BOOK: Virpi MÄKINEN et al., eds., Rights at the Margins - Historical, Legal and Philosophical Perspectives (Leiden-New York: Brill, 2020). ISBN 978-90-04-43153-9, $119.00

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Brill is publishing a new essay collection on the history of rights.

ABOUT THE BOOK

The essays in this volume explore the ways rights were available to those in the margins of society. By tracing pivotal judicial concepts such as ‘right of necessity’ and ‘subjective rights’ back to their medieval versions, and by situating them in unexpected contexts such as the Franciscans’ theory of poverty and colonization or today’s immigration and border control, this volume invites its readers to consider whether individual rights were in fact, or at least in theory, available to the marginalized. By focusing not only on the economically impoverished but also those who were disenfranchised because of disability, gender, race, religion or infidelity, this book also sheds light on the relationship between the early history of individual rights and social justice at the margins. 

Contributors are: Wim Decock, Heikki Haara, Virpi Mäkinen, Alejandra Mancilla, Julia McClure, Ilse Paakkinen, Mikko Posti, Jonathan Robinson, John Salter, Pamela Slotte, and Jussi Varkemaa.

ABOUT THE EDITORS

Virpi Mäkinen is Senior Lecturer in Theological and Social Ethics at the University of Helsinki, Finland. She has published monographs and many articles on medieval and early modern intellectual history, including Property Rights in the Late Medieval Discussion on Franciscan Poverty (Peeters, 2001), and co-edited Transformations in Late Medieval and Early-Modern Rights Discourse (Springer, 2006). 

Jonathan Robinson, Ph.D. (2010) in Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto, Canada. He currently acts as a lawyer and is the author of William of Ockham’s Theory of Property Rights in Context (Brill, 2012).

Pamela Slotte is Associate Professor of Minority Studies at the Åbo Akademi University, Finland. She is the co-author of The Juridification of Religion (Brill, 2017) and co-editor of Revisiting the Origins of Human Rights (Cambridge University Press, 2015). 

Heikki Haara is Senior Lecturer of Political History at the University of Helsinki. He is the author of Pufendorf’s Theory of Sociability: Passions, Habits and Social Order (Springer, 2018).

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Acknowledgements
About the Authors
Abbreviations

Introduction: Rights and Justice towards the Margins
  Virpi Mäkinen, Jonathan Robinson and Pamela Slotte

PART 1: Rights and the Poor Law

1 Poverty and Need in the Fourteenth Century: Johannes Andreae, Bartolus of Saxoferrato, and Baldus de Ubaldis
  Jonathan Robinson

2 Poor and Insolvent: Debtor Relief in Alvarez de Velasco’s De privilegiis pauperum (1630)
  Wim Decock

PART 2: Rights, Duties and Justice

3 Inclination to Self-Preservation and Rights to Life and Body in Samuel Pufendorf’s Natural Law Theory
  Heikki Haara

4 The Right of Necessity: From Hugo Grotius to Adam Smith
  John Salter

PART 3: Rights Beyond the Margins

5 Rights and Needs: Widows as a Protected Group in Christine de Pizan’s Thought
  Ilse Paakkinen

6 Can Animals Have Rights? Conrad Summenhart and Francisco de Vitoria at the Margins of Rights Language
  Jussi Varkemaa

7 Whether Heretics and Infidels Can Possess Dominion Rights? Late Medieval and Early Modern Debates
  Virpi Mäkinen and Mikko Posti

PART 4: Geopolitical, Global, and Contemporary Perspectives at the Margins

8 The Darker Side of Rights in Global Intellectual History: an Ambivalent Case of Franciscan Poverty
  Julia McClure

9 Necessity Knows No Borders: the Right of Necessity and Illegalized Migration
  Alejandra Mancilla

10 “Rights, Not Charity!” On Vocabularies for Conceptualizing the Case of Persons with Disabilities
  Pamela Slotte 

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BOOK: Jenny HUANGFU DAY, Qing Travelers to the Far West. Diplomacy and the Information Order in Late Imperial China (Cambridge: University Press, 2020). ISBN: 9781108457729, £ 23.99

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ABOUT THE BOOK

Prior to the nineteenth century, the West occupied an anomalous space in the Chinese imagination, populated by untamable barbarians and unearthly immortals. First-hand accounts and correspondence from Qing envoys and diplomats to Europe unraveled that perception. In this path-breaking study, Jenny Huangfu Day interweaves the history of Qing legation-building with the personal stories of China's first official travelers, envoys and diplomats to Europe. She explores how diplomat-travelers navigated the conceptual and physical space of a land virtually unmapped in the Chinese intellectual tradition and created a new information order. This study reveals the fluidity, heterogeneity, and ambivalence of their experience, and the layers of tension between thinking, writing, and publishing about the West. By integrating diplomatic and intellectual history with literary analysis and communication studies, Day offers a fundamentally new interpretation of the Qing's engagement with the West.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jenny Huangfu Day is Assistant Professor of History at Skidmore College, New York.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

List of figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. The traveler

2. The envoy

3. The student

4. The scholar

5. The diplomat

6. The strategist

Epilogue

Appendix 1. Zhigang's passage on the White House visit in the 1877 and 1890 editions

Appendix 2. Selected passages that appeared in the Chushi taixi jiyao (1890) but not in the Chushi taixi ji (1877)

Glossary

Bibliography

Index.

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BOOK: Wanda MASTOR & Marie BASSANO (eds), Justement traduire [Colloques de l'IFR, vol. 42] (Toulouse: IFRD, 2020), 316 p. ISBN 978-2-3617-0197-0, € 42

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Abstract:

Le droit a son propre langage, et même plusieurs. La circulation des droits d'un pays à un autre, d'une époque à l'autre, suppose la possibilité de pouvoir saisir ce droit voyageur. Pour traverser les frontières et les âges, il doit être traduit. Mais que traduit-on lorsqu'on traduit le droit ? La différence fondamentale formulée par Ferdinand de Saussure - entre sens (contenu intrinsèque du terme) et valeur (contenu du terme tel qu'il résulte des relations qu'il entretient avec d'autres termes relevant d'un même système linguistique) d'un mot - prend une dimension toute particulière dans le domaine juridique : ce qui y distingue le sens de la valeur n'est pas seulement l'intégration du mot dans un système linguistique donné, mais aussi et surtout dans un système juridique spécifique. La question de la traduction juridique s'entend donc en réalité à plusieurs niveaux. Il n'y est pas seulement question de traduire les mots du droit ; s'y mêlent aussi la question de la possibilité de traduire la distance qu'entretient la langue juridique avec la langue commune au sein de chaque système linguistique, et celle de la capacité à transcrire les réalités juridiques inhérentes à un système juridique dans des langues par lesquelles se pensent et se formulent des règles auxquels ces réalités sont étrangères. Historiens du droit et comparatistes sont sans cesse confrontés à cette passionnante mais redoutable difficulté. L'ambition du colloque était de questionner les pratiques multiples de la traduction juridique, à la fois dans leur épaisseur historique et dans leur amplitude transfrontalière. Asseoir l'autorité, établir le dialogue et diffuser le savoir ont été les trois temps autour desquels se sont articulés les interventions académiques et retours d'expérience multiples.

