CONFERENCE WEBSITE: Droit de l'art, du patrimoine et des biens culturels: histoires, normes, circulations [Journées internationales de la Société d'Histoire du Droit] (Torino: Università di Torino, 4-7 JUN 2026) [DEADLINE 10 APR 2026]

 

The organisation of the conference Droit de l'art, du patrimoine et des biens culturels: histoires, normes, circulations [Journées internationales of the French Société d'HIstoire du Droit] at the University of Turin have opened a conference website.

The conference will take place in Turin from 4 to 7 June. Registration is possible until 10 April, as indicated earlier on this blog.

Read more here.

CALL FOR PAPERS: Droit de l’art, du patrimoine et des biens culturels: histoires, normes, circulations [Journées internationales de la Société d’Histoire du Droit] (Torino: Università di Torino, 4-7 JUN 2026) [DEADLINE 10 APR 2026]

 

(image: Palazzo Madama, Torino; source: Wikimedia Commons)

The Société d'Histoire du Droit will hold its Journées internationales in Turin, from 4 to 7 June 2026. Details on the call for papers (dedicated to creation, art, cultural patrimonium and justice) here.

SYMPOSIUM: The Illuminated Legal Manuscript, Results Achieved and Future Research Objectives (Lisbon: Pharmacy Museum Auditorium, 20 SEPT 2023)

(Image source: Réseau des médiévistes belges de langue française)

To celebrate its fifth year of existence, the IUS ILLUMINATUM Research Team (https://iusilluminata.fcsh.unl.pt), organizes on September 20th, 2023, in collaboration with the Institute of Medieval Studies (IEM) of NOVA /FCSH, the Istituto Italiano di Cultura of Lisbon, the Lisbon Pharmacy Museum and the Portuguese Institute of Heraldry its 4th International Vorkshop entitled The Illuminated Legal Manuscript: Results Achieved and Future Research Objectives.

The event, which will take place in person in Lisbon, at the Auditorium of the Lisbon Pharmacy Museum, aims to communicate to a wider audience the results of the investigations carried out by the team members during the fifth year of its existence, to make a balance of what has already been done and outline possible research perspectives. This Workshop also aims to provide an overview of the development of research on illuminated legal manuscripts in Europe, with the aim of reflecting on the methodological implications and the practical and theoretical challenges that this research entails. During this scientific event, different case studies related to some regions of the European territory will be analysed through an interdisciplinary approach to overcome limits and open innovative and fruitful research avenues.

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Programme

20 September 2023

10.00–10.30 Keynote Speaker: Il monachesimo, Benedetto e la regola - Gabriele Archetti (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore)

10.30–10.50 Regole monastiche e iconografia - Francesca Stroppa (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore)

10.50–11.10 Dalle regole alla regola: il corpus regularum del codice sangallese 914 - Simona Gavinelli (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore)

11.30–11.50 Images of Judging - Martin Sunnqvist (Lunds Universitet)

11.50–12.10 Enluminure héraldique et d’armoriaux au Portugal à la fin du Moyen-âge - Miguel Metelo de Seixas (IEMNOVA/FCSH)

12.10–12.30 Repertorios decorativos para las cartas de profesión de los conventos toledanos - Jaime Moraleda Moraleda (Universidad de Castilla – La Mancha)

12.30–12.55 Imaginer la justice criminelle avec les coutumes de Toulouse - Héléna D.M. Lagreou (The University of Cambridge)

12.55 – 13.30 Debate

15.30–16.00 Keynote Speaker: L’albero di Jesse nell’atrio della basilica di S. Felice a Cimitile tra stratigrafie e iconografia - Carlo Ebanista (Università del Molise)

16.00–16.20 Una aproximación a los manuscritos iluminados de los fueros hispanos bajomedievales – Jorge Prádanos Fernández (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

16.20–16.40 A História da iluminura e a Arqueologia da Idade Média: duas disciplinas em diálogo e em colaboração – Maria Alessandra Bilotta (IEM-NOVA/FCSH), Sara Prata (IEM-NOVA/FCSH)

17.00–17.20 Testimoni miniati del Decretum Gratiani a Montecassino - Andrea Improta (Università di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale)

17.20–17.40 Os manuscritos do projecto iForal: a escrita da norma - Filipa Roldão (Centro de História – Universidade de Lisboa)

17.40–18.00 Ofícios da escrita no alto Alentejo (1438-1521). Um projeto em curso – Marcelo Andrade (IEM-NOVA/FCSH)

18.00–18.20 Os “Foros de Guarda”, um testemunho para a circulação de manuscritos ibéricos: a realeza na legislação de Afonso X – João Costa Silva (IEM-NOVA/FCSH)

18.20-18.40 Debate

More information can be found here.

