CALL FOR PAPERS: French law versus Common law au XIXe siècle. La naissance d’une concurrence entre modèles juridiques (Rennes/Paris, 4 April 2018 and 9 October 2018)

The Université de Rennes and Université Paris Descartes have the following call for papers:

(Source: Université Paris Descartes) 

Cycle de deux journées d’étude organisé par l’Institut d’Histoire du Droit (EA 2515) de l’Université Paris Descartes et l’IODE – Institut de l’Ouest : Droit et Europe (UMR CNRS 6262) de l’Université de Rennes 1

Acte I : Université de Rennes 1, 4 avril 2018

Acte II : Université Paris Descartes, 9 octobre 2018

À l’origine d’une comparaison, d’une concurrence, d’un jeu de miroirs.

Depuis une trentaine d’années, de nombreux juristes français s’émeuvent devant l’expansion des systèmes de common law. Ils constatent que celui-ci est à la mode dans les grands cabinets d’avocats, dans les think tank économiques et commerciaux ou dans certaines institutions internationales. Ils observent, par contraste, que le modèle de civil law est souvent maltraité par les économistes et les universitaires anglo-américains. Ils craignent que la diversité juridique ne plie devant l’impérialisme du common law et que de vastes espaces de tradition civiliste ne basculent irrémédiablement du côté non codifié du droit.

Historiquement – cela est bien connu –, ces deux systèmes juridiques ont suivi des voies distinctes et ont adopté, chemin faisant, des doctrines et des pratiques qui les ont rendu progressivement étrangers l’un à l’autre. Etrangers ? Le terme doit être nuancé si l’on considère la mixité juridique à Québec, en Louisiane, à Sainte-Lucie ou à Maurice. Il n’en reste pas moins qu’au XIXe siècle, la doctrine de part et d’autre de la Manche traite des deux systèmes juridiques comme de « modèles concurrents », d’« opposite systems » ou de « rival systems », en exacerbant les particularismes respectifs.

Ce cycle de journées d’étude vise à examiner ce processus :

1. Faire connaître les œuvres doctrinales et les discours politiques qui ont participé à la concurrence entre modèles juridiques / Examiner les domaines dans lesquels les juristes promeuvent les qualités de l’un et l’autre modèles.

2. Observer comment la comparaison, l’admiration ou le rejet réciproque ont accusé les spécificités entre les systèmes. Ces systèmes étaient certes différents à l’origine, mais en quoi la prise de conscience de cette différence et le travail de comparaison ont-ils accentué, voire créé des opposite systems ?

3. Constater l’écho de ces débats aux XXe et XXIe siècles dans l’actualité du droit comparé, dans l’activité des cabinets d’avocats et des institutions internationales.

Nous invitons à faire parvenir des propositions de communication (300 mots maximum), en français ou en anglais, aux organisateurs du colloque, pour l’une ou l’autre des dates suivantes :

– Première journée d’étude, Rennes 1, mercredi 4 avril 2018 : « French Law v. Common Law au XIXe siècle. Acte I ».

– Deuxième journée d’étude, Paris V – Descartes, mardi 9 octobre 2018 : « French Law v. Common Law au XIXe siècle. Acte II ».

La participation et l’inscription aux journées d’étude sont gratuites. Les organisateurs financent l’hôtel et les repas des conférenciers, mais ne peuvent pas financer les déplacements du Canada, d’Australie, du Royaume-Uni, des États-Unis vers la France.

Contacts des organisateurs :

M. Gwenaël Guyon : gwenael.guyon@parisdescartes.fr

Pr Sylvain Soleil : sylvain.soleil@univ-rennes1.fr

Pr Arnaud Vergne : arnaud.vergne@parisdescartes.fr

Comité scientifique:

Pr David Gilles (Sherbrooke University – Law School)

Pr Eric Descheemaker (University of Melbourne – Melbourne Law School)

Pr Peter Johnstone (University of North Texas – Denton)

Pr Michael Lobban (London School of Economics and Political Sciences)

Pr Sylvain Soleil (Université Rennes 1)

M. Gwenaël Guyon (Université Paris V – Descartes)

Pr Arnaud Vergne (Université Paris V – Descartes)

More information can be found on the website of the Université Paris Descartes 

CONFERENCE REPORT: International Law and the Long Nineteenth Century (University of Leuven, November 24-25, 2016) by Ana Delić, Tilburg University

(Image source: F. Dhondt)

Leading scholars as well as junior researchers met in the historic faculty of Leuven University to discuss international law in the long nineteenth century. The event began with a warm welcome by the university’s dean, Prof. Bernard Tilleman who revealed a most interesting anecdote for the international legal historians assembled: the Peace of Versailles had obliged Germany to restore the library of the university. This was followed by warm welcome addresses by Prof. Randall Lesaffer and Dr. Inge van Hulle, the organizers of this well-orchestrated event.