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BOOK: William N. ESKRIDGE, Marriage Equality From Outlaws to In-Laws (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020). ISBN 9780300221817, 40.00 USD

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Yale University Press has published a new book on the history of the marriage equality debate in the United States.

ABOUT THE BOOK

As a legal scholar who first argued in the early 1990s for a right to gay marriage, William N. Eskridge Jr. has been on the front lines of the debate over same-sex marriage for decades. In this book, Eskridge and his coauthor, Christopher R. Riano, offer a panoramic and definitive history of America’s marriage equality debate. The authors explore the deeply religious, rabidly political, frequently administrative, and pervasively constitutional features of the debate and consider all angles of its dramatic history. While giving a full account of the legal and political issues, the authors never lose sight of the personal stories of the people involved, or of the central place the right to marry holds in a person’s ability to enjoy the dignity of full citizenship. This is not a triumphalist or one-sided book but a thoughtful history of how the nation wrestled with an important question of moral and legal equality.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

William N. Eskridge Jr. is the John A. Garver Professor of Jurisprudence at Yale Law School. 

Christopher R. Riano is the executive director of the Center for Civic Education and a lecturer in constitutional law and government at Columbia University.

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BOOK: Aislinn MULLER, The Excommunication of Elizabeth I. Faith, Politics, and Resistance in Post-Reformation England, 1570-1603 (Leiden: Brill, 2020). ISBN: 9789004425996, €125.00

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ABOUT THE BOOK

Series: St Andrews Studies in Reformation History

In The Excommunication of Elizabeth I, Aislinn Muller examines the excommunication and deposition of Queen Elizabeth I of England by the Roman Catholic Church, and its political afterlife during her reign. Muller shows that Elizabeth’s excommunication was a crucial turning point for both Catholics and Protestants, one that irrevocably changed attitudes towards the queen, widened political participation and resistance, and posed a destabilising threat to her regime. The Excommunication of Elizabeth I demonstrates how this event exacerbated religious tensions in England’s foreign and domestic politics, and how Elizabeth’s conflict with the papacy shaped the development of anti-Catholicism in post-Reformation England.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Aislinn Muller obtained her Ph.D. in History at the University of Cambridge (2017). Her work on religious politics in post-Reformation England has appeared in publications such as British Catholic History and Studies in Church History. This is her first book.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

A Acknowledgements 

List of Figures 

Abbreviations 

Note on the Text 

  Introduction 

 1 Queen Elizabeth’s Excommunication in Post-Reformation Politics 

 2 Elizabeth’s Excommunication in Surviving Records 

1. The Excommunication of Elizabeth I in International Politics 

 1 Making the Case for Elizabeth's Illegitimacy, 1558–1569 

 2 Interpreting and Executing Regnans in Excelsis 

2. Transmitting the Excommunication of Elizabeth I 

 1 Distribution and Reception in the 1570s 

 2 Catholic Missions and the Circulation of Regnans in Excelsis, ca. 1580–1603 

 3 Debating the Excommunication’s Legitimacy 

3. Spreading the Word? Regnans in Excelsis in Protestant Discourse 

 1 Humour, History, and Anxiety in Printed Responses to Regnans in Excelsis 

 2 Protestant Translations of Regnans in Excelsis 

4. The Excommunication in Foreign and Domestic Policy 

 1 Threats from Spain and Scotland, ca. 1570–1579 

 2  Regnans in Excelsis and the Coming of War, ca. 1580–1588 

 3 Wars with Spain, France, and Ireland, ca. 1589–1603 

5. Political Engagement, Subversion, and Resistance in England and Ireland 

 1 Sedition as Resistance: Perceptions of Elizabeth after 1570 

 2 Alternatives to Violence: Prohibited Objects, Recusancy, and Public Disobedience 

 3  Regnans in Excelsis and Resistance in Ireland 

Conclusion 

Bibliography 

Index 

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BOOK: Quentin SKINNER & Martin VAN GELDEREN (eds) Freedom and the Construction of Europe - Volume 1. Religious Freedom and Civil Liberty (Cambridge: CUP, 2020), ISBN 9781108817776, 24,99 GBP

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Abstract:

Freedom, today perceived simply as a human right, was a continually contested idea in the early modern period. In Freedom and the Construction of Europe an international group of scholars explore the richness, diversity and complexity of thinking about freedom in the shaping of modernity. Volume 1 examines debates about religious and constitutional liberties, as well as exploring the tensions between free will and divine omnipotence across a continent of proliferating religious denominations. Debates about freedom have been fundamental to the construction of modern Europe, but represent a part of our intellectual heritage that is rarely examined in depth. These volumes provide materials for thinking in fresh ways not merely about the concept of freedom, but how it has come to be understood in our own time.

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BOOK: Gian Paolo TRIFONE, La scienza dell’amministrazione di Federico Persico. Scritti scelti (Napoli: Editoriale Scientifica, 2020). ISBN: 9788893917315, pp. 178, € 15,00

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ABOUT THE BOOK

Collana: IusRegni. Collana di Storia del diritto medievale, moderno e contemporaneo.

