WORKSHOP: La codification européenne du droit des affaires. Perspectives historiques et contemporaines (Lille: Université de Lille, 5 FEB 2024)

 

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Lundi 5 février, 14h

Faculté des Sciences juridiques, politiques et sociales

1 place Déliot, Lille

 

 

 

Victor Simon, professeur à l’Université de Lille

Ouverture de la journée l’étude

 

 

Nicolas Cornu-Thénard, professeur à l’Université Paris Panthéon-Assas &

Nicolas Laurent-Bonne, Professeur à l’Université Paris-Est Créteil

Présentation de la revue Tribonien

 

 

Pauline Pailler, professeur à l’Université Paris Cité

Les conflits de qualification en droit européen des affaires

 

 

Alexis Mages, professeur à l’Université de Bourgogne

Retour sur le(s) discours de la méthode… Idéalisme (F. Cosentini) Vs réalisme (R. Demogue)

 

 

Cristina Ciancio, professeur associé à l’Università degli studi del Sannio

La codification commerciale dans le Royaume d'Italie : entre modèles européens et solutions originales

 

 

Frank Schäfer, professeur à l’Albert-Ludwigs-Universität

Uniform Code Instead of Divided Codes: Lessons for the Relationship of the Law of Obligations and Commercial Law

 

 

Anna Klimaszewska, professeur assistant à l’Uniwersytet Gdanski et professeur invité à l’Universitetet i Oslo

Que peuvent apprendre les créateurs du Projet de Code européen des affaires de plus de 200 ans d'adoption de lois commerciales en Pologne ?

More information: see poster.

BOOK: Andreas TELEVANTOS, Capitalism Before Corporations - The morality of business associations and the roots of commercial equity and law (Oxford: OUP, 2021). ISBN 9780198870340, 99.00 USD

 

(Source: OUP)

OUP is publishing e new book on early capitalism and the genesis of unincorporated trading entities.

ABOUT THE BOOK

To what extent did English law facilitate trade before the advent of general incorporation and modern securities law? This is the question at the heart of Capitalism before Corporations. It examines the extent to which legal institutions of the Regency period, especially Lord Eldon's Chancellorship, were sympathetic to the needs of merchants and willing to accommodate their changing practices and demands within established legal doctrinal frameworks and contemporary political economic thought. In so doing, this book probes at the heart of modern debates about equity, trusts, insolvency, and the justifiability of corporate privileges.

Corporations are an integral part of modern life. We bank with corporations, we usually buy our groceries from them, and they provide us with most news and media. We take it for granted too that most large-scale business, and even much small-scale business, is carried out by corporations. Things were not always so. Televantos considers the Bubble Act of 1720, which criminalised the forming of corporations without a Royal Charter or Act of Parliament, its repeal in 1825, and the subsequent impact. Much of the modernisation of Britain's industry therefore took place before general incorporation was allowed. Unaided by statute, traders had to create business organisations using the basic building blocks of private law: trusts, partnership, and agency.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Andreas Televantos is an Associate Professor at the University of Oxford Law Faculty, and the Hanbury Fellow and Tutor in Law at Lincoln College. His research focusses on trusts, fiduciaries, equitable remedies, and legal history.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

Part I: Regency era business structures

1. Partnership as organisational law

2. The use of trusts in business structures

Part II: Binding business assets

3. Ostensible authority and the ordinary course of business

4. Judicial resistance to merchant demands, factors and paternalism in the King's Bench

5. The authority of trustees and executors

Part III: Business failure, risk, and insolvency distribution

6. Trusts and the risk of bankruptcy

7. Partnership dissolution and bankruptcy

Conclusion

Appendix

Glossary

 

More info here

NEWS: International Research Network PHEDRA

(Source: PHEDRA)

 

We learned of the establishment of the research network PHEDRA, under the leadership of Professor Luisa Brunori.

Led by Luisa Brunori of the Centre d’Histoire Judiciaire (Lille), the project involves eight teams based in France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Morocco, Spain and the United Kingdom and individual researchers based also in Finland, Belgium and Turkey.

The IRN PHEDRA project aims at developing a concerted approach to European research on the history of business law, from antiquity to the present day, apprehended in its « European ecosystem ». This theme remains little explored by historiography, which nevertheless underlines the extent to which commercial norms and practices constitute a fundamental element in the study of issues related to the historical transformation of our societies.

To meet these objectives, the project – going beyond the traditional national approaches – mobilises several European teams around a collective reflection aiming at identifying the European characteristics of the evolution of business law, through a pooling of knowledge, expertise and sources.

The project relies on solid previous collaborations that highlighted the specific need for collective inter-team scientific work and identified the most appropriate collaborative instruments for this purpose.

The choice of partners follows a logic of strong complementarity: each team is a specialist in the history of business law in its own country, and at the same time each has its own specificities which make them indispensable to the project.

The organization of the network PHEDRA will allow for a collective work on sources and scientific discussions through face-to-face meetings.  The mobility of teams is therefore at the heart of the proposed new methodology. For these reasons, regular working meetings are planned, as well as annual methodological and practical workshops, regular thematic seminars, a thematic school, one-day study sessions, and international conferences.

 

More info on the website of the project