Day One

Panel One: The Eighteenth-Century Fall-Out of Nineteenth-Century International Law (Chair: Randall Lesaffer)

Member of the International Court of Justice, James Crawford considered the basis on which France participated in the Congress of Vienna, the status of Napoleon during the Hundred Days and the legal basis for French responsibility for war damages resulting from the Hundred Days. Crawford eloquently argued that the Bourbon dynasty was legitimized by the prevailing monarchic theory of sovereign power. On the other hand, the status of Napoleon during the Hundred Days was less clear. Certainly, he was not a head of state and as such the basis of reparation for damages incurred by France during this period was discussed on the basis of the theory of responsibility.

Camilla Boisen argued that Edmund Burke bridged the two concerns of international law: authority and enforcement. It was Burke who provided the conceptual scope needed to resolve the issues of enforcement by prescribing specific common law foundations, binding the legal and the moral in international law and presenting it as domestic law.

Inge van Hulle explored a case-study: the legal connections and regimes that developed between British imperial agents and indigenous African communities living in West Africa in the period prior to the Scramble. Anglo-African international relations initially developed on the basis of mutuality and relative equality between parties, but simultaneously, there were imperial legal techniques as well(e.g. extraterritorial jurisdiction, anti-slave trade treaties, the extension of protection to African communities).

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Panel Two: Neutrality (Chair: Inge Van Hulle)
Frederik Dhondt’s discussed how Belgium’s compulsory neutrality  of the 1810 to the 1830s was just one out of multiple tools to guarantee ‘le repos de tous’ and in reality was mostly superficial. Belgium’s compulsory neutrality arose out of a particular socio-historical context –the expansionist and revisionary stance of Napoleon III- and resulted in an interesting reception, including  the view of it as an economic advantage, a legitimation of colonialism, and foremost as a threatened status.

Shavana Musa examined the law of neutrality focusing on the conflicts during the Latin American Wars of Independence. The role of neutrality was discussed as the means of enhancing imperial and commercial power, as a peace-making tool and as a body of law that provided individual (justiciable) rights within the international sphere.

Viktorija Jakimovska’s discussed how throughout the Greek War of Independence, Great Britain generally avoided being dragged into a war but it eventually wished to influence the outcome of the conflict. From 1826-1827, Britain failed to adhere to the essentialia neutralitatis notwithstanding the fact that it never officially renounced the neutrality of its conduct.

Panel Three: Historiography of International Law (Chair: Frederik Dhondt)
 Miloš Vec’s pinpointed key historiographic trends of the nineteenth-century including sources of international law, the conception of the public law of Europe, the so-called shift to a so-called global international law, the regulation of warfare and new technologies around 1900, and state practice.

Jan Lemnitzer examined how the 1850s was a crucial decade in transforming the system of the European law of nations into a universal system of international law. The proliferation of multilateral law-making treaties with the Declaration of Paris in 1856, the growth of international trade, and the rise of independent Latin American states resulted in further contacts between European and non-European states. However, the rise of exclusion in international law was exemplified by the spread of detailed rules for ‘civilized war.’

Day Two

Panel One:  Professionalization and International Law (Chair: Gabriela Frei)

 Stephen Neff discussed how the Darwinian revolution gave rise to American anthropologist Lewis Henry Morgan’s three-fold categorisation of human societies as savage, barbarous and civilised. This found a reflection in the international-law writing of James Lorimer buttressed by imperialistic policies of the European states and, generally, a hierarchical outlook on the part of international lawyers. Evolutionary thought also influenced a revival of natural-law modes of thought as the only acceptable normative regulation of relations between civilised and savage states. In stark opposition to the evolutionary scheme was diffusionism exemplified by Herbert Spencer’s theory of a general progression from militaristic to industrial modes of life. Diffusionism did not gain much traction with nineteenth century international lawyers.