Federico Persico (1829-1919), letterato, avvocato, docente universitario impegnato attivamente nelle vicende politiche e culturali napoletane a cavallo dell’Unità d’Italia, è stato l’ultimo esponente della scuola partenopea del diritto pubblico ad affermarne il primato di un indirizzo culturale autoctono. Il giurista concepisce la scienza dell’amministrazione come disciplina atta a fornire le ragioni stesse del diritto positivo. Il modello ordinamentale da lui teorizzato, di un self-government rispettoso del vertice istituzionale, risente dell’influenza vichiana e nondimeno delle dottrine hegeliane, pur filtrate da una salda coscienza religiosa. Per la denuncia di un’amministrazione accentrata senza adeguato riguardo delle specificità “naturali” di comunità e territori; ed in base alle sue originalissime proposte di una rappresentanza organica degli interessi in Parlamento, Federico Persico sarebbe stato considerato un anticipatore del sindacalismo “istituzionalizzato”, contro il sindacalismo rivoluzionario. La selezione dei suoi scritti, che attraversano un lungo periodo della storia italiana e in particolare di quella del Mezzogiorno, offre di tutto ciò sensibile testimonianza.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Gian Paolo Trifone è attualmente professore associato di Storia del diritto medievale e moderno presso il dipartimento di Giurisprudenza dell’Università degli Studi di Salerno.

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INTERVIEW: Mark TUSHNET on "How to do Comparative Constitutional Law?" (Harvard Law Today, 21 JUL 2020)

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First paragaph:

Harvard Law School Professor Mark Tushnet is the rare scholar who has made huge contributions to a number of different fields. He was an active participant in the Critical Legal Studies movement of the 1980s; he has been a leading contributor to both academic and public debates on the U.S. Constitution; and he is one of the founders—along with HLS colleague Vicki Jackson, the Laurence H. Tribe Professor of Constitutional Law—of the modern field of comparative constitutional law. And inevitably, he has been able to connect these fields and ways of thinking about law and constitutional government, as few other scholars have been willing or able to do.

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BOOK: Antonio TRAMPUS, Emer de Vattel and the Politics of Good Government - Constitutionalism, Small States and the International System (Cham: Springer, 2020). ISBN 978-3-030-48023-3, EUR 64,19

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Springer is publishing a book on the significance of Emer de Vattel’s Droit des gens in political debate and the conception of good government.

ABOUT THE BOOK

This book explores the history of the international order in the eighteenth and nineteenth century through a new study of Emer de Vattel’s Droit des gens (1758). Drawing on unpublished sources from European archives and libraries, the book offers an in-depth account of the reception of Vattel’s chief work. Vattel’s focus on the myth of good government became a strong argument for republicanism, the survival of small states, drafting constitutions and reform projects and fighting everyday battles for freedom in different geographical, linguistic and social contexts. The book complicates the picture of Vattel’s enduring success and usefulness, showing too how the work was published and translated to criticize and denounce the dangerousness of these ideas. In doing so, it opens up new avenues of research beyond histories of international law, political and economic thought.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Antonio Trampus is Professor of Modern History at Ca’ Foscari University Venice, Italy. His research focuses on cultural history and constitutionalism. His books include the critical edition of Benjamin Constant’s commentary on Filangieri (2012) and the edited volume, with K. Stapelbroek, of The Legacy of Vattel’s Droit des gens (2019).

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BOOK: Wanda MASTOR, Julie BENETTI, Pierre EGEA & Xavier MAGNON, Les grands discours de la culture juridique (Paris: Dalloz, 2020), 868 p. ISBN 9782247197163, € 45

 

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Abstract:

Quels sont les discours (politiques ou juridiques) qui ont construit la culture juridique des juristes ou ont été décisifs pour le droit ? Du discours de Montesquieu dans l’Esprit des lois à celui de Christine Taubira sur la défense du mariage entre personne du même sexe en passant par ceux de Thiers à l’Assemblée, leurs auteurs ont influencé la formation du droit positif. Abordés autour de quatre grandes thématiques (la culture républicaine, la justice, les libertés et les normes et rapport entre normes), chacun de ces « grands » discours commentés par des chercheurs spécialistes a été sélectionné pour sa portée juridique. Cette deuxième édition intègre une 15ne de nouveaux discours: de Voltaire, Grévy, Zola, Renan, Caillaux, Louise Michel, Charles Péguy à Michel Rocard en passant par Gambetta, Léon Blum, Giraudoux, Simone de Beauvoir, etc.

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BOOK: Julie HARDWICK, Sex in an Old Regime City - Young People, Production, and Reproduction in France, 1660-1789 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020). ISBN 9780190945183, $35.00

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OUP is publishing a book on the history of young people's intimacy, based on legal records from the city of Lyon during the Ancien Régime.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Our ideas about the long histories of young couples' relationships and women's efforts to manage their reproductive health are often premised on the notion of a powerful sexual double standard.

In Sex in an Old Regime City, Julie Hardwick offers a major reframing of the history of young people's intimacy. Based on legal records from the city of Lyon, Hardwick uncovers the relationships of young workers before marriage and after pregnancy occurred, even if marriage did not follow, and finds that communities treated these occurrences without stigmatizing or moralizing. She finds a hidden world of strategies young couples enacted when they faced an untimely pregnancy. If they could not or would not marry, they sometimes tried to terminate pregnancies, to make the newborn go away by a variety of measures, or to charge the infant to local welfare institutions. Far from being isolated, couples drew on the resources of local communities and networks. Clerics, midwives, wet nurses, landladies, lawyers, parents, and male partners in and outside the city offered pragmatic, sympathetic ways to help young, unmarried pregnant women deal with their situations and hold young men responsible for the reproductive consequences of their sexual activity. This was not merely emotional work; those involved were financially compensated. These support systems ensured that the women could resume their jobs and usually marry later, without long-term costs. In doing so, communities managed and minimized the disruptions and consequences even of cases of abandonment and unprosecuted infanticide.

This richly textured study re-thinks the ways in which fundamental issues of intimacy and gendered power were entwined with families, communities, and religious and secular institutions at all levels from households to neighborhoods to the state.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Julie Hardwick is the John E. Green Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Family Business: Litigation and the Political Economies of Daily Life in Seventeenth-Century France (OUP, 2009) and The Practice of Patriarchy: Gender and the Politics of Household Authority in Early Modern France.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Introduction A Foundling's Garter and the World of Young People's Intimacy

Ch.. 1. Sourcing Intimate Histories: The Social World of Young Workers

Ch. 2. Peril Stories: Licit Intimacy, Space, and Community Safeguarding

Ch. 3. Holding Men Responsible: Fertility, Community, and Court

Ch. 4. "Remedies" and Remedies: Managing Out-of-Wedlock Pregnancy

Ch. 5. Intimate Labor: Paid Work and an Intimate Economy of Reproduction

Ch. 6. Foundlings and Makeshift Coffins: Community Complicity and Dead Babies

Conclusion: The End of the Old Regime?

