BOOK: Timothy B. DYK (with Bill DAVIES), Timothy B. Dyk. The Education of a Federal Judge, (London-New York-Melbourne-Delhi: Anthem Press, 2022), ISBN: 9781839982149

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ABOUT THE BOOK

This book closely recounts Judge Dyk’s life and experiences in connection with some of the most significant times in modern American law, ranging from his time at the Warren Court, through a private career in First Amendment and other high profile practice, to his current role in the US Court of Appeals. Based on his own account of his long career and supplemented with documentary evidence from archives, media sources and scholarship, the book not only details Dyk’s experiences but also offers a significant contribution to our understanding of the seismic changes in US law since the 1960s.  

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Timothy B. Dyk was appointed by President Clinton in 2000. Prior to his appointment, Judge Dyk was Partner and Chair, Issues and Appeals Practice Area, at Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue. Judge Dyk was Associate and Partner, Wilmer Cutler & Pickering from 1964 to 1990. From 1961 to 1964, Judge Dyk served as Special Assistant to Assistant Attorney General Louis F. Oberdorfer, Law Clerk to Chief Justice Warren, and to Justices Reed and Burton (retired). He has taught at Yale, Georgetown and University of Virginia Law Schools. Judge Dyk graduated Harvard College in 1958 and Harvard Law School in 1961. 

Bill Davies is an associate professor in justice, law and criminology at American University in Washington, DC.  He has published works on legal historical methodology, historical biography, the Court of Justice of the European Union (EU) and the evolution of EU law. He is the author of Resisting the European Court of Justice (2012) and editor of EU Law Stories (2017).  He graduated with a Ph.D. from King’s College London in 2007.

More information can be found here.

CFP: Natural law and domestic government. Transformative legal theory in Early Modern Europe - Leuven, 27-28 April 2023 [EXTENDED DEADLINE: 15 September 2022]

(Ambrogio Lorenzetti - Allegory of Good Government. 

Source: Wikimedia Commons)

 

Natural law and domestic government

Transformative legal theory in Early Modern Europe

Leuven – 27-28 April 2023

The Early Modern natural law tradition as received from Antiquity and the Middle Ages was in many senses a bridging paradigm. While natural law had been a significant subject of debate among late-medieval theologians, civilians and canonists, it gained a far more central role in legal theory and scholarship from the sixteenth century onwards, in the writings of theologians and jurists alike. As natural law discourse developed over its Early Modern lifespan, it increasingly started to acquire the trappings of a legal theory – underpinning concrete legal notions and offering a paradigm which could be applied to a variety of legal domains and facts. By the early seventeenth century, it had become a major vehicle for conceptions, principles and institutions of law, relating to both private transactions and public governance.

This emergence of natural law as legal theory coincided with the emergence of one legal field to which it would be readily applied; the sphere of the state or the domain of domestic public law. In another sense, it was precisely the growing autonomy and importance of public law and the need for a legal theory underpinning it (as the classic Roman law texts provided insufficient textual support and canon law lost its universality), which fed the rise of legal natural law thinking. This intimate link between natural law and the sphere of domestic governance is made manifest especially in the first modern theories of the polity, where i.a. the articulation of the idea of a state of nature is closely tied together with the Catholic notion of natural rights. It is around this link and its two components that this two-day conference revolves.

We hence especially welcome contributions dealing with the role of natural law in the development of domestic public law in the 16^th and 17^th centuries (with the possibility to accommodate papers on Early Modern subjects set in the 18^th century, before 1789). Subjects of private law with a meaningful link to questions of domestic governance within the outlined period are also welcomed. After all, e.g. the all-important natural law notion of private property was at least in part developed as a premise for theories of the state. Likewise, contributions dealing with the development of domestic public law as a scientific discipline in general will also be considered.

Potential participants are to send in a summary of the proposed paper (200-400 words) to naturallawconference@kuleuven.be by 15 September 2022, also including their academic affiliation and a brief cv (max. 200 words). A maximum of twenty participants will be chosen from among the applicants by the selection committee. Hotel accommodation for the duration of the conference and a conference dinner will be arranged for the speakers at the organiser’s expense. However, we can offer no reimbursement for travel costs.

Full manuscripts will be required by the start of the conference. The contributions of the participants will, after a peer-reviewing process, be published as a collection volume at an internationally reputed publishing house. Professors Annabel Brett (University of Cambridge) and Marie Seong-Hak Kim (St. Cloud State University) will deliver the keynote addresses.      


The conference organisers,     
Wouter Druwé, Randall Lesaffer and Geert Sluijs

CfP REMINDER: International conference Law and Art in the 19th Century: Power in Images (Verona, 19-21 October 2022), DEADLINE: 30 JUNE 2022

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The Coronation of Napoleon by Jacques-Louis David; the courthouse of the Court of Cassation in Rome; the statues of Justice or Liberty; the caricatures by the painter Honoré Daumier: these are just a few examples of the artistic representation of law, power, justice and rights in the 19th century. Sometimes faithful reproductions of the legal values produced at the time, sometimes exaltation, transfiguration or denunciation of certain aspects of the legal system. 

Art, like law, is a human factor that is sometimes able to assert itself from below, from the society that produces it; at other times it comes from above, in tune with the designs of those who hold political power and who use art to put forward a certain image of power, as well as to disseminate a precise idea of the juridical.

The importance of artistic images and, more specifically, of the iconographic representation of key themes and concepts of law in their various legal contexts, requires no lengthy demonstration. The evocative capacity and symbolic potential released by images has often been used in Western history to effectively  express, and at the same time to reinforce, key ideas from the legal world through the strength and immediacy of an iconic message, so as to obtain the broadest possible understanding and adherence in the community of reference for the model of legal organisation in force at any given moment.

The research team set up to further study the project Images, Law and Power in the Modern Age, within the framework of the Excellence Project of the Department of Legal Sciences of the University of Verona (2018-2022), is organising a conference on the theme of the artistic representation of law in the 19th century, from the French Revolution to the early twentieth century.