Vincent Genin analysed how the Institut de Droit International (founded in 1873) represents the first major step in the institutionalization of the discipline. The speaker  discussed how in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, the IDI juggled between its self-affirmed role as the ‘public conscience of the civilized world’ versus historic tides of nationalism, the multiplication of conflicts and colonial rivalries.

Ana Delić discussed the formative interactions between comparative law and private international law during the modern period. Comparative law was instrumental to modern private international law in the civil law and common law traditions in three ways: 1) scholars studied private international legal approaches comparatively; 2) the comparative approach was a key aspect of preliminary materials aiding in private international law-making; and 3) courts relied on a comparative study of conflicting rules in order to assess which is the applicable law or jurisdiction.

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Panel Two: Empire and the Periphery in the Nineteenth Century (Chair: Camilla Boisen)
Andrew Fitzmaurice explored the standing of non-European nations in the work of the nineteenth century jurist Sir Travers Twiss. Archival materials were presented which painted a colourful picture of Twiss’ personal life, including his marriage to a prostitute. This union eventually destroyed his career. In terms of Twiss’ legacy to international legal history, he had advocated the view that non-European states (including China, Japan, the Ottoman Empire, Egypt, and the ‘African Slave-states’) were equals with European powers in the law of nations. His view sprung not from humanitarian concerns but from a concern for the duties (and not rights) of these nations.

Stefan Kroll discussed the Shanghai International Settlement (1863-1943), a zone within the area of Shanghai which was detracted from the authority of Chinese rule, and which was controlled by the self-government of foreign merchants (the Municipal Council). While the mixed court was expected to apply Chinese norms, in reality, foreign norms and judicial practices were being introduced. The Su bao-case (1903) illustrates the mixing of legal systems within the merchant court. This case concerned political radicalism against the Chinese government.

Luigi Nuzzo presented an Italian history of international law, focusing on Pasquale Stanislao Mancini and his pragmatic approach to international law. Mancini’s imprint on international law is exemplified by his insistence on the principle of nationality but his legacy has not been given its proper due. Analysing forensic memories, legislative deeds, parliamentary speeches, editorial projects rather than doctrinal works provides further food for thought with regards to his contribution.

Panel Three: Individuals and International Law (Chair: Andrew Fitzmaurice)
Gabriela Frei examined the biography of Sir William Jones, a judge at his Majesty’s supreme court of judicature at Fort William, the citadel of Calcutta in Bengal, and a well-known orientalist of the eighteenth century. Jones also wrote the first English translation of Hindu and Muslim laws, and thus made those texts available to the Western world. He believed that only local laws would allow a basis for a fair and just legal system. The paper also discussed the multiple legal systems co-existing at this period in Bengal, which developed legal standards for the commercial enterprise of the East India Company.

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Raphael Cahen retraced the beginning of the Mahmoud Ben Ayed case (1855-1858) through an examination of documents from the archives of Joseph Marie Portalis, a famous judge and diplomat, who had been charged to administer the case. This case involved the extradition of Mahmoud Ben Ayad from France back to Tunisia. Ben Ayad, a famous Caïd and minister of commerce, was charged with embezzlement of state funds.

Raymond Kubben analyzed the conception of statehood within international legal textbooks of the long nineteenth century. The definition of the state in the early period were varied and typically reverted to abstract Roman law or philosophical concepts such as civitas or communitas perfecta. Over the course of the nineteenth century, textbooks would specify the legal concept, slowly forming definitions akin to the one in the 1933 Montevideo Convention.

4th BIENNAL ESCLH CONFERENCE: "Culture, Identity and Legal Instrumentalism" (Gdańsk, 28 Jun-1 Jul 2016); FINAL PROGRAMME

 

The organizing committee of the 4th ESCLH Biennal Conference "Culture, Identity and Legal Instrumentalism" (Gdańsk) has announced the programme of the event. For a PDF version, click here.

