Welcome to the book launch Kaius Tuori’s book “Emperor of Law: The emergence of Roman Imperial Adjudication” (OUP 2016) Wednesday 22.3. at 16-18 at the University of Helsinki in Unioninkatu 37 faculty room (1st floor). Comments from Janne Pölönen, Tommaso Beggio and Jacob Giltaij. Refreshments will be served.

More on the book from the OUP blog. The first online review of the book is also out here.

The FoundLaw project is organizing a workshop at NYU on November 4, 2016. The workshop, “Atlantic Transfers: Responses to Totalitarianism in Legal Thought and the Dilemma of Liberty in the Post-War Atlantic”, is organized together with Professor William Nelson from NYU. Please see the event page for details and programme!

The FoundLaw project, in collaboration with the Oulu Centre for Theoretical and Philosophical Studies of History, is organizing a “Conceptual Change in History” conference at University of Helsinki, September 22-24, 2016. Keynote speakers of the conference are Theodore Arabatzis (University of Athens), Jaakko Husa (University of Lapland), Sinai Rusinek (Van Leer Jerusalem Institute), Benjamin Straumann (New York University), and Paul Thagard (University of Waterloo). The conference is open to the public and there is no registration fee. If you wish to attend, please send an e-mail to foundlaw@gmail.com by September 14th, 2016. For more information, see the event page.

Dr. Tommaso Beggio will give a lecture, titled “Paul Koschaker und die Reform des romanistischen Rechtsstudiums in Deutschland”, on May 10th, 2016. The lecture is organized by Die Heidelberger Rechtshistorische Gesellschaft and will be held at the Institut für geschichtliche Rechtswissenschaft, University of Heidelberg.

Dr. Jacob Giltaij will give a talk titled “Stoic political theory in Augustus?” on March 15th, 2016, at 14-16. The talk will take place at Faculty of Social Sciences, Unioninkatu 37, room 2041.

Professor Rena van den Bergh (University of South Africa) will give a guest lecture on Monday, January 25th, 2016, at 4 pm. The lecture, titled “Communication and publicity of the law in Rome”, will explore how public policy such as law was communicated through the Roman empire, the means by which imperial letters, rescripts and laws spread via the road network and how this was affected by the spread of Roman citizenship in the provinces. The lecture will be held at the main building of Social Sciences (Unioninkatu 37), in the room number 1094.

Professor Pierangelo Buongiorno (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster) will give a lecture titled “”The ethics of a jurist”. Edoardo Volterra between the Palingenesia Codicis, the edition of the Senatus consulta and the Italian Fascism (1930-1945)”. The lecture will be held at the faculty room of Social Sciences (Unioninkatu 37, 1st floor) on Monday, May 25th, 2015, at 10.15 am.

The “Reinventing the Foundations of European Legal Culture 1934-1964” project is organizing a workshop in Helsinki on the 27th of January, 2015. The theme of the workshop is “The cultural breach of 2nd World War and ‘Europe’ in historiography and legal thought”. All sessions will take place at the social sciences faculty room (Unioninkatu 37, 00170 Helsinki). Please find the programme below.

9.15-10.45 Session 1
Chair: Kaius Tuori
Emanuele Conte: The Medieval “Order” as an Alternative to Individualist Rule of Law. The Enduring Fascination of the German Constitutional History.
Pia Letto-Vanamo: From Bologna to Brussels – Legal Historians and European Integration.

11.15-12.45 Session 2
Chair: Jacob Giltaij
Timo Miettinen: How to do philosophy with the past? Phenomenology and the origins of European universalism.
Kaius Tuori: The narrative of ‘European’ in legal history.

15.15-16.00 Session 3
Chair: Ville Erkkilä
Timo Pankakoski: European Legacies: The Perspective of Carl Schmitt Scholarship.