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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BOOK: Manfried RAUCHENSTEINER, The First World War and the End of the Habsburg Monarchy, 1914-1918 (Wien: Böhlau, 2014), 1188 p. ISBN 9783205795889 (OPEN ACCESS)

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Abstract: 

The origins of World War I were different and varied. But it was Austria-Hungary which unleashed the war. After more than four years the Habsburg Monarchy was defeated and ended as a failed state. Die Ursachen des Ersten Weltkriegs sind vielfältig. Die Entfesselung des Kriegs geschah jedoch durch Österreich-Ungarn. Nach mehr als vier Jahren zerfiel die Habsburgermonarchie als Folge innerer Auflösung und der militärischen Niederlage.

Download the book (DOI 10.26530/oapen_482374). 

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BOOK: Actes du congrès de Paris de 1900. Théorie générale, méthode et enseignements du droit comparé [Sensus Iuris] (Paris: Société de législation comparée, 2020), 496 p., € 56. ISBN 978-2-36517-095-6

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Abstract:

Les actes de ce congrès fondateur de la discipline comparatiste n'étaient plus disponibles depuis longtemps. Aussi, l'année de ses 150 ans, la Société de législation comparée a souhaité en proposer une nouvelle édition, en concentrant l'attention sur le cœur de ces travaux : les études relatives à la théorie générale, à la méthode et à l'enseignement du droit comparé.

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BOOK: Michael BECKER, Kriegsrecht im frühneuzeitlichen Protestantismus Eine Untersuchung zum Beitrag lutherischer und reformierter Theologen, Juristen und anderer Gelehrter zur Kriegsrechtsliteratur im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert [Spätmittelalter, Humanismus, Reformation; 103] (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2017), XV + 455 p. ISBN 978-3-16-155362-2, € 89

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Abstract:

Das 16. und 17. Jahrhundert ist für die Völkerrechtsgeschichte von besonderer Bedeutung. Aufgrund der spanischen Expansion in der Neuen Welt und der konfessionellen Konflikte in Europa wurden völkerrechtliche Fragen kontrovers diskutiert. Während der römisch-katholische Anteil des Völkerrechtsdiskurses bereits Gegenstand zahlreicher Untersuchungen wurde, ist der protestantische Beitrag zur Genese und Ausdifferenzierung des frühneuzeitlichen Völkerrechts weitgehend unbekannt. Michael Becker befasst sich daher mit den Werken protestantischer Theologen, Juristen und anderer Gelehrter, die sich zu Fragen des Völkerrechts geäußert haben. Anhand von spezifischen Problemstellungen aus dem Bereich des Kriegs- und Bündnisrechts (religiöse Offensiv- und Verteidigungskriege, Bündnisse zwischen unterschiedlichen Konfessionen) zeigt er, dass protestantische Gelehrte den Völkerrechtsdiskurs mitgeprägt haben. Die Arbeit wurde mit einem Preis des wissenschsftlichen Beirats zum Reformationsjubiläum ausgezeichnet.

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CALL FOR PAPERS: Section Legal and Institutional History, 58th Belgian Congress of Archeological and Historical Circles (Tournai, 19-21 AUG 2021); DEADLINE 30 SEP 2020

  

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Les inscriptions pour le 11e Congrès de l’Association des Cercles francophones d’histoire et d’archéologie de Belgique sont ouvertes. Il était prévu à Tournai du jeudi 20 au dimanche 23 août 2020, mais a été reporté au 19-21 août 2021.

Ce congrès sera aussi le 58e Congrès de la Fédération des Cercles d’archéologie et d’histoire de Belgique, Il prend place en Wallonie picarde sera organisé par trois sociétés hainuyères associées pour la circonstance : le Cercle royal d’histoire et d’archéologie d’Ath et de la région, la Société d’histoire de Mouscron et de la région et la Société royale d’histoire et d’archéologie de Tournai. Il bénéficiera en outre de la collaboration de Hannonia. Centre d’information et de contact des cercles d’histoire, d’archéologie et de folklore du Hainaut.

Les communications auront une durée maximum de 20 minutes. Le choix de la langue est libre (français, néerlandais, allemand). Le français demeure la langue officielle du Congrès.

Une section d'histoire du droit et des institutions sera organisée.

Pour envoyer votre proposition pour cette section, contacter le prof. Frederik Dhondt avant le 30 septembre 2020.

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Pour l'inscription/Voor de registratie, cliquez ici/hier

CALL FOR PAPERS: Citizenship, Migration and Social Rights – Historical Experiences from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century (4-5 March 2021, Berlin) (DEADLINE: 15 September 2020)

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We learned of a call for papers for a workshop on “Citizenship, Migration and Social Rights – Historical Experiences from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century”. Here the call:

Call for Papers Workshop: Citizenship, Migration and Social Rights – Historical Experiences from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century Date: 4 – 5 March 2021 Location: Humboldt University Berlin, International Research Centre Work and Human Lifecycle in Global History (re:work), Georgenstr. 23, 10117 Berlin Organizers: Beate Althammer, DFG-Project “The Borders of the Welfare State: Migration, Social Rights and Expulsion (1850-1933)”, in cooperation with re:work Deadline for proposals: 15 September 2020 URL: https://rework.hu-berlin.de/borders-of-the-welfare-state-en.html