The purpose is to investigate the ways in which, during the nineteenth century, the substantial change in the structural characteristics of the legal phenomenon, and the emergence of an alternative legal experience, corresponded to the replacement - or re-semantization - of the symbols and images traditionally expressed in the law, so that they were more suitable to convey the new concept of the juridical in society.

By studying the painting, sculpture and architecture of a particular epoch, it is possible to understand and delve into the legal reality, observing law in its complexity, as well as its ability to reside within society and give it order and structure. In this sense, the nineteenth century is a complex century, which begins with the French Revolution and the great break with the social and legal order of the Ancien Régime, and with the simultaneous establishment of a new socio-political order, marked by the affirmation of bourgeois society. The century ends with the emergence of a plural and complex society, marked by the advent of positivism, Darwinism and an unprecedented technological and industrial order.

The cultural, political and economic changes are intertwined - in a play of reciprocal influences - with the legal and institutional ones, and are also expressed in an extensive and coherent iconographic system, either new or repurposed, which not only serves to describe the new order but also aims to make it empathetically present to the minds and hearts of those who confront it.

These were sometimes the result of a specific cultural policy expressed on an iconographic level with reference to the world of law, and sometimes the result of a series of progressive ‘adjustments’ of the iconic baggage of the past to the new situation of modernity. Art follows the movement of history and the needs of society. Taking up the simple forms of the past in neoclassicism, it at the same time felt the urgency to describe the new, perceiving a cultural and social restlessness capable of evolving rapidly at the turn of the century. Architecture, with its harmonious neoclassical geometric forms, clashed with the utilitarian architecture desired by governments and required by the prevailing era of industrialisation. Painting initially followed revolutionary suggestions, then adapted to the magniloquent exaltation of Napoleon's exploits and the monarchies during the Restoration period, before becoming a denunciation of social injustice in satirical caricatures in tandem with the rise of Impressionism and Realism. Partially different movements followed in sculpture, which asserted itself in the 19th century as a monumental representation of political power in statues of monarchs and emperors, but also as an exaltation of the rights of freedom to be made present and visible in the urban spaces of the new cities.

The subjects connected with the theme of the conference are therefore multiple and concern the connection of the varied artistic world with law and thus with political power, justice, legislative power and the fundamental rights of the individual. It is also possible to question the influence of the legal phenomenon on art, exploring the relations between artists and jurists, as well as painters and rulers; or again, to analyse artistic works that oppose a given legal and political system, denouncing the abuses of power or the injustice of laws. 

From this point of view, the historical reconstruction of this evolution is essential to grasp its deep implications as well as to highlight caesuras and continuities with respect to previous legal experience. The contributions of the history of art, architecture, and culture in general can lead to a deeper and more conscious reading of the legal phenomenon, one which takes into account its irreducible specificity but also its vital connection with contemporary cultural and artistic manifestations.

The conference, therefore, aims to analyse the theme of the artistic representation of law in the 19th century via a multidisciplinary and comparative approach, stimulating discussion and dialogue among the participants, so as to ensure the historical profundity and depth of interpretation of an topic pervasive but underestimated, that of the translation into images of the values and 'myths' of law and power. It will thus be possible, starting from the notion of the changes experienced by society and, therefore also by its law in the 19th century, to lay bare first of all the operation of the ideological configuration of the rule of law and bourgeois society, which certainly benefit significantly from recourse to images capable of constructing a shared ideal and which is also disseminated through artistic images.

The conference organisers invite all interested scholars to participate in the call by sending the title and abstract (minimum 300 words - maximum 500 words) of the proposed paper and also indicating name, surname and university of affiliation, together with a curriculum vitae (of no more than four pages).

In addition, the organisers are also accepting proposals for panels, consisting of three speakers and a chair and possibly a discussant; in this case, a title and an abstract of the panel (minimum 300 and maximum 500 words) are required in addition to the abstracts of the individual papers and the curriculum vitae of each speaker, chair and discussant.

The conference will be held in Italian, French and English, so proposals can be submitted in any of these languages. Applications must be sent by 30 June 2022 to: immagini.diritto@ateneo.univr.it

Proposals will be accepted by 31 July 2022.

The conference will take place in Verona in October 2022, potentially in person, although we are also considering online transmission of the event (candidates who know already that they will not be able to travel to Italy are requested to indicate this, and to specify the time zone of their country).

The organisers will bear the cost of accommodation and meals for the conference participants.

The conference papers will be published following successful peer review. A prerequisite for participation in the conference is the delivery of the text ready for publication (maximum limit: 60,000 characters including spaces and notes) on the date of the conference, in one of the languages used for the work.

• For any further communication or information: immagini.diritto@ateneo.univr.it
• The Chairman of the Scientific Committee: Prof. Giovanni Rossi: giovanni.rossi@univr.it;
• The person in charge of the organisation: Dr Pietro Schirò: pietro.schiro@univr.it.  

More information can be found here.

ONLINE LECTURE: L’edizione dei precetti dei principi Longobardi per il Codice Diplomatico Longobardo: sfide poste dalla trasmissione nel "Chronicon Sanctae Sophiae" (10th June 2022, 17:00 CET - Università di Roma "La Sapienza"/ONLINE)

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We learned that the 10th of June at 17:00 CET, in presence at the Università di Roma "La Sapienza" and online at the following link (https://zoom.us/j/5994239729), Bernhard Zeller (OEAW) will give a lecture about "L’edizione dei precetti dei principi Longobardi per il Codice Diplomatico Longobardo: sfide poste dalla trasmissione nel «Chronicon Sanctae Sophiae»".

More information can be found here.

