CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Jean Monnet Intensive Summer School (Rome: Unitelma Sapienza, 20-24 JUL 2026) [DEADLINE 10 MAY 2026]

 

Abstract:

The University of Rome Unitelma Sapienza (the e-learning University owned by Sapienza University of Rome) is now accepting applications for the Jean Monnet Intensive Summer School on Participation, Lobbying and Transparency in the EU Institutions [PLAT-EU] – 3rd edition (2026). This program is part of the Jean Monnet Actions in the field of Higher Education Teaching and Research, funded by the European Union. The PLAT-EU Summer School will be held in person in Rome (Italy), and will include special lectures, simulations and role-plays, some of which will exceptionally take place in the headquarters of Italian Institutions. All selected participants will receive a scholarship to cover the Summer School participation fees.

Dates and location:

The Summer School will take place from 20 to 24 July 2026, between the main campus of Sapienza University of Rome and University of Rome Unitelma Sapienza, the e-university of Sapienza. The classes will be held in English and will include lectures, simulations, and role-plays, some of which will exceptionally take place at the Italian Parliament.

Target audience:

We are looking for talented, passionate and committed participants that feel strongly about democracy, institutions and open society. In particular, the call is open to: a. graduate and undergraduate students under the age of 30. b. lobbying professionals under the age of 35. c. civil servants, lobbying experts and research fellows of any age. The maximum number of participants selected will be 25. Candidates from all over the world are welcome to apply, regardless of nationality, provided they have a very good command of English, the language in which the Summer School will be conducted.

Program description:

The third edition of the PLAT-EU Summer School will focus mainly on lobbying legislation in Europe and South America. The lessons (40 hours in total) will be highly interactive. Students will be involved in discussions, simulations and exercises based on how decision-making processes work. The course will cover a variety of topics, such as the decision-making process, transparency participation, techniques of lobbying, comparative lobbying law, ethics and anti-corruption mechanisms. To familiarize themselves with broader themes of the course, all selected participants will attend online preparatory seminars (16 hours). The recorded lessons will be available for download on the PLAT-EU website starting in April.

Objectives and methodology:

The main objective of the Summer School is to provide participants with the necessary skills to develop practical and specialized competencies in lobbying, transparency and participation. These competencies will be transferable to their future professions, including working with institutions, non-governmental organizations, associations, committees, and civil groups. To achieve this goal, participants will be methodologically stimulated through a diachronic, interdisciplinary and comparative approach. This will enable them to understand the legal and political system in which they operate as researchers, professionals and, ultimately, as citizens. 

Faculty:

The Jean Monnet Module project is coordinated by Pier Luigi Petrillo, Full Professor of Comparative Public Law at Unitelma Sapienza University of Rome and Professor of “Lobbying Theory and Technics” at Luiss Guido Carli University of Rome. Professor Petrillo was the first in Italy to set up a university course in legal sciences dedicated to the phenomenon of lobbying. The multidisciplinary faculty of the Summer School will include lobbyists, lawyers, economists, sociologists and, as keynote speakers, members of Parliament and high-level officials. The JMM Summer School Academic coordinator is Andrea Fiorentino, Fellow Researcher in Comparative Public Law at Unitelma Sapienza University of Rome. 

 Qualifications:

The Summer School on “Participation, Lobbying and Transparency in the EU Institutions” is a university-recognized higher education course. Those who attend 80 percent of the classes and pass the final exam will be issued a certificate of intensive course attendance with the issuance of an equivalent number of ECTS credits (or CEU stands for Continuing Education Unit).

 Fees and Facilitation:

All selected participants will receive a scholarship to cover the Summer School participation fees. Participants are responsible for their own travel, visa, meals, and accommodation fees. Upon request, the University can provide accommodation suggestions.

How to apply:

Applications must be submitted no later than the 10 May 2026 to the following email address: jeanmonnet@unitelmasapienza.it, with the subject line: "Jean Monnet Intensive Summer School on Lobbying 2026". The application should include: a. a detailed curriculum vitae (in English) b. a copy of a valid identification document c. a letter of motivation of no more than two pages (in English). Candidates will be evaluated based on their motivation statement, academic record, research or professional progress in the lobbying or public sector. A commission chaired by the Jean Monnet Project Manager, will review the applications. Decisions regarding the recruitment process will be made by the 15 May 2026. All candidates will be informed of the outcome of the procedure

Roadmap:

Application deadline

Notification of selection results

Preparatory Lessons (online)

Summer School (on campus)

 

10 May 2026

 

15 May 2026

Available for download

Jun-July, 2026

 

20 to 24 July 2026

 Disclaimer:

 The Summer School is funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the granting authority, i.e. the European Education and Culture Executive Agency. Neither the European Union nor the grating authority can be held responsible for them.