In current academic and political debates, the tensions between European conceptions of the welfare state and transnational migration are a heatedly discussed issue. How can promises of social security be kept in times of globalization? Is welfare only feasible in ‘closed’ nation states with tight border controls, or is migration, to the contrary, necessary for sustaining welfare systems? To what extent are social rights a privilege of national citizens, to what extent, and under what conditions, are they also due to foreign immigrants? Such questions have become an explosive and intensely scrutinized subject. Much less, however, is known about their historical dimensions. There exists by now a rich historiography on the origins of modern welfare policies; migration history is flourishing too; and in recent years, the history of citizenship has attracted increasing attention. Yet, these have largely remained three separate fields of research. Few works have studied in detail so far how European welfare states dealt with the challenges of migration in their formative phase, and what experiences, in turn, migrants have made with the social services of their host societies. The project “The Borders of the Welfare State: Migration, Social Rights and Expulsion (1850-1933)” is attempting to fill this gap. Taking as its starting point the frequently postulated, but probably too simplistic hypothesis that the status of aliens deteriorated inversely to the expansion of citizens’ rights with the emergence of modern national welfare states, it explores the interrelations of labour migration and social policies in the decades around 1900. The project compares national discourses and legal frameworks of various European countries, analyses concrete administrative practices at the local level, and looks at the beginnings of international agreements on the reciprocal treatment of citizens who moved across borders. The aim is to write a transnational European history of the negotiations over the social entitlements of migrants in the early days of modern welfare-state building. Despite its transnational approach, the scope of the project is necessarily limited, in geographical and temporal terms as well as in terms of the aspects of ‘welfare’ and ‘migration’ it is able to take into account. Therefore, the planned workshop wants to open up its horizon by bringing together researchers who are working on related topics. Invited are historians, but also scholars from neighbouring disciplines (sociology, political sciences, anthropology, etc.) with a research interest in the interrelationships of migration and social policies from the eighteenth century to the present. Although the focus of the workshop will be on the evolution of European migration and welfare regimes, papers that offer extraEuropean perspectives are very welcome too. And although the focus will be on the impact of migration on ‘modern’ social policies and vice versa, also early modern historians are addressed who can help us to understand continuities and changes during the transition to modernity. Possible approaches of papers that explore the interrelationships of migration and social policies include: - Theoretical reflections on long-term developments - Semantics of welfare, belonging and social rights - Comparisons between national migration and welfare regimes - Case studies on local constellations and experiences - Case studies on specific migrant groups or specific sectors of welfare provision - Case studies on periods of disruption, e.g. in the wake of wars or economic crises - Transnational studies on the cross-border coordination of migration and social policies The workshop is funded by the DFG (German Research Foundation) and will take place in Berlin from 4 to 5 March 2021 at the premises of re:work. The organizers will provide accommodation as well as (limited) reimbursement of travel expenses. Should travel restrictions or other impediments to on-site events due to the Covid-19 pandemic still be in force, we will consider switching to an, in parts, digital format. Presentations should not exceed 20 minutes. We plan to publish a selection of revised papers. Please send proposals comprising a title, an abstract of about 300 words and a short CV, to beate.althammer@hu-berlin.de by 15 September 2020.

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BOOK: Anna RAD, Minne oder Recht Konflikt und Konsens zur Zeit Karls IV. und König Wenzels (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Verlage, 2020). ISBN 978-3-412-51541-6, EUR 49.00

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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Verlage has published a new book on the legal foruma “Minne oder recht” under Holy Roman Emperor Karl IV and King Wenceslas

ABOUT THE BOOK

Minne oder recht – die Paarformel ist fester Bestandteil der mittelalterlichen Rechtssprache. Regelmäßig beschreibt sie in Urkunden den Weg zum Rechtsfrieden und kommt in der königlichen Gerichtsbarkeit Kaiser Karls IV. und König Wenzels bei den verschiedenen Gerichtsformen zum Einsatz. Die Untersuchung ihrer Bedeutung und Verwendung ist ein klassisches Thema der Mediävistik, das bereits die rechtshistorische Forschung des 19. Jahrhunderts faszinierte. Die Arbeit nähert sich der Paarformel über eine umfassende Auswertung der Quellensprache und stellt differenziert sowohl ihre Bedeutungsvielfalt als auch Unterschiede und Gemeinsamkeiten von minne und recht dar.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Anna Rad studierte Rechtswissenschaften in Münster und war Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin von Prof. Dr. Peter Oestmann am Institut für Rechtsgeschichte. Nach dem Referendariat in Braunschweig und Hamburg arbeitete sie zwei Jahre in Stuttgart als Rechtsanwältin und lebt zur Zeit in Tempe, Arizona.

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CONFERENCE: Social Status or Normative Difference? The Rank of Slaves in Antique Roman Society - Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies August, 28-29, 2020 on ZOOM

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We would like to draw your attention to the two day conference "Social Status or Legal Difference? The Rank of Slaves in Antique Roman Society" organized by Prof. Dr. Martin J. Schermaier and the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies

The conference is scheduled to take place online via Zoom on August 28-29, 2020.

It is well known that Roman slaves did not form a homogeneous group but belonged to different social ranks. That mostly depended on the kind of work they exercised. Did private or public law reflect such differences? Did it help to institutionalize them? Did legal provisions or decisions even foster them? These are the main questions dealt with in the papers to be presented.

All lecturers are renowned experts in the field of Roman slave law.

Please register for the online conference via events[at]dependency.uni-bonn.de. We will then send you a specific link for this conference so that you can join the ZOOM meeting.

More information and detailed schedule here.

CALL FOR PAPERS: Mapping South-South Connections: Networks, Alliances and New Actors on the International Scene during the Decolonization Process and Cold War in Latin America, Asia and Africa (1810-1990) (21-22 November 2020, Teheran) (DEADLINE: 10 September 2020)

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We learned of a call for papers for an international conference in Teheran on connections between Latin America, Asia and Africa during the decolonization process and the Cold War from an interdisciplinary perspective. Here the call:

This conference aims to explore historical, political and cultural connections between Latin America, Asia and Africa during the decolonization process and the Cold War from an interdisciplinary perspective. Traditionally, the history of the ‘international’ has been presented from the perspective of major Western European and North American powers, based on their specific experience of the events and according to their imperial expansion, geostrategic and economic interests, the challenges they faced and the strategies they developed to counter them, and more generally the political and cultural or ideological climate and circumstances prevalent in the Europe and North America. Little attention has been paid to works developed taking into account or written from the perspective of the territories that were the object of the Western European and North American powers’ projection and interests. Networks, connections and alliances that were put into place by state and non-state actors coming from the so-called Global South that did not serve or follow those projections and interests were overlooked by historians. Although in the last two decades some works have appeared in the fields of Political Science and Economy, these are limited in number and moreover do not offer an adequate historical perspective. In addition, fields such as Diplomacy, Visual Studies or the Arts remain largely understudied if not unexplored. This is due to several reasons, among them the difficulty to access primary sources, instability or insecurity in different Global South countries, long distances among them and language diversity. The aim of the conference is to fill this gap by fostering the mapping of South-South connections between Latin America, Asia and Africa.

More info on the conference website.