JOURNAL: Comparative Legal History X (2022), No. 1

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Editorial (Agustín Parise & Matthew Dyson)

Corpus linguistics: the digital tool kit for analysing language and the law (Caroline Laske)
Abstract:

Corpus linguistics methodologies offer innovative ways of reading legal historical sources. Studying the language of source texts using computational techniques that retrieve linguistic data makes detailed searches of words, phrases, and lexical/grammatical patterns and structures possible and provides multiple contextual data that is both quantitative and qualitative, empirical rather than intuitive. It helps us understand not just what is being said, but also how it is being said, how language is used to encode meanings, and what that can tell us about underlying contents and the socio-political, cultural, geopolitical, economic, and other contexts and discourses in which these texts were produced. This paper argues that the use of corpus linguistics is relevant across comparative legal history and can be applied in comparative legal historical research independent of the area of the law or the historical period. Detailed studies incorporating corpus linguistics will be discussed to show the potential of this methodological shift.

(DOI 10.1080/2049677X.2022.2063510) 

Coke’s Prohibitions del Roy in a European perspective (Gustaaf van Nifterik)

Abstract:

Edward Coke’s Prohibitions del Roy (1608) at first sight seems a typically English discourse: a common law judge arguing for the independence of the common law courts from his king and from the conciliar courts and civil law jurists. A closer look from a European position reveals another picture, however. Compared with discussions by his (near) contemporaries Fernando Vázquez de Menchaca, Jean Bodin, and Hugo de Groot, it turns out that Coke’s plea fits neatly in a Europe-wide process resulting from growing tension between iurisdictio and imperium and between the traditional and voluntarist approaches of the state and public power, as well as an increase in public functions, that necessitated a sharp distinction between the judicature and the administration. Both in theory and practice new balances had to be found. This article focusses on the theory.

(DOI  10.1080/2049677X.2022.2063517) [OPEN ACCESS]

A shared professional space: networks of colonial lawyers in Cuba and Mexico (1508–1832) (Ricardo Pelegrin Taboada)

Abstract:

During the colonial period, legal professionals from Mexico and Cuba maintained a closed relationship. Legal experts arrived in America to join the colonial establishment, but excessive litigiousness among settlers forced the Crown to forbid lawyers from overseas. However, it became increasingly necessary for functionaries to hold law degrees to occupy municipal positions, and thus, Spain created colonial universities. Cuban students increasingly studied law in Mexico and, upon graduation, joined the professional network across the Spanish Empire. The foundation of the University of Havana in 1728 further strengthened the intellectual connections between Cuba and Mexico. In 1760, Mexican elites created a Colegio de Abogados with strict membership requirements based on lineage, race, and class, and lawyers in Havana submitted a petition to open their own Colegio in 1812 to preserve the exclusivity of the legal professions.

(DOI 10.1080/2049677X.2022.2063518)

Book reviews

• Britain and international law in West Africa. The practice of empire by Inge van Hulle, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2020, 320 pp., £80 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-198-86986-3 (by Moritz Koenig)
• Professional guilds and the history of insurance: a comparative analysis edited by Philip Hellwege, Berlin, Duncker & Humblot, 2020, 288 pp., €99.90 (hbk), ISBN 978-3428180714 (by Gijs Dreijer)
• Negotiations of gender and property through legal regimes (fourteenth-nineteenth century). Stipulating, litigating, mediating edited by Margereth Lanzinger, Janine Maegraith, Siglinde Clementi, Ellinor Foster and Christian Hagen, Leiden/Boston, Brill, 2021, 445 pp., €130 (hbk), ISBN 978-9004454187 (by Helle Vogt)
• Nordic inheritance law through the ages. Spaces of action and legal strategies edited by Marianne Holdgaard, Auður Magnúsdóttir and Bodil Selmer, Leiden, Brill, 2020, 418 pp., €129 (hbk), ISBN 978-9004427358 (by Elsa Trolle Önnerfors)
• Medicine and justice: medico-legal practice in England and Wales, 1700–1914 by Katherine D. Watson, Abingdon and New York, Routledge, 2020, 312 pp., £36.99 (hbk), ISBN 978-472454126 (by Ian Burney)
• Gender and careers in the legal academy edited by Ulrike Schultz, Gisela Shaw, Margaret Thornton and Rosemary Auchmuty, Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2021, 592 pp., €79.95 (pbk), ISBN 978-1509923113 (by Victoria Barnes)

Read more with Taylor & Francis.

VACANCIES: PhD-scholarships, Postdoc and a Part-Time Teaching Assistant in Legal History - Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)

 

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(1) Several research vacancies have been published at the VUB to work with Prof. dr. Dave De ruysscher:

• PhD Scholarship Legal History and Construction History. More information here (Deadline 4 July 2022).
• Doctoraatsbeurs 'Onderzoeker faillissement in de negentiende eeuw'. More information here (Deadline 14 July 2022).
• Postdoc position in Legal History and Construction History (4 years, at the ULB, with prof. De ruysscher as co-supervisor). More information here (Deadline 30 June 2022).

(2) A part-time position as teaching assistant for "Historische en Vergelijkende Inleiding tot het Publiekrecht" (Prof. dr. Frederik Dhondt) is vacant as well (Deadline 9 June 2022).

Warning: this latter position is only open to candidates fluent in Dutch. 

L&C Talk: Daniel QUIROGA-VILLAMARIN, ""Suitable Palaces": Navigating Layers of World Ordering at the Centre William Rappard (1923-2013)" (Brussels: VUB, 10 JUNE 2022) [Hybrid]

 

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Daniel Quiroga-Villamarin, currently visiting our research group from Geneva, will hold an L&C Talk on Friday 10 June. This talk will be hybrid (on-campus - Vergaderzaal PE (3C204) and online, on Teams).

Abstract:

While the intellectual trajectories of international law's "move to Institutions" in the early twentieth century has been often explored in the literature, most accounts divorce their analysis from the seemingly banal histories of "buildings, staffs, and letterheads." Conversely, in this article, I place the spatiality of the Centre William Rappard at the forefront of the history of 20th century internationalisms. Erected to serve the International Labor Organization (in 1926), this building was, among other things, repurposed to host the World Trade Organization (in 1975). In this piece, I reconstruct how struggles over claims of universality can be explored through disputes related to the materiality of this infrastructure of global governance.