Contacts

If you have any questions, please write to Andrea Fiorentino to the following address: jeanmonnet@unitelmasapienza.it For more information on the general project: https://www.unitelmasapienza.it/jeanmonnet/

 

 

 

 

PROGRAM: PHEDRA’s Summer School (Palos de la Frontera: Universidad Internacional de Andalucía, 25-28 JUN 2024)

 

(Source: Phedra)

Summer school of the international research network PHEDRA: Pour une Histoire Européenne du DRoit des Affaires

 Program

25th June 2024

18.00-20.00 – Plenary session – AULA MAGNA

Lecture 1. Roman Law in the Sources of Commercial Law – Prof. Dario Mantovani and prof. Guido Rossi

§§§

26th June 2024

9.00-11.30 Parallel sessions

AULA 2 Antiquity – Discussants: prof. Luisa Brunori, prof. Olivier Descamps, prof. Carlos Petit                                      

Albert Gómez Jordán – Las cripto monedas como precio del contrato de compraventa/Los bienes con elemento digitales como objeto del contrato de compraventa/ La negotiorum gestio: casos dudosos.

Carlota Hernández García – El estudio de la multa en el derecho romano y el análisis del comercio marítimo en la Antigüedad.

Julio Romano Cabello – Reconstrucción del derecho privado constantiniano a partir de los rescriptos de la época.

Vid Žepič – Favor debitoris and Factors of Its Evolution in the Imperial Legislation between the 4th and 6th Centuries.

AULA 6 Early Modern Period – Discussants: prof. Giovanni Chiodi, prof. Florent Garnier

Femke Gordijn – Law and Trade in Late Medieval Bruges and Southhampton (c. 1400-1520).

Alexis Audemar – The legal treatment of labour by the early modern scolastics.

Paola Iezzone – The saffron trade in Rome during the Renaissance: archive sources and trade routes from Abruzzo.

AULA MAGNA Contemporary Period  – Discussants: prof. Albercht Cordes, prof. Dave De ruysscher

Damian Baçzkiewicz – A Tsunami or a Gentle Tide? The Influence of the French Commercial Code of 1807 on the Formation of Belgian Legal Discourse.

Aurelia Ghetivu – Le rôle de la coutume jurisprudentielle devant le Tribunal de commerce de la Seine sous la Second Empire (1852-1870).

Jérôme Hecker – L’importance du cadre juridique dans le développement économique au Grand-Duché de Luxembourg. Une perspective historique (1929-1990).

Break

12.00-13.30 – Plenary session – AULA MAGNA

Lecture 2. Long Distance Trade – Prof. Ron Harris

Lunch

15.30-18.00 – Parallel sessions

AULA 2 – Middle Ages – Discussants: prof. Luisa Brunori, prof. Olivier Descamps, Prof. Ana Belem Fernández Castro

David De Concilio – The Ecclesiastical Stance on Just Price in the Thirteenth Century

Niels Fieremans – Law, Leverage and Litigation. Legal strategies of foreign merchants in late medieval Bruges.

Daniele Tinterri – The Liber Gazarie

Ana Cláudia Silveira – Setúbal, a rising Portuguese sea port in the international trade of the Late Middle Ages.

AULA 6 – Early Modern – Discussants: prof. Giovanni Chiodi, prof. Albercht Cordes; Prof. Florent Garnier

Andriws González Barrera – Florence and Toulouse (1450-1550): Early Modern Examples of Economic Sovereignty and Legal Drafting in Commercial Policies.

Daniel Bökenkamp – A Tale of Two Cities: sovereignity, diplomacy and commerce in early modern Lübeck and Rouen.

Stefano Cattelan – In the Shadow of the Great Powers: Freedom of the Sea and Neutrality in the Long Eighteenth-Century.