CALL FOR PAPERS: Critical Legal Studies – Debating the Anti-Liberal Tradition (DEADLINE: 30 August 2020)

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We learned of a call for papers for a special dossier of the journal “The Direito e Práxis Journal” on “Critical Legal Studies: debating the anti-liberal tradition of critical legal studies”. Here the call:

The Direito e Práxis Journal, associated to the Post-Graduate Program in Law at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), invites interested scholars to submit proposals for articles to be published as part of the June 2021 dossier “Critical Legal Studies: debating the anti-liberal tradition of critical legal studies”, organized by the invited editors of the Journal, Professors André Luiz Souza Coelho, Júlia Ávila Franzoni and Philippe Oliveira de Almeida, all of them from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) Law School.

The dossier’s purpose is to encourage the publication of research on the genesis and development of Critical Legal Studies, the theoretical currents emerging from it and the possibilities for updating and applying its categories and methods to problems of today. Emerging in the early 1970s, in US law schools such as Harvard and Yale, Critical Legal Studies became one of the most cohesive and combative strands of “postmodern” critical legal thinking. Despite suffering a decline in the 1990s — due to the neoliberal backlash after the fall of the Berlin wall, that disseminated the “unique thought” and the “end of history” in law schools — Critical Legal Studies provided research strategies to the countermajoritarian currents of legal thought that remain important even today. In addition to the “retrospective rationalization” tactics of the current law, widely used by positivist dogmatics, Critical Legal Studies experimented with new ways to study the legal-political reality — such as counter-narratives, which put individuals, with their particularities and contingencies, front and center in the critical studies of Law. Led by figures such as Roberto Mangabeira Unger, Duncan Kennedy and Mark Tushnet, Critical Legal Studies proposed new strategies for thinking, teaching and practicing law, escaping, at the same time, normativist formalism and Marxian orthodoxy. Now, the spirit of Critical Legal Studies survived in currents that flourished by making use of theoretical tools developed by the crits to face realities that they did not contemplate, as is the case with Critical Race Theory (Derrick Bell , Patricia Williams, Mari Matsuda, Richard Delgado, etc.); DisCrit — Dis / ability Critical Race Theory (David J. Connor, Beth A. Ferri, Subini A. Annamma, etc.); and Critical Legal Geography (by David Delaney, Richard T. Ford, Nicholas Blomley, Mariana Valverde, Andreas P. Mihilopoulos, etc).

The dossier will accept papers and translations related to Critical Legal Studies in general (and its developments, the Critical Race Theory, DisCrit, QueerCrit, Critical Legal Geography etc.), as well as specific thinkers associated to the group (Karl Klare, Mark Kelman, Drucilla Cornell …) and their impact on critical legal thinking in Latin America. Monographic studies on specific aspects related to influences, controversies, research methodologies and combat strategies employed by crits will also be welcome. And, finally, the call also aims at giving greater visibility to research that, using these methodological tools and many others correlated (colonial [anti? counter? post?] thinking, political ecology, social reproduction theory, for example, which, from the 1970s to the present day, were experimented with by Critical Legal Studies and its ramifications), seeks to reflect on the scenario in which we live now — marked by the covid-19 pandemic as a total social event, which intersects, and often accelerates, other harmful processes, such as the climatic emergency, the rise of right-wing populism, necropolitics and the precarization of labor.

Papers in Portuguese, English or Spanish will be accepted.

Abstracts should be sent to ejc.fndufrj@gmail.com in the format described below until August 30th. Proposals accepted for development will receive consideration from the editors, and the full papers must be delivered until December 15th, 2020.

Proposals must contain:

• Authors’ name, e-mails, qualifications and institutional links.

• A summary of a maximum of 1,000 words clearly indicating the object of the work, its hypotheses, the method that will be used in the development of the research, the expected conclusions and the contribution of the research to the field.

Timetable:

1. Call for papers: June 2020

2. Deadline for Abstracts: August 30, 2020

3. Feedback from Editors: until September 30

4. Deadline for Articles: December 15, 2020

5. Publication: June 2021

After receiving the final versions of the papers, there will be a round of evaluations of the manuscripts and return to the authors for final corrections.

(Source: Critical Legal Thinking)

BOOK: Douglas G. MORRIS, Legal Sabotage : Ernst Fraenkel in Hitler’s Germany (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020). ISBN 9781108835008, USD 110.00

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Cambridge University Press is publishing a book on the Jewish leftist lawyer Ernst Fraenkel.

ABOUT THE BOOK

The Jewish leftist lawyer Ernst Fraenkel was one of twentieth-century Germany's great intellectuals. During the Weimar Republic he was a shrewd constitutional theorist for the Social Democrats and in post-World War II Germany a respected political scientist who worked to secure West Germany's new democracy. This book homes in on the most dramatic years of Fraenkel's life, when he worked within Nazi Germany actively resisting the regime, both publicly and secretly. As a lawyer, he represented political defendants in court. As a dissident, he worked in the underground. As an intellectual, he wrote his most famous work, The Dual State – a classic account of Nazi law and politics. This first detailed account of Fraenkel's career in Nazi Germany opens up a new view on anti-Nazi resistance – its nature, possibilities, and limits. With grit, daring and imagination, Fraenkel fought for freedom against an increasingly repressive regime.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Douglas Morris, Federal Defenders of New York

Douglas Morris is both a legal historian and a criminal defense attorney for indigent clients in New York City. He has published widely on twentieth-century German legal history and was a recipient of the 1998 Thurgood Marshall Award from the Association of the Bar of the City of New York for serving 'as pro bono counsel to a human being under a sentence of death'.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

1. Setting the scene of a Jewish lawyer, like Fraenkel, in nazi Germany

2. Fraenkel as a social democrat practicing law in nazi Germany

3. Fraenkel as an essayist supporting the illegal underground

4. Fraenkel as a scholar renouncing the nazi regime's dual state

5. Thinking about legal justifications for sabotaging a tyrannical regime

Conclusion. The Ernst Fraenkel dilemma.

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CALL FOR PAPERS: Political and administrative elites in Europe – Theory and Practice in Historical Perspective (Online, 9-11 November 2020) (DEADLINE: 15 August 2020)

(Source: H-Announce)

Via H-Announce, we learned of a call for papers for an online conference on “Political and administrative elites in Europe – Theory and Practice in Historical Perspective.

“The conference focus will lie mainly on the transformations underwent by elites during the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the twentieth century, and the deriving social mobility. While political and administrative upper layers form the main cohort of interest, papers on other social and professional elite categories (economic elite, church representatives, intellectuals, etc.) are equally welcome. Within the framework of the conference, we aim at addressing three essential aspects: defining (and self-defining of) elites, the changes, shifts and transitions which delineate the process of social mobility, and the methods and tools by means of which the latter can be traced and researched for the 19th and 20th centuries upper social layers. Hence, we welcome contributions focusing on one of the following topics:”

The full call can be found on H-Announce.