 

Please contact Arno Swyngedouw for the MS Teams Link:  arno.swyngedouw@vub.be 

ONLINE LECTURE: I-HILT History of International Law E-Lecture Series 2021-2022 with Samuel Moyn (Tilburg University, 16 June 2022)

 

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The ongoing I-HILT online e-lecture series is hosting an event with Professor Samuel Moyn.

Samuel Moyn: Reflections on the Humanization of War – 16.00 (Brussels time)

The ongoing I-HILT online e-lecture series at Tilburg Law School is excited to have Professor Samuel Moyn (Yale Law School) present in the latest instalment to discuss his most recent book Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War. ‘The rise of American Empire has coincided with appeals for a more humane war. But what if efforts to make war more ethical—to ban torture and limit civilian casualties—have only shored up the military enterprise and made it sturdier?’

If you are interested please contact Deepak Mawar (d.r.mawar@tilburguniversity.edu) with the email title ‘I-HILT E-Lecture Registration’ and he will provide you with the Zoom link for the e-lecture.

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WEBINAR: Diffidenza e fiducia: il diritto dinanzi alla scienza al tempo della pandemia - 27 maggio 2022 - ore 17.30

 

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JOURNAL: Historia et ius - Num. 21, June 2022 (Open Access)

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Num. 21 - June 2022 - Authors - English index

• 1) Alessandro Dani, Ricordo di Giovanni Diurni (1944-2021) - DOI 10.32064/21.2022.04 - PDF

Studi (valutati tramite blind peer review)

• 2) Alessandro Agrì, «Una grande epoca di transizione si avvicina»: autonomismo e associazionismo nella Carta del Carnaro e nel Manifesto di Macomer (1920) - DOI 10.32064/21.2022.15 - 1 giugno 2022 - PDF​
• 3) Virginia Amorosi, Donne in fabbrica. Discorso giuridico e costruzione della differenza tra Otto e Novecento - DOI 10.32064/21.2022.08 - 1 maggio 2022 - PDF
• 4) Cristina Danusso, Prostituzione e lenocinio nell’Italia dell’Ottocento - DOI 10.32064/21.2022.11 - 1 giugno 2022 - PDF
• 5) Matteo Carmine Fiocca, Un magistrato lucano al servizio di Ferdinando IV. Alessio de Sariis e il suo contributo alla storia e alla sistemazione delle leggi patrie del Regno di Napoli - DOI 10.32064/21.2022.05 - 1 aprile 2022 - PDF
• 6) Claudia Passarella, Can you “with safe conscience” say that these women are guilty? Adelaide Bartlett, Florence Maybrick and the reparation of judicial errors on the threshold of the twentieth century - DOI 10.32064/21.2022.03 - 1 marzo 2022 - PDF
• 7) Guido Rossi, Caso fortuito e culpa levissima: premesse ad uno studio sul nesso di causalità nel pensiero giuridico tardo medievale - 1 giugno 2022 - DOI 10.32064/21.2022.16 - PDF
• 8) Pietro Schirò, Medicina e diritto nell’Ottocento attraverso l’opera di Lorenzo Tenchini (1852-1906). La Scuola medica positiva - DOI 10.32064/21.2022.06 - 1 maggio 2022 - PDF
• 9) Antonella Simone, La ricerca della verità e la «pianta topografica» nel processo penale. Note sui moderni esperimenti probatori nei primi anni della restaurazione borbonica - DOI 10.32064/21.2022.12 - 15 maggio 2022 - PDF 
• 10) Letizia Solazzi, Follie epidemiche nel tardo Ottocento. Scienza medica e diritto penale di fronte alle patologie collettive di ispirazione religiosa - DOI 10.32064/21.2022.13 - 1 giugno 2022 - PDF
• 11) Gianfranco Stanco, Law, regulation and strategizing for disease of leprosy in 19th Century Northern Europe - DOI 10.32064/21.2022.07 - 1 maggio 2022 - PDF 
• 12) Natale Vescio, Giuristi e giurisdizioni baronali nelle Massime di Paolo Mattia Doria - DOI  10.32064/21.2022.14 - 1 giugno 2022 - PDF

​Interventi

• 13) Alfonso Alibrandi, Centro e periferia nelle riforme giudiziarie di Leone XII: primi risultati di una ricerca - DOI 10.32064/21.2022.09 - 1 maggio 2022 - PDF

• 14) Oscar Cruz Barney, Juan Francisco de Montemayor y Córdoba de Cuenca : de l’éviction des pirates de l’île de la Tortue à l’Audience Royale du Mexique -DOI 10.32064/21.2022.10 - 1 giugno 2022 - PDF

• 15) Marco Cavina, La prova mistica dell’acqua fredda. Diritto tradizionale, diritto dotto e stregoneria (secc. XVI-XVII) - DOI 10.32064/21.2022.02 - 1 marzo 2022- PDF 
• 16) Angela Santangelo Cordani, Note per una ricerca sull’influenza di Enrico Besta sulla storiografia giuridica del Novecento: la successione ab intestato - DOI 10.32064/21.2022.01 - 1 marzo 2022 - PDF 

STUDENT SESSION CALL, conference: (Un)fit to Rule: themes of acceptance and rejection of rulers throughout history - University of Belgrade Faculty of Law (DEADLINE June 2022)

 

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The organising committee of the conference “(Un)fit to rule: themes of acceptance and rejection of rulers throughout history” has decided to open an additional call for papers for a special student session, in order to allow aspiring young researchers to take part in the conference. This call is open to undergraduate students of all disciplines relevant to the conference theme, and will be open until June 15th, 2022. Applicants will be informed if their applications have been accepted by the end of June. In all other respects, the conditions remain the same as in the main call for papers.

The conference will be held on October 26th-28th, 2022, at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law, in hybrid form (i.e. both in person and online participation is possible).