Francesca Fusco Italian terms of commerce in German: the entries of the MICOLL glossary

AULA MAGNA – Contemporary Period Discussants: Prof. Anja Amend-Traut, Prof. Dave De ruysscher, prof. Carlos Petit

Greta Spineti – New Forms of Cultural Tourism in Adriatic: The Potential Role of Ancient Maritime Wine Routes.

Christian Magaling – Private Colonialism and Island Diplomacy: Germany’s Company Rule in Pacific Politics.

Hélène Hu – La concession française de Shanghai : aspects juridiques et juridictionnels.

Carolina Argiroffi – Commercial law goes to the countryside: Association and labour subordination in the 19th-20th century Italian legal discourse.

Break

18.30-20.00 – Plenary session – AULA MAGNA

Lecture 3. – Early-modern archival sources on foreign commercial nations’ judicial competences, and their relations to the local, regional and central jurisdictions (illustrated by Antwerp cases) – Prof. Georges Martyn

§§§

27th June 2024

9.00-10.30 – Plenary session – AULA MAGNA

Lecture 4. The Sources of Northern European Commercial Law – Prof. Heikki Pihlajamäki

Break

11.00-13.30 – Parallel sessions

AULA 2 – Early Modern Discussants: prof. Anja Amend-Traut, prof. Dave De ruysscher, prof. Olivier Descamps

Roberto Ganau – Sovranità e commercio nella Francia del XVI secolo. Verso una storia intellettuale della bancarotta

Gilles Hebben – The Levant Company (1592-1825).

Victor Le Breton-Blon – A transnational history of commercial paper in Europe (16th-18th century)

Laurine Manac’h – Incorporating business: merchants, law and the regulation of business organizations in the age of liberalism. Barcelona and Buenos Aires, 1778-1840.

AULA 6 – 18th-19th c. – Discussants: prof. Albrecht Cordes, prof. Florent Garnier, prof. Ana Belem Fernández Castro

Matthieu Mraizika – Modélisation mathématique et impôt dans la France du XVIIIe siècle.

Luca Jacopo Salvadori – Mutual Aid in Eighteenth Century.

Manon Séréni – Le crédit dans les répertoires de droit, d’une crise à l’autre (1715-1789).

Alexandre Valverde – L’idée de codification du droit privé à l’échelle européenne et internationale (fin XVIIIe s-début XXe).

AULA MAGNA – Contemporary Period – Discussants: prof. Luisa Brunori, Prof. Giovanni Chiodi, Prof. Carlos Petit

Andrea Raffaele Amato – Tra Progresso e Innovazione: Il lungo itinerario della scienza giuridica italiana verso la socializzazione dell’ordine familiare.

Marjorie Carvalho de Sousa – A General Law out of a Special Jurisdiction: Commercial Law of Labor in Nineteenth-Century Brazil.

Justine Chauvel – Le bail immobilier du local commercial-Histoire comparée des droits européens (XVIIIe-XXe siècle).

Rodrick Van Der Smissen – Roman law and the formative interpretation of history in nineteenth-century insolvency law (c. 1850-c. 1900)”. 

Lunch

15.30-17.30 – Plenary session – AULA MAGNA

Lecture 5. Reading the Sources of Commercial Law Doctrine – Prof. Annamaria Monti and prof. Xavier Prévost

Break

18.00-20.00 – Plenary session – AULA MAGNA  

Lecture 6. Lexicon and Translation of Commercial Law Sources – Prof. Jake Dyble and Prof. Stefania Gialdroni

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Practical information

Universidad Internacional de Andalucía (UNIA)

Paraje de La Rábida s/n, 21819 Palos de la Frontera – Huelva – Spain

Phone +34 959350452

Breakfast 8.00h – 9.00h
Lunch 14h-15h
Dinner 20.30h-21.30h

Luisa Brunori +33 6 37 79 23 70 / +39 331 77 33 230
Ana Belem Fernández Castro +33 7 77 33 66 71
Carlos Petit +34 666 41 86 3

SUMMER SCHOOL: Call for Applications PHEDRA Summer School (La Rábida, Palos de la Frontera: University of Andalusia, 25 – 28 JUN 2024); DEADLINE 31 JAN 2024

 

(image source: PHEDRA)

The International Research Network I.R.N. PHEDRA organizes its second summer school in La Rábida (Palos de la Frontera, Spain) on 25-28 June 2024.