BOOK: Vincenzo PEPE, Giambattista Vico e la comparazione giuridica (Napoli: Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, 2020). ISBN: 9788849540727, pp. 200, € 27,00

(Source: ESI)

ABOUT THE BOOK

Questa pubblicazione è il risultato di una ricerca sul pensiero di Giambattista Vico e il suo contributo per la scienza e la comparazione giuridica. Il Vico comparatista, facendo dei popoli i protagonisti delle culture e gli artefici della storia ha schiuso nuovi percorsi, non solo alla scienza storico-filosofica, ma anche a quel settore di conoscenze e competenze che oggigiorno è classificato come Diritto costituzionale comparato. Secondo l’insegnamento di Vico, il giurista, ispirandosi al metodo della comparazione, è in grado di ricercare e dare forma ad un diritto universale della ragione e del progresso che rispetti le molteplici identità umane. In questo quadro gli ambiti locali, di prossimità, si traducono in occasioni di ricchezza culturale, di valorizzazione di identità e tradizioni che non possiamo permetterci di lasciare dissipare nell’omologazione che accompagna i processi di globalizzazione. Grazie a Giambattista Vico facciamo nostro il dovere di valorizzare la sovranità delle identità contro il pericoloso prevalere di modelli senza radici e di un progresso globalizzato che si accompagna all’oblio dell’etica e dei valori identitari.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Vincenzo Pepe insegna Diritto pubblico italiano e comparato e Diritto dell’ambiente comparato presso il Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche Jean Monnet dell’Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli. È Presidente nazionale del Movimento ecologista europeo FareAmbiente ed è Presidente onorario della Fondazione Giambattista Vico. Ha teorizzato l’ambientalismo responsabile, diventando a livello nazionale e internazionale uno dei principali protagonisti delle politiche ambientali e dello sviluppo sostenibile. Tra le sue pubblicazioni ricordiamo: Diritto comparato dell’energia. Esperienze europee, Napoli 2008; Fare Ambiente. Teorie e modelli giuridici di sviluppo sostenibile, Milano 2009; Governo del territorio e valori costituzionali, la protezione civile in Italia e in Francia, Padova 2009; Saggi Vichiani. Riflessioni sul programma di un «corso di legislazione comparata» di Vincenzo Cuoco, Soveria Mannelli 2010; La democrazia della prossimità nella comparazione giuridica, Napoli, 2015.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Parte I

Giambattista Vico filosofo dell’Origine

Capitolo I

Giambattista Vico filosofo dell’Origine

1. La questione dell’origine e l’inizio del filosofare

2. La filosofia della memoria. Identità e mito

3. Le società umane tra Filosofia della storia e la Comune natura delle nazioni

4. Natura, tempo e culture

5. La Provvidenza e la Metafisica, scienze dei principi. La nuova «Teologia civile ragionata»

6. Per una nuova gnoseologia

7. Il desiderio della civiltà

Capitolo II

Eloquenza, retorica, linguaggio

L’esperienza sociale nella fenomenologia vichiana

1. Homo cogitans o Homo loquens?

2. Esprimere la conoscenza. Il linguaggio come socializzazione del sapere

3. Fenomenologia vichiana. Uomo e storia

Capitolo III

Giambattista Vico e la Scienza della politica

1. L’uomo fa il mondo. La Storia

2. Cosa è Storia. Ciclo o «storia ideale eterna»?

3. Storia, storie e libertà dell’uomo

4. Una filosofia della storia vichiana?

5. La politica come scienza pienamente civile

6. La filologia, senso comune della Storia

7. Della dignità dell’uomo nel mondo

8. La Scienza Nuova

Parte II

Giambattista Vico e l’origine della comparazione giuridica

Capitolo I

L’essenza del diritto

1. Il diritto come rappresentazione normativa di una data formazione sociale

2. «Tre spezie di diritti naturali. Tre spezie di governi»

3. Il Diritto come concreto bene civile

4. Il Diritto come comparazione

5. Il diritto nella Scienza Nuova delle nazioni. Vico padre del Diritto internazionale

6. Diritto e valori contro il nichilismo

Capitolo II

L’eco di Giambattista Vico nell’Assemblea costituente

1. Valori, identità, tradizioni nella Costituzione repubblicana

2. La giustizia nel pensiero vichiano e l’assemblea costituente

3. I valori della libertà e lo storicismo vichiano

4. La Costituzione repubblicana come fondamento

Capitolo III

Giambattista Vico e l’origine della comparazione giuridica

1. La comparazione giuridica. Caratteristiche generali

2. La comparazione giuridica vichiana

3. Vico fra comparazione giuridica e identità

4. Vico e l’origine della comparazione giuridica

5. Il ruolo del diritto comparato nelle società

6. La gnoseologia giuridica e il metodo comparativo vichiano

7. Il diritto delle nazioni

Capitolo IV

La comparazione giuridica vichiana nell’ambito della cultura giuridica europea

1. Giambattista Vico negli ambienti giuridici tedeschi

2. Giambattista Vico e Carl Schmitt

3. Giambattista Vico, Donoso Cortés e Carl Schmitt

Parte III

Giambattista Vico oggi. Comparazione giuridica e globalizzazione

1. Come preservare, valorizzandole giuridicamente, le identità

2. Comparazione giuridica e globalizzazione

3. Legiferare meglio con il metodo comparativo

4. Comparazione, prossimità, identità

5. Principi giuridici di partecipazione democratica

6. Prossimità e Sussidiarietà: questioni di metodo per una comparazione giuridica

7. Il principio giuridico della sussidiarietà e limiti della sua applicazione

Considerazioni finali

Il valore comparativo dell’identità

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CALL FOR PAPERS: Climates of Violence in Medieval Society (Leeds, 5-8 July 2021) (DEADLINE: 28 August 2020)

We learned of a Call for Papers for a strand of the International Medieval Congress 2021 in Leeds. Here the original link.  