JOURNAL: LawArt. Rivista di Diritto, Arte, Storia / LawArt. Journal of Law, Art and History - Issue 2, 2021(open access)

 (Source: Giappichelli Editore)

INDICE / CONTENTS

Editoriale / Editorial 7

Aperture / Overtures

STEFANO SOLIMANO

Ei fu... il codice (anche). La costruzione di un mito attraverso le immagini - p. 19

GIANLUCA RUSSO

L’Allegoria della Giustizia di Vasari. Una sceneggiatura del penale di Antico Regime - p. 43

Percorsi / Itineraries:

Forme di resistenza / Forms of Resistance

PATRICK ANTHONY CAVALIERE

Thomas Wolfe’s I Have a Thing to Tell You: Narrative Discourse, Metaphoric Transference and German National Socialism - p. 81

MARCO FIORAVANTI

Educare all’umanità, custodire la speranza. Resistenza, diritto e memoria nell’opera di Romain Gary - p. 129

MARIO RIBERI

Can Art ever Claim to Be Above Politics? Taking Sides and Collaboration by Ronald Harwood - p. 163 

FEDERICA VIOLI

‘Sketching’ Colonialism: the Portrayal of International Law in XIX and XX Century Propaganda Illustrations and Cartoons in Italy - p. 219

PAOLA PAROLARI

La resistenza delle “Altre” tra genere, religione, cultura e diritto. Pillole cinematografiche - p . 263

JULIANA NEUENSCHWANDER MAGALHÃES, PEDRO AMORIM

Bicho Brabo: a poética da resistência em Bacurau - p. 295

Dialoghi / Colloquia

Leonardo Sciascia e la storia del diritto. Conversazione con PAOLO SQUILLACIOTI - p. 335

Un cluster di ricerca sul racconto criminale. Conversazione con MANUELA BERTONE - p. 343

FOCUS – Balzac e il diritto. Discussione intorno a G. Guizzi, Il «caso Balzac». Storie di diritto e letteratura, Il Mulino 2020 353

- GIACOMO PACE GRAVINA

 La maledizione del giurista p. 353

- GIOVANNI CHIODI

 Balzac e i paradossi del diritto privato ottocentesco p. 357

 - FRANCESCO GAMBINO

 Le verità del credito tra diritto e letteratura p. 373

 

Abstracts 391

Autori / Contributors 401 

The latest issue is available open access in pdf format here.

NEW JOURNAL: "LawArt" - Rivista di Diritto, Arte, Storia / Journal of Law, Art and History - first issue, 2020 (open access)

 

(Source: Giappichelli)

ABOUT THE JOURNAL

‘LawArt. Rivista di Diritto, Arte, Storia / Journal of Law, Art and History’ is an editorial project that stems from legal history and aspires to interdisciplinary dialogue. This is something legal history has always been involved in given the open epistemological standpoint which, constitutively, characterizes this discipline. However, the areas in which this dialogue can be exercised change over time; currently, in view of the need for interaction with the other legal sciences, one of the most fruitful terrains, this is precisely the forum that this journal intends to establish. Published online open access, LawArt aims to encourage a discussion among scholars involved in the various aspects of the relationship between law, art and history. The aim is to capture the different ways in which art shapes, expresses and narrates both the abstract and historically contextualized legal dimensions. In addition to the convergence of law with literature in history, therefore, the fruitful intersections with the visual arts, cinema, music, theatre, new media and emerging forms of expression, will also be of interest to this journal. At the same time, LawArt also intends to cover legal issues related to both international and domestic regulation, trade and protection of artworks and cultural heritage.

The journal sets out to encompass all relevant legal frameworks concerning the historical and aesthetic dimension of artworks and their economic value, including, ownership, intellectual property, authenticity, free movement, and other issues of private and business law, as well as international, administrative and criminal law. Indeed, the main objective is to promote the study of the link between law, art and history, beyond disciplinary and national boundaries in order to open up the view on this topic. The annual issue of LawArt will be divided into three sections. The first, Overtures, is conceived as a miscellaneous section for exploring new facets of the law/art prism. The second section, Itineraries, is monographic and intends to propose pathways within thematic areas characterized by a relative homogeneity, in order to identify (formal, substantial, methodological) areas of convergence in the field of legal and art studies. The third section, Colloquia, is intended as a place of interaction, in which to publish studies on research trends and perspectives, bibliographic reviews, interviews, project presentations, including news and reports on scientific and cultural events.

ABOUT THE FIRST ISSUE

The issue we are now presenting in the miscellany section offers three essays that open up the study of the relationship between law and art from original perspectives: the development of engraving in 18th century Spain and its relationship with the imagination of power (Carlos Petit); law as literature, encompassing the “representation” of nature and the “construction” of an aesthetic of truth in 19th century French legal thought (Nader Hakim); judiciary stories, the jury, the problem of communication and the time taken to come to a court decision in the narrative of investigations, based on the movie 12 Angry Men by Sidney Lumet (Mario Barenghi).