The main call for papers, detailing the conference theme, can be found here: http://wp2008.ius.bg.ac.rs/un-fit-to-rule/call-for-papers/

Journée d'études autour du livre de Jean-Marie Denquin: Les Concepts juridiques' Comment le droit rencontre le monde - vendredi 10 juin 2022, Paris (also on Zoom)

 

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JOURNAL: Clio@Thémis XXII (2022) [Les juristes voyageurs. Ce que les circulations humaines font aux savoirs juridiques, eds. Laetitia GUERLAIN & Luisa BRUNORI

 

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Clio@Thémis has published its latest issue on ‘Les juristes en voyageurs. Ce que les circulations humaines font aux savoirs juridiques (xvie-xxe siècle)’.

• Laetitia Guerlain et Luisa Brunori

Penser ailleurs [Texte intégral]

Juristes voyageurs et innovation juridique (xvi^e-xx^e siècle)

• Anne-Charlotte Martineau

Le droit « façonné » par les pratiques coloniales ? [Texte intégral]

Les voyages des pères visiteurs au Brésil et les débats relatifs à l’esclavage (xvi^e siècle)

• Antônio David et Carlos Zeron

Le jusnaturalisme en Europe et en outre-mer : Antonio Vieira face au droit naturel et à l’esclavage des Indiens de São Paulo (1694) [Texte intégral]

• Margarita Serna Vallejo

Le Labyrintho de comercio terrestre y naval de Juan de Hevia Bolaño et le droit maritime [Texte intégral]

• Marianne Vasara-Aaltonen

Swedish Lawyers’ Studies Abroad During the Seventeenth Century: A Mix of State-Building Process and Personal Ambitions [Texte intégral]

• David Gilles

Livingston et Mignault : voyages civilistes et codificateurs en terres d’Amériques [Texte intégral]

• Guillaume Richard

Parcourir l’espace national. Les voyages d’inspection des facultés de droit au xix^e siècle [Texte intégral]

• Raphaël Cahen

Laboulaye et Kachenovsky et la fabrique du droit international : voyages, réseaux, circulation des savoirs juridiques [Texte intégral]

• Carlos Petit

« Los que pasan el Rhin, pierden la cabeza » [Texte intégral]

Privatistas españoles en universidades alemanas (1910-1936)

• Annamaria Monti

Travel, correspondence and investigations in Italy and Latin America: insights from the papers of Mario Rotondi (1900-1984) [Texte intégral]

• Eva Elizabeth Martínez Chávez

Movimiento de juristas, circulación del derecho: Republicanos españoles en América [Texte intégral]

• Assaf Likhovski

The Many Exiles of Max Laserson [Texte intégral]

• Michel Erpelding

Juristes internationalistes, juristes mixtes, Euro-Lawyers : l’apport de l’expérience semi-coloniale à l’émergence d’un droit supranational [Texte intégral]

• Florence Renucci

Quand les voyages font la juriste de combat [Texte intégral]

De la cause des Africaines à l’influence du catholicisme sur le droit républicain

 

More info here

JOB: Postdoc position in Legal History and Construction History (Université Libre de Bruxelles) (DEADLINE: 30 June 2022)

 

(Source: Euraxess)

We learned of a postdoc vacancy within the framework of the EOS research project “Construction History, Above and Beyond. What History Can Do for Construction History”.

Research project:

This vacancy fits within the framework of the EOS research project “Construction History, Above and Beyond. What History Can Do for Construction History”, directed by professors Michiel Dehaene (UGent), Dave De ruysscher (VUB, Tilburg University), Rika Devos (ULB), Johan Lagae (UGent), Stephanie Van de Voorde (VUB) and Ine Wouters (VUB). In total, 3 PhD positions and 4 postdoc positions are included in this project (the fourth postdoc mandate will be opened later in 2023). An overview of the full project and all mandates involved can be consulted on: www.vub.be/arch/project/eos.

The EOS research project will set up a dialogue (in terms of sources, methodologies, concepts and cognitive interests) between Construction History and three other fields of history, namely Colonial History, Legal History and Planning History. As such, the project sets out to strengthen the historical dimension of Construction History, while simultaneously demonstrating its relevance and potential to other fields and disciplines. The project overall concentrates on selected aspects in 19th and 20th -century building knowledge and building practice in Belgium and its former colony, with particular attention for tacit knowledge, in order to voice crucial yet underrated actors, sources and types of knowledge.

The individual trajectory of each postdoc researcher is embedded in this larger team, operating in the 3 universities (ULB, UGent and VUB). Intensive exchange and shared outcomes among team members are crucial for the success of the project. The postdoc positions are each situated in one of the 3 fields of dialogue: (1) colonial history – construction history; (2) legal history – construction history and (3) planning history – construction history.

This specific vacancy is issued by the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and engages in the dialogue between legal history and construction history. It is co-supervised by profs. Rika Devos (ULB) and Dave De ruysscher (VUB, Tilburg University).

This postdoc study focusses on the normativity of ‘implicit’ and ‘practical’ knowledge building in Belgium, during the 19th and 20th centuries. This type of knowledge is often enforced through informal rules, in many segments of society. The field of Construction History holds promising opportunities to further disentangle normativity and informal rules, as they can be enforced in the case of harm or construction faults. The liability of architects, contractors and even workers was tested against ‘rules of the trade’, which were rules of implicit, practical knowledge. The sources that can be used range from instructional literature to case law, in which the liability of constructors is explored. These sources shed light not only on the appraisal of ‘rules of the trade’ but also on how legal practitioners categorized ‘practical knowledge’.