Following the basis of the first summer school, the purpose of the event is to provide an exceptional opportunity to the participants to present their ongoing research before a group of specialists in commercial legal history matters, in order to generate fruitful discussions resulting in valuable feedback that will enrich and improve their work.

PHEDRA project concerns the history of business law, from Antiquity to the present day, focusing on norms and practices that developed around Europe to support commerce and business exchange which led to the transformation of societies and gave commercial law its features. The project is particularly interested on the sources we use to trace and reconstruct the evolution of commercial law, paying careful attention to the cultural background that constitutes its “European legal ecosystem”.

The summer school is addressed to PhD students and young post-doc working on related topics to business law history in the framework of the chronological and geographical scope of PHEDRA project.

Opening up to the social sciences being one of the methodological pillars of PHEDRA, the organizers not only encourage the application of legal history PhD students and young post-doc, but also historians, economists and social scientists in general. The second PHEDRA summer school intends to produce stimulating interdisciplinary discussions in a very international and friendly academic atmosphere.

All travel, accommodation and meal costs of participants will be covered by the organization.

Structure of the sessions

A key goal of the summer school is to create a useful and stimulating academic experience for all participants.

Ample space will be given to the presentation and discussion of research work by PhD students and young postdocs.

Each session will also consist of a lecture or workshop led by one or more members of the pedagogical team. This will facilitate active exchanges between participants and lectures throughout the event. Since the main objective of the summer school is to provide feedback to PhD student and young researchers, the structure of the sessions prioritizes discussions rather than long presentations.

The panel of the PHEDRA Summer School 2024: 

Anja Amend-Traut – Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg

Luisa Brunori – Cnrs/École Normale Supérieure/Université Paris Nanterre

Giovanni Chiodi – Università di Milano Bicocca

Olivier Descamps – Université Paris Panthéon-Assas

Dave De ruysscher – Tilburg University/Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Ana Belem Fernández Castro – Scuola Superiore Meridionale, Naples

Florent Garnier – Université Toulouse Capitole

Stefania Gialdroni – Università di Padova

Ron Harris – Tel Aviv University

Dario Mantovani – Collège de France

Georges Martyn – Gand University

Annamaria Monti – Università Statale di Milano

Carlos Petit Calvo – Universidad de Huelva

Heikki Pihlajamäki – Helsinki University

Xavier Prévost – Université de Bordeaux - IUF

Guido Rossi – Edimburgh University/Università di Palermo  

Date and location

The PHEDRA summer school will take place between Tuesday 25 and Friday 28 June 2024, at the International University of Andalusia, in La Rábida, Palos de la Frontera, Spain.

Reimbursement of travel expenses and accommodation:

All participants' travel expenses will be reimbursed.

Accommodation and meals from dinner on 25 June to breakfast on 28 June will be fully covered by the organization.

PHEDRA promotes sustainable mobility of researchers: as far as is reasonable, rail travel should be preferred to air travel.

How to Apply

Applicants are requested to send a CV and an abstract of their PhD thesis (maximum 1 page) to the email address phedrasummerschool@gmail.com

The deadline for submitting applications is 31 January 2024.

Accepted applicants will be notified by 15 February 2024

 

PHEDRA
Pour une Histoire Européenne du DRoit des Affaires

Appel à candidatures

École d'été internationale 2024

25 - 28 juin 2024, La Rábida, Palos de la Frontera, Espagne

 

L’International Research Network  I.R.N. PHEDRA organise sa deuxième École d'été à La Rábida (Palos de la Frontera, Espagne) du 25 au 28 juin 2024.

 

L’objectif de l'École est d'offrir une occasion privilégiée pour les doctorants et les jeunes post-doc de présenter leurs recherches en cours devant un groupe de spécialistes de l’histoire du droit des affaires.

Le projet PHEDRA s’intéresse à l'histoire du droit des affaires, de l'Antiquité à nos jours, en se concentrant sur les normes et les pratiques qui se sont développées à travers l'Europe participant à la transformation des sociétés et façonnant le monde des affaires. Le projet s'intéresse particulièrement aux sources utilisées pour retracer et reconstruire l'évolution du droit commercial, en accordant une attention particulière au contexte culturel qui constitue son "écosystème juridique européen".

L'École d'été s'adresse aux doctorants et aux jeunes post-docs qui travaillent sur des sujets liés à l'histoire du droit des affaires dans le cadre chronologique et géographique du projet PHEDRA.