Day One: 28 June 2016

9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.            Summer School at the Faculty of Law and Administration

4:00 p.m.                                registration of participants in European Center of Solidarity

5:30 p.m.                               meeting with refreshments in the European Center of Solidarity

Day Two 29 June 2016

Artus Court and Main Hall in Old Town of Gdańsk  

8:00 a.m.                              registration of participants in Artus Court

9:00 a.m. – 9:40 a.m.        official opening of conference

9:40 a.m. – 10:40 a.m.      Plenary Session I

Constitutional Instrumentalisation of Old Rights

American Constitutionalism as Common Law Litigation and Polish Republicanism as National Legitimacy

Chair

Prof. Luigi Lacché

Rector of University of Macerata

Keynote Speaker

Prof. Ulrike Müßig 

University of Passau 

Principal Investigator of ERC Advanced Grant 
in European Constitutional History

Commentator 

Prof. Dirk Heirbaut 

Ghent University 

President of the Scientific Committee for Legal History of the 
Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Arts and Science

10:40 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.   coffee break

11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.   Panel Session I  

(all panel sessions: 20 min for each paper & 10 min discussions following each paper)

Panel 1.1

Legal History, the Interdisciplinary Challenge: a Discussion on Rights in Time of Crises

Prof. Massimo Meccarelli

University of Macerata

In the Realm of Legal History

Prof. Paulo Palchetti

University of Macerata

In the Realm of International Law

Prof. Flavia Stara

University of Macerata

In the Realm of Philosophy of Education

Panel 1.2

The Legal Transplant and the Building of National Legal Identities In Central Eastern Europe

Prof. Manuel Gutan

Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu

The Legal Transplant and the Building of  the Romanian Legal Identity  in 19th Century

Dr Martin Belov

University of Sofia "St. Kliment Ohridski"

The Idea of “Europe” as a Factor in the Building of the Bulgarian Legal Identity

Dr Michał Gałędek                           Dr Piotr Pomianowski

University of Gdańsk                       University of Warsaw

The National Codification or the French Law?

Discussion on the Reform of Civil Law at the Beginnings of Kingdom of Poland (1814 – 1815)

Panel 1.3.

New Vehicles and Transport Infrastructure

International Influences and Instrumentalism in Nordic Law, 1890-1940

Mr Jussi Sallila

University of Helsinki

At the Meeting Point of International Trade and the National Legal System

The Making of the Finnish Legislation on Bonded Warehouses

Prof. Mia Korpiola

University of Turku

Constructing the Automobile Law of a New Nation

International Influences on Finnish Automobile Regulation, 1917-1939

Mr Markus Kari

University of Helsinki

The Instrumentalism of the Early Nordic Aviation Law (1919-1939)

12:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.     lunch

1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.        Panel Session II

Panel 2.1

Law, Totalitarianism and the Modern World

convenors

Dr Stephen Skinner                         Dr Cosmin Sebastian Cercel

University of Exeter                         University of Nottingham

Dr Stephen Skinner

University of Exeter

Law, Security and Inciting Disloyalty to the State in Interwar Italy and Britain

Dr Cosmin Sebastian Cercel

University of Nottingham

Mapping Dictatorship: Marshal Antonescu’s Dual State and the Law

Prof. David Fraser

University of Nottingham

Criminal Law in Auschwitz: Positivism, Natural Law, and SS Legal Normativity

Dr Simon Lavis

Open University

Interrogating Law’s Instrumentalization

Problematizing Notions of Ideology, Exceptionality and Rupture in the Third Reich

Panel 2.2

Vectors of Legal Cultures and Identities?

Legal Periodicals in Belgium, Estonia and France

Dr Sebastiaan Vandenbogaerde

Ghent University

Vectors of a National Legal Culture and Identity?

Belgium's Legal Periodicals during the Long Nineteenth Century (1830-1914)

Prof. Florence Renucci                    Ing. Isabelle Thiebau

University of Lille

Vectors of Empires? Legal Periodicals in French Colonies (1830-1914)

Dr Merike Ristikivi

University of Tartu

Vectors of Legal Culture? The Collapse of the Soviet Union in Estonian Law Journals

Ms Pascaline le Polain                     Prof. Nathalie Tousignant

University Saint-Louis in Brussels            

Vector of the Doctrinal Construction of Customary Low in Belgian Congo during the 1930s?

Bulletin des juridictions indigènes et du droit coutumier congolais

Panel 2.3

Thinking about Ourselves: Legal Historiography and Identity

Prof. Luigi Lacché

University of Macerata

A new way to understand the nineteenth-century Italian legal culture

the Eclectic Canon between national identity and comparative history

Prof. Ricardo Sontag

Federal University of Minas Gerais

Influences, transplants and similar concepts or questions for the writing of Brazilian legal history

Dr Agustin Parise

University of Maastricht

Comparative Legal History

An Autonomous Discipline that Helps to Evaluate the Instrumentality of Law

Dr Jacek Srokosz

Opole University

Could a Community’s Identity be Shaped Through Law?