The post-doc study in the dialogue between Legal History and Construction History explores the types of normativity as found in instructional literature for construction professionals. As such, this research will link up not only with recent developments in Legal History, but also engage with the larger knowledge gaps identified in this project by assessing not only the relation between different types of knowledge engaged in normativity, but also the relations between the actors involved – both professional builders and professional legal actors – and the untapped sources to assess this normativity, including their technical and legal challenges. Legal practitioners and construction practitioners produce very different types of documents, from different viewpoints, in different ‘languages’. How do they interact and integrate the insights of the other field? How can they be understood by the other field and were these sources accessible and used? Do they reflect the standard of building? How and when does practical knowledge turn into a normative set of (implicit or explicit) rules or guidelines? These issues are tested through case studies in the archives of construction companies, such as the private archives of the Blaton archives and Entreprises Louis de Waele.

The successful candidate will be based alternatingly at ULB and VUB, to allow a dynamic interaction with the team members and a full insertion in both institutions.

 

All info here.

CALL FOR PAPERS: Journal for Digital Legal History

 

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The new Journal for Digital Legal History has a call for papers for its inaugural issue.

Call for Contributions

The Journal for Digital Legal History (DLH) is a diamond Open Access and peer-reviewed international journal hosted by the Open UGent platform. We are pleased to invite contributions from researchers working on legal history with digital, empirical and computational approaches for our first annual issue to be published in November 2022. The journal welcomes all research questions and outputs at the intersection of legal history, digital humanities and empirical legal studies, broadly defined.

In the field of legal history, digital methods are hardly ever the centrepiece of a publication itself, if not downplayed. In 1997, Richard Evans claimed that: 'How we know about the past, what historical causation is, how we define a historical fact, whether there is such a thing as historical truth or objectivity - these are questions that most historians have happily left to one side as unnecessary distractions from their essential work in the archives' (R. Evans, In Defence of History, 1997, p. 9). Nevertheless, in the 21st century, the work of a historian or legal scholar does not stop in the archives. Often, digital or computational techniques are applied in seemingly pedestrian ways such as "searching" full texts, or they are applied in more elaborate methods to transform the historical facts embedded in our precious archival material or legal documents, to answer novel research questions or to explore well-trodden paths from an innovative perspective. 

The application of digital techniques to legal history research is often overlooked or omitted from discussions on methodology. We encourage you to highlight the technical tools or methods that proved effective to your research projects, without neglecting all the trials and errors that helped structure your final choice of any particular technique. You are welcome to illustrate your work with all forms of outputs, from notebooks to graphs, networks, maps, diagrams, etc.. If you have developed software, a database or a dataset that others could reuse, feel welcome to publish it with us.

General Call for Contributions: continuous call for submissions

Submissions that address legal sources from any historical period and any part of the world are welcome. We actively encourage collaborative and multi-authored pieces by authors from different countries working across disciplines. 

We accept publications in English; we can also support German, French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese but do contact the editorial board in advance. If you wish to publish in another language than mentioned here, please consult us beforehand.

Beyond the following suggestions, feel free to contact us through the DLH website if you have any original ideas that you want to discuss.

 

Topic suggestions 

• Original research articles (up to 10,000 words). 
• Reproduction-pieces: Can the results of classic studies be replicated through DLH-techniques?
• A dedicated section for your Digital Legal History events: If you are organising a panel, conference or webinar series that prominently features Digital Humanities performed on legal sources, contact us for a dedicated focus section allowing you to publish the papers or conclusions of your meeting.
• Shorter focus pieces or provocations (around 5,000 words with fewer footnotes).
• Conference and seminar reports.
• Spotlight articles: inspiration from other social sciences fields on the promising benefits of specific Digital Humanities techniques that could be successfully applied to Digital Legal History.
• Presentations or Reviews of softwares, databases, datasets, websites, and platforms.
• Tutorials: general presentation, application through a specific study angle (legal linguistics, marginalia analysis).
• Trials & errors: reflections on the productive role of wandering and errors in abandoned, rejected or substantially modified past projects that could help improve the current methodology (inspired by the Journal of Trial & Error).

Formats

We are open to submissions in traditional and non-traditional formats: from traditional articles to blog posts, from plain text to linked data or hyperlinked texts, from posters to Notebooks, etc.. Illustrations could be included in the form of notebooks, graphs, diagrams, maps, networks, and images.

Timeline

Upon receiving your contribution, we aim to publish it within 2-4 months, depending on a positive peer-review. Please send us a short abstract of 150 words, including a provisional title, suggested format and up to five keywords. You can find the detailed guidelines for authors on the journal's website. Please include a short biographical statement for the proposed contributor(s), including the area of expertise, interests, affiliation (if applicable), and any other relevant information. We will respond to all abstract submissions within 14 days (in July and August, this may take a bit longer).

More info: https://openjournals.ugent.be/dlh/

The journal also has two calls for dedicated focus-sections (Early Career Digital Legal Historians: dare, test and surprise & Global DLH: show, tell and teach).  

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Turin Humanities programme, “Enlightenment legacy: the rights of man in a global perspective” (1-3 SEPTEMBER 2022, Turin, deadline 20 JUNE 2022)

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The Turin Humanities Programme and Fondazione1563 are pleased to invite postgraduate students and early career researchers to submit their applications to the Summer School “Enlightenment legacy: the rights of man in a global perspective”.

The Summer School intends to elucidate, from a global perspective, a fundamental – although often neglected – aspect of the legacy of the Enlightenment to better understand its enduring and controversial presence over time in the fields of politics, society, law, and economics.

Namely, the Summer School will focus on the political and constitutional language of the rights of man, seen as the most lasting legacy of the cultural revolution through which the Enlightenment changed the course of global history, acting as a “laboratory of modernity”.

The Summer School will engage with the Enlightenment’s transformation of the old moral concept of natural rights into the modern political language of the “rights of man” and the ambitious Enlightenment project of bringing about the constitutionalization of the rights of man as part of a modern politics of emancipation that began well ahead of the French Revolution.

Moreover, the Summer School will explore the controversial affirmation and metamorphoses of the Enlightenment’s culture of the rights of man in a global context throughout the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries. By so doing, the Summer School aims at shedding light on the Enlightenment’s relevance to deal with issues raised by the contemporary evolutions of global constitutionalism and governance, that still require to be addressed.