L'ouverture aux sciences sociales étant l'un des piliers méthodologiques de PHEDRA, les organisateurs encouragent non seulement la candidature des doctorants et des jeunes post-doctorants en histoire du droit, mais aussi celle des jeunes historiens, économistes et jeunes chercheurs en sciences sociales en général.

La l’École d'été PHEDRA a pour objectif créer le cadre pour des discussions interdisciplinaires stimulantes dans une atmosphère intellectuelle internationale et amicale.

Tous les frais de voyage, d'hébergement et les repas des participants seront pris en charge par l'organisation.

Structure des sessions

L'un des principaux objectifs de l'École d'été est de créer une expérience académique fructeuse et stimulante pour tous les doctorants et les jeunes post-doc.

Une large place sera accordée à la présentation et à la discussion des travaux de recherche des doctorants et des jeunes post-doctorants.

Chaque session comprendra également une conférence ou un atelier animé par un ou plusieurs membres de l'équipe pédagogique.

L'objectif principal de l'École d'été étant de fournir un retour utile aux doctorants et aux jeunes chercheurs, la structure des sessions privilégie les discussions plutôt que les longues présentations.

 L’équipe pédagogique de l'école d'été PHEDRA 2024 :

Anja Amend-Traut - Université Julius-Maximilians de Würzburg

Luisa Brunori - Cnrs/École Normale Supérieure/Université Paris Nanterre

Giovanni Chiodi - Université de Milano Bicocca

Olivier Descamps - Université Paris Panthéon-Assas

Dave De ruysscher – Tilburg University/Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Ana Belem Fernández Castro - Scuola Superiore Meridionale, Naples

Florent Garnier - Université Toulouse Capitole

Stefania Gialdroni - Université de Padoue

Ron Harris - Université de Tel Aviv

Dario Mantovani - Collège de France

Georges Martyn - Université de Gand

Annamaria Monti - Università Statale di Milano

Carlos Petit Calvo - Université de Huelva

Heikki Pihlajamäki – Helsinki University

Xavier Prévost - Université de Bordeaux - IUF

Guido Rossi - Université d'Edimburgh/Université de Palerme 

Date et lieux

L’École d'été PHEDRA aura lieu du mardi 25 au vendredi 28 juin 2024, à l'Université internationale d'Andalousie, à La Rábida, Palos de la Frontera, Espagne.

Remboursement des frais de voyage et de logement :

Tous les frais de voyage des participants seront remboursés.

L'hébergement et les repas, du dîner du 25 juin au petit déjeuner du 28 juin, seront entièrement pris en charge par l'organisation.

PHEDRA encourage la mobilité soutenable des chercheurs : dans la mesure du possible, les participants sont priés de préférer les voyages en train aux voyages en avion.

Comment poser sa candidature :

Les candidats devront envoyer un CV et un résumé de leur thèse de doctorat (maximum 1 page) à l’adresse phedrasummerschool@gmail.com

La date limite de dépôt des candidatures est fixée au 31 janvier 2024.

Les candidats acceptés seront informés au plus tard le 15 février 2024.

Toutes les informations sur : https://phedraproject.wordpress.com/the-phedras-summer-school-29-6-1-7-2022/

 

SUMMER SCHOOL: "Fascismo e Diritto. Continuità e rotture nella tradizione giuridica italiana" - Perugia 4-6 luglio 2023

(Source: Storia del diritto)

SUMMER SCHOOL: Max Planck Summer Academy for Legal History 2023 (3-14 July 2023, Frankfurt)(DEADLINE: 31 January 2023)

 

(Source: MPI for Legal History and Legal Theory) 

 

We learned that the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory is organizing a summer school on legal history.

Date

3 July - 14 July 2023

The Course

 
The Max Planck Summer Academy for Legal History provides a selected group of highly motivated early-stage research students, usually PhD candidates, with an in-depth introduction to traditional and contemporary approaches and methods in legal history.