3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.        coffee break

4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.        Panel Session III 

Panel 3.1

Frontiers of Knowledge in Early and Medieval Law

Dr Valerio Massimo Minale

Bocconi University in Milano

Rome's Eastern Frontier and Trade Law in Late Antiquity: Regulating the Market of Silk

Justice Jeroen M. J. Chorus

Amsterdam Court of Appeal

The role of possession under the Libri feudorum

Ms Anna Clara Lehmann Martins

Federal University of Santa Catarina

Uses of Augustine’s writings by Hincmar of Rheims

Shaping the legal identity of the Carolingian king through transplantation

Panel 3.2

Law, Gender and Local Legal Family

Prof. Sanita Osipova

University of Latvia

"The Political Platform of the Latvian People’s Council” of 17 November 1918 of the Republic of Latvia People’s Council as the founder of gender equality tradition in Latvia

within the discourse of European ideas on gender equality

Assoc. Prof. Gwen Hoerr Jordan

University of Illinois

"A Woman of Strange, Unfathomable Presence”

Ida Platt’s Lived Experience of Race, Gender, and Law, 1863-1939

Dr Zhu Ming-zhe

China University of Political Science and Law

In the Name of the Republic: Theories and Practices of Family Reform in the “Republican Moments"

Panel 3.3

Self-conception and Reform in the Early 20th Century

Prof. Marju Luts-Sootak                             Dr Hesii Siimets-Gross

University of Tartu

Legal Act as an Instrument for the Unification of a Nation from Inside

Discussions about Estonian Civil Code 1936/40 from a Comparative Perspective

Dr Ewa Kozerska                                         Dr Tomasz Scheffler

Opole University                                          University of Wrocław

From the Second to the Third Republic of Poland

Breakthroughs in the Political and Legal System as a Relevant Question in the Discussion on the Nature of Law

Ms Veronica Corcodel

Sciences Po Toulouse

Revisiting Legal Instrumentalism

Modern Law and Otherness in Pre-War Twentieth-Century Comparative Legal Thinking

5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.        Debate

8:00 p.m.                             Dinner

Day Three 30 June 2016

Pomeranian Park of Science and Technology in Gdynia

8:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.        buses departures from Gdańsk

9:00 a.m. – 9:40 a.m.        General Assembly of ESCLH members

9:40 a.m. – 10:40   a.m.   Plenary Session I

Pragmatism in law as a trap

Premodern divided ownership in modern legal history of Estonia

Chair

Professor of Legal History Jan Hallebeek

VU University Amsterdam

Keynote Speaker 

Professor of Legal History Marju Luts-Sootak 

University of Tartu

Commentator

Professor of Comparative Legal History Heikki Pihlajamäki

University of Helsinki

10:40 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.   coffee break

11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.   Panel Session IV

(all panel sessions: 20 min for each paper & 10 min discussions following each paper)

Panel 4.1

Identity within and across legal systems

Dr Matthew Dyson

University of Cambridge

Proceed and feedback: legal procedure and legal development

Dr Albert Ruda

University of Girona

The change of course concerning legal causation under Spanish law.

Rise and demise of a legal transplant?

Mr Miloš Vukotić

University of Belgrad

Punishment in the Law of Tort

Panel 4.2

Private Law Movements from Rome to Today

Prof. Barbara Biscotti

University of Milano-Bicocca

Humanity as Core Issue of Law Post - Postmodern Methodologies in  Roman Law

Dr Aleksander Grebieniow

University of Fribourg

Unfair Advantage - An Intriguing Example of Legal Transformation in the Swiss Private Law

Dr Łukasz Jan Korporowicz

University of Łódź, Poland

Influence of the Roman Law in the House of Lords Judgments Regarding Delictual (Tortious) Liability

Panel 4.3

Commerce and Craft

Prof. Steven Robert Wilf

University of Connecticut

Reluctant Legal Transplant: Moral Rights and Dignitas in an Age of Artistic Transformation

Dr Ana Santos Rutschman

Duke University

Translating Intellectual Property into the Digital Environment: Law and Cultural Production in Europe and the United States

Mr Sebastian Krafzik                     

University of Leuven

The historical development of banking regulation in the West European legal tradition (ca. 1800 – 1950)