The THP Summer School provides a forum for postgraduate students and early career researchers in the field of humanities and the social sciences (history, philosophy, law, economics, political science and international relations) to engage with the most up-to-date academic debates and global historiographical currents on the Enlightenment and its cultural, political and legal legacy.

We encourage applications from researchers with a strong interest in human rights/rights of man and woman/natural rights in an historical, global and interdisciplinary setting. In particular, but not limited to:

• constitutions and the constitutionalization of human rights
• the development of representative democracy
• ancient and modern republicanism
• political economy and commerce
• the law of nations and international law
• race, slavery, colonialism

English will be the default language of the Summer School.

The Summer School programme includes keynote lectures of Professor Nicholas Cronk (Voltaire Foundation, University of Oxford), Professor Dan Edelstein (Stanford University), Professor Serena Ferente (University of Amsterdam), Professor Vincenzo Ferrone (University of Torino), Professor Franco Motta (University of Torino), Professor Céline Spector (Sorbonne Université), Giovanni Bietti (composer, pianist and musicologist), early career researchers’ presentations of original manuscripts/book projects, workshops and roundtable discussions.

To foster dialogue between senior and young scholars, the Summer School offers its participants a unique opportunity to contribute to the broader discussion on the human rights theme with their own ideas and to test their research.

Successful applicants will also have the chance to present their papers in panel sessions which will be followed by a Q&A led by a panel discussant.

The full call for application can be found here.

JOURNAL: MPILHLT Research Paper Series, 2021, Vol. 11 No. 4, 05/23/2022

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Heinz Mohnhaupt (Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory), Naturrecht und naturrechtliche Methode des „mos Gottingensis“ an der Göttinger Aufklärungsuniversität „Georgia Augusta“ (1734-1800) / Natural law and the natural law method of the "mos Gottingensis" at the University of the Enlightenment "Georgia Augusta“ (1734-1800)

• Enlightenment and natural law are mutable concepts. In the founding goals of the Göttingen University "Georgia Augusta", founded in 1734, they are concretely combined to form a utilitarian model of science for all disciplines. Science should be useful and experienceable for state and society. For the system of "Jurisprudentia" this implies an encyclopedically based order of material, which on the one hand is oriented towards pedagogical teaching of the subject matter and on the other hand towards practical exercises. This style of teaching represents the very successful "mos Gottingensis" in the 18th century.

Ignacio Chuecas Saldías (Finis Terrae University), Censuras / Censures (DCH)

• This article describes the doctrine concerning the canonical penalties known as censures. There are basically three different types of punishment for crimes committed in the context of the ecclesiastical jurisdiction: excommunication (excommunicatio), suspension (suspensio) and interdict (interdictio). After experiencing an important boom during the Late Middle Ages - in part due to the religious-political situation of the period -, the doctrine on censures was widely systematized and commented on by theologians and jurists during the Early Modern Period. In the course of this process, and as a result of the colonial expansion in America, numerous writers dealt with its application in the Spanish American territories. In particular, controversies arose related to the use of excommunications in the numerous confrontations between civil and religious authorities, as well as in interactions with indigenous people, the activities of the Holy Office of the Inquisition, and, of course, the implementation of regulations issued by the Council of Trent.

Jesús Joel Peña Espinosa (INAH), Traslado y renuncia de prelados / Transfer and resignation of an ecclesiastical prelate (DCH)

• This article studies the juridical bases on which Spanish American ecclesiastics (bishops and parish priests) were able to exercise their capacity to renounce a benefice or to be transferred from one bishopric or parish to another. The spiritual and jurisdictional rights and obligations of the clergy to hold a benefice were regulated by canonical and civil legislation for Spanish America; beyond these norms, we have consulted the theological basis that gives meaning to the relationship between subject and benefice. The two acts, renunciation and transfer, are analyzed in order to elaborate the characteristics and conditions of each one with respect to the historical context of the Hispanic world in its overseas territories, according to the particularities of the law in its most important sources.

ABOUT THE JOURNAL

Since its foundation in 1964, the Max Planck Institute for Legal History & Legal Theory has been dedicated to basic research from a historical perspective in the field of law. A particular challenge embraced by the Institute is to create historical and empirical bases for a critical study of the system of law in a globalized world. To this end, the Institute is paying increasing attention to the interrelationships between European and non-European legal systems. Papers in this series cover topics of the Institute's focus areas. To have your paper included in this series please contact the series editor at ssrn@lhlt.mpg.de

More information can be found here.

BOOK: Martine CHARAGEAT, Élisabeth LUSSET, Mathieu VIIVAS, Les espaces carcéraux au Moyen Âge, (Pessac: Ausonius éditions, 2021. OPEN ACCESS

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ABOUT THE BOOK

While recent work has renewed our knowledge of execution sites and the internal layout of confinement places in the Middle Ages, the distribution of prison spaces and territories, and in particular the socio-spatial dynamics and logics of their location, have yet to be analyzed. These prison spaces are the subject of this book, written by historians, archaeologists and literary scholars.

By prison space, we mean the space produced by one or more places of incarceration: the interior spaces of a prison in all their complexity and the exterior space, whether that of arrests, judicial executions or the immediate vicinity of the gaol. The fourteen essays deal with prison space at different scale (buildings, neighborhood, city or region) and use a wide variety of sources: judicial documents, urban regulations, prison rules, accounts, iconography, archaeological datas, literary texts, etc.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• De pierres et de textes : les espaces carcéraux au Moyen Âge, par Martine Charageat, Julie Claustre, Élisabeth Lusset et Mathieu Vivas

La prison dans ses murs : matérialité des espaces carcéraux

• La prison du consulat de Périgueux (v. 1300-1450) : conditions carcérales, logiques comptables et expression du pouvoir, par Ézéchiel Jean-Courret
• La prison médiévale du château de Caen. Nouvelles approches historiques et archéologiques, par Bénédicte Guillot et Alban Gottfrois
• La “tour des prisons” de l’abbaye d’Abondance. Un espace carcéral au sein du carré claustral, par Sidonie Bochaton

