manuscripts at the Abbey Library of St. Gall, exhibition

WHEN until November 8 2015 - 

WHERE St. Gall Abbey Library/Stiftsbibliothek St. Gallen

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Wenn Bücher Recht haben: Erstmals widmet die Stiftsbibliothek St. Gallen eine Jahresausstellung dem mittelalterlichen Recht und den Rechtshandschriften. Anhand ihrer einzigartigen Handschriftensammlung führt sie durch die faszinierende Entwicklung des Rechts von der Antike bis zum Ende des Mittelalters. Die Ausstellung präsentiert den Kaiser und den Papst als Quellen des Rechts und behandelt Themen wie den Gerichtsprozess und das Buss-, Beicht- und Ablasswesen. Berühmte Handschriften mit den frühmittelalterlichen Volksrechten der Langobarden, Franken und Alemannen werden gezeigt und beschrieben sowie bedeutende Zeugnisse aus der Entstehungszeit der Rechtswissenschaft und der Universitäten im 12. Jahrhundert vorgestellt

For the first time, the Abbey Library of St. Gall is devoting its annual exhibition to the subject of medieval law and legal manuscripts. Based on the Abbey Library’s unique collection of manuscripts, the exhibition reveals the fascinating development of jurisprudence from Antiquity until the end of the Middle Ages. For example, the Emperor and the Pope are presented as lawmakers. You will also gain an insight into judicial processes as well as the rules concerning penance, confession and indulgences. Famous manuscripts containing the early medieval laws of the Lombards, Franks and Alemans are displayed and described, as well as important witnesses to the origins of jurisprudence and the revival of interest in the study of law during the 12th century

NOTICE: "300 AÑOS DE LA PAZ DE UTRECHT. En nombre de la paz. La Guerra de Sucesión Española y los tratados de Madrid, Utrecht, Rastatt y Baden (1713-1715)"

What: Exhibition

Where: Madrid, Fundación Carlos de Amberes

When: until 23 February 2014






All informations available here:
http://www.fcamberes.org/actividades/exp/exp_paz_utrecht.html

EXHIBITION: Autun - Musée Rolin: 13 September - 9 December 2012

The exhibition "Bologne et le pontifical d’Autun. Un chef-d’œuvre inconnu du premier Trecento (1330-1340)" will take place at the Musée Ronin (Autun, France) from the 13th September to the 9th December 2012.
The discovery of an exeptional manuscript of the bishop of Autun gives the opportunity to analyze the artistical production of the first half of the 14th century in Bologna and is therefore an important event for art historians. Nevertheless, the catalogue of the exhibition contains a part devoted to legal manuscript and the teaching of law in the Middle Ages (texts by Carla Frova, Patrick Arabeyre and Maria Alessandra Bilotta), which can be of great interest for legal historians.
For more information about the exhibition click here.
To contact the Museum Rolin (3, rue des bancs
71400 Autun): autun-museerolin@wanadoo.fr