12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.     lunch

1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.        Panel Session V

Panel 5.1

Codification as Nationalization or Denationalization of Law (I): Europe and America

Chair

Prof. Aniceto Masferrer

University of Valencia

Dr Isabel Ramos Vázquez

University of Jaén

Legal instrumentalism in the 19th century prison reform (Unites States & Europe)

Prof. Diego Nunes

Federal University of Uberlândia

The “Code Pénal” in the itinerary of the Criminal Codification in Latin America

“Influence” and circularity of models

Dr Gabriela Cobo del Rosal

University Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid

The influence of the French juridical thought in the development of the concepts of fraud and fault in the Spanish Criminal code process

Prof. Juan B. Cañizares-Navarro

CEU Cardenal Herrera University in Valencia

The infamous penalties in the Spanish Criminal Codes of the 19th century

 National and/or Foreign Content?

Panel 5.2

Commercial Law in Europe: Of Glaciers, Codes, Merchants and Consumers

Chair:

Prof. Dave De ruysscher

Free University of Brussels

Dr Sean Thomas

Durham University

English Commercial Law: Chasing Shadows

Dr Johannes Flume

Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen

German Commercial Law: Rise and Fall

Dr Anna Klimaszewska

University of Gdańsk

Code de commerce as an instrument of transformation of the Polish economic reality in the 19th century

Dr Janwillem (Pim) Oosterhuis

Maastricht University

Dutch Commercial Law: From Commercial Sale to Consumer Sale?

Panel 5.3

Strategies, Policies and Ideologies in the Field of Public Law

Prof. Harry Willekens

University of Hildesheim & University of Hannover

How to make the law fit for capitalism?

Comparing English and Continental legal strategies

Prof. Marek Maciejewski

University of Wrocław

The leader, the nation and race: Ideological premises of the Nazi concept of law

Dr Ivan Kosnica

University of Zagreb

Local citizenship on Croatian-Slavonian legal area in the first Yugoslavia (1918-1941): breakdown of a concept?

Dr Thomas Mohr

University College Dublin

The Privy Council Appeal and British Imperial Policy, 1833-1939

3:30 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.        coffee break

3:45 p.m. – 5:45 p.m.        Panel Session VI

Panel 6.1

Codification as Nationalization or Denationalization of Law

Europe (France, Belgium, Italy and Spain)

Prof. Aniceto Masferrer

University of Valencia

Codification as Nationalization or Denationalization of Law

 A Critical and Comparative Approach to the Spanish Case

Prof. Dirk Heirbaut

Ghent University

Codification as Nationalization or Denationalization: The Belgian Case

Prof. Yves Cartuyvels

University Saint-Louis in Brussels

The Belgian criminal Code of 1867: a national process under international influence 

Dr Stefano Vinci

University of Bari Aldo Moro

The Italian criminal code of 1889: Originality and influences from the transalpine models

Panel 6.2

Marriage in Different Cultures

Assoc. Prof. Mišo Dokmanović

Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje

Law as an Instrument of Social Change: the Transformation of Marriage in Post-World War II Macedonia (1945 – 1953)

Assoc. Prof. Zsuzsanna Peres

National University of Public Service in Budapest

The Marriage Property Rights of the Hungarian Noble Women in Comparative Context

Mr Omer Aloni

Tel Aviv University

Bigamy, Polygamy and Legal Orientalism in Comparative Study of Early Israeli Law

Ms Louisa Stella de Oliveira Coutinho Silva

University of Lisbon

Marring in the Colonial Brazil: White, Black and Indian Cultures and the Formation of the Brazilian Identity

Panel 6.3

The Flow of Legal Doctrine in Time and Space

Prof. Arno Dal Ri Jr.

Federal University of Santa Catarina

Mancini in South America

The Principle of Nationality on the testing bench of Argentinian and Brazilian legal doctrines

Prof. Assaf Likhovsky

Tel Aviv University

An Elusive Legacy: Polish Lawyers and Israeli Law

Prof. Jerzy Kolarzowski

University of Natural Sciences & Humanistics in Siedlce

Idea of tolerances in 17th Europe

Ms Katharina Isabel Schmidt

Yale Law School & Princeton University

A Tale of Two Naturalisms

Law’s Instrumentality in the Minds of Early 20th Century German and American Alternative Jurists

Mr Airton Ribeiro da Silva Júnior

University of Florence

“Evolution of international law”: conceptions of international law in early-twentieth-century Brazil

Panel 6.4

Mixed Legal Traditions and Identities

Prof. Nir Kedar

Sapir Academic School of Law & Bar-Ilan University

Law as an Agent of Modernization and National Identity: The Case of Israel

Dr Paul Swanepoel

University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban

Judicial Identities in Tanganyika, 1920-1961

Mr Chiming Zhong

University of Edinburgh

Human Rights, Modernity and Confucianism

Ms Zülâl Muslu

University of Paris Ouest Nanterre & Max Planck Institute for European Legal History

Preventing the Ottoman sovereignty or digging the grave of an Empire?