The monographic section Itineraries, covered for this first issue by the journal’s editors, is dedicated to the theme of “Performative Practices”. The proposed itinerary, inspired by the line of studies on law and narration, revolves around the idea of reflecting on the discursive function that legal knowledge and artistic expression share. This alludes to the capacity of these products of knowledge – especially in their interweaving – not only to express a representation of society and of human vicissitudes, but also to put them in perspective.

The essays published here address different aspects. Three of them insist on the performative value of the cultural event in relation to the legal problem. Giovanni Chiodi’s essay reconstructs the perspective of meaning which, in the difficult 1920s and 1930s, up until after the Second World War, guided Arturo Toscanini’s decisions regarding what was performed at his concerts and the venues for staging them. This highlights the close relationship that, in his life experience, is established between artistic commitment and the struggle for human rights and freedom; moreover, the link between the artistic dimension and the constitutional structure of society, at the service of a strong conception of democracy, is stressed.

Elisabetta Fusar Poli’s essay also deals with the emergence of a problem of freedom, in this case the “freedom of art” in Italy between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This essay focuses, however, on a different performative space, that represented by the field of tension between case-law on the protection of public morality and artistic expression. Whereas Giacomo Pace Gravina shifts attention to the productiveness of the link between art history and legal history, reconstructing, with an efficacious integrated approach, the events surrounding the painting of the Triptych by Meyer Ross, conserved in the Cathedral of Sora, Italy, in which the jurist Vincenzo Simoncelli is portrayed.

The performativity of literary discourse in relation to the legal dimension is then discussed in the two methodological essays that close the section Itineraries. Massimo Meccarelli considers the value of literature as a source for legal history. His reading of two novels that narrate the impermanence of transition, provides a closer look at the attributive effect that the temporal condition produces on the contents of the legal system. This makes it possible, in particular, to rediscover some dynamics of the objectivation of law and their importance for a more comprehensive understanding of its historicity.

Cristiano Paixão, on the other hand, ponders the possible role of literature in legal education. In imagining the literature taught in the Schools of Law, the essay highlights how it can contribute to forging legal knowledge as critical knowledge by promoting a recovery of the authentic dimension of contemporary law beyond its formal crystallizations and identifying an index of the problems that challenge it.

Two contributions are included in the section Colloquia. A retrospective by André Karam Trindade on the importance of José Calvo Gonzales regarding the establishment of a literary culture of law in Brazil. Gonzales was the leading figure of the law and literature movement in Spain who died prematurely in recent months. The journal closes with a conversation with Alberto Sciumè on the results of a recent conference dedicated to Gabriele D’Annunzio in the unusual role of “legislator” and “constituent father”, involved in the drafting of the Carta del Carnaro; a significant, but perhaps still too little considered event in the constitutional history of the twentieth century.

These elements make up the first proposal for discussion on law, art and history, which LawArt offers to the attention of its readers. With this, we are undertaking an endeavour whose scope can already be intuited even at this early stage.

For the PDF version of the table of contents, see here; for the PDF version of the issue, see here.

CALL FOR PAPERS: International Days of the Society for Legal and Institutional History of Flanders, Picardy and Wallonia (Middelburg, 22-23 MAY 2020)

Société d'histoire du droit et des institutions des pays flamands, picards et wallons

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Les journées internationales d'histoire du droit et des institutions 2020 auront lieu à Middelbourg (Middelburg), les 22 et 23 mai 2020 et seront consacrées au thème de L’Art et le Droit.

 

(Source: Wikipedia)

L’Art et le Droit, un thème universel à travers les âges. Différentes approches peuvent être distinguées. Tout d’abord, le droit lui-même est un art : ars aequi et boni. Ainsi, les notions du droit peuvent ressembler à la poésie : `en fait de meubles, la possession vaut titre’, `we hold these truths to be self-evident’. De plus, l’art peut être une représentation du droit. Les effigies de la justice et des juges vertueux (Zaleucos, Cambyse, Brutus) ornent nos lieux publics. Troisièmement, le plus important, l’art lui-même est l’objet du droit, et bien loin d'être clair et précis. L’artiste, les objets d’art, les obligations concernant l’art sont tous l’objet d'intérêts individuels et communs, privés et publics, locaux et universels, des temps révolus et des temps futurs.

Il va de soi qu’il y a tant d’autres aspects, compte tenu des réalités de la vie quotidienne dans ce domaine. Notre thème couvre maints sujets, qui peuvent aborder de nombreuses perspectives. Tous candidats à faire une communication sont cordialement invités. L'art, par nature, nous concerne en effet tous.

Ce thème général n’exclut pas, par ailleurs, la possibilité de communiquer sur d’autres sujets d’histoire du droit, de la justice et des institutions.

