CONFERENCE: L’industrie des assurances terrestres, un secteur nouveau confronté à des réticences XVIIIe-XXe siècle (Paris: Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (salle 6), 10 DEC 2025)

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10h00 Accueil des participants
10h15 Jonas Knetsch, professeur des universités, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, directeur de l’Institut des Assurances de Paris, Allocution d’ouverture 

I. La difficile implantation d’une industrie innovante au début du XIXe siècle
Sous la présidence de Marta Peguera-Poch, Professeur des universités, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne 
10h30-11h00 Charlotte Broussy, maître de conférences en Histoire du droit, l’Université de Montpellier, Les compagnies royales d’assurance de 1786 et 1787 : l’émergence ratée de l’assurance terrestre en France à la fin de l’Ancien Régime
11h00-11h30 Alix Profit, maître de conférences en Histoire du droit à l’Université de Caen, Les difficultés de la compagnie d’assurance mutuelle contre l’Incendie de Seine-Inférieure et de l’Eure face aux compagnies à prime fixe (XIX^e siècle)
11h30-12h00 Annamaria Monti, professeur d’Histoire du droit, Università degli Studi di Milano, L’industrie des assurances en Italie au XIX^e siècle 
12h00-12h30 Discussions
12h30-14h30 Pause méridienne

II. Une industrie en plein développement face à des réticences subsistantes
Sous la présidence de Raymond Dartevelle, Président du Conseil scientifique de la Chaire « Assurance et Société »
14h30-15h00 Marc Thérage, professeur d’Histoire du droit, Université de Limoges, L'essor du droit pénal des assurances terrestres devant la cour d'appel du Nord : disparition ou intensification des réticences face aux assurances ? (XIX^e-XX^e siècle)
15h00-15h30 Victor Le Breton-Blon, docteur en Histoire du droit, Université Paris Nanterre, Compter, mesurer, évaluer. Le développement de la rationalisation assurantielle contre l’incendie (fin XIX^e siècle)
15h30-16h00 Nelly Hissung-Convert, maître de conférences en Histoire du droit, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, La promotion de l’assurance face aux réticences, l’exemple de L’Argus, Journal international des assurances, depuis 1877
16h00-16h30 Discussions 

Practicalities:

Salle 6, université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (2^ème étage, aile Soufflot, 12 place du Panthéon, 75005 Paris)

 

CONFERENCE: The internationalisation of transport law since the Second Industrial Revolution (Regensburg: Universität Regensburg, 8-9 MAY 2025)

 

The period of high industrialisation in the second half of the 19th century marked the beginning of a new era of transnational circulation of goods on the European continent. The means of transport were initially inland waterway vessels and railways, and later in- creasingly lorries. This internationalisation of the transport sector requires a legal frame- work with regard to the goods being transported, the means of transport and the people carrying out these transports. One source of law here can be standardised contractual agreements, with the help of which the players create their own suitable law. On the other hand, there are international agreements in the area of transport law. Examples include the Convention relative aux transports internationaux ferroviaires (COTIF, 1890) or the Convention relative au contrat de transport international de marchandises par route (CMR, 1956) as almost complete codifications of international transport law, which largely super-sede national law and at the same time internationalise it. Added to this is the establishment of arbitration courts, which are taking the place of ordinary national jurisdiction. This created new areas of action; the national European legal systems experienced a "mobility turn", so to speak, which continues to characterise the law today.

The internationalisation of transport law since high industrialisation will be the subject of a conference to be held in Regensburg in spring 2025. 

Organisational matters:

Prof. Dr. Martin Löhnig, Regensburg
Conference venue: Institut für Ostrecht
Landshuter Str. 4, D-93047 Regensburg
Registration: rechtskultur@ur.de

Conference program:

8 May 2025, 09.00

Martin Löhnig - Introduction

Edmund Flood - The Association of German Railway Administrations1847-1914

David Deroussin - Convention concerning International Carriage by Rail (1890)

Mátyás Szabó - The official activities und function of the European Commission of the Danube (1856-1917) as role model

Andreas Maurer - Privatization in maritime law

8 May 2025, 14.00

Andrea Massironi - Italian Jurists Facing the Internationalisation of Air Law: The First International Juridical Congress for the Regulation of Air Locomotion

Kamila Staudigl - Warsaw Convention of 1929

Paolo Rondini - Protection of public health in international transport. The first International Sanitary Conventions on rail, maritime and air transport

Hiram Kümper - Transnational Interest Groups and the Development of European Transport Law: 'Rheinkammerunion' and 'UECC'

9 May 2025, 09.00

Anna Moszynska - Convention on the Contract for the International Carriage of Goods by Road (1956)

Zsolt Bujtár - The CEE and Asian railway alternative - the Agreement on International Railway Freight Communications (SMGS)

Christian Franke - The End of the Internationalisation of Transport Law: A Turning Tide of Supranational Law in the 1980s/90s?

Andreas Maurer - Multimodal transport under German law - some problems 

Martin Löhnig - Closing remarks

BOOK: Valerio TORREGIANI, Stato e culture corporative nel Regno Unito. Progetti per una rappresentanza degli interessi economici nella riflessione inglese della prima metà del XX secolo (Milano: Giuffrè, 2018). ISBN: 9788814225994, pp. 300, € 28,00

 

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ABOUT THE BOOK

Il volume offre una ricostruzione dello sviluppo e della diffusione di culture politico-giuridiche corporative nel Regno Unito durante la prima metà del XX secolo. A partire dalla fine del XIX secolo, l'emergere delle strutture associative collettive tipiche della modernità industriale - partiti, sindacati operai, federazioni industriali, etc. - inizia a mettere in crisi il modello individualista di convivenza politica, economica e sociale, provocando un ricco dibattito teorico sul tema della rappresentanza degli interessi economici. La ricerca analizza il percorso di elaborazione di proposte di riforma istituzionale di tipo corporativo nel contesto politico-culturale inglese, interpretate come parte integrante di quella policentrica famiglia di somiglianze corporative che, dichiarandosi alternativa alle ideologie liberale e socialista, caratterizzò molti contesti nazionali durante la prima metà del XX secolo.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Valerio Torreggiani is research fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon. His main research interests include: (a) the trans-national diffusion of corporatist ideas, analysed under an interdisciplinary political, economic, juridical and cultural perspective; (b) the history of trade unions and employers' federations in the 19th and 20th centuries; (c) the history of contemporary financial systems; and (d) the history of international organizations, specifically the International Labour Organization. He is a member of NETCOR (Network for the Analysis of Corporatism and Organized Interests), ESHET (European Society for the History of Economic Thought), HION (History of International Organization Network), COMFAS (International Association for Comparative Fascist Studies), SISSCO (Società Italiana per lo Studio della Storia Contemporanea), SISLav (Società Italiana di Storia del Lavoro) and LISE (Laboratorio Italiano di Storia Economica).

TABLE OF CONTENTS

It can be downloaded in PDF version, here.

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