This year’s theme: Actors, Groups and Identities in Legal History

The history of the law has been shaped by individual actors as well as groups of people. In either case, their identity was an important factor motivating their individual or collective actions and omissions. Today, legal history sees a resurgence of biographical studies of "key actors". At the same time, "legal history from below" sharpens our awareness that marginalised groups were powerful forces of legal development, too. Should legal historians make sure that their accounts integrate both perspectives, so as to present a "balanced" interpretation of the past? If so, how can this be achieved? How can the prism of "identities" help to contextualise and better understand both individual and collective interests and behaviour? The 2023 Summer Academy will explore these issues further. Applicants are encouraged to present research projects that are related to this year’s theme.

Eligibility Requirements
Early-stage research students, usually PhD candidates. Working knowledge of English is required, German is not a prerequisite.

Application
All applications must be supported by a CV, a project summary (approx. ten pages) and a letter of motivation. Please send your applications via e-mail to: summeracademy@lhlt.mpg.de. 

 

Submission deadline for applications is 31 January 2023.

Fees
The Academy is generously funded by mpilhlt. There is no participation fee. Accommodation will be provided by the organisers for free. Participants, however, will be responsible for covering their travel expenses (in cases of hardship these can be covered by a limited number of scholarships).
 

All info here

SUMMER SCHOOL: Max Planck Summer Academy for Legal History (4-15 July 2022, Frankfurt) (DEADLINE: 31 January 2022)

 

(Source: MPI for Legal History and Legal Theory)

We learned that the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory is organizing a summer school on legal history again.

Date

4 July – 15 July 2022

The Course

The Max Planck Summer Academy for Legal History provides a selected group of highly motivated early-stage research students, usually PhD candidates, with an in-depth introduction to basic approaches and methods in legal history.

The Summer Academy consists of three parts. The first part introduces the international group of PhD students to sources, methodological approaches and theoretical models as well as to controversial research debates on fundamental research fields of legal history. The introductory courses are led by members of the Institute and external guest speakers. In the second part, the invited participants present their own projects within the context of the respective year’s special topic. The third part of the Academy offers the opportunity to all participants to further develop their own research by making use of the library and by discussing their projects with the Institute’s experts in the different fields of legal history.

The course will take place at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

This year’s theme: Using History in Law

History teaches us that people all over the world have invoked the past or tradition to legitimise or delegitimise norms. Even today, in countries across the globe and in very diverse legal cultures, but also at the level of international law, ‘tradition’ is allocated an important role in the construction of legal systems and in substantiating legal claims.

Why and under what historical conditions and circumstances did jurists assign such a high authority to the past? In which intellectual contexts and based on what understanding of epistemology, philosophy of history, or religious beliefs is the past used as an argument to legitimise or delegitimise existing or future law? And what force do historical arguments have in today’s laws?

Applicants to the 2022 Summer Academy are encouraged to present research projects that give special consideration to the significance of using History in Law.

Eligibility Requirements

Early-stage research students, usually PhD candidates.

Working knowledge of English is required, German is not a prerequisite.

Application

All applications must be supported by a CV, a project summary (approx. 10 pages) and a letter of motivation. Please send yur applications via e-mail to: summeracademy@lhlt.mpg.de.

Submission deadline for applications is 31 January 2022.

Fees

There is no participation fee. Accommodation will be provided by the organisers. Participants, however, will be responsible for covering their travel expenses. There will be a limited number of scholarships available.

 

All info here

SUMMER SCHOOL: Law and Humanities Summer School 2020 (Luzern, 15-19 June 2020) (DEADLINE: 1 March 2020)

(Source: Universität Luzern)

We learned of the annual summer school in law and humanities, which is organized in Luzern this year.

The 2020 Summer School will focus on the entanglements of law, art and politics. From statues of the Roman Emperors to Picasso’s Guernica, some of the world’s most celebrated works of art have been explicitly political. But in the twenty-first century everything has been disrupted – including law, including art, including politics. We live in a world obsessed by images and distrustful of politics; a world in which the public sphere is collapsing and private interests seem more powerful than ever. What, then, is the role of art in making and unmaking, representing and challenging the language of law and the power of politics? Can art disrupt the disruptors?

Starting from this contemporary perspective, the school will offer a panorama of the dynamic intercourse between law, art and politics across a variety of sites, contexts and periods. The programme will draw on the expertise of scholars working in different research fields and across multiple critical traditions to address such questions as:

• How do aesthetics and images shape the character of law?
• What role does art play in transmitting legal and political ideology, or in fostering critique and social change?
• How might we understand the relations between modes of artistic cultural expression and legal identities?
• What are the effects of art’s material manifestations on the law?
• How does art participate in, activate, or reflect upon the imagining of legal futures?