Lieux, conditions et représentations de l’incarcération

• Entre prison courtoise et chartre dure et orrible : les lieux et conditions de détention des prisonniers de guerre à la fin du Moyen Âge, par Bertrand Schnerb
• Charles d’Armagnac : d’une prison à une autre ?, par Pierre Courroux
• Se je vous raiembroie, voldriés le vous ? Les réclusions de Lancelot dans le Lancelot-Graal : l’enfermement carcéral aristocratique au prisme de la littérature fictionnelle du XIIIe siècle, par Jérôme Devard
• Usage et représentation de l’espace carcéral dans les différentes versions du Calila et Dimna (VIIIe-XVe s.), par Mathilde Dalbion

Les prisons dans l’espace urbain

• On the topography of medieval prisons in Italy, par Lara Tonizzo Feligioni
• L’évolution des espaces carcéraux à Aurillac aux XIIIe-XIVe s., par Sébastien Fray
• La place de la prison échevinale de Dijon dans l’espace urbain au XVe s., par Rudi Beaulant
• Dispersion, collaborations, concurrences ? Juridictions et prisons à Tournai à la fin du Moyen Âge (v. 1300-1600), par Florian Mariage

S’affranchir des murs : logiques sociales et territoriales de l’incarcération

• Prisons et lieux d’arrestation à Paris au Moyen Âge : pistes d’enquête, par Julie Claustre et Pierre Brochard
• Communiquer depuis la prison. Lettres de prisonniers et captifs de l’Archivio Datini (Italie, vers 1400), par Jérôme Hayez
• Espaces, lieux et formes d’incarcération “ouverte” en Aragon aux XIVe-XVe s., par Martine Charageat

The entire publication can be found here.

COLLOQUE: Historiographies constitutionnelles et identités nationales (16-17 Juin 2022, Rennes - ONLINE)

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En partant du fait que les ordres étatiques ont souvent cherché à former un corpus fictum politique, cette manifestation scientifique se propose de mettre au jour les principes et représentations mobilisés dans la mise en récit des histoires constitutionnelles nationales.

La rencontre a été organisée par l'Institut de Droit Public et de Science Politique, Faculté de droit et de science politique, Université de Rennes 1, sous la direction du Professeur Jacky Hummel

• Tarif : Etudiants, enseignants : gratuit – Autres : 50€
• Contact : isabelle.clerc@univ-rennes1.fr - +33 2 23 23 76 09
• Colloque retransmis en ligne, via l'application Zoom
• Inscription obligatoire en ligne :  https://hcin.sciencesconf.org

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Jeudi 16 Juin 2022 - Après-Midi

Présidence : François Saint-Bonnet, Professeur d'histoire du droit à l'Université de Paris II Panthéon-Assas

13h30 : Accueil des participants

• Allocution d'ouverture - Ecriture de l'histoire constitutionnelle et affirmation des identités nationales (Jacky Hummel, Professeur de droit public à l'Université de Rennes 1)
• Méthodes et problématiques de l'historiographie constitutionnelle. Approches européenne, nord-américaine et sud-américaine de l'histoire constitutionnelle (Jean-Louis Halpérin, Professeur d'histoire du droit à l'Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris)
• Historiographie constitutionnelle, méthodes et construction de l'identité nationale : l'expérience italienne (Luigi Lacchè, Professeur d'histoire du droit à l'Université de Macerata / LUISS Rome)

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• La grande transition : comment penser le passage de la constitution non écrite à la constitution écrite ? (Denis Baranger, Professeur de droit public à l'Université de Paris II Panthéon-Assas)
• Les procédés de mise en récit de l'histoire constitutionnelle par les juristes de l'Angleterre pré-moderne (Céline Roynier, Professeur de droit public à l'Université de Cergy-Pontoise)
• L'histoire constitutionnelle dans la pensée de Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde (Olivier Jouanjan, Professeur de droit public à l'Université de Paris II Panthéon-Assas)

Vendredi 17 Juin 2022 - Matinée
Présidence : Sylvain Soleil, Professeur d'histoire du droit à l'Université de Rennes 1

9h00 : Accueil des participants

9h15 : 

• L'architecture des salles plénières parlementaires : une historiographie constitutionnelle sans mots ? (Christoph Schönberger, Professeur de droit public à l'Université de Cologne)
• Le récit constitutionnel argentin et ses enjeux politiques (Carlos-Miguel Herrera, Professeur de droit public à l'Université de Cergy-Pontoise)
• Une mystique constitutionnelle à déconstruire ? Les critiques historiographiques de l'exceptionnalisme américain (Alexis Buixan, docteur en droit public de l'Université de Rennes 1)

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• Le mythe des Cortes de Lamego dans l'histoire constitutionnelle du Portugal (Oscar Ferreira, Professeur d'histoire du droit à l'Université de Bourgogne)
• Histoires constitutionnelles des Espagnes, lectures doctrinales et interprétations culturelles (Jean-Baptiste Busaall, Maître de conférences à l'Université Paris-Descartes)

12h15 : Pause déjeuner

Vendredi 17 Juin 2022 - Après Midi
Présidence : Jacky Hummel, Professeur de droit public à l'Université de Rennes 1

14h00 : 

• La Révolution française comme prosopopée de la Nation chez les publicistes (Lucien Jaume, Directeur de recherches émérite au CNRS)
• La lecture libérale de l'histoire constitutionnelle française au XIXe siècle (Alain Laquièze, Professeur de droit public à l'Université Paris-Descartes)
• Les modèles anglais et américain dans l'historiographie constitutionnelle comparée du XIXe siècle (Tanguy Pasquiet-Briand, Professeur de droit public à l'Université d'Evry)
• Rapport de synthèse (Jean-Marie Denquin, Professeur émérite en droit public de l'Université Paris Nanterre)

More information can be found here.