The Ottoman mixed commercial courts: The roots of the Nation-state building

6:00 p.m. – 7:50 p.m. Prominent Jurists Lawyers Debate & Poster Session

I Prominent Polish Jurists and Lawyers Debate

Przemiany polskiego prawa i kultury prawnej na przełomie XX i XXI w. w perspektywie porównawczej

[Transformations in Polish Law and Legal Culture at the Turn of 20th and 21th Century in Comparative Perspective]

Prof. Ewa Łętowska

First Polish Commissioner for Citizens' Rights

Emeritus Justice of the Polish Constitutional Tribunal

Emeritus Justice of the Polish Supreme Administrative Court

Full Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Justice Jerzy Stępień

Emeritus President of the Polish Constitutional Tribunal

Vice-Rector of Łazarski University in Warsaw

II Poster Session

Ms Victória Gyönki

Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest

’Verðr sekr’ – Different Narrations of Outlawry in Medieval Icelandic Sources

Dr Jiri Brňovják                                Dr Marek Starý

University of Ostrava                       Higher School of Finance and Administration in Prague

Changes in the Legal Institution of the Inkolat in the Bohemian Crown Lands during the Early Modern Period as a Reflection of Changing Political Circumstances and Modernization of State and Society

Dr Sara Pilloni

University of Trieste

The evolution of (contractual) “third-party” notion beyond the relativity of contracts’ principle

the contribution of Legal History in the identification of a methodological approach

Ms Alexandra Aytova

University of Sofia "St.Kliment Ohridski" 

Culture identity of Bulgarian legal system (1878 – 1912)

Ms Raquel Razente Sirotti

Federal University of Santa Catarina

Between monument and instrument: the criminal codes of 1830 and 1890 and the built of criminal legal identities in Brazil

Ms Alba Moreira Salles

Federal University of Minas Gerais

Jose Hyginos's Translation of "Lehrbuch des deutschen Strafrerchts" by Franz von Liszt's

A History of Relations between Brazilian and German Criminal Law Culture

Mr Wojciech Bańczyk

Jagiellonian University

Whose right to own mineral resources?

Analysis of the right of the state, the landowner and the community on the example of Agri South Africa v. Minister for Minerals and Energy (2013) in a comparative legal history perspective

8:00 p.m.                             dinner

Day Four 1 July 2016

Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Gdańsk in Gdańsk-Oliwa

8:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.        buses departure from Gdańsk

9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.      Panel Session VII

(all panel sessions: 20 min for each paper & 10 min discussions following each paper)

Panel 7.1

Functional Constitutionalism (I): High Points in the Low Countries 

Prof. Frederik Dhondt

Free University of Brussels & Ghent University

Legal Literacy and Political Activism From Below: the Case of Jan Joseph Raepsaet (1787-1815)

Dr Klaas Van Gelder

Ghent University

Legal Threat versus Constitutional Opportunity

The Treaty of The Hague (1790) and its Reception in Brabant and Flanders

Dr Brecht Deseure

Free University of Brussels & Passau University

The Radical Potential of the Ancient Constitution in the Belgian Revolution

Panel 7.2

19th Century Private Law ‘Modernisation’

Prof. Heikki Pihlajamäki

University of Helsinki

Law and the new world: codification and modernization in the nineteenth century

Assoc. Prof. Dmitry Poldnikov

Higher School of Economics in Moscow

Why generalize contract law?

Debates around some key arguments in the 19th century France, Germany and Russia

Ms Julie Rocheton

University Pantheon-Assas Paris 2

An endeavor to improve the legal reality: the 19th century United-States Civil Codes

Panel 7.3

Migrations of People, Ideas and Legal Power

Prof. Francesca De Rosa                            Prof. Francesco Mastroberti

University of Naples Federico II                University of Bari Aldo Moro

The policy of migrations in Italy: continuity or discontinuity?