More info can be found here

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Max Planck Summer Academy for Legal History (17-28 August 2020, Frankfurt am Main) (DEADLINE: 31 January 2020)

(Source: MPI for European Legal History)

The MPI for European Legal History has published a call for applications for its annual summer school.

Since 2014, the Institute has organised the annual Max Planck Summer Academy for Legal History. Its aim is to provide roughly 20 early-stage researchers, usually PhD students, from all over the world with an in-depth introduction to basic approaches and methods of research in legal history.

The Summer Academy is intended to develop the ability of its participants to transfer legal terminologies and theories across linguistic and cultural contexts, thus providing a basis to build and consolidate international research networks.

It addresses highly motivated early-stage researchers, usually PhD candidates, with an interest in the basic research of historical formation and transformations of law and other normative orders.

The Summer Academy consists of two parts. The first part provides an introduction to the study of sources, methodological principles, as well as theoretical models and controversial research debates on basic research fields of legal history. In the second part, the participants discuss the special research theme and develop their own approach to the topic.

The next course takes place from 17 August - 28 August 2020 at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Curriculum

Researchers and fellows of the Institute alongside invited guest speakers give introductions to the manifold facets, sources, theoretical foundations, research perspectives and methodologies of the different subfields of Legal History.

• Antiquity and Roman Law
• Ius Commune - Legists
• Ius Commune - Canonists
• History of Private Law
• History of Common Law
• History of Criminal Law
• Constitutional History
• Legal History of Ibero-America
• Legal Transfer in the Common Law World
• Contemporary Legal History
• History of International Law
• History of European Union Law
• Legal Theory

As a summer academy should not consist of academic activities only, a variety of extra-curricular activities, such as visits to nearby historical sites and several get-togethers in the evenings are offered.

This years's theme: Using History in Law

History teaches us that people in all regions of the world have invoked the past or tradition to legitimise or delegitimise norms. Even today, in countries all over the globe and in very diverse legal cultures but also at the level of international law, “tradition” is attributed an important role in the construction of legal systems and in substantiating legal claims.

Why and under what historical conditions circumstances did jurists assign such a high authority to the past? In what intellectual contexts and based on what understanding of epistemology, philosophy of history, or religion beliefs is the past used as an argument to legitimise or delegitimise existing or future law? And what force do historical arguments have in today’s laws?

Applicants to the 2020 Summer Academy are encouraged to present research projects that give special consideration to the significance of using History in Law.

Date

17 August - 28 August 2020

Deadline

Applications are to be sent by 31 January 2020.

Eligilibity Requirements

• Early-stage graduates, usually PhD candidates
• Working knowledge of English is required; German is not a prerequisite

Application

Required documents for the application are a CV, a project summary (approx. 10 pages) and a letter of motivation.

Fees

There is no participation fee. Accommodation will be provided by the organisers. Participants, however, will be responsible for covering their travel expenses. There will be a limited number of scholarships available.

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SUMMER SCHOOL: "Summer School 2017 in Medieval Studies: Discovering the end of the world. Portugal as a central periphery," (Lisbon, July 17-21 2017)

WHAT Discovering the end of the world. Portugal as a central periphery, Summer School

WHEN July 17-21, 2017

WHERE Lisbon, Institute for Medieval Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of the NOVA, University of Lisbon

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From 17th to 21st of July – Institute for Medieval Studies promotes an exchange of ideas about the Middle Ages. Registrations open.

The Institute for Medieval Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of the NOVA University of Lisbon (IEM-FCSH/NOVA) and the Mosteiro da Batalha host this one-week Summer School. The Summer School takes place on 17-21 July, its main objective being to provide a forum for anyone interested in the middle ages, and to support contact and exchange.

We aim to promote dialogue between researchers and the public keen to deepen their knowledge about medieval Portugal. We aim to familiarise students with medieval Portuguese culture, history, art and literature, from the perspective of Portugal’s interactions with its neighbours, tangible as much as metaphorical.

The IEM Summer School courses are open to anyone and include travel and ‘immersive’ visits to a number of historic sites in central Portugal. Every module has a separate study visit.

Teaching is in English by an international team of IEM scholars, combining young and senior, all experts in their field.

Registration open until 15 June [30 vacancies].

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