Les interventions peuvent être faites en français, en anglais ou en néerlandais. Les orateurs sont priés d’envoyer un résumé à l’avance aux organisateurs (de préférence en français).

Les personnes désireuses de communiquer sont priées de faire parvenir leur proposition de communication avant le 20 avril 2020 à J.M. MILO et E.K.E. von BONE par courriel: j.m.milo@uu.nl, vonbone21@gmail.com).

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De internationale dagen 2020 van de Société d'histoire du droit et des institutions des pays flamands, picards et wallons zullen op 22 en 23 mei 2020 in Middelburg plaatsvinden.

Het thema is: “L’Art et le Droit” (“Kunst en Recht”).

Kunst en Recht – het is een tijdloos en universeel thema. Een grote verscheidenheid aan benaderingen zijn mogelijk, zoals de volgende. Recht op zichzelf is een kunst – ars aequi et boni. Welgekozen woorden kunnen een norm verdichten (zoals `we hold these truths to be self-evident’; or `en fait des meubles la possession vaut titre’). Ten tweede kan kunst het recht verbeelden. Zo zijn onze publieke plaatsen van bestuur en rechtspraak van oudsher met exemplarische deugden (en ondeugden) verlucht – Zaleukos, Cambyses en Brutus zijn slechts drie voorbeelden. Ten derde, en niet het minst belangrijk, kunst zelf is een object van recht. Kunstenaar, kunstwerken, verhoudingen en verbintenissen aangaande kunst vertonen zich steeds op ons schouwtoneel, in gecompliceerd en ragfijn spel tussen individuele en gemeenschappelijke, private en publieke belangen, locaal en universeel, in verleden en toekomende tijden.

Vanzelfsprekend is er veel en veel meer, in de klare lijn en het pointillisme van de werkelijke wereld. Ons thema laat zich vanuit meer perspectieven benaderen, die alle vrij zijn om als insteek voor een bijdrage te dienen. Van harte uitgenodigd. Kunst, van nature, raakt ons allen.

Dit hoofdthema sluit overigens lezingen over andere onderwerpen van rechtsgeschiedenis of van de geschiedenis der instellingen niet uit.

De lezingen kunnen in het Frans, het Engels of het Nederlands doorgaan. De sprekers worden verzocht vooraf een samenvatting aan de organisatoren te bezorgen (bij voorkeur in het Frans).

Kandidaat-sprekers kunnen hun voorgenomen onderwerp met titel vóór 20 april 2020 meedelen aan J.M. MILO en E.K.E von BONE (per e-mail: j.m.milo@uu.nl, vonbone21@gmail.com).

(source: Standen & Landen/Anciens Pays & Assemblées d'États)

BOOK: Robert CARVAIS and Cédric GLINEUR, (eds.), L’Etat en scènes. Théâtres, opéras, salles de spectacles du XVIe au XIXe siècle. Aspects historiques, politiques et juridiques (Amiens: CEPRISCA, 2018). ISBN 979-10-97323-02-8, €39.00

(Source: Hi-D)

Via Hi-D, we learned of the publication of a new book which includes several legal historical contributions on the link between theatre, opera and other public spectacles and the legitimation of public power between the 16^th-19^th century.

ABOUT THE BOOK

« Le pouvoir entretient une relation particulière avec le monde des spectacles. Souvent les princes se sont mis en scène au travers de protocoles minutieux. Parfois, ils ont eux-mêmes fait l’objet de spectacles dans lesquels les acteurs leur ont attribués des rôles taillés sur mesure allant du drame au burlesque.

Cependant, les spectacles ne se jouent pas seulement pour la Cour, dans les résidences royales ou impériales. Dès le XVIe siècle, les princes comprennent l’utilité politique des pièces de théâtre, qui peuvent servir à montrer leur puissance et à assurer leur propagande. Ils saisissent l’intérêt social de ces divertissements, appréciés et recherchés au sein des couches les plus aisées de la population. Autour de trois thèmes – la construction des salles, leur fonctionnement et leur programmation -, sont ici réunies vingt-neuf contributions répondant à une recherche européenne, comparatiste et interdisciplinaire destinée à confronter la vision des juristes, des historiens, des politistes et des sociologues » (Extrait de la présentation de la 4e de couverture).

 ABOUT THE EDITORS

Cédric GLINEUR est professeur d’histoire du droit à l’Université de Picardie Jules
Verne et dirige le Centre de droit privé et de sciences criminelles d’Amiens. Ses travaux
portent sur l’histoire administrative aux périodes moderne et contemporaine.
Robert CARVAIS est directeur de recherche CNRS, Centre de théorie et analyse du
droit, Université Paris Nanterre. Ses travaux portent sur la confrontation de l’histoire du
droit avec l’histoire des sciences, des arts et des techniques.

The ToC can be found here

(Source : Hi-D)