Assoc. Prof. Balázs Pálvölgyi

Széchenyi István University in Budapest

Migration policy without room for manoeuvre

Direct impact on Hungarian migration policy of the 1870 Agreement on Citizenship between US and Austria-Hungary (1880s-1914)

Dr Virginia Amorosi

University of Naples Federico II

European Legal Culture and Workers Issues

The Construction of a Modern Western Knowledge to Keep Control

10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.   coffee break

11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.   Panel Session VIII

Panel 8.1

Axiological Constitutionalism (II): 19th Century Identity Building

Dr Imre Képessy

Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest & Széchenyi István University in Győr

National Modernization through the "Constitutional Revolution" of 1848 - Pretext and Context

Mr Stefan Huygebaert

Ghent University

Comparative Legal Iconography: the Decisive Constitutional Moment as an Analytical Tool for Constitutional History

Dr Judit Beke-Martos

Ruhr University in Bochum

Restoring the Historical Constitutional Order with a Coronation in 1867

Panel 8.2

Culture, Conformity and Coding in Legal Phenomena

Mrs Caroline Laske

Ghent University

Language as carrier of culture - comparative and historical perspectives

Dr Vanessa Duss Jacobi, Advocate

University of Lucerne

Coding Cultures – parallelisation patterns in forming of collective identities

Mr Henrik Forshamn

Uppsala University

Swedish legal education, Roman law and legal history

Panel 8.3

Law and Democracy

Assoc. Prof. Judithanne Scourfield McLauchlan

University of South Florida in St. Petersburg

The Impact of Decisions of the European Court of Human Rights on Legal and Judicial Reform in the Republic of Moldova

Assoc. Prof. Vladimir Valeryevich Kochetkov

International Slavonic Institute in Moscow

The Russian Values and Constitutional Democracy

 

Assoc. Prof. László Komáromi

Pázmány Péter Catholic University in Budapest

Transplantation of Direct Democracy? The Case of Oregon

                                                                    

12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.     lunch

1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.        Panel Session IX

Panel 9.1

‘Public’ as Identity and as Locus of Change

Prof. Bart Wauters

IE University in Madrid – Segovia

Liberty, Equality and Property

Property as an instrument of liberty and equality in an age of Revolution

Prof. Valdis Bluzma

Turiba University in Riga

The Peasant Laws of Baltic Governorates in XIX Century and Their Role in Formation of Latvian and Estonian Nations

Dr Paulo Potiara del Alcantara Veloso

Regional Community University Chapecó & Faculty Cesucs in Florianopolis

Migration, Law Innovation and the Infidel World

 the instrumental face of European civilizing presumptions under the universalized ius gentium of Francisco de Vitoria

Ms Kamila Staudigl-Ciechowicz

University of Vienna

How to deal with inconvenient scholars? Public services law and the creation of national identity

Panel 9.2

Institutions and Politics

Assoc. Prof. Sunita Jogarajan

Melbourne Law School

The Role of the League of Nations in the Development of Double Tax Agreements

Dr Tzung-Mou Wu

Academia Sinica in Taipei City

Comparative Legal History for the Rights of Indigenous People

Mr Francesco Campodonico

University of Genoa

 The recall of MPs in Great Britain: may a legal institute be the end of a secular political culture?

Ms Marjorie Carvalho de Souza

University of Naples Federico II

The Creation of the Court of Auditors in the First Republic in Brazil and its Interaction with European Legal Systems

Panel 9.3

Constitutional History, Authoritarian Rule and Transition to Democracy in Brazil and Comparative Perspectives

Prof. Cristiano Paixão

University of Brasilia

Constitutional History and Transitional Justice in Contemporary Brazil: Towards a Politics of Time

Prof. Leonardo Barbosa

University of Brasilia

Constitutional Politics during the Brazilian Civil-Military Dictatorship

The Constitution as a Tool for Authoritarian Reform and for Political Transition

Ms Claudia Paiva Carvalho

University of Brasilia

Transitional Justice and Sexual Crimes in Latin America

An Analysis of Brazil and Comparative Perspectives

Ms Maria Pia Guerra

University of Brasilia

Social Conflict and the Brazilian Transacted Transition

3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.        buses departures from Gdańsk-Oliwa to Old Town of Gdańsk