BOOK: Wolfram BUCHWITZ, Schiedsverfahrensrecht in Antike Und Mittelalter - Eine Historische Grundlegung (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2020). ISBN 978-3-412-51933-9, 60,00 EUR

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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht is publishing a new book on arbitration during Antiquity and the Middle Ages.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Schiedsverfahren waren auch in Antike und Mittelalter verbreitete Mittel der außergerichtlichen Konfliktlösung. Das römische Recht hat viele konzeptionelle Grundlagen gelegt, auf denen spätere Epochen aufgebaut haben. Aus dem Mittelalter stammt die Einbettung in das Verfahrensrecht. Auf diesen historischen Vorläufern beruhen selbst noch einige Grundsätze des modernen Schiedsverfahrensrechts. In diesem Buch wird ein weiter Bogen geschlagen, der erstmalig die entsprechenden Unterschiede, Gemeinsamkeiten und Entwicklungslinien aufzeigt. Dabei werden die wichtigsten epochenübergreifenden dogmatischen Fragen des Schiedsverfahrensrechts thematisiert, aber auch die in der Praxis entwickelten Vertragsformulare in die Deutung mit einbezogen. Zeitlich umfasst die Darstellung die Periode vom 1. Jahrhundert v.Chr. bis zum 13. Jahrhundert n.Chr.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Wolfram Buchwitz ist Ordinarius für Bürgerliches Recht, Römisches Recht, Historische Rechtsvergleichung und Zivilprozessrecht an der Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg und Richter am Oberlandesgericht Frankfurt.

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BOOK: Frédéric MÉGRET and Immi TALLGREN, eds., The Dawn of a Discipline International Criminal Justice and Its Early Exponents (Cambridge, 2020). ISBN 9781108488181, £ 110.00

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Cambridge University Press is publishing a new edited collection on key figures in the early history of international criminal justice.

ABOUT THE BOOK

The history of international criminal justice is often recounted as a series of institutional innovations. But international criminal justice is also the product of intellectual developments made in its infancy. This book examines the contributions of a dozen key figures in the early phase of international criminal justice, focusing principally on the inter-war years up to Nuremberg. Where did these figures come from, what did they have in common, and what is left of their legacy? What did they leave out? How was international criminal justice framed by the concerns of their epoch and what intuitions have passed the test of time? What does it mean to reimagine international criminal justice as emanating from individual intellectual narratives? In interrogating this past in all its complexity one does not only do justice to it; one can recover a sense of the manifold trajectories that international criminal justice could have taken.

ABOUT THE EDITORS

Frédéric Mégret, McGill University, Montréal

Frédéric Mégret is a Professor and Dawson Scholar at the Faculty of Law, McGill University. From 2006 to 2016 he held the Canada Research Chair on the Law of Human Rights and Legal Pluralism. His research focuses on the theory and history of international criminal justice.

Immi Tallgren, University of Helsinki

Immi Tallgren is a Docent (Adjunct Professor) of International Law, University of Helsinki and a Senior Researcher at the Erik Castrén Institute. She has worked as a diplomat, legal advisor in international organisations, and researcher, e.g., at the MPI Luxembourg and LSE. She currently studies the history of international law and gender, international criminal justice, law and cinema.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foreword Martti Koskenniemi
1. Introduction Frédéric Mégret and Immi Tallgren
2. Hugh Bellot Daniel Segesser
3. Vespasian V. Pella Andrei Mamolea
4. Emil Rappaport Patrycja Grzebyk
5. Quintiliano Saldaña Ignacio de la Rasilla del Moral
6. Henri Donnedieu de Vabres Frédéric Mégret
7. Hans Kelsen Monica Garcia-Salmones Rovira
8. Bert Röling Jan Klabbers
9. Radhabinod Pal Rohini Sen and Rashmi Raman
10. Aron Trainin Gleb Bogush
11. Raphael Lemkin Vesselin Popovski
12. Stefan Glaser Karolina Wierczyńska and Grzegorz Wierczynski
13. Yokota Kisaburo Matthias Zachmann
14. Jean Graven Damien Scalia
15. Absent or invisible? 'Women' intellectuals and professionals at the dawn of a discipline Immi Tallgren.

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BOOK: Katja TIKKA, The Development of Commercial Law in Sweden and Finland (Early Modern Period - Nineteenth Century) (Leiden: Brill, 2020). ISBN: 9789004393196, € 131.00

(Source: Brill)

ABOUT THE BOOK

The Development of Commercial Law in Sweden and Finland provides a broad perspective on recent research into the history of North European commercial law in a comparative and international framework. The book brings together themes that have previously been considered largely from a national perspective. Despite Sweden's and Finland's peripheral locations in Europe, global legal phenomena took place there as well. These countries were at the crossroads of cultures and commercial interests, allowing us to re-examine them as lively laboratories for commercial laws and practices rather than dismissing them as a negligible periphery. The importance of trade and international transactions cannot be disclaimed, but the book also emphasizes the resilient nature of commercial law. 

Contributors are: Dave De Ruysscher, Stefania Gialdroni, Ulla Ijäs, Marko Lamberg, Heikki Pihlajamäki, Jussi Sallila, and Katja Tikka.
Series: Legal History Library, Volume: 40

ABOUT THE EDITOR

Katja Tikka, Ph.D. (2020), has worked as research assistant and Ph.D. student at the University of Helsinki in the project “The Making of Commercial Law”, which produced this book. Her research focuses on the early modern trading companies.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Front Matter

Copyright Page

Illustrations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: A Swedish-Finnish Viewpoint

By: Katja Tikka and Jussi Sallila, pp. 1–16

“Unlawful Contracts and Foreign Subtlety” (In)Tolerance towards External Legal Customs and Traditions in Late Medieval and Early Modern Stockholm, c. 1475–1635

By: Marko Lamberg, pp. 17–58

Chartered Companies in Sweden, the Dutch Republic and England (c.1600–c.1630): Experiments in Corporate Governance

By: Dave De Ruysscher, pp. 59–91

The Swedish Tar Company – Balancing between Privileges, Commerce and Foreign Politics

By: Katja Tikka, pp. 92–125

Invisibility and Information: Commercial Legal Practices at the Grass-Roots Level in a Nineteenth-Century Finnish Timber Trading Company

By: Ulla Ijäs, pp. 126–157

Commercial Law on the Periphery: University Teaching of Commercial Law in Finland, ca. 1780–1846

By: Jussi Sallila, pp. 158–189

The Making of Modern Scholarship of Commercial Law in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Finland: Models and Adaptations

By: Heikki Pihlajamäki, pp. 190–210

Sweden and Finland: A Lively Laboratory for Commercial Laws and Practices

By: Stefania Gialdroni, pp. 211–219

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Index

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